Ballenger: Patterson "disaster" as Oakland GOP chairman

WKAR "Off the Record" with Tim Skubick ^ | Nov. 22, 2002 (Program #2003-21) | Bill Ballenger, editor, Inside Michigan Politics

[AFA-Michigan]

Bill Ballenger, former moderate Republican state senator and editor of "Inside Michigan Politics" -- widely considered the state's most authorative political analyst -- made the following comments this past weekend on Lansing public TV's state capital political talk show, "Off the Record":

“Isn’t the problem really in Oakland County, I’m going to turn things around, Brooks Patterson?

"He goes around bashing everybody in the party in Oakland County who doesn’t agree with him and frankly, I think he’s been a disaster as a Chairman.

"You don’t want a chairman like that...Brooks Patterson has gone around with a club, and he asked for what he got. He was an accident waiting to happen on your convention night.

“And by the way, (Auburn Hills Councilman Tom McMillin) was a big success on election night, November 5th. Tom McMillin knocked off an incumbent Democrat County Commissioner.

"How is the right wing supposedly, if that is what it is in Oakland County, such a bad thing? Sounds like they did pretty well.

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[Dan from Michigan]

Bingo. Views aside, Brooks didn't deliver the victory. Period, end of story.

[AFA-Michigan]

No doubt, Dan, you're also well aware of Patterson's opposition to the new concealed carry law.

[Dan from Michigan]

"Dodge City" Brooks?

I'd take McMillin over Brooks anyday, both in views, AND ability to win.