Brother George for Governor

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When I think of California's recall election, I can't help thinking about Che's opening song in the play Evita, "Oh, what a circus.  Oh, what a show."

Ok, we have actors, medium rare politicians, porn stars, a porn king, etc.  What could possible add to this motley crew of characters?

Hey . . . . .


It may be a little late, but can we help Brother George build a platform for governor?

Here are my suggestions, please add your thoughts.  I am officially commencing the "Brother George for Governor campaign" with the following arguments of why you should vote for him:

1.  He already has a community of light and life within a community of death and darkness in Sacramento.  Can build off of this support base.
2.  If he loses, he can continue to blame the vast conspiracy that is out to get him.
3.  There would be no need to hassle with budget deadlocks.  Faithful brethren could distribute the money.
4.  Lots of faithful brethren could sign up to jog on the "prayer chain treadmill".  This will lead to self-sufficiency and thus help California's energy problem.
5.  Wheel and line diagram will solve all inner city problems.
6.  Only candidate with heavenly vision.
7.  Costly medical bills and Medicaid issues will be solved by the issuance of enema bags.
8.  Organic coffee vouchers for those who are not able to afford medical care or are out of work.
9.  State would no longer take on a name.  Would refer to itself as "a gathering of people".
10.  Government employees could be shamed into volunteerism.  How dare you "do something for money that they wouldn't do as a ministry"?  Some would be available to put bay windows in the governor's mansion.
11.  Headsets and translations would be available for Spanish immigrants when listening to the three mandatory weekend long speeches.
12.  LAPD serves as head stewards.  Traffic violators must pull weeds along highway as consequence.
13.  School day begins a half hour earlier for pre-prayer.
14.  Campaign slogan for next election, "Do you want it, friends?  If you knew half of what I wasn't giving you, you wouldn't let me out the door."
15.  Share wheel and line diagram with violent criminals such as Charles Manson.

This grass roots effort of glory is now underway.  Who will enter in?  Who will step foot into the Jordan?  Sign up today.

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Paid for by the committee to elect Brother George for governor - 2007 Calle Serena, Fullerton, CA.  Join us in our new headquarters in Redlands, CA.

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I just got this in the mail today.  Thought I had better post it.

Dear Faithful Co-laborers in Christ,

"Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who super-abounds in lovingkindness leading us to vast vistas of Revelations and Glory"  (Ephesiahs 1:3  BGV)

Yes, dear friends, God is carrying us upon wings of eagles as we see the supernatural efficencies of His divine bulwark.  How my heart thrills as I think of you, faithful laborers, in this grand enterprise of which we are involved.

Just yesterday I gave a glorious announcement to resounding "Amens".  Believe me, the place was simply packed out.  I don't think you could have fit another person at our meeting hall in Mike Almanzor's camper-trailer.  Like a dove, the spirit of grace and glory came upon me as I embark into vast vistas of God's blessing heading towards the governorship of California.

As you move beyond your same, tame, life and enter into the things that matter the most - there at the cross - will he sweep you up with wings like pinions and the heavens will open up (Judges 1:6).  

Will you enter in friends?  The road is a hard one.  But the call is great.  "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

Vote for me this October.

Upon the Campaign Journey,

Brother George

Precious Promises:  Lamentation 3:1
                                Luke 4:44
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Paid for by the election committe to elect Brother George for governor.  Please contribute generously in cash.

[Joe Sperling]

Dave---

 

very funny!!!!      --Joe

P.S.---George has got my vote and Gary Coleman for
Lieutenant Governor  "What you talkin' bout George??"

[editor]

I just got this in the mail today.  Thought I had better post it.

Dear Faithful Co-laborers in Christ,

"Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who super-abounds in lovingkindness leading us to vast vistas of Revelations and Glory"  (Ephesiahs 1:3  BGV)

Yes, dear friends, God is carrying us upon wings of eagles as we see the supernatural efficencies of His divine bulwark.  How my heart thrills as I think of you, faithful laborers, in this grand enterprise of which we are involved.

Just yesterday I gave a glorious announcement to resounding "Amens".  Believe me, the place was simply packed out.  I don't think you could have fit another person at our meeting hall in Mike Almanzor's camper-trailer.  Like a dove, the spirit of grace and glory came upon me as I embark into vast vistas of God's blessing heading towards the governorship of California.

As you move beyond your same, tame, life and enter into the things that matter the most - there at the cross - will he sweep you up with wings like pinions and the heavens will open up (Judges 1:6).  

Will you enter in friends?  The road is a hard one.  But the call is great.  "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

Vote for me this October.

Upon the Campaign Journey,

Brother George

Precious Promises:  Lamentation 3:1
                                Luke 4:44
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Paid for by the election committe to elect Brother George for governor.  Please contribute generously in cash.

Hmmm, yes.  I also received this.  Our brother still has a burden!  Praise his name!  Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years.....

My only question was who the moron was who took took the dictation for the letter?  The verse Judges 1:6:

Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Just what is this supposed to mean?  Oh, wait a minute.....I am beginning to see it!

Adoni-Bezek means "man of strength."  He is a type the strength of the flesh.
In the flesh, we would naturally flee a difficult situation, relying on our own strength to save ourselves.

However, the flesh is finite, and sooner or later we are to be overtaken, if we rely on the strength of the flesh.  When that happens, it is actually God doing us a favor, although we often can't grasp the Heavenly reality of this.  He is the hound of heaven, and will cross us, until we have exhausted our horded resources.

Then, and only then, will the deeper, inward work of the cross take place.  A new matrix will be formed within, and no longer will I live "I" but a new man, a corporate man, created after the image of God.  Then, and only then, as it says in the original, if I am willing and yielded, will God get a recovery of His image in us and our names will no longer be Adoni-Bezek,  strong man of the flesh, but a new name He gives us written on a white stone.  Do you know your new name?  I know mine.  May God grant you the Spirit of wisdom and Revelation that you may know your new name!  Only to the extent that we apprehend Him here, will we aprehend Him there.

The glorious thing is that Adoni-Bezek, after undergoing to inward work of the cross, begins to change outwardly.  The first we notice is that before, we were so confident and boastful in our skill and abilities.  But now, there is a clumsiness.  Where before, we could grasp the temporal treasures of this world, with all of our might, and hang on, See?  Now, we can't!  Praise His Name, he has cut off our thumbs and we must rely on overcoming might, and can no longer put our trust in the flesh.  The thumbs speak of the ability to feed and care for oneself.  The fact that the thumbs get cut off at the cross, speaks of how the New Man worries not about what he shall eat or drink, but about the Kingdom!

The big toes speak of the fleshly will.  You know,  "Tomorrow, I will go to such and such a city, and buy and sell and get gain."  Well, once you have allowed the cross to do a deep, inward work, you don't have the ability to do that anymore!  Your toes will be cut off in mercy, and now you must rely on His overcoming power!!

Application?
Pray that your thumbs and toes would be "cut-off" at the cross.  And, vote for George!!

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Yeah, that's pretty much what I got when I read the letter in my quiet time .

[vernecarty]

Now that is what I call real Biblical exegesis....*sigh*...those were the good old days...
Verne
p.s Does Adoni- Bezek prophetically refer to George? Does a loose, or at least more contemporary reading allow:
Ah-done-know-He-was-Beserk?  

[Mark Kisla]

I just got this in the mail today.  Thought I had better post it.

Dear Faithful Co-laborers in Christ,

"Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who super-abounds in lovingkindness leading us to vast vistas of Revelations and Glory"  (Ephesiahs 1:3  BGV)

Yes, dear friends, God is carrying us upon wings of eagles as we see the supernatural efficencies of His divine bulwark.  How my heart thrills as I think of you, faithful laborers, in this grand enterprise of which we are involved.

Just yesterday I gave a glorious announcement to resounding "Amens".  Believe me, the place was simply packed out.  I don't think you could have fit another person at our meeting hall in Mike Almanzor's camper-trailer.  Like a dove, the spirit of grace and glory came upon me as I embark into vast vistas of God's blessing heading towards the governorship of California.

As you move beyond your same, tame, life and enter into the things that matter the most - there at the cross - will he sweep you up with wings like pinions and the heavens will open up (Judges 1:6).  

Will you enter in friends?  The road is a hard one.  But the call is great.  "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

Vote for me this October.

Upon the Campaign Journey,

Brother George

Precious Promises:  Lamentation 3:1
                                Luke 4:44
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Paid for by the election committe to elect Brother George for governor.  Please contribute generously in cash.

Hmmm, yes.  I also received this.  Our brother still has a burden!  Praise his name!  Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years.....

My only question was who the moron was who took took the dictation for the letter?  The verse Judges 1:6:

Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Just what is this supposed to mean?  Oh, wait a minute.....I am beginning to see it!

Adoni-Bezek means "man of strength."  He is a type the strength of the flesh.
In the flesh, we would naturally flee a difficult situation, relying on our own strength to save ourselves.

However, the flesh is finite, and sooner or later we are to be overtaken, if we rely on the strength of the flesh.  When that happens, it is actually God doing us a favor, although we often can't grasp the Heavenly reality of this.  He is the hound of heaven, and will cross us, until we have exhausted our horded resources.

Then, and only then, will the deeper, inward work of the cross take place.  A new matrix will be formed within, and no longer will I live "I" but a new man, a corporate man, created after the image of God.  Then, and only then, as it says in the original, if I am willing and yielded, will God get a recovery of His image in us and our names will no longer be Adoni-Bezek,  strong man of the flesh, but a new name He gives us written on a white stone.  Do you know your new name?  I know mine.  May God grant you the Spirit of wisdom and Revelation that you may know your new name!  Only to the extent that we apprehend Him here, will we aprehend Him there.

The glorious thing is that Adoni-Bezek, after undergoing to inward work of the cross, begins to change outwardly.  The first we notice is that before, we were so confident and boastful in our skill and abilities.  But now, there is a clumsiness.  Where before, we could grasp the temporal treasures of this world, with all of our might, and hang on, See?  Now, we can't!  Praise His Name, he has cut off our thumbs and we must rely on overcoming might, and can no longer put our trust in the flesh.  The thumbs speak of the ability to feed and care for oneself.  The fact that the thumbs get cut off at the cross, speaks of how the New Man worries not about what he shall eat or drink, but about the Kingdom!

The big toes speak of the fleshly will.  You know,  "Tomorrow, I will go to such and such a city, and buy and sell and get gain."  Well, once you have allowed the cross to do a deep, inward work, you don't have the ability to do that anymore!  Your toes will be cut off in mercy, and now you must rely on His overcoming power!!

Application?
Pray that your thumbs and toes would be "cut-off" at the cross.  And, vote for George!!

I second the motion !
 May the great author of the heavenly vision, the one true holy hand grenade of heaven, find his true home in politics.
Viva la Georgie and the giant hand !

[Joe Sperling]

Yes. It is so true. I am so deeply humbled by "the word" that was so demonstrably delivered below. Let my right thumb be cut off should I try to "hitch-hike" upon the feats of those overcoming dear ones that have gone before me. May my right toe be cut off should I stop on fourth down and go for 3 when I could have made the attempt to go for 6 in the midst of this great and glorious battle. I will not sit back and do nothing. I will vote for George Geftakys for Governor.

Whatever your lack is, vote for Geftakys

sponsored by:   a group of voters with no name---were just voters, just citizens--we are affiliated with no one. We want to get back to the governing "pattern" first realized by our fore fathers. George doesn't want the "title" of Governor, he's just a man with a mission. We have no fundraisers--whatever you want to give to the campaign you give by putting your donation in the wooden box found in a 7-eleven near you. Get back to basics---Vote for George!!

[vernecarty]

Whatever your lack is, vote for Geftakys

He don't know what Jack is,
Nor ever paid taxes...
But I'm voting Geftakys!    

George has all the qualities of the stereotypical politician:  lies, cheats, steals, messed up offspring, etc....  There is no doubt that if he were elected, his office would require a good steam-cleaning at the end of his term like Clinton's did.

I am afraid the kinds of stains this specimen leaves are going to require much more than steam cleaning my friend. It is going to require the very fires of heaven to clear  away the stain and the stench...I am grateful that there are two babtisms...some of you get my drift...maybe this will spark some insightful commentary...?
Verne

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I just came upon this Associated Press article.  Thought you would be interested.

-Dave

Associated Press, Redlands, CA, October 1, 2003
Police investigated a disturbance this morning that momentarily disrupted traffic.  According to eyewitness reports, an impromptu parade broke out on the 200 block of Main Street in downtown Redlands.  While commuters were attempting their way to work, juggling their Starbucks coffee through an unusually overcast day, 5-10 people, donning long skirts and patsy smiles holding up campaign signs and signing the song Volunteers for Jesus.

“Some guy named George Garbanzo,” said shop worker Hal Lapbrook who was making his way to the car when the scurry broke out, “they say he’s running for governor.”

Behind the singers, was a tractor pulling a small wagon covered with white crape paper.  Upon the wagon was an elderly gentleman behind a wood pulpit waving a large, black Bible.  

“He kept yelling, ‘Praise the Lord, are you with me friends’ at everyone,” said Monica Velcro, a local shop owner, “Geez, I just wanted to get to work.  People were hollering and shaking their fist.  I just stopped and stared and said, like, ‘who is this nut, anyway?’”
Mr. Garbanzo was not available for comment.  No charges for the disruption were filed.

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Just after I found that article, this arrived in the mail:

-Dave

Dear Faithful Friends upon the Heavenly Journey,

The winds of heaven blew fervently as we kicked off our lofty enterprise with a glorious gospel march down the main streets of Redlands.  With mighty hosts of faithful companions, a whirlwind effect of shekinah blessing descended upon a parched and weary land.  (Psalm 110:3).

I wish you could be there as I turned and saw a young woman shop owner, stopped dead in her tracks, her eyes drinking in the blessing, her longing soul seeking solace in a thirsty land.  (Song of Solomon 7:7-9).

Yes, dear friends, we are a part of a great adventure and calling.  Will you enter in?

On the glorious campaign journey,

Brother George

Precious Promises:  1 Samuel 1:21
                                1 Timothy 1:12
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Paid for by the committee to appoint Brother George Governnor.

[editor]

Wow!!

I've never looked at Song 7 like that before!  How does he see all that in the passage!?!  What a visionary.

He's got my vote


Brent

[Joe Sperling]

George Garbanzo gets my vote!!! !!!

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One moment of seriousness - I got a private message asking me if any of these articles are true.  I just wanted to be perfectly clear that this whole thread "Brother George for Governor" (letters, articles, etc.) is completely satire.  

So, undercomer humor writers unite and help the "Brother George for Governor" legacy continue.

Have at it, boys (and girls).

-Dave

[editor]

One moment of seriousness - I got a private message asking me if any of these articles are true.  I just wanted to be perfectly clear that this whole thread "Brother George for Governor" (letters, articles, etc.) is completely satire.  

So, undercomer humor writers unite and help the "Brother George for Governor" legacy continue.

Have at it, boys (and girls).

-Dave

What?  It isn't true?  

How dare you spread these rumors.  You have damaged the man's reputation.  Your rumormongering is divisive and offensive!

Brent---a very dissappointed voting citizen of heaven