Key Leaders In Nueces County's Lunatic Republican fringes -- TEA PARTYERS & JOHN BIRCHERS Have Befriended CHUCK BALWIN -- a dangerious racist and anti-goverment activist.

Ideology: 

 Patriot Movement 

After a Republican take over of most key seats in the last few elections, the luntic fringe that once was small within the Nueces County Democratic Party keys snow-balling. A former Republican Chair of the county, who resigned after a short tenure, and his wife had befriended Chuck Balwin in Facebook.  Others joined, after Rev. Balwin was given legitimacy, and a local member of the Tea Party also named "Chuck" became a local representative of the John Bircher Society and the Barwin brand of Patriotism in the region.  Anti-government movie pow-wows were promoted by the latter in Corpus Christi and Nueces County.  Pretty soon many here locally lodged in the lunatic core of the Tea Party and the Patriot Movement within the Republican Party began to be his prime converts.

BUT, before we proceed, let us ask: WHO IS REV. CHUCK BALWIN? 

Surely Not A Friend Of Hispanics!!!

After decades of trying to insert his distinctive brand of Christian fundamentalism into mainstream politics, Chuck Baldwin-- in his fifties, living in Montana -- appears to have given up trying to infiltrate Capitol Hill and moved instead into the" wilds".  Two years ago, a decade after declaring the Bush-Cheney GOP ticket too liberal and law with immigrants especially Hispanics, Baldwin and a dozen or so members of his lunatic fringe moved to Montana’s Flathead Valley, an area that has seen an explosive increase in antigovernment “Patriot” rhetoric. He left behind a church he had been associated with for 30-plus years to  radicalize his new endeavor, one he described meticulously to those he left behind.“We are going [to Montana] to fight!” 

Baldwin wrote in a Sept. 15, 2010, letter announcing his move to the congregants of his Pensacola, Fla., church. “The Mountain States just might become The Alamo of the twenty-first century, with, hopefully much better results. But if not, I would rather die fighting for Freedom with liberty-loving patriots by my side than be shuttled off to some FEMA camp.” Baldwin was referring to a core Patriot belief that the federal government has secretly constructed concentration camps meant for Americans.

Besides leading a new congregation in Kalispell that includes well-known white supremacists Randy Weaver and April Gaede, Baldwin hosts a daily one-hour radio program, “Chuck Baldwin Live.” He also is a prolific writer, penning regular columns that are archived on his website and at VDARE.com, a racist website known for bashing immigrants. He has condemned Islam as a “bloody, murderous religion” and referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as an apostate. He sympathizes with Joseph Stack, the tax protester who flew a plane into an IRS office building in 2010, killing himself and an IRS employee. The South, he insists, “was right.” 

 He refers to Tejano Music as "Taco Music" and says that most of the South Texas Hispanics are nothing more than overgrown "anchor" babies.  But such local sentiments were not new in Corpus Christi, Talk Radio personality Eric Von Wade when he was associated with KEYS RADIO stated on the air that immigrants coming in from Mexico should be "stamped with a number on their feet, like the ducks at a carnival."

Politics may come and go for Baldwin. But out in Montana, as it is here in NUECES COUNTY far away from the “Orwellian machine” of the federal government, the indignation and xenophobia  and paranoia — just keep on snowballing.

PHIL VEL TAKES LEAD IN CONGRESSIONAL RACE

South Texas -- Candidate Phil Vela appears to be the front-runner in a congressional race now that District Attorney Armando Villalobos  (from the Valley) has been indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges.

A few days before early voting, a few days before candidates start pushing their campaign full throttle, candidate Villalobos in indicted and starkly dragged through the mud of repercussions. 

Villalobos' resultant campaign: frozen, insecure, devastated, sting-ed with shifting loyalties. How many are the feelings being expressed -- summed up in one word, perhaps "panic."  The polls, the odds machines quickly stamping outputs of "invalidity" -- in short, a floodgate of a "free for all" has been unleashed.

But the pragmatist analysts know and some have uttered: "Phil Vela is clearly in the lead. And clearly new appointments have taken priority: haircut, tailor, Juan "Shoe-Shine" Perez, a pow-wow with the core group and "think tank" to maximized the climate of the media."

One analyist stated: "Phil is probably staging a pilot run before the mirror for the grand debut: "Veterans, senors, those caught in the grindstone of poverty and struggle, don't lose hope, esperanza, I have picked up the flag of my Father and Mother before me in the political area as a public official -- WE WILL PEVAIL."

(Note: See link to Brownsville-Herald  http://www.valleycentral.com/   related to Armando Villalobos indictment.)