I’ll admit it.
I haven’t exactly been the biggest cheerleader of Jeff Frederick for many months. His style and manner are about as abrasive and direct as can be. When he swept out the old staff at RPV, I knew it to be a shortsighted and bone-crushing move.
When the infrastructure painstakingly built over the previous 18 months shared the fate of staff, that was a pretty clear sign that things were going to implode quickly.
And it did.
Bob Lewis with the Associated Press breaks the list of charges issued by State Central Committee against Chairman Jeff Frederick:
The first claim in the complaint obtained by The Associated Press alleges that Frederick’s own company processed online donations to the Republican Party of Virginia and, for several weeks, retained 7 percent of the money while he assured members of the party executive committee that his firm was not a party vendor.
The second charge is related, alleging he did not fully comply with an executive committee directive last fall to disclose all of the state party’s pending and existing contracts with vendors.
In a statement by the party today, Frederick called those and other charges “false and without merit.” He declined to comment on the individual allegations.
Bearing Drift has the content of the letter. The allegations are damning to say the least. WOW. Continue reading
Bearing Drift has the first salvo of the robocalls against Bob McDonnell in an effort to “Save Jeff”:
A strong majority of delegates like you voted for a new chairman in 2008. You signed up, turned out, and rejected the false choices offered by the elite establishment.
Now the elites, led by first vice-chairman Mike Thomas, instigated by Bob McDonnell, want to undo the decision of grassroots Republicans.
They plan to use little-known rules in the Party Plan to decapitate party chairman Jeff Frederick.
The price of a gallon of gas? A loaf of bread? Perhaps it’s the price of a gallon of milk?
You’d be wrong. If you guessed “the price of a head of lettuce?” you’d be awful close.
The price of a head of Romaine Lettuce up the road in Louisa is $1.89. To get one of the starter variety at Lowes, a small Romaine Lettuce that is about six weeks old and ready to plant? $2.89.
Now a bag of plain old seeds is about $1.09. I have about twelve of them growing right now (small, but growing) inside in starter trays. In those starter trays isn’t just one, but perhaps a hundred small seeds that took about three days to germinate and will take another two weeks to get really going.
Tom Davis endorses Dave Foster for Virginia Attorney General.
This just blew a huge hole in the Brownlee candidacy, reeling from what insiders have billed as a moderately poor performance at the National Lawyers Asssociation Debate.
Whether this really helps Foster so late in the game is questionable… but there’s no question that Brownlee now limps into third place behind Foster.
(h/t to Too Conservative
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Congressman Tom Perriello’s father passed away earlier this morning
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Condolences are with the Perriello family. Dr. Perriello was a longtime pediatrician in Central Virginia and a pillar of the community in the truest sense.
His presence will be missed.
Sadly yes, this really happened.
An anti-tax group wanted to pitch in real tea like the Bostonian revolutionaries opposed to England’s tea taxes.
Tea, although natural and quite tasty, is considered a pollutant that can’t go into a body of water without a permit, said Mike Wade, a senior environmental specialist at the DNR’s Manchester field office.
“Discoloration is considered a violation,” Wade said.
Although not as steeped in history, the Cedar Rapids Tea Party will dump dechlorinated tap water or riverwater from buckets labeled “tea,” said Tim Pugh, the group’s founder.
“We don’t want to hurt the river,” said Pugh, 32, of Cedar Rapids.
Now, could anyone else see the Sons of Liberty chasing amy dvdrip
bowing to a British customs agent on this premise?
No offense to my kindred spirits in Iowa — I’m quite certain they had the very best of intentions. But seriously?
The Virginia blogosphere’s latest addition to the public square: Chris Judd, former RPV IT Director and master-of-all-he-surveys.
…well, not sure if that last part is an official title. But add this one to your RSS feed and expect good things.
I really like this video for some reason. Not that it brings me back to my Atari-playing youth, but perhaps for the Gulf War/Baghdad visual effects more than anything else:
I have very little to add to Patrick Ruffini’s excellent take on CPAC this week :
In these serious times, conservatives need to get serious and ditch the gimmicks and the self-referential credentializing and talk to the entire country. If the average apolitical American walked into CPAC or any movement conservative gathering would they feel like they learned something new or that we presented a vision compelling to them in their daily lives? Or would it all be talk of a President from 25 years ago and Adam Smith lapel pins? This is why I love Newt’s emphasis on finding 80/20 issues and defining them in completely non-ideological terms. We need to advance our ideas without ever once saying the word “conservative” or “Republican” in a speech. We need to define these ideas not as conservative, but as American. We need to be confident, like the left is, that we are the natural governing party because our ideas are in alignment with basic American principles, and quit treating middle class, working class, or rural Americans like an interest group to be mollified by symbolic, substance-free BS.
Read it all — you’ll thank yourself for a wise decision five minutes from now.
