Tuesday, 17 November 2015 - 2:03 AM CST
Name: "Gary Ellis"All of the negative attacks are veiled opinions and oblique comments. The author claims an Executive violated the LCRCC Constitution, but he criticized the Executives because they deemed it important to follow the Constitution and verify that new members are currently registered Republicans before voting them in as members. So when you see it to your advantage its OK to violate the Consitution.
I call that selective reasoning.
The continual spewing of negativism is demenaing to all of the volunteers who show up every month. It ignores the contribution of those volunteers working in the LCRCC Teams.
Maybe I should not be so veiled and oblique?
Okay!
The Linn County Republican Party's Constitution says:
The Executive Committee is subject to the orders of the Linn County Central Committee, and none of its acts shall conflict with actions of the Linn County Central Committee.
Some time back the Committee voted to reward volunteers for hard work in the 2014 Victory Office.
The Chair, Cindy Golding, REFUSED to honor that commitment.
The Treasurer at the time, Jim Conklin, had to get the Co-Chair at the time to sign the checks Mrs. Golding refused to sign.
After Mr Conklin was bullied to step aside while issues with a state agency were addressed, the Chair, Mrs. Golding, and the Interim Treasurer did not honor the debts the Central Committee had committed us to, AND they did not handle the records, as was their duty.
So the last person who had EARNED a monetary award from the Committee for all of his hard work never received his reward from the Chair, Cindy Golding, and the Interim Treasurer.
Instead, another member and I chipped in and made the young man's reward whole.
I hope that is not too "veiled and oblique" for Mr Ellis.
Now, as for:
"...but he criticized the Executives because they deemed it important to follow the Constitution and verify that new members are currently registered Republicans before voting them in as members..."
In the past, the call for new members has been at the end of the meeting.
But, our committee leadership and their supporters seem to be more intrested in keeping to their adjournment time at 8:30 PM instead of taking care of the business of the Committee.
They can wax SO poetic about why we cannot go past 8:30, and ALWAYS ask the body to vote against it.
UNLESS, that is, there is something that THEY want to see addressed.
In that case, they are eager to extend the meeting.
And we, on the other side?
NOT being hypocrites, we vote to do so.
That situation is the reason why one person, for instance, had to wait six months to join.
So last meeting, there was NOTHING to vote on after the new members were presented.
But Mr Ellis had a hissy fit about going ahead and voting them in.
EVEN a person who had her VOTER ID CARD on her.
Since she drove to the meeting, it is most probable that she also had a drivers license.
I certainly hope Mr. Ellis never has the deciding say in any regular elections.
Can you just picture it?
So, you have a government-issued color photo ID, AND a voter registration card?
Still not good enough for "They Shall Not Pass" Ellis!
Not until he checks himself.
Robert Heinlein once said:
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
Updated: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 1:50 AM CST
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