[Fishtalk]

See, I am NOT the editor.

But I'm glad you asked.

For I think I may have found myself, INNOCENTLY mind you, in the middle of some sort of political in fight.

Here's what happened. Samantha should understand, maybe help with this.

I WAS in the GOP choir. Don't ask. I went to one practice and resigned because I am in my church choir and that's enough singing for me. So it turns out that the leader of the choir is also heading the fashion show they plan to put on this coming March. Well hey, fashion is right up my alley. So when I resigned from the choir I offered to help with the fashion show because a)I like fashion and b)Well damn I can design flyers and write promos as much as the next guy.

So this lady in the choir and in the fashion show, once I mentioned being willing to help and that my major talent was probably writing (although folks, myself is FULL of talent, insert smile here). So up out of the blue she says..."hey, we need someone to do the newsletter".

So see, I didn't exactly volunteer to the newsletter but I sure have been there and done that. Every time I join any organization I end up doing the damn newsletter and most times I don't mind. But go with me, I didn't volunteer or even especially want to do it. But the lady said they needed someone and she really made it sound urgent.

There's nothing worse than getting stuck doing something without training and from what I heard the newsletter job was vacant and they needed someone quick. So this fashion guru introduces me to the current editor of the newsletter and I tell her that I am willing to do the job but to please give me a couple of months training, that sort of thing...like phase in and phase out, if this makes any sense. Bear in mind that all the hell I wanted to do was help with the fashion show. How I got entangled in this newsletter thing is beyond me, but it gets better.

So the newsletter editor, who is STILL the newsletter editor and the one who rejected my terrific little piece, says that come January she will have me write a little piece for the newsletter. Now this made no sense to me as I wasn't trying out to be a writer or anything...just the guy who collects the info and puts it into a readable form. You know...a newsletter EDITOR.

But I figured, hey, I'll do it their way, what do I know? I mean I can write a "little piece" with half my brain tied behind my back. I figgered maybe they wanted to see if I can even write, maybe conjugate verbs, that sort of thing.

So I'm doing this email correspondence with this newsletter editor and I mention taking over the newsletter and how I'd be happy to give her some relief as there's nothing much more worse than being saddled with a job that was sucking all the joy out of life, especially a volunteer one. Recall again that this fashion show lady, who has YET to call me about helping out with the fashion show by the way, made it sound like the newsletter editor really wanted out.

Only in my correspondence this lady is saying absolutely nothing about any desire of hers to give up the newsletter and I feel really stupid. I don't know what's going on here, note that my own sweet self is guilty of nothing here but I do think there's some sort of power struggle going on with these ladies and innocent little me somehow got in the middle of it. That newsletter lady probably thinks I'm the most audacious thing, up and taking away her job. Which I do NOT want to do, how many times I gotta say it?

Now I could be wrong. That newsletter lady might very well want to give up that job, which can be a real pain by the way. But nothing she said or wrote to me indicated any such thing. I think the newsletter lady interpreted the fashion show lady's pushing me onto her as indication that I somehow want to WRITE for the newsletter, not be the editor.

Have I bored you to death yet?

All the heck I want to do is help with the fashion show. I DO NOT want to be editor of the newsletter and I DO not want to sing for the GOP! Got it!

So now somehow I may have insulted the newsletter editor by looking like an eager-beaver after her job and add to it, I'm submitting outrageous, practically communistic, writing for her newsletter.

No good deed goes unpunished and my name should be under that phrase.

I don't know, maybe they really want to get rid of this newsletter lady. Or maybe the fashion show lady doesn't WANT me on her committee, although I can't imagine why not.

I am going to keep a low profile for the next few meetings and try to figure out what the hell's going on. For I suspect I somehow became embroiled in something that has nothing to do with me.

And all I did was offer to be on the fashion show committee and/or write a little piece for the newsletter. Now I am in trouble and have been rejected to boot.

[Carolinamom]

Goodness, what a mess, and you got shanghaied (sp?) into it. IMO you should just lie low until one or both of them come begging...and I do mean BIG TIME apology and BEGGING. They don't deserve you.

[samantha]

You will find out that this is how they dump people. Republican Women Leaders are kind of like A Gal that has a Boyfriend, but he is a Zero, so the Gal waits until something better comes along and slides the Zero out the door. This may sound too simplistic, but that is what happens. Keep mum, or fairly Mum until you get to know all the Players. I will freep mail you later and add a few suggestions that may help you out.

[hocndoc]

First thing: tell the editor that you were working under (what appears to be) the misunderstanding that she wanted out. That should clear up some of the problem.
Second, call the fashion show coordinator and ask when the meetings begin.
Third, resubmit a *stronger* prolife statement.
Fourth, Stand back.

(You might as well be in trouble for what you do on purpose.)