Acorn Whistle Blower Says the Wendy Davis Campaign Isn't About Winning

“My opinion on this is that they [the Left] understand that Wendy Davis for governor  and 2014 is not their year. . It’s all about data mining and laying the groundwork for something bigger, something much larger, that they’re going to bring to Texas. I think it’s all about 2016,” said Anita MonCrief, an African American woman who defected from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn in 2008.  She defected after leaking to the New York Times damaging information about the organization’s financial misbehavior and blatant partisan efforts to elect only Democrats. Acorn was chartered, and recognized by the IRS as a nonpartisan 501(c)4 prohibited from actively participating in electoral campaigns.

Here is MonCrief in an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly about her defection from Acorn.

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MonCrief spoke Tuesday night at the San Angelo Tea Party meeting at the West Texas Training Center at Howard College. Her speech focused on the tactics she said that the Left uses to recruit poor and minority voters to grab power in American politics. The two successful elections of Barrack Obama were the pivotal events in those efforts. “After Obama was inaugurated in 2009, [the Left] was going to push through a whole host of new regulations and taxes: Obamacare, Cap and Trade, Card Check…all these things that the people weren’t aware of that they thought that they could push through in the first 100 days,” she said. “But because of the Tea Party, because of what you did, they weren’t able to get it all through,” she said, addressing the audience of about 100 people.

MonCrief explained how the groundwork for the Obama presidency was laid much sooner, just after the defeat of John Kerry by then-President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.

MonCrief explained that the Left learned a valuable lesson from the Kerry defeat. That is, that partisan wedge issues are important for motivating the base to vote. In 2004, anti-gay marriage initiatives energized Republican voters to head to the polls, and while those conservative voters were voting their opposition to gay marriage, they more likely than not pulled the Republican Party lever, helping George W. Bush to win a second term even in the wake of a long war in Iraq with rising opposition to it.

The Left found their own issues that motivated their base to vote. In the 2006 congressional elections, MonCrief said, the Left adopted the Republican wedge strategy by having their candidates promise to raise the minimum wage and they manufactured immigration rallies all over the country to motivate the Left’s base to turn out to vote (there were small, seemingly insignificant pro-immigration rallies in downtown San Angelo leading up to that election). That, along with the growing voter anger over the not winning the war in Iraq, resulted in Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming Speaker of the House and Democrat Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader, MonCrief said.

The Left’s takeover of the U.S. House and Senate, and the White House by 2009, MonCrief said, resulted in the destruction of the health insurance industry, stagnant growth, continuous high unemployment, and runaway government spending.

“We are going to lose this battle, and lose this country,” MonCrief said. “When I was working at Acorn, we were planning a progressive majority [of governance] that would last the next 40 to 50 years,” she said. “When you look at what the Left is doing to our schools, our children, they are setting up our kids to become these useful drones, the victims, the people that are put on handouts and totally dependent upon the government and leftist politicians for their survival,” she said. “With Common Core and cScope standards, they are creating kids that are not going to be able to get jobs in the future because [the standards] have been dumbed down,” she said.

Texas is a mandatory prize jewel to be captured by the Left to win the political war for the heart and soul of America, MonCrief said. New York and California are already solidly in the Left’s court. If Texas turns blue, there will never be a conservative, or Republican, president for the rest of this generation and probably the next. That is why the media and the left have manufactured a rock star candidate like Wendy Davis, MonCrief said.

“The amount of door knocking and data mining that can be collected during the 2014 campaign will be invaluable for winning Texas in 2016,” she said. MonCrief notes that the former Obama campaign apparatus, Organizing for America and a group formed to turn Texas blue, Battleground Texas, are working together right now to register more voters and gather deep data on Texas voters. “Anytime you door knock, you’re gaining information about that voter. They’ll ‘friend’ these prospects on Facebook and Twitter, and they’ll find out who their friends are, and they’ll use these networks to get the vote out,” MonCrief said.

With Wendy Davis, whose rise to notoriety was her day long filibuster of the anti-abortion legislation in the last Texas legislative session, the Left has the perfect wedge issue to activate strong emotional responses from an uninformed electorate, MonCrief said. “The wedge issue will be the War on Women,” MonCrief said.

Here is MonCrief in her own words explaining her personal story about why she became disgusted with Acorn and the Left, and her defection to the conservative movement:

Today, MonCrief works as a consultant to a number of conservative candidates and lives in Houston. Her specialty is voter outreach to minority communities. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in political science and history.