Frederick campaign releases letter to Speaker Howell
By JR Hoeft | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | PoliticsAs if the leadership in the House of Delegates didn’t have enough on its hands with transportation, Speaker Howell’s recent endorsement of current RPV Chairman John Hager inspired a fiery response from Mrs. Frederick.
I contacted the Frederick campaign and the below is Amy Frederick’s response. The response mentions documents posted on Contemporary Conservative which cites a dispute between RPV and GXS — a company with which Del. Frederick is involved.
I contacted RPV and they deny that these documents were leaked by them and could not vouch for their authenticity. However, they did acknowledge the dispute.
FROM THE DESK OF
Amy N. FrederickAn Open Letter To William Howell, Speaker Of The Virginia House Of Delegates
Dear Mr. Speaker:
I received your letter this morning. To say that I was shocked would be an understatement.It takes some nerve for you to write me to outline all the reasons my husband should not be Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV). Worse, your letter to me was apparently timed to arrive the same day RPV (the organization our opponent currently oversees) leaked misleading documents intended to attack Jeff’s integrity.
Can you imagine your reaction if Jeff sent a letter to your wife Cessie telling her — in light of the House Republican Caucus losing 11 seats to the Democrats since you’ve become Speaker — that you should not be Speaker any more? That the House GOP has gone from a very healthy governing majority to now a slim 3 seat majority under your leadership and therefore you’re not best qualified to be Speaker?
Then, on the same day after such a letter, you were attacked for standing on the podium at the 1993 Virginia Republican Convention to ask Republicans to defeat a pro-life nominee for Lt. Governor with a pro-choice alternative?
I believe you’d demand an apology from Jeff immediately — and while I can’t demand anything, I do believe you owe me an apology.
I realize Jeff is a young go-getter, and that rubs the old guard the wrong way. Yet, just because you’ve known Jeff’s opponent for over 20 years, as you stated in your letter, doesn’t excuse this sort of conduct.
I do find one of your statements rather curious:
“As the Speaker of the House of Delegates, I’ve stood firm for our conservative values and John Hager has stood with me. I’ve known John Hager for two decades, and I’ve always been able to count on him.”
Was it the time you were advocating the Party go with a pro-choice statewide candidate over a pro-life leader, or more recently when John Hager was working to advance the agenda of Democratic Governor Mark Warner, that you were counting on him?
True, Jeff was too young to vote two decades ago when you started working with John, but is the old guard really getting things done?
Republicans came to power on the backs of conservative, grassroots activists, and Jeff is a young leader who has shown he can motivate young voters to join those who have spent years doing the volunteer work necessary to elect conservatives.
Jeff is not going to march more in line with the establishment to earn their support; no thanks. It is amazing to me that the old guard has betrayed grassroots conservatives on so many issues, yet still feels it can dictate to the grassroots who they need to select as their Party leaders.
As you recall, John Hager lost his 1992 bid for RPV Chairman running as a moderate. Then the Party was able to get back to its conservative principles on life, taxes and the 2nd Amendment and the result was us winning control of both houses of the General Assembly and sweeping all statewide offices.
On May 31, I believe the Republicans who attend the convention will vote to get back to winning elections and governing as conservatives — and will defy you and the rest of the old guard to elect Jeff Frederick as RPV Chairman.
Sincerely,
Amy FrederickP.S. Please take “Mrs. Amy Frederick” out of your contacts, and please don’t send me anything further in the future about my husband.
(h/t: Thanks, Joseph!)
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10 Responses to "Frederick campaign releases letter to Speaker Howell"
Man, maybe his wife should run… I guess Delegate Frederick will never get a bill out of the House again… I guess this is their version of the Clintons’ “Stand by your Man” interview.
… or maybe the Speaker won’t be Speaker anymore.
Of course Howell endorsed Hagar, and took what apparently was a gratuitous shot at Frederick in the process.
That’s how the Establishment works, always has.
They did similar things to me in the Fifth when I ran for District Chairman.
Dirty little secret time!!
Shhhh!, but they don’t like conservative challengers.
Ask Reagan in 1976
Or Pat Toomey.
Establishment incumbents always help each other, even if it means playing fast and loose with the truth. What is it about conservatives that so scares these people?
They would rather lose than take a stand, which event will continue to happen until they get out of the way, and let those of who can and will do something about it do just that!!
The Republicans only win, generally speaking, when they provide a stark contrast to democrats, which really should not be very hard considering the majority of national Dems don’t seem to think America is anything to write home about.
It is a sad commentary on the state of the Republican Party when recent polls show the American people giving higher marks to the Dems even on National Security.
How did we even give that one up?
Maybe try closing the borders, and then go back and try to convince us that you are serious about National Security, and we might actually believe you!!.
Get out of our way, and let us return the Party to majority status. We will actually follow the Reagan and Gingrich models that gave us political power for the only time in how many centuries?.
Time to stop doing what fails when we know what wins.
Amy Frederick is intelligent and quite articulate. Having her as 1st lady of our Commonwealth’s GOP would be quite an asset.
This is just one more reason why the citizens should withdraw their trust in the current party system. If the party would stoop so low as to assassinate the reputation and integrity of their own political insiders, what limits are there to protect the populace at large? And BTW, this isn’t the first time this little game has been played.
“On June 6, 2003, GXS Founder and CEO Jeff Frederick, a candidate for the Virginia
House of Delegates at the time, was just 4 days from his Republican primary, seeking
to unseat 18-year incumbent Delegate Jack Rollison. According to Frederick pollworkers, Rollison’s poll-workers had copies of the Veritas court documents, which they handed out on election day. “The fact that this Veritas lawsuit was filed only 4 days
before the primary, and that someone was in touch with and providing court documents
to our then-campaign opponent is especially suspect,” said Matt Robbins, campaign manager for Frederick. “The timing of all this speaks for itself.”
http://gxs.net/Lawsuit_Statement.pdf
The question now becomes, Who to believe? I dare say that when it comes to Republicans the answer should be NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Republicans can’t do anything right, can they?
Republicans are just fine. I’m sure both the Libertarians and Democrats have big ol’ glass houses.
Democrats are just going through this nomination thing just swimmingly, aren’t they?
Yea, and Libertarians are going to nominate a former Republican, Bob Barr, while the guy they really want is going to lose the Republican nomination. That’s not dysfunctional.
RE: the Veritas vs. GXS thing, a quick web search came up with this:
http://votejeff.com/news.asp?docID=69
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