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Removing Incompetent Incumbents

Posted by Darrel Hampton on August 21, 2009 at 2:39am
I'm a member of the Independence Caucus (http://icaucus.ning.com).We are an organization whose primary mission is to replace our compromised,fiscally irresponsible incumbents with good men and women who share our principles and values.Every conservative group shares that same goal and we have something tooffer the other groups that they cannot do for themselves or their members.We truly are the last-mile solution to get the job done. At IndependenceCaucus, we have five golden keys to help us accomplish this.1) Independence Caucus has a well defined candidate vetting processwhich includes a set of 80 principle-based vetting questions, which we poseto all potential candidates for office. We believe that this is a jobinterview, and that the primary reason we have so many people in office whohave not represented us well in the past is because we have not vetted themproperly. The Independence Caucus members and partners for each area(comprised of people who are in that particular candidate's votingdistrict), must agree with at least a 70% majority, that the candidate isthe right person to back before Independence Caucus will endorse thatcandidate.2) We conduct specific research on incumbents to show the link to theirvoting records & earmarks, and which big money special interest groups havedonated to their campaigns and how much they've donated (it's a whole lotmore than the media reports). We use that research to give our endorsedcandidates an advantage in campaigning against that incumbent.3) Our founders understand that "all politics is local" and they have astrong knowledge of how politics works down to a precinct level andunderstand what is needed to win campaigns. Their first win was JasonChaffetz from Utah's third Congressional district. Chaffetz is theCongressman who sleeps on his cot in his Washington office to save the taxpayers money. Frank Anderson and Monte Bateman, the co-founders ofIndependence Caucus helped Chaffetz beat an incumbent Congressman whilebeing outspent by 6:1.4) We've identified 26 specific functional positions within a campaignthat are needed in order to win and beat compromised incumbents who areowned by the big money special interest groups.5) Finally, the Independence Caucus currently has programmersdeveloping a powerful political social networking tool, which connectscandidates to enthusiastic and motivated volunteers for their campaigns.This social networking tool contains all the tools a candidate needs tomanage his/her campaign, as well as the tools and training volunteers needto be most effective in working for their chosen candidate.We would like to partner with any and all groups as well as individuals whoshare our goals and would like to participate with us to use the tools weprovide. Are you interested?Thanks,Darrel
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