Party Boys
This is a long local story but I suspect you have the same Republican crapola going on in your county.
Our local Republican Party is such a mess that it’s not even speaking to itself. One judicial candidate isn’t speaking to sitting judge because she thinks he supported her opponent in the primary and nobody can carry grudge like a Republican can.
Rick Miller: Thug
The former party chair, Rick “Thug” Miller, stepped down as chair while he runs for state representative but refuses to relinquish anything other than the title. He installed a woman he thought would be a puppet and when she wouldn’t, he and the Belles of Heaven began a vicious gossip attack about her. She resigned but carefully documented it for all to see.
Bruce Fleming, the felony chronic fraudulent voter, took $10,000 from the party and is refusing to give it back, claiming he’s going to win, walk on water, and drive Santa’s sleigh this Christmas.
Nehls: NOT wearing a Nazi uniform
And then there’s Troy Nehls, who was Fleming’s mentor. Nehls is running for sheriff to keep the tradition of short white boys who are damned and determined to keep the sheriff’s department as political as possible. His degree is from Jerry Falwells’s Liberty University.
So this trio of fellas, who are so white and so entitled, took over the local GOP. They gave large campaign contributions to Fleming and Miller and not to any other candidates. They are oh so entitled.
But, here’s where the story gets fun.
After the Fleming story broke, they all decided that what they needed to do was send a six page full color mailer touting themselves to everyone in the county who had not voted in the Democratic primary. That’s a whole mess of people.
So, next we hear that they had to get the State Republican Party to pay for the mailer. We wondered why the state party had to pay for it when the local Republicans had a cool $81,418.46 in the bank.
And that’s when we heard what they had done with the money. They rented a whole damn baseball stadium for their victory party.
Since it is highly unlikely that Mitt Romney is going to give them something to celebrate, this appears to be a very expensive Holy Coronation of a sheriff and state representative. Hell, a royal wedding would be cheaper!
I have no idea what it costs to rent a whole damn baseball stadium, but I’m gonna call and ask what it costs to do a fly over with a little airplane waving an Obama banner. Wouldn’t that be cool? And what if local Republicans are so damn disgusted with the Three Amigos selfish takeover of the local GOP that they just don’t vote in those three races?
And these guys want us to trust them with taxpayer money?
The bottom line: the Oh So Entitled Boys are getting a bailout because they didn’t spend their money wisely. I do believe that includes them in Romney’s 47%.
Yes, I do.
WOW. Just WOW. I read the documentation by the non puppet ex chair. That poor woman! What a bully that Rick Miller is. He and his gang should be run out of Dodge. The silver lining? The FBGOP is a mess.
1Dig a little and see who profits from the baseball stadium deal. That should yield something interesting to chew on!
2What kind of BA does Liberty University offer? BA in Bigotry or BA in Hypocrisy?
3I had a push poll call for Mark Shelton (running against Wendy Davis (D) for TX state Senate) this AM. Tipped off when asked to choose whether a given phrase better described Davis or Shelton and the first phrase was “too liberal.” Not “liberal”, “too liberal”. It degenerated from there to a bunch of negative talking points and I hung up.
4Sam, I think they offer a double major if you do an extra year.
5I guess it never occurred to them that Nov. 6 might be a cold, wet, autumn evening to be at the ball park. Do they get their money back if a blue norther blows in that afternoon and brings a steady rain? I hope someone is there to take pictures of the empty seats.
6We ought to be paying attention right here in Texas to a powerful and well-funded anti-government think tank in Austin that is gearing up to attack public employees’ defined pension benefits. According to the Texas State Employees’ Union, a group of Houston business leaders ” is starting a statewide campaign to overhaul retirement for future teachers, fire fighters,police officers,judges and other state and local government workers.” Lawyer Bill King, who is forming Texans for Public Pension Reform, is part of an “uber-chamber of commerce with business members representing $1.5 trillion in assets”. They are aiming to begin their lobbying with this upcoming 2013 Texas Legislature. Just thought anyone who is a public employee in Texas ought to be aware of this.
7I hope that the Entitled Boys enjoy 38 degrees and rain on Nov. 6 and that the echo in that empty big ol’ stadium can be heard by those of us with the good sense to serve hot toddies and popcorn inside.
8Sam in Kyle, I believe that BA at Liberty U. stands for bad azz.
9You’re very right, Ellen Childress. Anyone read up on Texas teachers losing their pensions? and I love the idea of a flyover with a pro-Democrat banner. Hooboy.
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