The Establishment’s Plan to Oust Jonathan Stickland (Updated)

The Establishment’s Plan to Oust Jonathan Stickland (Updated)

By

James Scott Trimm

As I said in a recent blog:  Jonathan Stickland has represented District 92 better than any State Representative we have had in my memory, and my memory stretches all the way back to Representative Charles Evans in the 1970's and 80's! 

We did not send Jonathan Stickland to Austin to join the good ole boys club and make back room deals.  We sent him to stand strong for our district.  We sent him to protect our freedoms and rights and to restrain government.   Jonathan Stickland has done that well, and has the voting record to prove it.  Stickland is to the Texas House what Ted Cruz in to the US Senate.    He has become the Maverick of the Texas House.  And sometimes he has represented us by being a voice on the microphone in the back of the House, telling it like it is!  The Dallas Observer has even reported:

Stickland aggravated House Speaker Joe Strauss (sic) and his allies so badly that at least two legislators saw Strauss (sic) ally Charlie Geren dangle a cookie on a string in front Strickland in a mocking attempt to lead him away from one of his frequent back-microphone stem-winders.

(Dallas Observer; Oct. 2nd 2015)

Personally I thank the Almighty that our District has a voice telling it like it is on the back-microphone in the House!  And because Stickland has stood up so strong against the establishment for conservative principles like limited government and personal freedom, the Austin establishment wants Stickland replaced, and they are determined to get rid of him.

When it comes to the Austin establishment, all you need to do is follow the money and the good ole boys club, and in this case the money takes us to Straus puppet Joe Pojman. 

Joe Pojman is the Executive Director of Texas Alliance for Life.  The claimed mission of this organization is to “protect innocent human life from conception through natural death through peaceful, legal means.” And there was a time when this organization was true to its mission, but today the organization exists largely to give cover to politicians that are weak on pro-life issues.  While they are a pro-life, or at least anti-abortion group to an extent, they also often fight conservatives on end of life issues.  For example Pojman has empowered the healthcare lobby and hospitals to end the life of a patient without family permission.

Pojman’s organization (TAL) has received massive amounts of money from Straus’s political arm, The Texas Leadership fund. State records show that TAL received over $50,000 from this Straus fund in 2014 ($50,000 on 2/25/14 and a second helping of $4,000 on 9/9/14).

Pojman routinely supports and endorses Straus's establishment cronies, apparently regardless of their pro-life voting record.  For example Pojman’s TAL endorsed and sent out mailers supporting Bennett Ratliff and J.D. Sheffield.  Yet Ratliff has said that he sees abortion as a right that a woman has and Sheffield voted with Democrats on numerous amendments intended to water down or kill HB 2.

At the same time Pojman has withheld endorsements from good conservative candidates with real pro-life voting records like our own Jonathan Stickland, as well as Matt Schaefer and Charles Perry.  In fact in the 2014 primary Pojman’s TAL supported Stickland’s opponent Andy Cargile, despite Sticklan’s perfect pro-life voting record (Yet Texas Right to Life, a legit Pro-Life Organization endorsed Stickland).

In fact Jonathan Stickland recently received the "Pro-Life Champion" award from Texas Right to Life, for his work protecting life in the 84th legislature.

Perhaps the biggest insult to real pro-life conservatives came just a few days ago at the TAL annual banquet.  At this banquet Pojman and his organization actually gave Straus Lieutenant Charlie Geren an award for his “Courageous Defense of Life”.   Yet the Texas Right to Life Committee rated Geren at only 67 percent favorable in 2013, only 62 percent in 2011, only 63 percent in 2005 and In 2003, his second legislative session, Right to Life had rated Geren at a measly 17 percent.

This is the same Charlie Geren that recently went through the halls of the capitol, ripping down pro-life signs from the doors of real pro-life representatives.  Just a few months ago, when Planned Parenthood came to Austin to lobby for money to murder babies in the womb, Stickland put a sign (supplied by Texas Right to Life) on his office door identifying himself as a former fetus. This drew the anger of the Austin establishment and Straus lieutenant Charlie Geren made the news (Star-Telegram March 11, 2015) when he ripped the sign from Stickland’s door and stormed into his office yelling at Stickland’s staff.    

Yes, this is the man whom Pojman awarded for his “Courageous Defense of Life”. 

This year Jonathan Stickland is the establishment’s top target and his primary challenger has clearly been hand-picked by the Austin establishment.    

Straus puppet Joe Projman’s close ally and good friend Scott Fisher is now seeking to oust true conservative Jonathan Stickland as State Representative for District 92.  I hope you will join me in supporting the re-election of true Conservative Jonathan Stickland  to the Texas House, because He is the guy that the Establishment wants gone!

UPDATE:

 Soon after I originally posted this blog in October, blowing the lid on the trail of money linking Pojman to the Establishment, quickly went viral, and became the topic of an article in Empower Texans magazine The Texas Scorecard:  Metroplex Pro-Lifer Praises Stickland, Slams TAL  That article then became the topic of yet another article at Newsfoxes.com :
Texas Rabbi Exposes How Funds From Pro-Life Organization Are Being Used, And It’s DESPICABLE

Much has happened since this blog was published:

*  A Straus Staffer has "liked" Stickland's challenger.  A recent "like" on Fisher's campaign Facebook page is from Rocky Gage.  Mr. Gage does nor live in District 92 (Stickland's district), he is in fact a member of Joe Staus's staff!  <Click Here> to see the actual screenshots to prove it.

*  Joe Pojman has backed Straus Ally Byron Cook, and joined him at his recent campaign kickoff event in Corsicana, declaring him to be pro-life, yet in May Byron Cook wrote a public letter defending late-term abortions on babies who are diagnosed with a disability! <Click Here>

* Breaking News: Just today Straus Puppet Joe Pojman has publicly posted his support for Jonathan Stickland's Challenger:

So now Texas Alliance for Life president Joe Pojman is openly supporting Jonathan Stickland's challenger, despite the fact that Jonathan Stickland is not only the most conservative Representative in the House, but has a perfect Pro-Life voting record, has been given the Right to Life "Pro-Life Champion" award, and is endorsed by Texas Right to Life.  Why should Pojman come out against a conservative, pro-life incumbent?  Because Pojman has become an establishment puppet, and the establishment wants to rid itself of Jonathan Stickland!

Pojman has empowered the healthcare lobby and hospitals toend the life of a patient without family permission.  While Texas Right to Life has been lobbying since 2005 has to end death panels in Texas.  But opportunities to reform this act have presented themselves, Pojman’s Texas Alliance for Life has run interference.  For example in the 84^th Texas Legislative session (2015) Texas Alliance for Life actually supported House Bill 2351, which was supposed to be a bill to reform these death panels, but in reality this Bill only perpetuated the death panels.  It is because of the efforts of the so-called Texas Alliance for life that Chris Dunn is currently fighting for his life as the Houston Methodist Hospital Death Panel fights to let him die!

And now, this just in from the Stickland campaign: 

Word on the street is that the establishment is coming after this seat with a negative campaign and hundreds of thousands of dollars starting in January. Who is ready for battle?
Posted by Jonathan Stickland on Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Do not let Straus and the Austin establishment succeed in their attempt to oust a conservative champion from the Texas House, and replace him with a Straus recruit!  I encourage you to join me in supporting true conservative Jonathan Stickland.