It’s been an interesting week for our campaign.
First, Linda and Jason Mow went to Haiti to save orphaned children. May God bless their work. The Mow’s have been crucial to coordinating my schedule, so I'm trying to line-up as many events as possible myself. You can help by making a contribution that will enable us to bring aboard others to lend a hand in their absence.
Next, J.D. Hayworth, another establishment big-spending Republican, jumped into the race for the U.S. Senate. I'm not challenging John McCain, or Hayworth, or the Republican Party. I'm challenging the voters to educate themselves and decide how they want to manage their representational seat.
Since I started my campaign last April, I’ve been humbly sharing my message through grassroots campaigning. We’ve collected signatures; we’ve raised funds; and, we have a solid following whose message to me is this: STAY IN THE RACE! And I will.
Ours is a blue-collar, middle-class, common sense message. I will serve the people of the United States and Arizona by defending the Constitution and protecting our civil liberties. As a Constitutional conservative I am straight forward in principle: I will work for the Constitution, not for the party.
I invite you to view my video blogs wherein we explain how most politicians are avoiding our nation's problems. Instead, they aim to solve their own problem of getting elected and re-elected. That goal consumes and colors their every decision, and guides their every calculated move. Thus is true of both McCain and Hayworth.
McCain versus Hayworth will further illustrate how getting re-elected means obfuscating how much legislation actually hurts businesses and citizens alike. McCain/Hayworth will display how campaign promises are designed to reward the special interests that help a candidate. And, how politicians push policies that ultimately do great harm to our Constitution and to our individual liberties.
We must reverse this trend. We must shrink government. We must change the political paradigm, while there’s still time.
Last night the voters in Maricopa agreed and that message rang true, resulting in more signatures and financial support to help me stay in the race as the powerful Republican machine will now attempt to absorb all funding for their two party establishment candidates.
Your support is crucial to keeping our voice ringing true above the din of political rhetoric as usual.
I look forward to speaking to the voters at the East Valley Tea Party: Super bowl of Conservative Candidates Open House
January 30th 12 Noon - 8PM,
The Burke Basic School
(the old Foxworth building, East of Skateland),131 East Southern Avenue, Mesa, AZ 85210
Friday, January 29, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Video Blog/Interview with Hispanic media
Chris Simcox, candidate for U.S. Senate Arizona shares segment 1 of a sit down interview with Hispanic radio personalities Elias Chevando and Arturo Galvez to discuss my perspective on illegal immigration, legal immigration and how I would solve current border security failures. I stress the point that my primary and only job is to serve citizens, protect the Constitution and defend our borders of the United States first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7jx6crGwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7jx6crGwc
Monday, January 4, 2010
Chris Simcox for Senate first 2010 video blog
First video blog of 2010 from Chris Simcox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXphRtHqnfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXphRtHqnfw
Friday, September 25, 2009
Chris Simcox : My Mission in Running Against John McCain
My Mission in Running Against John McCain
Eight years ago I challenged the status quo on illegal immigration without thought of political party or ideology. My intent was to bring to peoples’ attention the underlying problem of our border insecurity. I felt then that our two main political parties were part of a three-ring circus with Democrats and Republicans whistled on stage by the Ring Master –main stream media personalities. Little has changed.
Today, conservative media personalities seem to be maneuvering to upstage each other. For example: neoconservative Mark Levin has criticized populist Glenn Beck.
In this mix, I consider myself an independent conservative. I don’t fit into any predefined box. My mission is, and always has been, to open the eyes of a widely apathetic citizenry.
I agree with Beck when he says that a President McCain would have been no better than President Obama. It partially explains why I’m challenging John McCain in the Republican primary next August.
McCain voted for TARP. He has nurtured Cap & Trade and accepted the scientifically dubious premise that global warming is manmade as well as a clear and present danger to the planet. McCain is engaged in the healthcare debate when he should be leading a Senate effort to stop it on the ground that it’s unconstitutional. And, McCain supports the failed organization that is the United Nations.
Meanwhile, we learn that Obama plans to cut funding for border security. The truth is that McCain never wanted to fix our porous borders in the first place. I, along with tens of thousands of citizens, held a Tea Party on the border in 2005. We led the charge to stop the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill in 2006. We forced Congress to build over 600 miles of fencing in 2007. Yet, the border problem remains a serious issue regardless of the party in charge. And it will only improve until voters demand change.
On the border issue, Beck is right. A President McCain would have been no better than Obama. In 2004, McCain told me, to my face, that what I was doing on the border would bring more trouble than the drug cartels. Meanwhile, McCain and Obama both sit idly by allowing the drug cartels to expand their criminal activities into U.S. cities and essentially control America’s southern border.
I respect the libertarian principles of Constitution, Freedom and Liberty. I’m running as a registered Republican with the goal of helping move the GOP toward becoming a party that embraces those principles. Among some in the Republican establishment the attitude toward me is “How dare you! Who the hell gave you permission to do this! You’re going to screw the whole damn thing up.”
I fully expected that response. It’s symptomatic of a political party that needs an awakening. And I believe that awakening will be delivered upon it by patriotic voters in 2010 in Arizona.
My response to the GOP establishment, and to Mark Levin, in defense of Beck is that Beck is doing what a good teacher does, and what I did when I was a teacher. He’s starting with the basics - government 101 – and building from there.
My love of the Constitution and my deep respect for the freedom-loving conservatives of Arizona call me to run against John McCain. He, progressive liberals, and the professional GOP party loyalists should take note. People are demanding that politicians return their government to its Constitutional foundation. In the next election, they will elect Congressional representatives who will protect our free market economic system, our borders, and our national security.
So I’m running as a states’ rights candidate. And I will, when elected, work to protect the state from federal government encroachments. I will work closely with Arizona’s elected representatives to protect the rights of Arizona’s citizens. I will not enter the Senate with the overriding goal of working for the GOP or the federal government. I will go to bring a message from the American people that says, “Keep it simple; stay out of our private lives; do what’s necessary to defend the nation. And don’t impede our industry or stand in the way of our enterprising spirit flourishing once again.”
Chris Simcox
Eight years ago I challenged the status quo on illegal immigration without thought of political party or ideology. My intent was to bring to peoples’ attention the underlying problem of our border insecurity. I felt then that our two main political parties were part of a three-ring circus with Democrats and Republicans whistled on stage by the Ring Master –main stream media personalities. Little has changed.
Today, conservative media personalities seem to be maneuvering to upstage each other. For example: neoconservative Mark Levin has criticized populist Glenn Beck.
In this mix, I consider myself an independent conservative. I don’t fit into any predefined box. My mission is, and always has been, to open the eyes of a widely apathetic citizenry.
I agree with Beck when he says that a President McCain would have been no better than President Obama. It partially explains why I’m challenging John McCain in the Republican primary next August.
McCain voted for TARP. He has nurtured Cap & Trade and accepted the scientifically dubious premise that global warming is manmade as well as a clear and present danger to the planet. McCain is engaged in the healthcare debate when he should be leading a Senate effort to stop it on the ground that it’s unconstitutional. And, McCain supports the failed organization that is the United Nations.
Meanwhile, we learn that Obama plans to cut funding for border security. The truth is that McCain never wanted to fix our porous borders in the first place. I, along with tens of thousands of citizens, held a Tea Party on the border in 2005. We led the charge to stop the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill in 2006. We forced Congress to build over 600 miles of fencing in 2007. Yet, the border problem remains a serious issue regardless of the party in charge. And it will only improve until voters demand change.
On the border issue, Beck is right. A President McCain would have been no better than Obama. In 2004, McCain told me, to my face, that what I was doing on the border would bring more trouble than the drug cartels. Meanwhile, McCain and Obama both sit idly by allowing the drug cartels to expand their criminal activities into U.S. cities and essentially control America’s southern border.
I respect the libertarian principles of Constitution, Freedom and Liberty. I’m running as a registered Republican with the goal of helping move the GOP toward becoming a party that embraces those principles. Among some in the Republican establishment the attitude toward me is “How dare you! Who the hell gave you permission to do this! You’re going to screw the whole damn thing up.”
I fully expected that response. It’s symptomatic of a political party that needs an awakening. And I believe that awakening will be delivered upon it by patriotic voters in 2010 in Arizona.
My response to the GOP establishment, and to Mark Levin, in defense of Beck is that Beck is doing what a good teacher does, and what I did when I was a teacher. He’s starting with the basics - government 101 – and building from there.
My love of the Constitution and my deep respect for the freedom-loving conservatives of Arizona call me to run against John McCain. He, progressive liberals, and the professional GOP party loyalists should take note. People are demanding that politicians return their government to its Constitutional foundation. In the next election, they will elect Congressional representatives who will protect our free market economic system, our borders, and our national security.
So I’m running as a states’ rights candidate. And I will, when elected, work to protect the state from federal government encroachments. I will work closely with Arizona’s elected representatives to protect the rights of Arizona’s citizens. I will not enter the Senate with the overriding goal of working for the GOP or the federal government. I will go to bring a message from the American people that says, “Keep it simple; stay out of our private lives; do what’s necessary to defend the nation. And don’t impede our industry or stand in the way of our enterprising spirit flourishing once again.”
Chris Simcox
Friday, August 7, 2009
Simcox Response To McCain's No Vote on Sotomayor
Here are some reflections on my appearance on MSNBC-TV today to discuss Sen. John McCain's “No” vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonja Sotomayor.
I agree with some political commentators who wrote that McCain’s vote may have been an expedient political maneuver because McCain is facing a serious primary challenge. I am that challenge. So I gladly awoke at 4:30 a.m. to support the notion that McCain voted “No” in order to gain, or better, to appease the so-called “"conservative Republican”" votes over "Hispanic" votes in his battle to be re-nominated in 2010.
My point on MSNBC was based on what I believe, and that’s this:
It’s a shame that we still discuss politics in terms of racial or ethnic demography. It’s Sonja Sotomayor’'s association with overtly ethnic supremacist organizations that represents a problem. It should immediately disqualify her as a Supreme Court nominee. Any judge, or law enforcement agent, should be scrutinized closely if they’ve associated with a group that uses racial identification as their primary belief system. Sotomayor'’s association with La Raza, MALDEF, MECHA, et al., should immediately exclude her, or anyone else, from ever being a judge, in my opinion.
A judge must apply the law consistently and inclusively. Lady Justice is blind to any ethnocentric-biased creed or value system based on race or religion. A Supreme Court Justice’s job is to protect American citizens by ensuring that the laws and practices of the nation’s lower courts remain in -line with the freedoms and liberties claimed for all citizens in the Constitution, and in its amendments.
In a press release several weeks ago, I stated that I would have made up my mind on Sotomayor early in the confirmation process. What took McCain so long? The fundamental issue is about protecting the people, by way of our Constitution, and not allowing one’s life experiences to be the lens through which a judge makes decisions. To rule on the basis of personal bias negatively affects the lives of all our nation’s citizens – citizens whose rights are all protected by our Constitution.
It’s time politicians stop making political calculations about the percentage of ethnic voter groups, and stop taking self-serving positions based on racial, ethnic or religious considerations, as I believe McCain did.
I’m running for the Senate as an independent Republican. I’m not beholdening to, nor am I held captive by, any party system. I am accountable to all the people in Arizona, and first and foremost I must follow the Constitution. I believe in the Republican Party’s stated ideals and platforms, many of which are being under-represented today in Congress. These are the factors that will influence my votes in the Senate.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32268127#32284172
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Chris Simcox Opposes Cap & Trade
Chris Simcox Opposes Cap & Trade
Chris Simcox, founder of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by John McCain, has denounced the Cap & Trade bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Simcox said, “The Cap & Trade Bill that squeaked through the House needs to bring a roar of opposition from voters in Arizona and across the nation. This is bad legislation that will, if passed by the Senate, not only bring us much higher costs in energy, as Obama has promised, but it will also bring a heavy cost to our sovereign freedom as a nation. It will represent a treaty that’ll not only pull us deeper into the European Union, but will also yield control of America’s free market for energy to international concerns.”
Simcox quoted John McCain who wrote in a March 18, 2008 Financial Times op-ed piece that, “We need a successor to Kyoto, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner.”
Simcox criticized McCain saying that, “McCain has accepted the premise of man-made global warming as settled science, when, in fact, every day more credible sources are stepping forward to challenge that premise.”
Simcox said that, “A year after McCain endorsed Cap & Trade, the Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, released a draft document, dated March 9, 2009, that stated, ‘We do not maintain that we or anyone else have all the answers needed to take action now.’ The document continues, ‘We believe our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by EPA before any attempt is made to reach conclusions on the subject...The science has and undoubtedly will continue to change and EPA must have the capability of keeping abreast of these changes if it is to successfully discharge its responsibilities.’ So,” Simcox stated, “the EPA itself has yet to accept the premise of Cap & Trade!”
Simcox added, “Senator McCain made a hasty and uninformed decision when he supported the TARP bailout bill. Concerning Cap & Trade, he’s has made a long but equally uninformed decision to support a concept that would be better called ‘Tax & Control.’ McCain was wrong about TARP then, and he’s wrong about Cap & Trade now.”
Chris Simcox, founder of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by John McCain, has denounced the Cap & Trade bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Simcox said, “The Cap & Trade Bill that squeaked through the House needs to bring a roar of opposition from voters in Arizona and across the nation. This is bad legislation that will, if passed by the Senate, not only bring us much higher costs in energy, as Obama has promised, but it will also bring a heavy cost to our sovereign freedom as a nation. It will represent a treaty that’ll not only pull us deeper into the European Union, but will also yield control of America’s free market for energy to international concerns.”
Simcox quoted John McCain who wrote in a March 18, 2008 Financial Times op-ed piece that, “We need a successor to Kyoto, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner.”
Simcox criticized McCain saying that, “McCain has accepted the premise of man-made global warming as settled science, when, in fact, every day more credible sources are stepping forward to challenge that premise.”
Simcox said that, “A year after McCain endorsed Cap & Trade, the Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, released a draft document, dated March 9, 2009, that stated, ‘We do not maintain that we or anyone else have all the answers needed to take action now.’ The document continues, ‘We believe our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by EPA before any attempt is made to reach conclusions on the subject...The science has and undoubtedly will continue to change and EPA must have the capability of keeping abreast of these changes if it is to successfully discharge its responsibilities.’ So,” Simcox stated, “the EPA itself has yet to accept the premise of Cap & Trade!”
Simcox added, “Senator McCain made a hasty and uninformed decision when he supported the TARP bailout bill. Concerning Cap & Trade, he’s has made a long but equally uninformed decision to support a concept that would be better called ‘Tax & Control.’ McCain was wrong about TARP then, and he’s wrong about Cap & Trade now.”
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Obamacrats create jobs- Coast Guard Civil Rights Detachment
Obama expanding the size of government in all the right areas. So just how will the Coast Guard's Civil Rights detachment be helping our military and civil law enforcement?
This press release is rich in "nationalism speak" - 'centralized management' and is there such a problem or one anticipated that Obama needs "swifter response and greater workload capacity"?
Let's do some research and find out just how large this 'detachment' will be - how many jobs created? What's the salary, requisites, etc? Just bringing it to your attention, in the spirit of spot lighting some of Obama's job creation efforts.
Read on:
Coast Guard launches Civil Rights Regional Detachments
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Civil Rights announced Wednesday the launch of a centrally-managed, professional and full-time equal employment opportunity and equal opportunity counseling corps.
“Our goal is to offer timely delivery of critical services by full-time, knowledgeable Civil Rights Service Providers,” said Terri Dickerson, director of the Office of Civil Rights. “The Civil Rights Detachments will support our civilian and military workforce as they protect our nation.”
To achieve this goal the Coast Guard will establish three dedicated Civil Rights Regional Detachments this summer to centralize complaint processing and outreach efforts. One regional detachment will be based here, another in Portsmouth, Va., and the third in Alameda, Calif.
Centralized management means all Civil Rights Service Providers will report directly to Dickerson. Training for service providers will be standardized, rigorous and ongoing. These training and management enhancements will allow for swifter response and greater workload capacity. The change mirrors the greater Coast Guard modernization efforts to improve efficiency.
For more information on civil rights modernization efforts please visit to: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg00/cg00h/default.asp.
Be sure to go to their website to read more and you can email them with your questions.
Chris
This press release is rich in "nationalism speak" - 'centralized management' and is there such a problem or one anticipated that Obama needs "swifter response and greater workload capacity"?
Let's do some research and find out just how large this 'detachment' will be - how many jobs created? What's the salary, requisites, etc? Just bringing it to your attention, in the spirit of spot lighting some of Obama's job creation efforts.
Read on:
Coast Guard launches Civil Rights Regional Detachments
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Civil Rights announced Wednesday the launch of a centrally-managed, professional and full-time equal employment opportunity and equal opportunity counseling corps.
“Our goal is to offer timely delivery of critical services by full-time, knowledgeable Civil Rights Service Providers,” said Terri Dickerson, director of the Office of Civil Rights. “The Civil Rights Detachments will support our civilian and military workforce as they protect our nation.”
To achieve this goal the Coast Guard will establish three dedicated Civil Rights Regional Detachments this summer to centralize complaint processing and outreach efforts. One regional detachment will be based here, another in Portsmouth, Va., and the third in Alameda, Calif.
Centralized management means all Civil Rights Service Providers will report directly to Dickerson. Training for service providers will be standardized, rigorous and ongoing. These training and management enhancements will allow for swifter response and greater workload capacity. The change mirrors the greater Coast Guard modernization efforts to improve efficiency.
For more information on civil rights modernization efforts please visit to: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg00/cg00h/default.asp.
Be sure to go to their website to read more and you can email them with your questions.
Chris
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