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Thanks for thread AB. Go USA today over Japan for women’s soccer World Cup.
Good Morning, AB, ALL….
As always AB, thank you for doing this thread.
Beautiful weather here in the swamps of Delaware. They complain about the humidity and insert smile here. These people have obviously never lived in Baltimore, King City of all humidity that the swamps can’t even hope to compete.
So ….been busy last week, very busy. Past Sunday night I attended a little meeting of all of the EDC (Electoral District Committeemember) of my area for the Republican party. Don’t know how the GOP works in yon readers’ area, but here in the swamps, each “electoral district”...which is the place where you vote and includes everyone who votes there...has one elected county committee member. Then there is the RDC(representative district committeemember), which is the area covered by the county representative. Then there is the executive board, the Chair, Co-Chair, sec, treas….like that, who are elected by the EDC’s and RDC’s.
You must be appointed to become an EDC and the EDC’s in turn elect the RDC. The EDC, after nomination by the local guys (that was at my Sunday night meeting of the RDC and all the EDCs assigned to him or her) is then nominated at the county wide meeting. And I was nominated at the Monday night meeting. After one month, all of the nominees at the prior meeting are then voted in (gotta wait a month, that’s the rules.)
I had to stand up before both bodies and tell of my “qualifications” and experience, which is pretty minimal except, heh, I do post a lot on Freerepublic, which I did say….insert another smile here.
Seriously, I have worked the GOP office in nearby Georgetown and have in various ways been involved with the Sussex county GOP. I am quite qualified is what I’m saying here but go with me, it’s pretty easy to be elected in that volunteers are precious as with most organizations.
But I got a real good story about this will make you cry….later in the thread.
Anyway, bear with me, this is all BIG changes since when I first moved to Delaware and when Mike Castle controlled the GOP pretty much. The monthly meetings never had the voting people cordoned off so they could properly vote on motions. In fact, none of the so-called EDC’s even showed up and I, as active as I once was, didn’t even know there was such a setup.
The Sussex chair, a nice guy who I once admired, just ran the meetings, intro’d some elected guys….ladida, ladida. Mike Castle paid for the Georgetown GOP office and pretty much whatever Mike Castle wanted Mike Castle got.
After the debacle of an election last year, when our own GOP turned against our duly elected candidate, Christine O’Donnell, the Sussex county GOP revolted and for these past six months it’s been a roller coaster.
We’ve managed to get state chair Tom Ross outta there. We got the Sussex chair, a guy I once so like and with whom I spent many hours sitting in the dust-mote filled air of the local GOP office discussing politics...turned out to be a low down dirty traitor GOP Blue Blood Ruling Class.
We were sick and tired of Mike Castle and we voted him out in the primary. Hooboy, they really hated that. Most of the animosity directed at the candidate we legally elected in the primary was by, not the Democrats, but by our own local GOP Blue Blood Ruling class. The trashed her like they’ve done to a Democrat that they reach across the aisle to with perfectly coiffed head hairs and polished nails.
And they also trashed us, the local Sussex heathans, who dared to vote down their guy Castle….and Karl Rove was right in the midst of all this, just to remind.
Still these local people soldiered on, even when I gave up so I take little credit for this most magnificent revolution. I was their scribe and they loved me for that cause I can get the reader riled if of a mind. We had secret email lists and some public local political lists and there I was, typing away, I know y’all find that hard to believe.
They betrayed us and clung like pit bulls to their power. They had spies sign up to our email lists and brought in vicious parliamentarians. They gave interviews to the local liberal rags calling us awful names, accusing us of screaming like monkeys during meetings.
The Blue Bloods told us...go on, change the rules if you want. We had some issues with how the rules were so restrictive and damn, they were written in the 70’s. Hell we couldn’t even find them but we kept nagging.
But the local citizens didn’t back off. They met on many nights, writing and re-writing the rules, getting them passed, recruiting new EDC’s (over 90% of these positions were not even filled) and insuring they showed up to get everything done proper.
Guys, it was a thing of beauty and while I often threw in the proverbial towel...WE WON!
Last week’s monthly GOP meeting was truly a thing of beauty, like nothing I’d ever seen before and I’d attended many of those meeting.
Our new Chair is a fellow named Glen Urquhart, the guy who ran for Mike Castle’s seat in the House when Castle was running for Senator. Urquhart ran right along with Christine O’Donnell and lost by the same margin though Karl Rove will tell you that O’Donnell was a lousy candidate and that’s why she lost. Not true as Urquhart was a great candidate and he lost too as the Blue Blood GOP worked against both of these people, snotty, snooty, in your face, know better than us heathens nothing burgers they just wanting to be cool and with the in-crowd. This as they join the Democrat party in destroying our nation.
Our new co-chair was the Sussex county campaign chair for the O’Donnell campaign.
The voting members….FIVE ROWS OF THEM when maybe one or two showed up before, passed motions proper, Urquhart led the meeting.
I cried, folks. I almost sobbed tears of joy. THEY DID IT! Oh how they suffered. But THEY DID IT! You would have been proud.
More later as I’ve occupied your time enough, but there’s more….sure to make you cry.
My take on the Emmys announced this week, on a lighter note.
Thanks for the thread, AB!
ABC with Christiane and John Kyl, Kyl says Repub leaders have made it clear if all else fails.....we won’t put govt in default - mcconnell plan will be a go.
Christiane says poll after poll says Americans want a balanced approach to budget: spending cuts, and tax increases. John Kyl disagrees and quotes a poll.
Kyl pulls out a chart showing the increase in spending over time (under obama/dems). Spending is the problem.
Repub’s won’t make a deal with the president saying he’d be willing to “look at” cuts in the future (not now).
Raising taxes in a weak economy is the last thing we should do.