Jason Newcomb campaign

Dear fellow Ron Paul Patriots,

An unfortunate blow has been struck to my campaign, but I do intend to continue forward with it under any circumstances. However, things may have to change, perhaps dramatically.

Jerry Ripo discovered some things about me that he doesn’t like, and has entirely withdrawn his support from my candidacy. This is unfortunate because he had volunteered his office for the use of the campaign, had donated money, and is generally someone whose energy and enthusiasm I deeply respect and admire. He is a wonderful man in many ways, and I’m really glad that there are people like him in the world, trying to make it a little better with their presence. Unfortunately he will no longer be letting me use his office, and I am going to return his financial contribution because it wouldn’t be right to keep it under the circumstances.

What Jerry discovered is that I have never fully disclosed all of my interests and accomplishments to this group. I apologize for my omissions. I did so only because they seemed irrelevant to the work at hand, and I didn’t want this campaign to focus on anything but reform, and the bright future of this state and this nation. But to be completely fair I will fully disclose everything that I can about myself to this group, and even to the eyes of the local RECs that are no doubt watching this list.

In creating my public profile I shared only those aspects of my life that seemed relevant to my present mission to reform our way of conducting government. I, like you, want to see our nation return to a limited government based on the constitution in which our God-given rights as human beings are protected rather than taken away. I want to see a government that provides “only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.” I want to see less government spending, less taxes and more personal liberty.

But apparently we do not elect public officials on the basis of their goals, their ideas, or their skills, but rather on their personal lives. I think this is unfortunate. If this were true two hundred years ago we would not have had President Thomas Jefferson. Luckily, reason prevailed in those times. I hope for all our sakes that reason once again takes its anointed place in our culture someday soon.

But let me tell you more about myself.

In my youth I wanted to be a performer. I wrote and produced several performances of my own plays in high school, as well as starring in all of our school plays, musicals and I was a soloist in our chorus and a cappella singing choirs. I also played the guitar and the bass guitar in my spare time, and produced several comedy video productions.

My only higher education was one year of community college at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts. During that year I maintained a 4.0 grade point average with the exception of an acting class in which I received a “B” because the professor told me that he “Doesn’t generally give A’s to anyone, unless they show real acting genius.” This irritated me somewhat at the time, both because it ruined my 4.0 and because I did consider myself to be a very good actor. :-) Nonetheless I did remain on the dean’s list throughout. After that year I decided to transfer to a four-year school and was accepted at New York University, Emerson College, The Massachusetts College of Art and Sarah Lawrence College.

However, in the caprice of youth I decided to forego further education and instead produced a low-budget feature film called “Counter-Clockwise.” It is an eighty-minute comedy about three young men squatting in a clocktower. I hoped it would be my rise to stardom, because at that time many low-budget movies such a “Clerks” or “Slackers” were starting real careers. But it wasn’t to be. It was a fairly ridiculous movie. It was both a commercial and artistic failure, but it taught me a lot about life and getting things done. We had a largely volunteer crew of over fifty people, and shot the whole film in about two weeks. We spent almost thirty-thousand dollars in the space of a month on the film, and that was rather exciting, I must admit. Over the next few months we edited the film, scored it, and made a finished print. We showed the film at several festivals and eventually signed a distribution deal with a small company that never actually paid us anything. But I think the experience was worthwhile overall.

After that I began performing stand-up comedy regularly, and peaked at the “semi-professional” level. I’ve performed many times at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles as well as several of the other odd little venues in LA, and regularly performed at Dick Doherty’s Comedy Vault, Nick’s Comedy Stop, and even Catch a Rising Star in Massachusetts before it closed in the early nineties.

I also wrote 9 more comedy screenplays over this time, none of which I ever got produced as films.

At around this time I also began to perform in a very silly rock band called “The Nasties,” (also briefly called “The Nasty Pants”). This was more of just a fun, silly project, but we did play at many clubs around the Boston area and recorded about fifteen songs in various studios.

After this I began to study human consciousness in more earnest and became a certified hypnotherapist and a licensed practitioner of something called Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This latter is a somewhat obscure communication strategy (often simply called NLP) that is used in many fields from sales to psychotherapy. Tony Robbins is one motivational coach that has made NLP popular. NLP is basically the study of how we subjectively construct our sense of reality, and how we can use this understanding to help people better communicate with themselves and others. It was at this time that I began my life coaching practice.

I am also a painter and a sculptor, and have sold many art pieces to collectors.

In short, I am a highly creative and energetic person who goes after my dreams, however out of reach, and I try my hardest to make my dreams reality. I don’t always succeed, but I never give up. And this is what I bring to my coaching. I try to help everyone that I work with to accomplish their dreams as fully as possible. And it is my wish to use my considerable skills and creativity in the service of our community.

But none of this is what Jerry found objectionable. I don’t think he even knows about any of this, but he might not like this part of my background either. What Jerry is judging me for is that I have also had a lifelong interest in spirituality, particularly esoteric spirituality, although I have very deeply studied most of the world’s major religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and even Shaivism.

And I’ve written and published several books about my studies. These books are definitely out of the mainstream. They are not particularly best-selling books. But all of my books express a message of love and connection between people, and the purpose of all my books has been to bring anyone who reads them closer to God. I did not wish for my campaign to have anything to do with my books, either to promote them or to be used in a negative way.

But Jerry feels that my spiritual explorations ruin my candidacy in his eyes, and they might in yours too, although I hope not. I understood this to be a constitutional group, not a religious group. If the goal of this group is a monolithic culture in which everyone has to believe exactly the same things in order to be involved then I made a mistake in joining this group. Jerry told me yesterday that he sometimes wishes our world was an old-testament theocracy. This is not the kind of world that I seek to create.

I want to secure freedom for everyone, regardless of their beliefs, their lifestyle, or their work. Freedom means being free to be wrong or to be different. If intolerance and bigotry is really the basis of this group’s ideology then I became a part of it by mistake, and I am not interested in a continued relationship of my good name with this movement. It is this kind of narrow-mindedness that is creating the problems we face in the world today. Fear and hatred are the enemies of our future, not my little new age books. We need to come together as a society if we are to make the world a better place. We must seek the common good both in ourselves and in the world around us if we are to bring decency back to this world. We need to unite rather than divide.

But I hope that Jerry’s viewpoint is in the minority. I suspect at least some people may join him, but I hope that some of you are enlightened enough to at least examine the issues by at least reading some of my work.

The first place that I suggest you go is to my most recent book, which contains the core of my spiritual and political philosophy. It is called, “How the Teachings of Jesus Could Save America.” It is not quite yet available through bookstores, but I put up a copy of it on lulu.com so that people can read it before its official publication. Here’s the link:

http://www.lulu.com/content/2382144

I think even those of you who come from a non-Christian or atheistic background will find it inspiring. It is a book about love, unity, and friendship. After you’ve read this book, go ahead and examine my other writings. They all contain this same message, though in different words and sometimes unusual forms.

If any of you no longer wish to support my candidacy I will certainly not fault you for it, but I must warn that if we allow ourselves to be divided so easily then our efforts to make change will forever be thwarted. If only those with whom we agree on every subject can be our friends, the world will get lonely indeed.

I intend to continue standing up for you, fighting for our future, regardless of whether you continue to stand behind me. Because it is the only hope I see for making a better future. Even if I fail, at least I will continue to live by the principles of love, justice, peace and freedom. Standing alone for what is right is better than running away in fear and ignorance.

My best wishes,
Jason