Dan Benishek has gotten EVERY LAST DOLLAR from the grassroots….as you can see he has the backing of CONSERVATIVES everywhere and Allen has the support of the SEIU…..Dr Dan Benishek is going to Congress as a Citizen Legislature and you will just have to SUCK IT UP!

Allen is a carpet-bagging, SEIU backed opportunist that got into this race because he is being term limited out of a job and has no where else to go, He has no support of the grassroots and is behind Benishek according to recent polling.

fields make excellent real-life representatives for the people. They are not politicians first. Dr. Benishek has a pretty good handle on what is needed for HC reform.

BTW, funny you mention source of funds, (Dan’s are from grassroots activists who want to clean out the old guard of Congress). What about all of that SEIU support for Mr. Allen, Michigan has been suffering for years because of unions.

You did say he has served in your state legislature for a number of years, right? Wasn’t he part of a recent effort to force unionization on in-home care workers? Allen’s long time relationship with the unions can’t be covered up.

http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2010/04/26/meet-jason-allen-unions-favorite-republican/

Now we have a Michigan tribble

Since others downthread have already hit your boy’s union ties, his carpet-bagging, and his career politician status so I’ll just assume the role of mocker (since Becker’s two time zones behind).

So…you’ve been on the site for 1 month and 6 days and this is the first comment you’ve ever been moved to make and it’s to support a carpet-bagging, union tied, career politician who gives a rat’s hinder about the peoplein the UP.

So are you a paid lackey of the SEIU assigned to Googling “Benishek” 24/7? Or do you fufill that role for the Allen campaign (btw…are you guys ever going to get a presence up there or are is your campaign strategy to go hit conservative blogs and trash Dr. Dan?) Or…maybe you’re just arc_ut/utah_cares w/a new gig.

Whatever…doesn’t matter. Just be gone. Might as well do it now ’cause you’ll never be heard from again after Jason “I’m in the hip pocket of the unions that destroyed MI” Allen gets crushed in the primary.

trust any candidate that is in bed with the Unions. Especially SEIU.

Dan is a good candidate that is going to go to DC for the people,not his own ambitions or those of any handlers.

If you have not noticed his campaign contributions are from the grass roots, not unions and Party elites.

When your sycophantic boss took money from the SEIU, he became no better than any sycophantic Dem. that has sold his soul to union bosses.

You can’t do a deal with the devil and not smell like brimstone.

Please tell him to rot in….well, you know the rest (after all, this is a family site)!

of the way during his treachery over the hc vote you’d know exactly where Dr. Dan’s money came from. Your candidate didn’t even officially announce until mid April that he was running. Dan announced prior to Stupak’s vote and on the very day in mid-March Stupak said he would go along with a Presidential order concering abortions, the floodgates opened and Dan’s facebook page lit up. Five bucks, ten, 25, pouring in from individual voters. I don’t think he even had much of a website at that point. He received instant notoriety and the money poured in from individual donors. So don’t use the money argument because it won’t fly.

And check out your candidate’s website. He should make clear how he feels on obamacare (repeall), immigration (no amnesty) cap and trade, abortion, gun rights, mid east affairs. He keeps saying he wants to bring jobs to michigan, but doesn’t outline a preferred method. With Dr Dan, if you don’t see what you’re looking for you can write and get an answer. At least you know where he stands.

Are lots of unions saying nice things about him? You know in this season, having unions say nice things about you is about like having Obama say nice things about you.

much of his first quarter donations from supporters he gained on Facebook, primarily right after the Stupak disaster vote. You can bet that many of those donations were small donations that Dr. Dan doesn’t have to list in his finance reports. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen any candidate list every single donation from every single donor, down to the last $5 donation. You’re just nit picking, and making yourself look less than brilliant.

It is also false to say that Allen cut government spending when he sponsored a bill that would have given $6.6 million to the SEIU from the taxpayers.

Yes, I am glad that Allen does have a political record to go by. He has proven that he is exactly not what the country or the good citizens of Mich. want to represent them. It there for all to see.

From your opening comment on Dr. Dan, it proves you are nothing more than a hack for Allen.

Something you union thugs don’t understand. Benishek received all those small contributions, which do NOT need to be itemized, after Stupak sold out. Benishek had the balls to get in the race before Stupak retired and before he sold out his values. Can you say that about Allen?

running in races across the country. He will prevail.

well read thisarticle.
from:
http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2010/4/23/23928/9309
some excerpts.
first:
Formally known as the Service Employees International Union, the SEIU, you may recall, helped spawn ACORN, which now stands accused of creating voter fraud in the last national election. The scuttlebutt is that the SEIU had already gifted Allen with $2,000 on June 22, 2009. In fact, his campaign financial disclosures – those he chooses to share with the public, that is – reflect such contributions before then.

second:
Since term limits have now forced him not to run for reelection and since Grand Traverse County isn’t in Michigan’s 1st District so he can campaign for a job and tidy salary as a U. S. Representative. Congressional District, he’s purportedly thinking about packing up and moving into a nearby country that is in the 1st.

This maneuver has caused some to label the soon to be ex-senator a “carpet-bagger”, a term coined after the Civil War when northern white men headed to the South in search of power and financial gain. As it pertains to politics, however, it denotes one who shamelessly moves their household into any district so as to promote their career.

and third:
Throughout Jason Allen’s political career he’s given every appearance of catering to special interest groups and been richly rewarded financially in return. For instance, last August Sen. Allen sponsored Michigan Senate Bill 731, which, if signed into law, will greatly benefit the SEIU government employee union.

coming from a guy that had this to say about Charlie Crist,

http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/05/12/charlie-crist-picks-a-fight-republicans-dont-need/#comment-3499

#juatsaying

First of all, the Emmet county clerk confirmed that Jason Allen changed his voter registration from his residence in Traverse City (not currently in Mich. 1st Dist.) to Alanson on 4/20/2010, in order to vote in Littlefield Township. The political definition of a carpetbagger is when someone moves into an area, district, state etc in which they plan to compete in a political race. Therefore, Jason Allen is very much so a carpetbagger.

http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/article_4e4fba88-4e18-11df-aelf-001cc4c03286.html

Not only is Jason Allen a Union supporter, he introduced Bill number 731 (in the Mich. Senate) which would give statutory cover to a scheme transferring approximately $6.6 million dollars in taxpayer money annually to the SEIU government employee union, one of the parents of ACORN. After being flailed for the bill, he went back and changed the language (of his own bill) to provide protection of the home healthcare workers that would have been affected. No Republican would/should ever support any pro-union initiatives, and, especially not to provide for the SEIU and ACORN.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2523790/posts

Then again, your entire post appears to be one of supporting only those you have been told can win. Benishek will whip his butt in the election. Benishek has been running for this seat since January, long before Allen even thought about getting in the race, and long after the Stupak Ocare disaster. Allen has obviously been a state GOP recruit, or one of Cantor’s Big Guns recruits. They should be avoided like the plague, as they have a deep desire for more RINOS in DC, and have proven it over and over.

coupled with the fact that previous to today, this:

http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/05/12/charlie-crist-picks-a-fight-republicans-dont-need/#comment-3499

was one of your 2 previous RS posts in 4 years tells me all I/we need to know about you.

Based on this post and those downthread, you’re either a troll or an idiot.

Then and only then support who they have picked.

not been a Redstate member long enough to know that the majority opinion here is Conservative in the primaries, and, Republican in the general.

Also, I don’t think I would be alone in believing that the NRSC and the NRCC need to stay out of primaries, unless no R has come forward to run. Let the candidates future constituients chose the candidate they want to represent them, rather than having committees barging into races and promoting and funding their choice of candidates. Both committees are building up a pretty bad track record, starting with Cantor, and some other R’s sending Scozzafava a check for 5 grand early in her campaign.

You may not like the choice of candidates, but, that doesn’t mean that other MI1 citizens don’t either, and, you are the first one that I have heard that from.

That being said, I would love to see the NRCC get heavily involved in this race, because it’s not too late for them to draft a qualified candidate. What I have seen and heard from the candidates involved right now, “none of the above” is the best choice for the UP.

And here I thought we were all for, you know, the people choosing their candidates. Poor misguided me, thank heaven you have shown me the light! Henceforth, I shall confine my endorsements to NRSC puppets.

Now, don’t you have a hit piece you should be busy writing?

and btw you think you can come here where Erick Erickson has given his support and just chat like a disinterested party and WE the GRASSROOTS who know EVERYTHING that happens on the internet would not recognize your pathetic, nasty self?

In case you haven’t heard 2010 is a CONSERVATIVE Revolution with Citizen soldiers joining the FIGHT and Dan Benishek is that Citizen Soldier!

and personally I don’t care if you are Allen’s campaign manager, or the leader of the NRCC. The NRCC should not be involved in any primary races across the country, unless they need to step in and recruit someone where there are no candidates running. In past election cycles, there were many many races where R’s didn’t even have a candidate to challenge the D’s. There was no great push to recruit candidates then. This year is very very different, and there are many many R candidates running everywhere. The NRCC, and Cantor with his Big Guns or Young Guns project need to stay out of the primaries, and let the constituients pick their candidate for the general. They have no business wasting their money trying to get the primary elections for their choice of candidates. It will be interesting to see if the candidates not supported by the committees during the primary get much if any help during the general.

And in my posts, I have not said I am for or against any candidate.

should we meet in the quad and settle this?

Look, I have not taken any shots at Beneshik only defended Allen on what i think are unfair accusations. For that i’m pilloried?

I want to both have good candidates and win races.

I think it is very unfair to compare Allen to scozzofava as he is much more conservative. Also,at the end of the day the darling Hoffman blew a very winnable race.

(nt)