Does Anyone See Something… Wrong… With This “Endorcement” Policy?
By Shaun Kenney | Friday, May 20th, 2011 | PoliticsLet’s see if it gets changed in the next few minutes:
| Evans Issues Endorcement Policy for Senate Campaign |
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Fieldale, VA - Jeff Evans for Senate announced today that they will not be soliciting nor accepting any endorsements from elected officials or political figures outside of the district in this election cycle. Jeff Evans issued the following statement: “One of the problems with politics today lies in the aspect of being indebted to other politicians and party bodies. The original intent for state representation was for a senator or delegate to go to Richmond and carry with them the opinions and voices of their neighbors, business partners, church families, and communities. They were never intended to go to Richmond to serve another master. They were intended to serve their district. In today’s politics, men and women get elected by the efforts and votes of people in their districts simply to go to Richmond and forget about the people who sent them there. They quickly begin making deals and exchanging favors with their party and other politicians. Before they realize it they are a servant to the party and career politicians which they have become indebted to and have forgotten to serve the people who sent them there. For this reason, I am pledging today that I will not be accepting nor soliciting any endorsements from career politicians in Richmond or elsewhere. I plan to go to Richmond indebted only to the people who sent me there, from the district in which I was born and raised and have lived in consecutively for the past twenty-seven years. Soon, I will be releasing a list of the only endorsements that I believe really matter – endorsements of voters and constituents in the district which I am running to serve. “ # # # |
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Jeff Evans is a retired Virginia State Trooper, Army veteran, former Carroll County Supervisor, local associate pastor, devoted husband and father of two children. He will work with our communities to build a brighter future for our families through creating jobs, cutting spending, and leading with his strong conservative values once elected.
Learn more by visiting http://www.jeffevansforsenate.com
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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20 Responses to "Does Anyone See Something… Wrong… With This “Endorcement” Policy?"
I do believe the dinosaurs made the same sound as this guy just before they went extinct.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable position to take…especially if you’re pretty sure your opponent is going to be getting all the “Endorcements.”
Does giving a campaign “Hooked on Phonics” count as a campaign contribution?
I thought press releases were supposed to be newsworthy. Jeff, once elected, will your opinion matter and should we pay attention to who you endorse?
Now each Stanley endorsement will have greater impact as it will be met by anticipating listeners. What a great opportunity the Evans clan has created for Stanley.
Thank you to all those who choose public service and are rehired by voters through democratic elections.
Headline: “Candidate Announces That He Won’t Accept Endorsements of Officials Who Have Endorsed His Opponent”
Maybe Evans can hold spelling bee fund raisers where he can go up against 5th graders who can contribute their milk money to the winner.
Sounds like he needs and ENFORCEMENT policy to go along with his sour-grapes.
Ah, I see he used to work in law enforsement.
He should make an exception for an endorsement (endorcement?) from Dan Quayle.
Still hasn’t changed… wow.
Hasn’t Evans been running around asking everyone he could for endorsements for the last few months?
Isn’t he saying “I can’t get any endorsements from the folks I’ve been asking for the past few months so now I’m gonna tell everyone that I never wanted those endorsements.”
Aside from the spelling error, however you look at this press release, it was just a bad idea.
(I can’t throw stones on the spelling. I’ve personally goofed up a couple of these with a spelling error or two & taken my well deserved roasting like a man. I’m just happy I never had one in the Headline!)
This is what happens when you turn an inexperienced, immature, and egocentric relative loose as your campaign manager with zero oversight. Not saying oversight would have helped.
I told Jeff 4 years ago that if he wanted this seat he would need to improve his campaign skills and hire an experienced, professional campaign manager.
He didn’t.
Shaun’s subhead; Let’s see if it gets changed in the next few minutes:
I’m betting on no.
Next week when he still has no money after months of fundraising he will issue a release saying he won’t accept any money from outside the district. He had no problem with taking over 60% of his contributions from there four years ago. He has tried donors outside his district this time with no luck so now he will let them know he won’t be asking again.
And Jeff Evans thinks he can compete with (and against) the Democrat political machine that they will bring into Southside to try to protect Roscoe Reynolds? Does he really believe with how he is acting now that, if he is the nominee, he can beat an entrenched southern Democrat incumbent like Sen. Reynolds? Can his bush-league antics and losing strategy actually overcome his pathetic showing in the race against Roscoe four years ago, when he does stuff like this?? He proves the point right here, right now, that he needs to step aside. He wants this for himself, and not for the people he might represent. He has asked every elected offical in the area and in Virginia for an endorsement and they have all turned him down. Perhaps he believes that this silly press release will somehow give him cover from his utter failure to get support from anyone for his dead-on-arrival campaign.
If you need more evidence, go to vpap.org…in the first quarter, when he claims a big fundraising period, he says he raised around 15K — 8 thousand of it was from an in-kind donation from his son Evan (for more info on Evan, the titan of political strategy, see the post above)for services (aka — no cash raised here). After all of that, he raised only 7 grand (I am being generous here). And, from his incredible campaign warchest,he gave his son (the campaign manager extraordinaire) $3,000 of it, on top of the in-kind contribution. He has a little more than 3,000 left. Not even close to make a serious challenge. No one is contributing to his failed campaign. He can’t raise money, he can’t get support, he is a dead man walking.
The Republicans need this seat, period. It will not happen with a guy like Evans, and lead by his son, who cannot spell, and clearly cannot win. Now, we hear that he is threatening an “independent conservative” run, outside the Republican Party nomination process. Seriously? This guy needs to go.
If we all care about Southside, and we care about gaining the Republican majority in the Senate and defeating Roscoe Reynolds, then we must get serious about this race. Jeff Evans is not a serious candidate. Seriously.
STILL HAS NOT CHANGED THE RELEASE.
Jeff you are done… step back support Bill and enjoy the fruits of having a Republican Senator in your district.
STILL HAS NOT CHANGED THE RELEASE.
Damn…..
You can give up now Shaun, Aaron is too lazy to change the release. The campaign website and the campaign Facebook page are both over a month old.
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