Posted on 06/08/2010 9:53:29 PM PDT by grace522
Strange things happened on election day, and it's not good news for the party.
Mirriam-Webster dictionary defines “grow” as “to spring up and develop to maturity” and “to increase in size…to expand.”
Unfortunately for the Bucks County Republican machine, the idea of growth seems to be an alien concept.
For evidence of that, just look to the controversy that erupted within the GOP during the May 18 primary election.
Ten grassroots activists looking to rebuild a wayward GOP decided to run for State Committee, the body charged with vetting and endorsing statewide candidates.
The unendorsed slate had little resources, so running against the might of the Bucks Establishment made their prospects of dim, at best.
Nevertheless, they pressed on, making no secret of their disagreements with the Republican leadership, whom they viewed as more interested in patronage and insider deals, rather than articulating Republican issues. The Establishment, worried that any “insurgent” winner could weaken their political structure, responded by pulling out all stops.
There’s nothing wrong with both sides having a healthy debate, but the rules of fair play should prevail. And in this case, it seems that they did not.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.phillymag.com ...
This crap is rampant in this state. That is why we have been saddle with a loser like Specter in ‘04. Hopefully stories like this will wake people up and end this insider crap. These guys King making should be stopped.
If that does not sum it up perfectly!
PA GOP garbage ping.
And while some of the people who were somewhat harmed by the situation have handled it like mature adults, the behavior by a few of the "victims" in that group behind the scenes, is far from exemplary.
They should either file a lawsuit and unite behind Republican Mike Fitzpartick to achieve victory over leftist Democrat Patrick Murphy, or don't file a lawsuit and help Mike Fitzpatrick beat Patrick Murphy. But what ever they choose to do, don't undermine Mr. Fitzpatrick's attempt to win back that seat and help to Take Back Congress from Pelosi, Obama and the democrats. There is no evidence whatsoever Fitzpatrick had anything to do with it.
And many incidences are exaggerated and stories skewed by people out to get the R party.
I would really like to try and get a neutral-party accounting of what is happening here.
Madame Poprick and Mr. Goodnoe et alia ef’ed the Tea Party over by getting an early election day AM injunction via a compliant Judge. The Judge injoined from use the ‘line card’ of Tea Party candidates on a flimsy technicality. Thus voters only had the GOP Party endorsed line card.
The us-before-’them’-ers then used the party network to spread the word quickly and the compliant party poll workers demanded that the Tea Party members stop handing out the line cards.
Later in the day the decision was overturned, but the damage already had been done at that point.
Some also suspect Poprick preloaded some machines.
One of my friends, who is a tea party activist, was running for a local GOP committee position in Bucks County. She ran an active campaign in her community, since she was up against an incumbent. The incumbent assumed she’d be re-elected, and didn’t campaign. On primary election day, my friend encountered a legal challenge against her campaign literature. She won her seat, but definitely ran into last-minute opposition from within the party establishment. This is in the Warminster area.
Fitzpatrick is a RINO, but one heck of a lot better than Pelosi’s boy-toy Patrick “Mini-Murtha” Murphy.
It’s represented perfectly in the article. I was there. Dr Sklaroff IS BEING FOOLISH.
Tammany Hall in the land of Tamanend. Great.
Am I losing my mind or did Sklaroff’s comments disappear?
When I came on thread I do not remember seeing anything about a Sklaroff, as a poster or in the posts.
Sklaroff had comments at the blog. Terri cited them, I saw them at the time, but I don’t see them now.
Essentially, for two hours, from 11AM to 1PM election day, unendorsed committee candidate's couldn't use their palm cards, which told people which lever to pull if they wanted to vote for the unendorsed committee candidates.
And for that, Mike Fitzpatrick's winning the seat back should be jeopardized.
Some of those people are with holding support for Fitzpatrick and asking people in their groups to with hold support for Fitzpatrick (who had nothing to do with it), unless he meets some of their demands, one of them being that he join in a lawsuit against the party establishment over the event.
Some anti-establishment types on the right, do what the left does, and make mountains out of molehills, among other dishonest and unsundry tactics. They are as bad as the establishment they are attempting to defeat.
I don’t see Sklaroff’s comments in there now (I saw them in there earlier this morning), I just want to make sure it isn’t just my computer.
Sklaroff is the only one talking like a mature, logical, adult.
The link won’t access the site, so I’ll have to check later.
I didn’t see them earlier, nor do I see them now.
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