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Oh, did I fail to mention that not only is it difficult to get someone to take the job of Republican County Chairman, it's even more difficult to get them to keep the job.

Hosting events for high level officeholders is always risky because they constantly have interruptions such as crucial Senate votes, natural disasters, and one committee upon I served, when Reagan had to cancel after being shot.

FReepers don't even have a clue as to how mad a person can get at RINOs until they've gone through being a party officer only to be betrayed.

Thanx for the verses and the thank you, j_.

Rod, there was no crisis. W's bus blew right past the donor's factory, the people waiting eagerly to meet him, the high school kids, the VN vet with his scrapbook... The SS was there for 2 walk thrus over 2 days, they got an early am call to set the time and then the bus just rolled on by. It took 2 emails and several calls to a cell phone answering machine to get any response and after the advance guy did apologize (in a surly sort of way, I was told), there was no follow up to me at all. To add insult to injury, it was the jilted donor who had found the ideal farm for the visit that did happen and did the national media PR....and this farmer was NOT A REPUBLICAN! He probably voted for Kerry. Meanwhile, I had worked for 6 months to bring the factory owner around from the CP to the GOP.

I kept my mouth shut til now. I have said nothing locally, although I did vent to the regional head of Michel's campaign about our then Party Chair, only to be coldly told they were best friends (figures). When I mentioned how the RNC had publicly withdrawn funds from Michel weks before the election, then reinstated a small amount of funds a few weeks later, she just kept telling me how the polls showed Michels had the election won. That, of course, was a lie.

No one seems to care. The previous County Party Chair was a leftie who joined the GOP in order to run for office. He was the worst DA we ever had. I wrote to the RNC. I knew this guy from my own left wing days 35 years ago. No one did squat.

It is beyond betrayal. It borders on the surreal.

FReepers don't even have a clue as to how mad a person can get at RINOs until they've gone through being a party officer only to be betrayed.

I'm a county officer. All of the officers are conservatives. But we have a cabal of older country club republicans who still control all the vacancy committees, and the district captain positions in the county. Basically, they all sit around and have teas and try to make sure that conservatives don't get nominated to anything here in the county. They also hold most of the precinct spots because the precinct committee people don't call anyone before the caucuses, so the couple that have been the precinct captains for 20 years are the only ones that show up at the caucuses and reelect themselves. And the grassroots are very conservative here. It Makes Me Furious.

But this election cycle, we are going around the district captains and the precinct committee people. We have an autodialer and they are going to be really surprised when 20 people show up for their caucus. The precinct captains that won't work will still have their position; but we're going to appoint someone else to do the work.

The folks that walk the precincts are actually not in the party structure. They are young conservatives who are as fed up as I am.

I'm fed up with sit on your ass Republicans whose only goal is to prevent conservatives from having a voice in the party. That's gonna change here in my county in the next two years.