Virgil Goode lends gravitas to race baiting

This is an interesting picture and article from consumeraffairs.com. Apparently, this man, Thomas Cromwell, is a regular scam artist who sends letters to seniors trying to get them to send him money. His tack is a classic of the racist, fear-mongering type. He tells them that undocumented Mexicans are trying to steal money from Social Security. Not only does consumeraffairs.com point out that this is not a current problem, but that no one is proposing that undocumented workers should be entitled to Social Security benefits.

However, since Cromwell is a scam artist, he does not care what kind of truth he needs to bend to take money from poor elderly people. Of course, to cloak himself in a blanket of legitimacy he looks for a congressperson with an unblemished record of fear-mongering and anti-immigrant posturing. Even if, as Goode's people claim, he has no official relationship to Goode, it is interesting that Cromwell would seek out our congressperson to lend credibility for his racist scam.

Proverbs 12:26 tells us, "A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray." I think it is interesting the kind of people that try and insinuate themselves with Virgil Goode. I also think it is interesting that Goode does not have the ability to hire a staff competent enough to keep people like this at arm's length, or possibly, competent enough to realize that they are receiving illegal campaign contributions. At the end of the day, Virgil Goode's friends are a good measure of his character.