Two if by Sea, and I on the opposite shore shall be.
Is a statement about Communication.
As is this, about Communication, Retrograde, Incomplete, Absent and Shutdown.
Communication has been all of the above of late.
Quite by accident about 2 months ago we learned that where the Linn County Central Committee had for quite some time been having it's meetings had been changed.
Did we find this out by an announcement via email to the mailing list that had been a form of communication for sometime?
No
Did we find this out by an announcement on the Linn County GOP Central Committee Face book website, which had been set up to utilize current Internet social networking?
No.
It came to our attention because the Executive Board had been passing out handouts at a NRA Gun Show, informing the Public that
The Linn County Republican Central Committee Meeting for April would be a Post Tax Tea Party at a local Church,
The Public was informed of this but no attempt was made to inform the Body.
When inquiries were made on the Central Committee Face book site, we were informed that they had not made a determination as to the location of the April meeting, but when that had been decided, the Body would be informed.
We did receive, or some of us did, but many did not, information that the April meeting was to be held at the Kirkwood Continuing Educational Center, at the far southern end of the County.
Which was not a meeting, but a Rally so no questions from the floor could be raised.
Now a response could be made that the members of the Executive Board stood ready to answer any questions put to them before, during and after that Rally on these issues.
That is beside the point,
The Body of the Central Committee has a RIGHT to have it's Leadership inform them as a Body of the decisions and actions taken by the Executive Board in the Central Committee's Name.
When these and other questions and statements appeared on the Linn County GOP Face book Comments and Discussion website.
Input there came to a SCREECHING HALT. Comments from the membership were totally Shutdown. I am not even certain they use
it now at all, the May Meeting doesn't seem to be in the Events.
Now there WERE plenty of questions raised at the May Meeting.
The Executive Board when questioned about the change in venue and the increased costs of the New Meeting location, did inform the Body
AFTER TWO MONTHS OF SILENCE
That it was their intention to have meetings in a Kirkwood facility situated a few blocks from the previous meeting location, but that facility was not always available
and
By the way we are not spending that much more money,
Because we closed down the Permanent Linn County GOP Office.
It was further stated that among the reasons for the change was because some people would not attend meetings if it were held at the Long Branch, including some large financial donors.
One gentleman from the floor termed the former location the Long branch Saloon.
Point of information. We were at a Linn County GOP Central Committee Meeting not in Gun smoke and the City is called Cedar Rapids, Iowa, not Dodge City, Kansas and the year is now 2009, not 1873.
As to the donor who abhors the Long branch? I was always impressed with the good treatment this Committee received from the owners, mangers and workers of the Long branch.
My Daddy taught me better than to walk out on a friend because some Pharisee offered to toss 30 pieces of Silver in my palm.
When I asked the floor if there was anyone in attendance that would NOT have been so, if the meeting had been held at the Long branch.
There was dead silence, even from the gentleman who thought he was an actor in the Gun smoke TV serial.
I find the abhorrence of a meeting place on those grounds to be ludicrous and juvenile.
It invokes in me THIS image of their version of the Republican Party
Some people use the phrase "paper tiger" as an aspersion of disdain, They are not even "paper elephants."
The thought of someone squirming with unease because a room or two away or EVEN GASP on the other side of the Wall someone is being served LIQUOR and THAT might keep them away from a meeting or making a substantial donation is so puerile, that my immediate reaction is.
Come back when you grow up.
What are we going to do, I wonder if it should dawn on these tender sensitivities that the person
SITTING NEXT TO THEM
Might be drinker, might drink after the meeting might EVEN have had a drink before the meeting
and be breathing toxic alcohol fumes into the very air they are breathing?
Should we issue Arm Bands with a Yellow B for Boozer on them
so the pious are not contaminated?
Despite the fact that I have not touched a drop of Liquor in more than 20 years
I would proudly don one and take my Stand among the Unclean.
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at 4:34 AM CDT
Updated: Thursday, 21 May 2009 8:04 AM CDT
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