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"As a member of the local republican committee, we were given blank forms which we would fill out and circulate to get republican candidates on the ballots for elections. While we did not consider this “working for the campaigns”, and the campaigns did not consider it working for them, I realized that someone like yourself my see it differently."

Someone like myself ? I'm just reviewing what you said, and that your statement was a contradiction in terms. It's rather akin to a lot of politicians that say, "I'm personally opposed to... but I won't vote to change..." Either you do/did, or didn't/don't.

"I can certainly understand you considering signature collection as “helping out”, and I would NOT have collected signatures for Romney if I opposed him (I did not collect signatures for McCain, or sign his signature petition for example)."

So your personal belief was that McCain was worse than Slick Willard ?

"BTW, if you consider “helping out” the candidate as “working for the campaign”, then every person here at FR is “working for the campaign” of someone whenever they write anything positive about a candidate, or negative about their opponents. I think that definition is useless because it is overly broad and reveals nothing."

Not so, since this is a discussion board with no legal standing with respect to elections or nominations. You carried out a legal action in your capacity as a party official to place a candidate on the ballot, which is far more serious and substantial an action.

So your personal belief was that McCain was worse than Slick Willard ?

Yes.

I also agree with you that collecting signatures was a more official act than posting on this board. I only mention that because posting on this board appeared to be the issue you were addressing, specifically whether I posted on this board as a campaign worker for Romney, which I did not.

I can merely re-iterate that those of us collecting signatures for candidates on the committee did not consider that as "working for the campaigns", nor did the campaigns treat us as if we were volunteers for their campaigns.

But I don't have a problem with your opinion that collecting signatures was a form of work for the campaign, and it certainly was worth mentioning, which is why I mentioned it.

If it seems I am overly sensitive on the point, it's because local committees do sometimes have difficulties when the perception is that the people on the committee are working for individual candidates, rather than for republicans in general. So we tried really hard to be fair to all the candidates, and not give one or the other special treatment.

That did not stop me from skipping McCain's signature petition -- from a committee standpoint, I was not being a team player, but in spite of the opinion of some around here, I do have standards.