Who is Jim Penniman-Morin?
Cedar Park Mayoral candidate is normal on the outside, Progressive on the inside
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”
TL, DR;
Penniman-Morin is a Proud Prog
Penniman-Morin is Being Groomed… For Higher Office
Penniman-Morin’s Worldview is Upside Down
Municipal elections are underway in Texas with early voting going through Tuesday, May 2 ahead of election day on Saturday, May 7.
Today we examine the candidacy of Jim Penniman-Morin for Cedar Park Mayor. Mr. Penniman-Morin is a West Point graduate with boots-on-the-ground service in Afghanistan. He has a beautiful family of five and a successful legal career in the Mergers & Acquisitions and various Corporate Law practice areas. At first blush, he seems like a strong candidate for mayor. But what will a deeper look into his experience and worldview reveal?
Penniman-Morin is a Proud Prog
Make no bones about it, Jim is a Progressive, a fact he proudly touts on social media.
He publicly supports Democrat Blane Conklin for County Judge.
He is steeped in the Marxist dialectic of diversity and inclusion. This is always a red flag coming from avowed Progressives because it almost always means “allow men in women’s bathrooms”, “groom children into sexual deviancy” and “weaponize media and offices of government against dissenters”.
His wife has donated to Dem/Prog causes.
He accepts the feminist worldview of patriarchal oppression. In this social media post from September 18, 2020, he said: "Next time you ask your daughter what she wants to do when she grows up, and you don't have to correct her and take certain things off the list, remember to say a prayer of thanks for the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg." (Prog bonus points for the creepy deification of the departed Supreme Court Justice).
He is very public about aligning his honorable service in the US Army with Texas Democrat politics through his Texas Democrat Veterans and the Texas Democrats Veterans caucus work.
So, with just 10 minutes of web searching, we think we can be well assured that Jim is a leftist true believer. Given these publicly professed, strongly held, progressive beliefs, one has to wonder if Mr. Penniman-Morin can put aside these strongly held beliefs to preside over a city that demonstrated a close partisan divide in the recent primary election.
His campaign finance reports have the usual, odd coupling of local progressive activists and well-heeled, real estate interests. He’s raked in an impressive $42K in the last two campaign finance reports posted at the Cedar Park city clerk’s portal. Notable donors include
Milestone Community Builders for $2500
Mission Mortgage of Texas for $2500
Local Real Estate agent William Pohl for $2000
DNT Construction for $2000
Convenience store magnate Shakeel Badapura for $1500 plus change
Five Star Civil Construction for $1000
Homebuilders PAC for $500
Austin attorney Adam Loewy for $500+
We understand the pay-for-play, transactional game that happens in local elections, particularly with real estate interests in fast growing suburbs and exurbs. Hate the game, not the player, right? But what is more disturbing is the large number of local, small(-ish) dollar Prog activists. We counted 196 total donations with an average of $216.90/donation. The other mayoral candidates don’t come close to that level of voter engagement. Pray for revival in Williamson County!
Penniman-Morin is Being Groomed…. for Higher Office
The Texas Democrats LIFT project, an infernal effort to recruit and sustain Prog candidates for local office, included Mr. Penniman-Morin in its first ever round of recognized candidates in 2020 during his first run for Cedar Park City Council.
More ominously, Mr. Penniman-Morin’s campaign website boasts that he is the Texas chapter director of a shadowy, leftist, DC think tank called the Truman National Security Project. This organization is crawling with Clinton and Obama-era apparachiks. Ostensibly an organization to advise on foreign policy, it is dripping with all manner of identity politics non-sense that has no place in the real politik of foreign affairs but have become the favorite hobby horse of the DC swamp smart set. Perhaps it is from this group that Mr. Penniman-Morin got his preposterous idea that the US military should shift to “clean energy technologies”. How about we wait for the Chinese and Russian militaries to step on that rake first? But more to the point, what kind of ineffective and potentially hazardous “green energy” boondoggles is he going to foist on Cedar Park that will only waste money, fail and kill people when the next Texas Snowpocalypse blows in? That Truman Project demands results of its associates, don’t cha’ know?
Clearly, Penniman-Morin is being groomed for higher office by the Democrat elite. With all this deputy-chairing, chapter-directing and caucusing activity, is he going to have time for the often times arduous work of city administration? Does he see this role as an opportunity to serve the best interests of the community? Or a stepping stone to higher office? Or, worse yet, a project to infuse horrible, globalist, “Great Reset” type of ideas into Cedar Park policy and governance?
Penniman-Morin’s Worldview is Upside Down
And then there’s this weird thing going on with his last name, Penniman-Morin. Maybe we’re old fashioned, but we thought hyphenated last names were only for angry, 1970’s feminist women who wanted to virtue signal that they don’t need no man. This hyphenated-last-name-for-men thing is new to us. There is a James A Morin listed as living in Cedar Park. We think his wife, Sarah, is the same “Sarah Penniman” listed here who has a connection to a “James Andrew Morin” in Cedar Park.
So….. Jim took his wife’s surname.
Why is this an important consideration for a candidate’s qualifications for office? Isn’t this objection just a bunch of intolerant judgey-ness from the slack-jawed, bitter clinging rubes in our midst? We propose that the candidate’s views on marriage tell us important things about his worldview and how he would govern.
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her … In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church.” Ephesians 5:22-25, 28-29
The whole wife-taking-the-husband’s-surname thing comes from the idea that the husband is the head of the wife…. which is meant to be an object model of Christ to the His body of believers on earth. Conversely, when you start mucking around with marriage, you start muddying up our view of God, His thoughts, His worldview. His view of government is inherently limited and can be summed up by
Romans 13:4: “For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.”
and1 Peter 2:13-15: “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.”
If Jim has a distorted view of marriage, will he also have a distorted view of government? Does he see himself as God’s servant for your good? Or does he see you as a servant for the false gods of Progressivism and its his job to make you serve these gods? Does he see his job as God’s agent of wrath to punish the wrongdoer? Or does he see his job as a leftist agent of wrath to bring punishment on bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, transphobes, January 6th insurrectionists, prepping hoarders, the unvaccinated, anti-maskers, white supremacists, Putin sympathizers, cryptocurrency nutters, book banners and every other Progressive stalking horse conjured up from the bowels of hell leftist social media accounts?
We’ll leave you with this little tidbit from his campaign website, where he comes out loud and proud for proselyting children with the values of the Sexual Revolution: “I’ve continued to serve others by donating my time to pro bono legal service and acting as an Assistant Scoutmaster and leader in BSA Troops 271 and 219 (the first female BSA [Boy Scouts of America] Troop in Cedar Park).” Bro', what’s wrong with the Girl Scouts? Why are you so enthusiastic about breaking down healthy boundaries between boys and girls? Didn’t that Jesus guy say something about “If anyone causes one of these little ones… to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
Millstone, you say?
Is it a divine troll that Milestone Builders is Penniman-Morin’s largest campaign contributor?
He who has ears, let him hear.
This is good journalism.
what a joke of a article