Citizens for Responsible Government not responsible

Below is the text of a letter sent to a group calling itself Citizens for Responsible Government. Their lack of response and the actions which prompted the letter demonstrate that rather than “Responsible” themselves, their actions were irresponsible – representing to candidates that they would get an interview, when in fact they had already decided to “endorse” their political pets. A Google search seeking a website for this group brings no results. It raises the question: do they have a membership beyond the board members?

Floyd Fitzgibbons
for U.S. Congress
District 3
www.iapn.org/08CandidateFitzgibbons.htm
8301 Fawn Brook Ct.
Las Vegas, NV 89149
(702) 655-5160 office
(702) 873-1315 home
(702) 491-7555 cell
(702) 873-4673 fax
fitz111@cox.net

“Uphold the Constitution!”

Floyd Fitzgibbons for U.S. Congress

September 4, 2008

Citizens for Responsible Government
801 South Rancho Drive, Suite B-1
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106

Dear Mr. Sanford,

Upon calling your office today, I was advised that Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG) plans to endorse Mr. Jon Porter in the general election for Congress District 3.

I write to you asking for some explanation in light of the fact that CRG did not afford me a candidate interview as was clearly stated would be the case in your letter of June 24, 2008: “After the questionnaires are received and evaluated, we will contact you for a personal interview.” As you know, I completed in great detail and promptly returned a lengthy questionnaire your organization requested. I did this with the full expectation that I would be given a fair opportunity to be endorsed.

I challenge CRG to demonstrate that any candidate for District 3 would be more compatible with the issues that its members are concerned about: “fiscal, constitutional, and moral matters.” I further challenge CRG to demonstrate that the responses I gave on the questionnaire are not the most fiscally, constitutionally and morally sound of any received for this race.

The feeling that I am left with is that CRG is bias against third-party candidates regardless of their understanding and determination to uphold the principles of proper (Responsible) government. I truly feel I was misled and that CRG misrepresented itself as being “nonpartisan.”

One of the great liberties protected by the U.S. Constitution is the freedom to express ourselves with respect to our political dispositions. Both Citizens for Responsible Government and myself have that right in this discourse and CRG has no obligation to give me any explanation of its decision. Nevertheless, I am requesting it as a courtesy for having spent the time and effort to complete the CRG questionnaire in good faith with the expectation of an interview which has not been afforded. I will wait until September 15, 2008 after which I will assume no response will be forthcoming.

Sincerely,
Floyd Fitzgibbons