Jeffrey to Lose Liberty Candidate Endorsement?

As of 4:30 pm on Friday March 12th, Christina Jeffrey is no longer listed as a Liberty Candidate on their website.  The link to her former endorsement page has been broken.

If you recall, The Conservativist discovered Wednesday that Jeffery was working for / supporting Rudy Giuliani during the 2008 Presidential Primaries and that her fellow South Carolinian’s were “inbreds”.  During a recent debate, Jeffrey stated she supported Duncan Hunter in the primary.

We have contacted the Liberty Candidate organization to find out the reason why she was removed as a Liberty Candidate.  A response from the organization at 4:40pm stated the committee was meeting and that they would be taking everything into consideration.

We will let you know when the Liberty Candidate organization makes a decision.

Who Did Jeffrey Support in 2008?

We were going to give Jeffrey a break for a little while and focus on our main issue, Bob Inglis, but this landed on our laps today and we feel the 4th Congressional District should know.

A commenter on a previous post brought this question “Who Did Jeffrey Support in 2008?”

Thanks to a private ballot, we will never know who Jeffrey truly pulled the lever for in 2008.  But thanks to media outlets across the country, we know who all she claims to have supported.

For the last year, we have heard Jeffrey talk about her close relationship with Ron Paul.  The way she has talked about him and her relationship would lead one to believe she was a fervent supporter.  She has worked feverishly to gain the Campaign for Liberty support and has used this relationship to help solidify her status as the Tea Party candidate.

On November 17th, 2009, she told the Spartanburg Herald Journal’s Jason Spencer, well, wouldn’t tell him who she supported.

On March 5th, 2010 she claimed she supported Congressman Duncan Hunter in the 2008 Presidential Primary in the News Radio WORD debates.  At 43:00 minutes into the debate, Bob McLain asks the telling question and at 44:50, Jeffrey responds.  You can see her response here.

And the kicker is……

Today, we discover and article from April 24, 2007 in the Rocky Mountain Times, out of Denver, Colorado.  What did Jeffrey have to say to Mike Littwin of the Rocky Mountain Times besides being “inbred like all South Carolinians”?

Read the excerpt below:

But Christina Jeffrey has found her candidate. She’s serious enough about Giuliani that she’s standing in the Dorman High School gym, pulling the tape from the back of “Rudy” posters and stacking them for the next event.

I’m trying to understand her devotion, other than the fact that she does freelance work for a public relations company employed by Giuliani.

She’s a South Carolina conservative who can trace her roots here to the 1600s. “We’re inbred like all South Carolinians,” she said, pulling away another piece of tape. “I did my duty by marrying an Iowan to improve the gene pool.”

She has five children. And her most important issue, she says, is abortion. And Giuliani’s stance is: He says he personally hates abortion, which is the default position for most pro-choice candidates.

“I want the United States of America to win the war against the terrorists,” Jeffrey said, explaining her support of Giuliani. “I think abortion is the No. 1 issue facing the people of America, but it’s not the No. 1 issue that a president can influence.”

Of course, Giuliani has problems other than abortion for social conservatives, and I’m not including the multi-marriage issue. When I point this out to Jeffrey, she points to a white-haired man in a suit. She says he’s a “famous” social conservative in the state who used to work on Wall Street when Giuliani was mayor.

“He tells me you have to march in the Gay Pride parade if you want to be elected in New York,” she said. “And it’s hard to get elected there if you’re pro-life.

“He says that Giuliani is not really pro-choice. He insists he’s not. I know Giuliani is a Catholic who was raised Catholic. Even if he is pro-choice, if he’s really pro-choice, at least he understands the argument.”

I tell her it’s all on the record. I can show her Giuliani saying government should pay for abortions for poor women. It’s as easy to find as YouTube. Isn’t she guilty, I ask, of wishful thinking?

“We want to win here in South Carolina,” she said. “We know math. We know how to add.”

She stops and laughs.

“I’m as capable of wishful thinking as anybody.”

Problems that don’t pass

Now I begin to understand. Obviously, many people now drawn to Giuliani – people like Jeffrey – don’t agree with him on basic issues. But it isn’t that they don’t know what he believes. It’s that they don’t want to know what he believes.

I know, I know, I know.  Tell us what you think…..

UPDATE:
PoliticalNetTV has picked up on this story and has provided their insight on the situation.

Gowdy Leads, Lee Close Behind in Fountain Inn Straw Poll

Last night, the Fountain Inn Chamber of Commerce and Fountain Inn Rotary Club hosted a fourth congressional debate with Myra Ruiz from WYFF moderating.  The results of the straw poll held after the debate are as follows (sections is in order of percent vote).

Trey Gowdy

Trey gathered 31% of the vote after the debate.  This is not all surprising as he has been working hard and building a lot of name recognition.  Of all the candidates, he has not been shy when it comes to attacking Inglis.  Given his fund raising totals and the perceived street cred obtained by those numbers, he may be in the final two.

Jim Lee

As the title says, Lee came in second with 27%.  This looks good for Jim and shows that his ground game and solid performance last week in the WORD radio debate is cashing in.  If Jim can continue to build this momentum, watch out.

David Thomas

I have been hearing rumors that Thomas’ Senate seat may be on the line if he performs poorly in his own district.  Unfortunately, for Thomas, polling in 3rd with 20% in his backyard could be the beginning of the end for him in politics.

Christina Jeffrey

Jeffrey brought in 15% after the Boiling Springs Tea Party issued a “Red Alert” call to action yesterday.  She is polling a little better than I expected.  We are waiting to see if the other Tea Parties will get behind her, but our sources say that is not likely.

Bob Inglis

Bob, Bob, Bob.  What else can we say than he brought in 7% of the vote.  Oh yeah, did we mention the democrats are likely not to vote in this election since they have multiple candidates in the governors race they covet so dearly?

You can read more at the Greenville News.

SC 4th Congressional Poll Results are in…

At midnight on February 5th, 2010, polling closed for our SC 4th Congressional District Poll.  It was open for a week and we had a variety of responses and general comments on the race.

We did our best to market the poll via Twitter and Facebook and other means to help promote each of the candidates fairly.  You can see screen shots below.

I would love to say that internet polling was accurate.  If that were the case Ron Paul would have been President.  Given the amount of traffic we received compared to the number of votes, I would hope this was a fair indication of the people in the 4th Congressional District.

Without further delay, here are the results…

36% – Jim Lee
18% – Trey Gowdy
18% – Bob Inglis
18% – Christina Jeffrey
07% – David Thomas

My biggest surprise is the indecisiveness for the potential runoff candidate.  With Gowdy, Inglis, and Jeffrey all tied for 2nd, this may be the largest battle.  Between these three candidates, you see the outside Ron Paul supporters backing Jeffrey who has been threatening to censor individuals recently on Facebook and a potential split between the establishment candidates of Inglis and Gowdy.

This is a race I have been looking forward to seeing play out and it will only get more interesting the closer we get to June.  What do you think about these results?

Jeffrey Attempting to Censor Social Media

Last week on Facebook, one of our Libertarian leaning friends posted an interesting comment.  It read…”just defriended a Congressional candidate.” -> view here

By the way, they live in the 4th Congressional District, which further fueled my interest.  So I had to inquire…who and why?

Come to find out, the candidate was none other than Christina Jeffrey.  The very candidate who claims to be a Tea Party candidate and invokes the friendship of Ron Paul frequently.

Needless to say, for you Ron Paul supporters out there, this does nothing to help your cause.

Apparently their camp was wanting to remove posts from Facebook that they felt were not on point.  According to our source, it was communicated with him (“paraphrased”) that they were deleting his posts because their ultimate goal was to win.

“Yesterday, I got an email from her daughter saying that she would be deleting posts that are not ‘on topic’. I started smelling a rat, and told her if she did that I would de-friend Christina both on facebook and in person. Within 10 minutes I got a call and a text from Christina saying that we ‘needed to talk’ …

This morning, I got an email from her daughter stating, in part, that ‘the ultimate goal is to win’.”

WOW!!!!  Ultimate goal is to win.  Not help better America, not change the ways of Washington.  It was all about winning.

And this is not the first time she has tried this.

Earlier in 2009, an anonymous poster on our blog made mention of her little served time as historian in Congress and how she was removed for controversial comments concerning history books that didn’t provide all the differing views of the Holocaust.  She was later found to be not in fault, but the particular commenter did not share that.

What happened though is she decided to come after me for allowing the comment to be posted and demanded that I take it down.  The point of the comment was true, it just did not share the entire truth.  You can view the comment here and the email here.

Have you had similar experiences with Jeffrey?  Share them below.

UPDATE:
I will grant Paul posts a lot of things, sharing different views.  With that said though, she also made the request that he not mention anything about her history, in particular her stint as Historian under Newt Gingrich.  My apologies for leaving that out.

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