The public spat between Mississippi GOP Chairman Joe Nosef and the Central Mississippi Tea Party became more public as Breitbart.com picked up the story. Breitbart reported:
The chairman of the Mississippi GOP, Joe Nosef, reacted angrily to Tea Party groups calling for his resignation this week, accusing one local activist of secretly working to elect Democrats, and saying some “fanatical” Tea Party groups could jeopardize the GOP's hold on a senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the nation, according to emails obtained by Breitbart News.
In the emails, Joe Nosef, chairman of the Mississippi Republican party, told Mississippi Tea Party president Janis Lane that “help[ing] Democrats win...appears to be your goal.”
Nosef also emailed to a list of Republicans that the groups calling for his head were so crazy they could imperil the GOP's hold on Sen. Thad Cochran's senate seat.
“These people are getting so fanatical [that] this will put everything in danger regardless of who wins” the upcoming GOP primary, he wrote, adding, “I refuse to continue to spend time dealing with these people.”
The incendiary emails – and their being leaked to Breitbart News by an anonymous source – are the latest escalations in an erupting primary battle that pits the Yazoo City machine of lobbyist Haley Barbour and veteran appropriator Cochran against the upstart state senator Chris McDaniel and the conservative outside groups that are pouring in resources to support him.
After Lane called for Nosef's resignation Monday over negative comments Nosef made about McDaniel in national media, a series of local Tea Party groups followed suit.
But Nosef, in comments to Breitbart News Tuesday, called the mounting calls for him to quit “silliness.”
“I have probably received more encouragement from all corners and all groups over the last couple of days than the last couple of years, including many tea party members,” Nosef said. “Many people are finally fed up with these attempts to divide our party. Plus the pay for the job is too good (zero dollars),” Nosef said. Rest of the article. There is more to read.
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I agree with him on these people being nuts but he's in bed with Frontier and every time he says he's doing this for free, I cringe. Why? Because his law practice is doing much better with political payoffs.
Should be mentioned that Brietbart is essentially an arm of the McDaniel campaign.
1:09, was actually going to address your comment but at this point, why bother. never feed the trolls.
Janis Lane is, well, decorum precludes me saying it. She runs her tea party meetings like a church camp meeting. She can't draw a breath without someone yelling "amen." From what I can tell, she is a populist social conservative without any regard for free markets,individual liberty, or individual accountability. When I read about the Tea Party, it sounds like people that believe like me. But, that's not what she is about, nor the group she leads.
Is Nosef the head of the state Repub party? Why in the world would he ever open his mouth about a primary WITHIN HIS OWN PARTY? He kind of screwed the pooch on this one.
3:01 -
Assuming that's not a rhetorical question: Because he's NOT neutral, and has abandoned any pretense of objectivity. And it's a violation of state party bylaws. But it doesn't matter, because we need Thad to make sure this state of welfare bums stays addicted to federal money.
Nosef refers to folks who would dare vote against as an incumbent as "fanatics determined to divide the party." Saul Alinsky would be proud.
And Obama and Holder would be REALLY proud of the way Nosef, Lange, and Y'all Politics have used a sleazy race smear against a fellow Republican.
And God forbid we have a discussion in this state about the national debt. That's for mature voters.
Should be mentioned that Brietbart is essentially an arm of the McDaniel campaign.
If that be the case then Y'allRINO, Lange and Corder occupy a small pin-sized piece of real estate on the rump of Thad's.
He certainly is not supposed to take a position in the primaries. I agree with that. I personally will give him a pass in the 4th district - when you have a D running in the primary and you legally can't do anything about it.
3:52 - please point me to the "state party bylaws" that this Nosef has violated. You and Laura VanO don't have a clue as to what you are talking about when referring to these rules or bylaws.
I don't read anything about Nosef referring to folks who would vote against an incumbent. He did refer to folks that if they don't get their way, they will take their marbles and go home (see Romney vote in 2012; CD4 race in 2010 and coming again this year.)
"Should be mentioned that Brietbart is essentially an arm of the McDaniel campaign. "
That's funny. Do you have any idea who Andrew was, or how long how long his organization was around before this self-aggrandizing loser decided to jeopardize the Repub's chance of taking the Senate, therefore sentencing us to two more years of that evil lunatic Reid as Senate Majority Leader?
The Eleventh Commandment Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Should be mentioned that Brietbart is essentially an arm of the McDaniel campaign
That other arm being the TBA group all of whom plan to hold their collective noses and vote for McDaniels as a tactical move to better the democratic candidate chances.... according to the latest posts over at NMissCommentor.
Couple of comments. First, I don't know if there are any rules that cover it, but I don't like it that statewide officials have made endorsements in their primary election, and I certainly think the state chairman should stay neutral. That said, Joe Nosef is right to try and keep the party united, and the comments from him that I've read are consistent with that goal.
Second, you might disagree with Janis Lane's opinions or how she leads her TP group, but she's a nice lady who does what I'm betting very few of you do - works hard for her candidates and causes and puts her money where her mouth is. All you courageous anonymous posters have a right to your opinions, and I'm sure it's a blast to make fun of someone's grandma, but unless you're willing to step up and take the role she has taken and do the work she does you probably need to sit down and shut up. Bill Billingsley
Laura van oversheld is a lunatic and a bully. Her tactics alienate her from every human she comes in contact with. Janis Lane is a kinder version of Laura. Together they are the chosen leaders of the Tea Party. If the Tea Party didn't find them ok they would choose different people.
To make 9:47s point read this. Crazytown
http://mississippiconservativedaily.com/2014/04/17/exclusive-emails-between-ms-gop-chair-joe-nosef-and-the-mississippi-tea-party/
From a March 25, 2014 NBC News report, this is Nosef's comment on tea party candidates:
"The last thing we want to do is election night [is] have a big screw up here and have people look at Mississippi and say, 'but for the mistake in Mississippi, we could have taken the United States Senate,'" said Joe Nosef, the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party. "We've obviously seen what's happened in other states over the last few years, and we're determined not to let that happen here."
Does this look neutral to you? Just saying. . . .
Since the thread is restricted, where and when do we get to comment on that dumbass Ben Allen's radio show? Oh, wait...Kingfish must be in his pocket too!
5:33 pm It looks like a GOP chairman delivering an important message to the party about the political realities. In other words, he's doing his job.
Bill, if Ms. Lane were as responsible,rational and well informed as you have always been, there would be no criticism.
Unbridled passion is not admirable or useful but rather dangerous if it's not tempered with good judgment.
5:33 - To answer your question - this looks totally neutral to me. As said above, its a party chairman doing his job. He is looking at past experiences in other states and saying that we (the party) don't want to do that again. You don't like the analysis because you are evidently interpreting it as not being positive about your candidate - ok. But you haven't shown anything wrong with what he said.
"Since the thread is restricted, where and when do we get to comment on that dumbass Ben Allen's radio show? Oh, wait...Kingfish must be in his pocket too! "
I see plenty of paid ads on here where no comments are allowed. If you want to vent on Ben Allen why don't you buy one? It'll be easier for the rest of us to ignore your cheap shots at KF.
What we SHOULD have are comments on the George Clinton ad - I've been a fan since Testify in the 60s but I bet a lot more people here remember Atomic Dog - I hope he pulls a large crowd here. We need more big name entertainers.
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