Posted on 07/03/2011 11:45:28 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
UPDATE: Pima County GOP Establishment Backing Sherriff Dupnik over botched no-knock raid? Pima County Republican Party leaders voted late Thursday to take away party chairman Brian Miller’s keys to the GOP headquarters and called a special meeting to try to remove him from his post.
Miller has been under fire from party stalwarts for the past month, with meetings called in recent weeks after he criticized a SWAT raid in May that resulted in the shooting death of a man law enforcement officers suspected of involvement in drug trafficking.
Several elected officials and party leaders have complained his comments pitted the party against law enforcement at a time when city elections are looming and candidates are gearing up for bigger 2012 races.
In other words, they value political alliances with government employees over the constitutional rights of constituents. Nice to hear them make that clear.
Response: “They asked for my resignation on grounds that it is the right thing to do for the party because… well, because they say so. I declined.”
Tucson Tea Partier Robert Mayer adds: “Pima GOP chairman Brian Miller, who leans libertarian as we do, criticized the raid. Now, the old guard GOP that makes up the executive committee has voted to take away his credit card, keys to the office, and forbids him to speak as chairman. They are planning a change to the county bylaws to allow for them to remove him from office. The president of the AZ police union also called up every Republican candidate and elected official in the state telling them ‘you’re fucked’ if you don’t condemn Brian Miller.”
Another reason why police unions shouldn’t be allowed, as if we needed one after their politicization in the Wisconsin fracas.
Union Thugs!
Is this a case of the GOP backing the police state while under threats from a police union, or the GOP simply showing their true idealogical leanings?
The love of para-military tactics and the police state?
From some of the responses of far too many Freepers I’d have to say its the latter of the two...
Isn’t Dupnik the same asshat who blamed the Gabby Giffords shooting on the Tea Party and conservative talk radio?
Yes.
Amen to that! Police unions are no more entitled to our reverence than teachers unions.
My personal theory is that the WI Capitol police and state troopers simply refused to their duty and enforce the rules—on orders from their union—and remove the protesters from the WI capitol building at the posted closing time at the beginning of the Siege of Madison.
I remember seeing the footage of those f***ers standing around, grinning and yukking it up while those screwballs trashed the place.
If the Gov had real cojones he would have had those guys ostentatiously fired and replaced with a private security company. Politics ain’t beanbag and if you don’t make your enemies pay they’ll just keep kicking you in the shins.
Strange!
County GOP officials trying to oust party chairman over raid comments
Because there is no mechanism to remove an elected officer, a majority of precinct committeemen have to approve a change in bylaws. After that vote, a two-thirds vote of the elected precinct committeemen will be required to remove Miller from office.
If the effort is successful, Mike Shaw, the party's first vice chair, will serve as interim chairman until an election can be held within 60 days to name a replacement.
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They need to vote Dupnik out not Miller. Politics Sucks.
That's what's created the coalition of support.
It's not more complex than that and it's surprising to some which side the establishment ends up supporting.
One fact is clear. Pima County, AZ is a s**t hole. And, to refer to Sherriff Dupnik as a Rosco P. Coltrane would be an insult to Rosco.
Yes. That was Sheriff “Dumstick.”
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If you are waiting for the GOP to save the country prepare for disappointment.
amen.
So, why are we surprised ?
When Slick Willie and Butch Reno needed cover in the Waco murders, who did they turn to ?
Answer - One retired senator John Danforth. {Who by the way got a nice ambassador appointment to the U.N.}
Put not your trust in princes.
It’s time for the Tea Pary to clean house in Pima County. Throw the RINO’s out!
GOP surrender monkeys
After the Elian atrocity, remember who said, “Not a winner” and shut the GOP up about it.
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