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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican leader resigns, blasts Tennessee GOP..... :~)
In his resignation letter, Mark Winslow said the party's "soul rotted away some time ago."
"As it's currently constituted, the TNGOP is really nothing more than a small corrupt core group who view our party as their private club and personal piggy bank. Money is passed around, doled out to friends, handed to favored consultants and staffers who ignore bylaws or common sense," Winslow wrote in his announcement, posted to Twitter.
"Rules are arrogantly and routinely broken by officers and staff with no consequences or accountability."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/01/republican-committeeman-leaves-tennessee-sec/86595302/
malaise
(269,157 posts)He should have been expelled ages ago - there are no rules for ReTHUGs Remember Ensign.
They are imploding and that's good.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)sanctioned by RethuGs - remember now - IOKIYAR
forest444
(5,902 posts)Where all that stolen Medicare money, Rickie?
malaise
(269,157 posts)ReTHUGs are thugs.
forest444
(5,902 posts)How silly of me to ask.
And what was left over, is sitting in some Caribbean offshore account (probably Paul "vulture" Singer's Caymans-based NML).
riversedge
(70,299 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)IMNSHO they are the worst of the worst.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)Are for suckers.
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)So now he is speaking out? Seems me might have saved his soul some time back... Seems more an opportunist than brave.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The problem comes when the party apparatus puts their candidates into office, and they govern the state the same way they govern their party. But why should anyone expect anything different?
paleotn
(17,956 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)For someone on the State Executive Committee to come clean on this, their party has to be a real shitbath.
coco77
(1,327 posts)AllyCat
(16,222 posts)because he wasn't on the receiving end of the bribes.
it is always very suspect, what offends conservatives
SusanLarson
(284 posts)Our party is not one hair better at least on these counts...
"As it's currently constituted, the TNGOP is really nothing more than a small corrupt core group who view our party as their private club and personal piggy bank. Money is passed around, doled out to friends, handed to favored consultants and staffers who ignore bylaws or common sense," Winslow wrote in his announcement, posted to Twitter.
"Rules are arrogantly and routinely broken by officers and staff with no consequences or accountability."
Anyone who believes otherwise is being delusional.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Of course, it makes one wonder what they are doing while we're all so distracted...
Zorro
(15,749 posts)Would like to read it.
paleotn
(17,956 posts)she appears to be a "you're just as bad as us" troll.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)ALRIGHTY THEN
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)GaYellowDawg
(4,449 posts)I believe I recall Ralph Nader saying the same type of thing about W and Gore.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)I have been involved in "our party" at state and local level and you don't know what you are talking about.
Do tell us of your years involved in real world politics where you have seen and therefore actually *know* what you are talking about...
Julie
bucolic_frolic
(43,284 posts)sounds ripe for embezzlement investigation
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)randr
(12,414 posts)CanonRay
(14,113 posts)right up to it's nominee.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)parked in front of their TV getting drunk and bloviating relentless bullshit via the internet while complaining that "nothin' never gets done."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)The Republicans are in the position they were in during the Democratic presidential realigning period of 1932 to 1964, when they saw only Dwight Eisenhower win the presidency during the two cycles of the 1950s.
They will highly likely lose a third consecutive presidential election here in 2016.
A party in a realigning period, which is working against them, will lose enough consecutive cycles before they finally start to ask themselves, Do we care to still be alive?
Once the Republicans reach that point, they will be on their way to being able to get back. (And, with that, their platform will not be so revolting as to make them unviable let alone unelectable. If Rs fail even with that
good-bye to them for good.)
But, in the meantime, the Democrats are really setting the agenda for leadership at the presidential level. They have the advantages. They have the electorate. And they have the map (with top-level-populous states which historically are great at carrying for presidential winnersIllinois, California, New York, etc. have voted for winners beyond 80 percent of their existence while the 57 presidential elections of 1789 to 2012 averaged slightly under 70 percent of carried states).
Let's see a Democratic Party, going forward, be bolder and better!
lastlib
(23,286 posts)Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Repugs gotta cheat.........