Great job! My very best friend saw what political detachment does to an otherwise very conservative community. The Chair of the Republican Nominating Committee in a small upstate New York community fancied himself a King Maker and ran candidates for Town Council who he thought he could control, rather than candidates who represented the values of the voters and who could win. The Chair was so bad that when good conservatives ran as Independents, he threw his weight behind the RINO and split the vote. The conservative town is now run by democrats for the first time that anyone can remember.
A year ago, I chided my friend on remaining detached and have been sending him Mike Flynn’s emails encouraging citizens to become engaged or risk losing it all. This year, he and several other respected community members decided to run for the open positions on the R nominating committee. They knocked on every door in the community and all but one won and the Chair resigned since he knew he would no longer be the Chair. The Committee is now strongly conservative and they’re committed to running real conservatives. They feel confident that their candidates will win going forward and return the town to its more representative roots.
I was dismayed to learn how one man and his ego in one small town could do so much damage so quickly (maybe 4 years?). The townspeople are beginning to see the effects of liberal governance now that their 5 community leaders have a D majority by 1 and they’re not at all happy. The next election should begin a course correction but it showed them how quickly it could all slip away if they don’t remain engaged. I’m proud of my friend for doing something rather than remaining on the sidelines complaining about it. He and people like you will return America to its conservative values.
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It is illegal to suggest a bunch of irate townsfolk show up and give that RINO prick a blanket party, but it wouldn’t hurt, I guess, to fervently imagine an atomic wedgie from Dilbert’s Bob the Dinosaur.
yes - thanks for posting this.