Good question. In my district in 1996, we nominated a fiscally conservative, but pro-choice (she opposed state funding of abortion, but didn't support outlawing it) Republican and a radically pro-abort, pro-gay-marriage Democrat. It looked like the GOP was going to win the seat.
Thomasson's folks put out a last minute mailing blitz and a push-poll that split the vote and got the Democrat elected. They then had the audacity to show up at the post-mortem conducted by the county GOP committee and do a "I am Christian Right, hear me roar" act where they BRAGGED about doing this.
Anyone who was a known part of the "Religious Right" got broomed after that stunt, all the way down to those who volunteered to man phone banks and drive voters to the polls (including me). Thomasson then kvetched about how "religious conservatives were getting purged from the GOP."
He's worked very hard to split the vote--and now I realize that this guy is using the Delphi technique.
Maybe he's light in the loafers. Or maybe he's the "Religious Right's" answer to Jesse Jackson--someone who doesn't want the problem solved, because that means he has to get off the gravy train. But he's doing the Devil's Work.
Thanks for the history Poohbah!
Divide and Conquer by another Name
Randy Thomasson is on THE LIST OF DISRUPTERS
This list is to be used to prevent any more
money being sent to this jerk.
I think it is time to start digging the dirt on this guy. ! ! !