Video: 'Occupy' events organized and financed by government union bosses

New video shows Occupy DC is organized and financed by the SEIU and NALC -- two taxpayer-supported government unions.

Yes, the people angry about the intersection of big money and politics are supported by the single biggest political spenders.

This is yet more proof this is a fake movement agitating for liberal policies they can't win in an open political system.



The government union-financed "Our DC" van has New York plates and registration.

Thanksgiving

 "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride—just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation." - Ayn Rand

One of the worst campaign videos ever

When I watch this...



I see this...

This is why I like D.C.'s homeless. Occupier defecates on sidewalk like an animal.

Unions have provided free portable toilets to Occupy D.C., but Occupiers still choose to publicly expose themselves and defecate in the street. 

Not only do Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square reek, which they never did when the homeless lived there, I've lived here for a decade and never seen a homeless person drop pants and defecate on the sidewalk in broad daylight.

Our homeless friends here in D.C. are generally kind and polite, and they are officially cleaner and more civilized than the Occupy movement.

Today's Occupy Rap Sheet: Occupy animal slugs a woman in the face for taping in public

Rape.

Sexual assault.

Rape of a minor.

Murder.

Shoving elderly women down a flight of stairs.

Throwing feces.

Public masturbation.

Exposing their genitals to children.

"Aggravated child pornography."

Attempting to grab a two-year old child.

Trying to stab police officers.

And now, slugging a woman in the face for videotaping on a public sidewalk.

Why are Democrats still proud to stand alongside the violent animals of the Occupy movement?

Greens freak out over election defeat

Leesburg Today: ...Particularly egregious to a number of voters were email blasts and robo calls on the eve of the election from Donny Ferguson....who now is executive director of the conservative western U.S.-based American Tradition Partnership, an organization that advocates defeat of what it calls "extreme" environmental proposals.

In the calls, Ferguson called on voters to defeat the "Obama Democrat" Baldwin*, who formerly worked under three Republican presidents...

Apparently they didn't find it too egregious. Malcolm Baldwin got whipped like a circus monkey.

Oh, and those three Republicans? Liberals Nixon and Ford.

But that's only two, you say?  One of the first things Reagan did when coming into office was to tell him to pack his bags, but he was still on the job for a few weeks while they picked his replacement.  30 years later he goes around claiming to be a part of the Reagan administration.

* ATP does not and did not advocate the election or defeat of any candidate.

Spreading mediocrity equally

Ayn Rand: "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." 

When Occupy protesters agitate for the forced redistribution and suppression of individual wealth, what are they really waging war against?

Letter to the Editor: Malcolm Baldwin's low blows

Dear Editor:

Ever since the now-failed Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan was proposed, advocates for farmers and homeowners faced a barrage of false attacks on their character and motivations by supervisors, candidates and operatives aligned with the wealthy environmentalist crowd. 

Many of the nastiest attacks were directed at American Tradition Partnership's grassroots members, and myself particularly. On election night, voters corrected the record. 

Among the worst offenders was Catoctin District Supervisor candidate Malcolm Baldwin. 

In a Nov. 4 Leesburg Today article on American Tradition Partnership's candidate survey program Baldwin stated "no sane person" would agree radical environmentalism harms Loudoun farmers and homeowners. 

The newspaper quote was one of many passive-aggressive low blows thrown this year by Mr. Baldwin, who would then try to obfuscate his attacks by putting on the air of a country gentleman. 

Mr. Baldwin also accused me personally of "dirty tricks" and conducting "a last minute push to scare people and hurt our campaign." 

Undeterred, I telephoned thousands of Catoctin voters the day before the election urging them to seek out Mr. Baldwin at their polling location and politely ask him to consider changing his harmful position.

In the end those voters judged it was he, not farmers and homeowners, whose position was wrong. 

That's what American Tradition Partnership is about. Accountability. 

The election results should serve as a warning to future Boards of Supervisors to never again propose a Property Control Act, or engage in the smear tactics we saw over the past year and a half. 

Donald E. Ferguson, Alexandria 
Executive Director, American Tradition Partnership

Wipeout: Ches Bay plan supporters washed away in Tuesday election

* Ferguson telephones voters of Catoctin, Blue Ridge, Broad Run and Leesburg districts Monday to inform them of opportunity to lobby candidates at the polls
* Baldwin goes down to surprising defeat after two district-wide phone calls into Catoctin in four days, but efforts of citizens not wasted
* Ferguson: "I still would like Mr. Baldwin to kindly return his survey"

LEESBURG -- Just a few short months after American Tradition Partnership led a deluge of phone calls, e-mails and public comments in opposition to a proposed Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan, that turned what appeared to be a 6-3 vote in favor passage into a majority vote to table the measure, voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Board of Supervisors candidates who supported continuing work on the Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan.

“The millionaires’ club in favor of the Property Control Plan has gone from six votes in favor to none, and lost three incumbents in the process.  They got wiped out, and washed away, as voters cleaned up government,” said American Tradition Partnership Executive Director Donald Ferguson.  “Thank you to the many American Tradition Partnership supporters across Loudoun County who have been calling, writing, e-mailing and speaking with officials and candidates.  Because of their pressure every member of the new Board opposes the Property Control Plan.”

ATP lobbies on issues using grassroots pressure, and does not advocate the election or defeat of any candidate or ballot measure.

Ferguson fully credited Loudoun residents with keeping up the pressure against plans to resurrect the Property Control Plan, prompting candidates to either oppose it or try to cover up their support.  Ferguson also fully credited incoming Board members for pressuring their opponents on the issue.

As part of ATP’s ongoing campaign to defeat the Property Control Plan, Ferguson telephoned the of voters of the Catoctin, Blue Ridge, Broad Run and Leesburg Districts Monday afternoon, informing them Tuesday was an election and they had an opportunity to lobby candidates at the polls to oppose plans to take away their property rights.  Poll hours and locations were provided.

Voters in the Blue Ridge, Broad Run, Catoctin and Leesburg Districts were informed liberal Jim Burton and Obama Democrats Malcolm Baldwin, Andrea McGimsey and Kelly Burk still supported the Property Control Act.  They were urged to keep and eye out for them at the polls and politely ask them to renounce their position.

“I asked tens of thousands of voters to please politely ask Jim Burton, Malcolm Baldwin, Andrea McGimsey and Kelly Burk to renounce their plans to impose the Property Control Plan on Loudoun.  None of them will now get that opportunity, but the effort was not wasted.  I urge them all, especially Mr. Baldwin, to join me in continuing to oppose the Property Control Plan as a private citizen.”

When the new Board convenes in January, no member will have publicly voiced support for the Property Control Plan.  Ferguson fully credited Loudoun residents with keeping up the pressure against plans to resurrect the Property Control Plan, prompting candidates to either oppose it or try to cover up their support.  Ferguson also fully credited incoming Board members for pressuring their opponents on the issue.

"ATP does not advocate for or against candidates.  We just lobby on issues.  The voters and the candidates made this change happen," said Ferguson.

Since ATP's citizen lobbying program began last year, Ferguson called Blue Ridge District four times exposing Burton’s support for the Property Control Plan.

Ferguson also called voters in the Catoctin District twice over the last four days urging them to ask Obama Democrat Malcolm Baldwin to renounce his plans to resurrect the liberal Property Control Plan.

"I still would like Mr. Baldwin to kindly return his survey," said Ferguson.

“Big thanks also go to the Loudoun Environmental Council, who did an amazing job of researching and scientifically examining the dangerous Property Control Plan, and then getting that information out to the public.  Loudoun’s farmers, employers and homeowners owe the LEC a huge debt of thanks,” said Ferguson.

“We will continue our campaign to keep the Property Control Plan from being dredged up, and to hold Loudoun officials to the highest standard of openness and accountability,” said Ferguson.

Along with its success in lobbying Loudoun officials, in just the last few months ATP has:

*      Killed Barack Obama’s “Cap and Tax” bill in Congress.
*      Along with allies, collected the signatures of 750,000 Americans in support of the Keystone XL pipeline, which transports Canadian oil across the United States to Southeast Texas for refining.
*      Won House Judiciary Committee approval of the REINS Act, which strips federal bureaucrats of their power to propose and enforce major federal regulations.  The bill will now be approved by the full House before moving to the Senate.
*      Filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado to repeal the state’s Expensive Energy Mandate, which forces consumers to buy more expensive wind and solar power against their will.
*      Filed a lawsuit against Montana to stop their ongoing harassment and false smear campaigns against conservative groups, which has already been blasted by federal courts as “petty bureaucratic harassment.”  Montana officials have openly admitted they have no evidence conservative groups have done any wrong and every district attorney has refused to even look into the politically-motivated accusations.
*      Won national headlines along with our federal free speech lawsuit against Montana which allows small employers to spend money on independent political expenditures.
*      Won a federal free speech lawsuit against a liberal Colorado city who passed a law requiring residents to essentially get permission from the government before saying or publishing anything critical of the liberal city council.
*      Stopped a plan by liberals in the U.S. Senate to protect the EPA’s plans to declare carbon dioxide a toxic pollutant.
*      Launched a national campaign to debunk phony claims about natural gas development using safe, clean hydraulic fracturing.
*      Sank plans by Newt Gingrich to win the 2011 CPAC conservative conference’s famous Straw Poll.  With a coveted speaking slot, exhibiting organization and book signing, hosting three panels and a reception and screening two films, Gingrich’s presence dominated that of other presumptive presidential candidates.  CPAC looked to be a launching pad for a Gingrich presidential bid.  Instead, the Republican powerhouse cratered after ATP informed voters of Gingrich’s long record of supporting massive tax hikes, increased government power and international regulatory regimes to enforce what he calls “environmental compliance.”

ATP does not advocate the election or defeat of candidates.  Supported by grassroots members, ATP is a fast-growing non-profit citizens’ group dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting private property rights and responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.

Donald Ferguson is the Executive Director of American Tradition Partnership.  Born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, birthplace of the oil industry, Ferguson attended Texas A&M University and has been involved in free-market advocacy and political organizing for two decades.  He also serves as an advisor to political campaigns, lobbying groups, non-profit organizations and businesses across the United States and in Africa and served the residents of Loudoun County for seven years as a chief of staff on the Board of Supervisors.

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Winter's coming, so remember our homeless friends.

Folks, it's going to be getting cold soon, so our homeless friends will need some extra help.  The Lamb Center is looking for the following:

• 55 Gallon Trash Bags                                 * Small Deodorant & Shaving Cream
• Styrofoam Bowls and Dinner Plates             * 13 Gallon Trash Bags with Draw-Strings
  and Plastic Utensils                                    * Lysol Spray
• Laundry Detergent and Bleach                     * Costco Paper Towel Rolls for Wall Dispenser
• Underwear, Socks, Belts, T-shirts                * Thermal Underwear
• Toothbrushes and Disposable Razors            *  Bottled Water
13 Gallon Trash Bags With Drawstrings         *  Butter/Margarine/Salad Dressing/Cream Cheese
• Coffee, Styrofoam Coffee Cups (8oz)             * Milk/Salt/ Cereal/Instant Oatmeal/Poptarts
• Smart Trip Cards and Metro Passes              * Fresh Fruit/Small Canned Fruit
• Gift Cards to Major Discount Stores              * Financial Assistance for The Lamb Center

They're hiding from you

Wednesday morning

   Dear Loudoun neighbor,

   

   Loudoun’s liberals are hiding.

   

   Help me smoke them out.

   A few weeks ago I sent every candidate for Loudoun County Supervisor my American Tradition Partnership Candidate Issues Survey, asking them to explain their positions on Jim Burton’s Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan and other issues threatening Loudoun.

   The following candidates, all of them recipients of Gang Green cash and advocates of Jim Burton’s Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan to tax and regulate your home property and business, refuse to share their opinions on issues affecting Loudoun families, farmers and job creators.

   I need you to call them.

   And call them BEFORE the polls open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8th.

   Ask them to return their American Tradition Partnership Candidate Issue Surveys in 100% support of farmers, job creators, property owners, taxpayers and families.

   Their home and cell phone numbers are below.

BLUE RIDGE: Supervisor Jim Burton, 703-327-4299

BROAD RUN: Supervisor Andrea McGimsey, 703-430-7024

LEESBURG: Supervisor Kelly Burk, 703-779-0035

STERLING: Alfonso Nevarez, 703-531-7909

CATOCTIN: Malcolm Baldwin, 540-822-4236

ALGONKIAN: Denise Pierce, 703-450-4260

DULLES: Larry Roeder, 703-867-2056

ASHBURN: Valdis Ronis, 703-655-5333

   When a candidate refuses to answer my survey it almost always means one thing…

   … They are deep in the hip pocket of radical Gang Green lobbyists, and they plan to do major damage if elected.

   Now, you’re probably asking yourself, “who is American Tradition Partnership?”

   ATP is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing grassroots advocate of rational, pro-jobs environmental policies.

   We are America’s ONLY grassroots-based, “people-powered” opponent of Gang Green — the multimillion dollar environmentalist lobby.

   In fact, you can become a part of our growing grassroots army.

   Just go to https://Secure.AmericanTradition.org to chip in $10, $25 or even $500.

   Every penny of your gift will be used here in Loudoun to hold Gang Green politicians accountable.

   Here in Loudoun, ATP was among the first groups to oppose the Board’s Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan, and the most active.

   I telephoned a total of 65,000 Loudoun residents, giving them their supervisor’s office, home or cell phone number and urging them to contact their supervisor in opposition to the tax-and-regulate plan.

   Supervisor Jim Burton eventually tabled the plan after ATP placed over 10,000 phone calls into his district, leading Burton to bitterly complain citizens were asking him to oppose it before he eventually gave in.

   But Burton did not kill the plan.  He simply tabled it and can bring it back at any time.

   They’re just playing a waiting game, and I am ready to beat it back down again.

   I just finished a raw steak and a glass of scotch for breakfast, so I have plenty more fight left.

   ATP has earned its reputation as the nation’s most effective opponent of the multi-million dollar “Gang Green” environmentalist lobby.

   ATP wins time and time again because the people are on our side, something elected officials should keep in mind.

   In fact, ATP is currently the focus of an attack by “Green For All,” a radical leftist group founded by former Obama advisor Van Jones and funded by leftist billionaire George Soros.  

   “American Tradition Partnership intends to play a larger and larger role in national politics,” the group’s “Oppose The Future” project writes.

   “This year at CPAC, ATP was relatively unknown. That’s not likely to continue much longer,” Soros’ sock puppet complained.

   Well, if Van Jones and George Soros are trying to stop me I must be doing something right.

   So you know it would drive George Soros crazy if you went to https://Secure.AmericanTradition.org and chipped in $10, $25 or even $500.

   One Colorado state senate candidate, writing on the political blog ColoradoPols.com, referred to me as, “(a)n aggressive supporter of all things anti-Obama and a loyal defender of last century’s fuel industry” while admitting he is “someone who knows quite a bit about marketing,” is “very impressive” and has a “history of being quoted by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.”

   That candidate would go onto lose…

   …after refusing to answer his ATP survey.

   With the support of good folks like you, in just the last few months ATP has:

* Filed lawsuits in Montana to allow corporations to make expenditures on behalf of candidates.

* Killed Barack Obama’s “Cap and Tax” bill in Congress.

* Along with allies, collected the signatures of 750,000 Americans in support of the Keystone XL pipeline, which transports Canadian oil across the United States to Southeast Texas for refining.

* Won House Judiciary Committee approval of the REINS Act, which strips federal bureaucrats of their power to propose and enforce major federal regulations.  The bill will now be approved by the full House before moving to the Senate.

* Successfully pushed to have the gray wolf taken off the so-called “Endangered Species List” so it can be hunted down and exterminated.

* Filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado to repeal the state’s Expensive Energy Mandate, which forces consumers to buy more expensive wind and solar power against their will.

* Filed a lawsuit against Montana to stop their ongoing harassment and false smear campaigns against conservative groups, which has already been blasted by federal courts as “petty bureaucratic harassment.”  Montana officials have openly admitted they have no evidence conservative groups have done any wrong and every district attorney has refused to even look into the politically-motivated accusations.

* Won national headlines along with our federal free speech lawsuit against Montana which allows small employers to spend money on independent political expenditures.

* Won a federal free speech lawsuit against a liberal Colorado city who passed a law requiring residents to essentially get permission from the government before saying or publishing anything critical of the liberal city council.

* Stopped a plan by liberals in the U.S. Senate to protect the EPA’s plans to declare carbon dioxide a toxic pollutant.

* Passed legislation in Montana endorsing nullification of the so-called “Endangered Species Act.”

* Launched a campaign to repeal New Hampshire’s participation in the “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” a northeastern U.S. “global warming” tax cartel.

* Launched a national campaign to debunk phony claims about natural gas development using safe, clean hydraulic fracturing.

* Sank plans by Newt Gingrich to win the 2011 CPAC conservative conference’s famous Straw Poll.  With a coveted speaking slot, exhibiting organization and book signing, hosting three panels and a reception and screening two films, Gingrich’s presence dominated that of other presumptive presidential candidates.  CPAC looked to be a launching pad for a Gingrich presidential bid.  Instead, the Republican powerhouse cratered after ATP informed voters of Gingrich’s long record of supporting massive tax hikes, increased government power and international regulatory regimes to enforce what he calls “environmental compliance.”

   But right now all I want is for every candidate running for the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to send me their ATP Candidate Survey in 100% support of killing Jim Burton’s Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan, and in 100% support of pro-jobs, pro-economic growth environmental policies.

   So please call your candidates.

   About the only time you can get a Gang Green-aligned politician to listen is right before they go in front of voters.

   So call them BEFORE the polls open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8th.

   And please take just a minute to join American Tradition Partnership by going to https://Secure.AmericanTradition.org and chipping in $10, $25 or even $500.

   Keep calling!

   Sincerely,

   Donald Ferguson
   Executive Director
   American Tradition Partnership

   P.S. ATP helped derail Jim Burton’s Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan, but Gang Green is looking to put it back into motion.

   Help me hold Loudoun’s Gang Green-controlled politicians accountable.  Go to https://Secure.AmericanTradition.org to chip in $10, $25 or even $500 today!

These Loudoun Board candidates are hiding. Ask them to return their ATP surveys.

The following candidates for Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, all of them recipients of Gang Green cash and advocates of the Chesapeake Bay Property Control Plan to tax and regulate your home property and business, refuse to share their opinions on issues effecting Loudoun families, farmers and job creators.

Ask them to return their American Tradition Partnership Candidate Issue Surveys in 100% support of farmers, job creators, property owners, taxpayers and families.

BLUE RIDGE	Jim Burton	703-327-4299
BROAD RUN	Andrea McGimsey	703-430-7024
LEESBURG	Kelly Burk	703-779-0035
STERLING	Alfonso Nevarez	703-531-7909
CATOCTIN	Malcolm Baldwin	540-822-4236
ALGONKIAN	Denise Pierce	703-450-4260
DULLES	Larry Roeder	703-867-2056
ASHBURN	Valdis Ronis	703-655-5333