Eric Brakey explains his loss

[Matt Collins]

From his latest Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/1333129930100627/posts/3188667477880187/

Thank you everyone for all your support during this long campaign.

Now that the campaign is over, I want to share with you just a bit of the shadow politics that went on behind the scenes during this race for the Republican Primary.

For weeks, our campaign was hammered with false attacks from the American Policy Fund, a mysterious Super PAC with the same treasurer as John Bolton PAC.

APF spent $400k on false attack ads against our campaign — and they used “dead-end disclosure” to conceal their donors by funneling donors through a 501c4 (effectively laundering the money).

There is much we are still learning about this PAC, but GOP sources told me a few months ago that powerful establishment forces in Washington didn’t want me in Congress — and were increasingly concerned with my frontrunner position as Election Day approached.

They didn’t care if it was Dale Crafts or Adrienne Bennett — just not me. Why is that?

It certainly wasn’t for electability reasons. Our campaign had the strongest fundraising, the strongest ground game and the clearest message.

In the words relayed to me by one of my sources, “They are afraid you are going to be the next Justin Amash.”

(Translation — the GOP establishment was afraid I wouldn’t be someone who does what I‘m told.)

What would have given them that idea?

Perhaps it was the last 8 years of my being a thorn in the side of the National GOP Establishment.

It started when we beat Ben Ginsberg (one of Mitt Romney’s top strategists) at the 2012 Maine GOP Convention.

Then it continued when we fought back at the 2012 National Convention, objecting from the floor when the RNC and the Romney Campaign striped Maine of its elected delegates (replacing us with handpicked Romney supporters) and pushed a power grab through the rules.

When Maine Republicans gave me the honor to represent them at the 2016 Republican National Convention, I fought on the Platform Committee to challenge unconstitutional wars and declassify 28 pages in the 9/11 Report on Saudi links to the hijackers. This put me at odds with much of the foreign policy establishment.

Fast forward. About two months ago, there was a big effort by the GOP establishment to recruit President Donald Trump to endorse against me.

(Again, they didn’t care if he endorsed Dale Crafts or Adrienne Bennett — they just wanted to stop our campaign.)

Thankfully, President Trump didn’t take the bait. I’m told Senator Rand Paul called Trump personally to set the record straight. (As always, Rand Paul stood up to the establishment for all of us fighting for liberty in Maine.)

They couldn’t get Trump to do their bidding, so instead the GOP establishment flooded our state with a half million in attack ads (through their dark money Super PAC) to smear my name and defeat our campaign.

The establishment was right to be afraid of us — and they should continue to be afraid.

One campaign for Congress is just a single battle in the war for our nation, and #WeThePeople are coming for them. #FreeAmerica

 

[trey4sports]

yeah, read this on FB

 

[Sammy]

https://m.facebook.com/AdrienneBennettMaine/photos/a.134366027965637/273904047345167/?type=3&__tn__=EH-R

 

[trey4sports]

https://m.facebook.com/AdrienneBennettMaine/photos/a.134366027965637/273904047345167/?type=3&__tn__=EH-R

she's a real demagogue. She'll go in the history books trash pile of relics and nobody's whereas Eric has a bright future ahead of him.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

For weeks, our campaign was hammered with false attacks from the American Policy Fund, a mysterious Super PAC with the same treasurer as John Bolton PAC.

The neoconservative swamp creatures always creeping around in the shadows. Brakey should have lobbied Trump for an endorsement based on the John Bolton opposition.

 

[Swordsmyth]

The neoconservative swamp creatures always creeping around in the shadows. Brakey should have lobbied Trump for an endorsement based on the John Bolton opposition.

Exactly.

 

[eleganz]

The neoconservative swamp creatures always creeping around in the shadows. Brakey should have lobbied Trump for an endorsement based on the John Bolton opposition.

Also anybody know where was Rand with the air support?


This is very unfortunate. Another great liberty candidate sunk by the neocon faction.

Which brings my next point, why do we still allow RPF trolls here like [MENTION=47542]enhanced_deficit[/MENTION] who promotes Bolton's books and rumors when they're clearly organized to attack people who do not want war?

 

[Origanalist]

More 2020 bad news, ugh.

 

[Anti Globalist]

More 2020 bad news, ugh.

Here I was thinking that the second half of 2020 was gonna be good.

 

[Origanalist]

Here I was thinking that the second half of 2020 was gonna be good.

You should disabuse yourself of that notion to avoid more disappointment. It's not getting better.