Here’s the story about Cathie Adams:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/politics/7050091.html
So, what was it about Adams that the Republican cowards in Texas had a problem with?
(Maybe I’ll post a separate thread on this, if there’s not one already..)
It has nothing to do with cowardice. Most people I know, particularly people who have worked for the GOP at different points in their careers, do not think Adams has the chops to run the party. With his experience (he helped found and grow the YCT), it was my own opinion that Munisteri has the tools to do what the party needs to do: support candidates, raise money, build the grassroots of the party, etc. Once the platform of the party has been determined, these are the things the party has to do, and these are things the party has not done very well in the past few years (and yes, I know Adams was only in there for 7 months), particularly supporting candidates. They’ve just been throwing money away. They don’t have good metrics for determining what they should be doing. Munisteri will hopefully be able to turn that around. If not, people can vote him out in 2012.
Are there two threads, here?
The usual suspects - the clueless young, the Libertarian-leaning, and the rabble-rousers - that want to take power from the establishment backed Munisteri.
Munisteri must have spent hundreds of thousands on his signs and literature. It’s a shame the power play was more important than the finances ** according to their actions.**
Expect scandals if he continues tactics - and spending - like those used at the Convention: claiming to have worked for prolife laws before Cathie Adams even became involved, supposedly (and promised) delegates to the Nominations Committee voting for Munisteri on the second ballot, cheering when he took the lead.
Then, having Mechler come out to introduce Munisteri smacked of collusion or pay off.
And then, who *did* pay for all that specialty printing for signs, literature, name tags, etc?
Supposedly, the major objection was the “wasted time” caused by not having the election for Chair and call to order on the first day. (Of course, they stalled the meeting an hour on Saturday night for their own victory speeches.)
Of course, that would simply mean the clueless would be more clueless, more likely to follow the demagoguery and blatant emotional attacks that we heard and saw all week.
It would also ignore the fact that Credentials met most of the morning on Friday, that the Permanent Committees aren’t elected until the first Senate District Caucus on Friday, and that the Convention is about the only time most of us have to meet State elected and candidates for office.