NCGOPe’s Barry says what most of us think about NCGOP status quo
Now, I think we know why “Foul-Mouthed Jeff” tucked tail and apologized so quickly. Here’s Union County GOP chairman Dan Barry offering up his two cents on Facebook:
What’s ol’ Dan talking about? Oh, THIS:
That is an excerpt from the weekly email blast produced by NCGOP communications director “Foul-Mouthed Jeff” Hauser. (He of verbally-abusing-Mark-Meadows-and-Walter-Jones fame.)
Barry made some noise some time back about running for chairman — if Robin Hayes stepped down. That’s not happening. So, Barry now appears to be eyeing the special election for the Ninth Congressional District.
Barry is one of the big fundraising impressarios of the NCGOP, and likely recognizes the PR problems the Woodhouse-Hayes-Nix team are causing out in the hinterlands.
A lot of what Barry brings up sounds a lot like what Lee County GOP chairman Jim Womack is touting as he makes his rounds on his campaign to unseat Hayes as state party chairman.
When you have BOTH wings — the full ideological spectrum — of the NCGOP expressing dismay at what they see within their own party, it’s safe to say there’s BIG TROUBLE in River City on Hillsborough Street. And it’s time to make a change.
What we need is to get the party structure back to its roots as a bottom up organization, and ditch the top down attitude that has prevailed more recently. A party that operates from the bottom up is a stronger party.
Party policy needs to be made by elected party policy making bodies – the convention, the state executive committee, and the state central committee, not one or two insiders as has been happening recently. We need an executive director who understands that the proper role of that office is to efficiently and effectively carry out policy made by the party’s elected bodies, not to make policy himself.
Having a central committee that is not under the thumb of the chairman means not letting the chairman dictate who the executive committee elects to the lower party offices. These used to be wide open elections, with the chairman not trying to steer people into them. We need to return to our roots on those elections.
If we need a smaller state executive committee, we do not need to eliminate grassroots positions. Reducing the number of ex-officio positions would be the way to go. Letting all GOP legislators serve as voting members creates way too large a block of ex-officio members and this would be the prime place to cut.
The GOP base is demanding change. Who can blame them? McCrory threw away the governor’s race. Mark Martin and Bob Edmunds gave away the Supreme Court. The GOP legislature lost their super majority bigtime. And, for the icing on the cake, the Republican UNC Board of Governors is surrendering to the Radical Democrat Left and monument-destroying anarchists. Just what kind of political nightmare are we living through? The party’s leadership has betrayed all of us. Throw them all out.
The loss of the Supreme Court, both the Edmunds and Jackson seats, is the work of idiots in the GOP legislative leadership who pushed through election methods that cost us those seats, non-partisan election for Edmunds and jungle election for Jackson. The party leadership being asleep at the switch and not pushing hard for normal partisan elections with primaries in both, is also at fault. And, yes the fact that Edmunds idiot consultant Shumaker wanted that losing non-partisan election is in the mix.
The Board of Governors disaster is also something that the bad GOP legislative leadership is responsible for.
The first step in righting the ship is to get competent leadership at NCGOP, something that has long been MIA.
I have seen everything posted here about how much we need change. BUT nothing posted about how we make that happen!
So who knows how??? I know!
First you need to go to your county precinct meeting. This gets you into your county convention. Now you can become a delegate to the NC State Convention. As a Delegate you can go on June 8, 2019 only if you wish to the Business Meeting of the State Convention in Concord, NC.
Guess what you can do there? You can elect new officers to replace Hayes with JIM WOMACK and elect a new Vice Chair with MIRIAM CHU!
It will be in a hotel in the area off of I-85 near Concord Mills. The Convention information is on the NCGOP Web site.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE BASE, WE CAN GET CANDIDATES ELECTED! As a bonus we get good leadership at the top of the party