State National 9/2/16
GMFTO September 6, 2016
Politics and Elections discussed by our Blue Ridge Forum.
Morning Monologue 8/29/16
GMFTO August 29, 2016
BKP brings you “Trump’s Immigration Plan for Dummies” as he breaks down the basics of the Candidates ideas.
State National 8/26/16
GMFTO August 26, 2016
BKP is joined by Rick Glueckert and Bruce Conti to talk National News and Politics in downtown Blue Ridge.
Morning Monologue 8/25/16
GMFTO August 25, 2016
BKP talks Trump and Nigel Farage and their recent speeches for Trump’s Campaign.
Georgia is Not in Play
GMFTO August 24, 2016BKP highlights why Georgia will remain a Red State and is “Trump Country.”
State National 8/23/16
GMFTO August 23, 2016
BKP and George recall political predictions and continue the discussion on our American Oligarchy.
Trump Announces New Communication Director In Georgia
News August 16, 2016
Trump campaign named Jennifer Hazelton communication director in Georgia. Hazelton contacted BKP at Fetch Your News to announce she can speak on behalf of the Trump campaign, answer questions, and set up interviews. #trump2016 #georgia #trumpcampaign #2016politics#makeamericagreatagain #fyntv #gmfto #fetchyournews
Fitzpatrick Has Strong Performance at Town Hall
News, Politics May 10, 2016
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Roger Fitzpatrick, an ex-Marine and former White County administrator, appears to have established himself as the No. 1 contender for 9th District Congressman Doug Collins’ job with a strong performance during the AccessWDUN/Gainesville Times town hall meeting at Brenau Downtown Center last night.
Fitzpatrick demonstrated confidence, knowledge of the issues and likeability in responding to questions from a near-capacity crowd that showed its appreciation with loud and frequent applause for the Cleveland, Georgia native.
In addition to Fitzpatrick and Collins, the 90-minute event featured Lanier Tea Party Patriots founder Mike Scupin, retired Army and National Guard Brigadier General Bernie Fontaine and former 10th District Congressman Paul Broun. The challengers took turns answering questions from attendees as well as tweets from WDUN Radio’s listening audience.
Fitzpatrick, who served nine years in the Marine Corps Reserves and 32 years as a White County teacher and administrator, said veterans would be better served by getting rid of the Veterans Administration and allowing private industry to fill that role. He also called for an end to the Department of Education, saying, “The federal government has no business in education.”
He borrowed a line from President Bill Clinton when asked what is the most important issue facing the nation. “It’s the economy stupid,” he said. But, he added that getting government out of the way so businesses can thrive was a close second.
An issue that has plagued Collins throughout the campaign and has him in deep trouble with voters in the ultra conservative 9th District has been his support for President Barack Obama’s Omnibus bill. The bill provides funding for Planned Parenthood, the Muslim refugee program, sanctuary cities and a foreign worker program that costs Americans jobs at a time of increasing concerns about terrorist threats against the United States.
When Collins tried to explain his vote, he was shouted down by angry voters and his response was drowned out until Fitzpatrick’s Marine training kicked in and he stepped forward to admonish the audience, saying, “Show some respect, please.” The intervention earned Fitzpatrick the crowd’s admiration.
Collins then continued, saying, “The facts are if you could have gotten Planned Parenthood out of the Omnibus bill you would have done it but you couldn’t. The way you get it done is through the reconciliation act or a bill which I had voted for prior to that.” But that explanation failed to sway his opponents.
Fitzpatrick said, “Anything that would violate the moral conscience of a decent individual or the original intent (of the Constitution), you cannot vote for.” He also pointed out that Planned Parenthood is now paying for transgender operations.
Scupin called Collis’ explanation the “Doug Collins Dog and Pony Show” and said, “It doesn’t just happen with Planned Parenthood. It happens with nearly every vote he makes up there. He’s against the Department of Education because of how it effects his wife when she teaches and yet he votes to fund it. This has got to stop. Either you’re for it or against it.”
Broun said, “I would not have voted for the Omnibus bill. I never have.”
Voters also wanted to know if the candidates would support presumptive Republican nominee for President Donald Trump.
Fontaine said, “Of course I support Donald Trump.”
Scupin said, “Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party and as such I definitely will support him. Donald Trump rose to the top of the Republican Party not because of Donald Trump but because of the Republican Party.Their failure to do the right thing when they had the opportunity is what gave him a path to this victory.”
Broun said, “The people have spoken. We need to have the people’s choice be the nominee of our party. I don’t want to see the establishment try to steal away the people’s choice.”
Collins seemed a bit more hesitant, saying, “If Trump is our nominee, I’ll support the nominee. But what about the values Donald Trump has. The question is where do you stand on conservative values? Will you be the standard bearer of our party’s values? The fact is that nobody in this room would be happy with Hillary Clinton in the White House. Nobody who would be happy with a socialist running the White House.
Fitzpatrick said, “I voted for Ted Cruz and would do so again but Donald Trump won the nomination and I will support the nominee. Whoever gets in there — and I sure do hope it’s Donald Trump — you’ve got to work with and if he stands up and does something I don’t like then he needs to be called out on it even if he is a Republican.”
Pennsylvania the Wild West of Delegates, The great unknown PA Delegates
Politics April 25, 2016
(Scroll down to listen to interview with delegate candidate Gloria Lee Snover – Donald Trump supporter)
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump with Pennsylvania delegate candidate Gloria Lee Snover
Donald Trump could win Pennsylvania and lose the delegates. If you can’t win at the ballot box then it’s time to go after delegates. All eyes on delegates.
When citizens in the Keystone state go to vote on Tuesday they have to make not one but four decisions when it comes to who they want to represent them at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Pennsylvania has a total of 71 delegates. There are 17 pledged and 54 unpledged delegates. The state is divided into 17 regions. The Presidential candidate who receives the most votes in the region wins one delegate. If Trump, who has a double digit lead in the state, wins every region it will give him 17 delegates who are dedicated to vote for him at the national convention.
So what happens with the 54 unpledged delegates? Voters will see a list of 10 delegate candidates and will be asked to vote for three. The voter will not know which presidential candidate the delegate supports. This means the delegate candidates have to run a campaign to let voters know who they will support. Many delegate candidates don’t let people know who they support. Cruz and Kasich delegate candidate supporters wish to keep their support quiet because Trump is leading the state by such large margins.
I interviewed a Pennsylvania delegate candidate this morning, Gloria Lee Snover. Snover met with Trump last week before a rally in Harrisburg where he asked for her support and for her to pledge to vote for him at the convention. Snover made a commitment to vote for Trump on every ballot. Donald Trump has endorsed Snover for delegate.
Snover told us she has received two phone calls from the Cruz campaign attempting to get her to switch. She went on to say the “Never Trump” Our Principles PAC and Kasich PAC have been making ROBO calls encouraging people to vote for certain delegate candidates without telling them who the candidate supports.
Below are some posts from Snover’s Facebook page:
Beware all Trump supporters!
I have now received 5 robocalls for Tom Whitehead in Congressional District 17 who does not disclose in those calls whom he is supporting. However, those calls were paid for by the following two Political Action Committees: 1) A New Day for America which is a Political Action Committee Supporting John Kasich and 2) Our Principals PAC, which is expressly a part of the anti-Trump or Stop Trump movement (http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/our-principles-pac/)
[Our Principles PAC-Political Leanings: Republican/Anti-Trump Super PAC Spending Target: Unknown Our Principles PAC was formed in January 2016 to thwart Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Its founder, Katie Packer, is a veteran Republican strategist who was the deputy campaign manager of former Massachusetts Go…factcheck.org]
Don’t be fooled by those stealth candidates who while saying they are going to represent you, in fact are going against your wishes.
The real Trump endorsed delegates for the 17th are
#2 T Lynette Villano
#7 Gloria Lee Snover and
#9 Carolyn L. Bonkowski
Proof is on Donald Trump’s Website found athttps://www.donaldjtrump.com/pennsylvaniaCAUTION get this out. There have been 5 robo calls for a delegate candidate in the 17th Congressional District that does not say who they are for, but when you look up the PAC that paid for the call it is Kaisch and Never Trump. Dont be fooled by this phone calls. DO NOT VOTE WHITEHEAD. The establishment is funding his campaign.
The Principles PAC who is running the anti TRUMP campaign has been making calls for delegates. Make sure you do not vote for those delegates. They made four calls to my house for one of the establishment candidates. Caution.
Snover told us she has been active in the Republican party since she was twenty five years old working to get Republicans elected. Although her views are more in line with Cruz, she said it’s time to elect a doer. Below is her testimonial for why she is supporting Donald Trump,
For the last 23 years I have held an elected position in the Republican Party. During those years I work feverishly to get conservative republicans elected; which I am still doing. I am currently Vice Chair of the Northampton County Republican Committee. However, too many times candidates got elected and then went down the establishment or moderate road. Worse yet they completely forgot who helped them get elected or even what their campaign was about. Recently, at a committee meeting one elected official said, “we cannot vote right or we will lose our jobs.” That night I realized I am really volunteering just to get candidates jobs. They will not do what it takes to move this country in the right direction. I am pro life, NRA member, and strong fiscal conservative, but I cannot strictly use that ideology this time. Of course I am more in line with Cruz, but this election is about a man who can break up Washington and the media. I must be willing to cast aside politicians and lawyers and do what is needed to turn this country around; YES a builder/developer. Yes, I think the medicine needed right now is someone who can get the job done; “the doer.” No more conservative speak, but a guy who deals in real. Please do not tell me where Trump stands on the issues because it does not matter. Conservatives please stop debating the issues and go elect a guy who will take the ball all the way down the field and not just five yards.
Forget the media spin and listen to our interview with Snover where she calls it the Pennsylvania Delegate Wild West.
Republican Party Committee Spring Break, What did Paul Manafort say? Are we seeing the real Donald Trump?
Politics April 25, 2016
If you can’t win at the ballot box then it’s time to go after delegates. All eyes on delegates. The Republican National Committee held its spring meeting this past weekend in Hollywood, Florida. In years past the meeting was of little if any interest to the media, but not this year.
Media was present and ready to hear breaking news regarding the possibly of new RNC rules for a much anticipated contested convention. Nothing exciting to report; however during a meeting with the media, Paul Manafort (whom Donald Trump hired last month to oversee the campaign delegate-getting operation), was recorded talking about the two Donald Trumps. The media made something out of nothing. It appears the media couldn’t go to the meeting and come out empty handed.
My guest this morning GaPundit Todd Rehm attended the meeting and was present when Manafort met with the media. Below is my must listen interview with Rehm. Rehm said the one big take away from the meeting was something heard several times, “At the national convention make a motion to suspend the rules.” According to the current RNC rules John Kasich cannot be nominated from the floor; so instead of amending the rules just make a motion to suspend the rules and then let the fun begin. One thing is for sure the RNC in Cleveland will be must see TV.
Trump Easily Defeats Cruz in Dawson County
News, Politics March 2, 2016
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — A bitterly divisive presidential primary, particularly among Republican candidates, has led to massive voter turnout all across the nation and Dawson County was no exception.
More than half the county’s 12,637 registered voters turned out yesterday and carried New York billionaire Donald Trump to a landslide victory.
Trump, who won seven of the 11 states that conducted primaries on SEC Tuesday, towered above the five-man field, receiving 2,649 votes or 45.4 percent. His nearest rival was Texas Senator Ted Cruz who posted victories in his home state of Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska. Cruz on 1,465 votes or 25.12 percent. Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio finished third with 1,094 followed by Dr. Ben Carson 311 and former Ohio Governor John Kasich with 266.
Glenda Ferguson said this was the largest voter turnout for a presidential election since she became the county’s election superintendent in 2007. Ferguson said she was surprised but not too surprised.
“We had been warned by Michael Barnes, Director of the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University to not take the day lightly and he was right,” she said. “The lines were full and steady all day long.”