The blogs are full with posts about today’s ouster of State Central Committee Chairman Jeff Frederick by the needed(?) votes required of the SCC executive committee members by party plan…
This issue has been a hot topic of the blogs, local, state, and national media for sometime and it is also interesting how this issue has been avoided by several bloggers and\or representatives of the Virginia Republican party…
There are numerous other blogs out there that have already and continue to report on the actual removal vote and the ongoing reports coming out of this SCC executive meeting. I find no reason to repeat the same info that appears in many of these other blogs for they are readily available to all of us for our own reading and dissection. Instead I believe it will be more beneficial to write about the local reaction to this coordinated ouster of our party chairman and those from Augusta County involved in and against this process…
Spank That Donkey has an interesting take on this issue and has been blogging about it for sometime leading up to today’s ouster. Spanky brings up the “Rumor” that our Augusta County 6th District State Central Representative, Lynn Mitchell, was in danger of losing her precious State Central Committee position if she did not support the removal of Frederick with her SCC vote. Several reports have been circulated for sometime that the 6th District committee had recently voted by a 18-3 vote count to censor Mitchell for her divisive actions within the local party and other serious infractions within the 6th district. It was also reported within the local GOP family that the 6th district sent a letter to State Central Committee requesting the removal of Mitchell from SCC. Now it appears that Mitchell possessed a very sought after vote in the ouster plan to remove Frederick from office and a apparent “Deal” may have been made to avoid her removal from SCC. Jeff Frederick was removed from the Chairman’s position by “One” vote…
As Spank That Donkey and other bloggers have pointed out, this is very surprising for Ms. Mitchell, Aka SwacGirl, had been a strong supporter of Jeff Frederick and his ability to bring the “Grass~Roots” to the party table and include them in this process. In fact if you check SWACGIRL you will find that she had over 18 blog posts about\supporting Frederick. Go quickly for we may not know how long they will be there…
The sad part about this whole issue is that many within the true grass~roots community had been asking for more info on this issue for sometime now. I personally made repeated requests (5) of Ms Mitchell to come before the Augusta County Republican Committee, which she is a executive committee member, to present information and facts to the ACRC members regarding Frederick. Ms. Mitchell refused to come before the committee and failed to reply to other requests to do the same by other members and surrounding area committee Chairman. Did the Grass~Roots community just get “Rolled-Over”?…
I have also been told that just before the SCC executive committee went into their closed door session (by their choosing) to vote on the removal of Frederick, a person not eligible to attend the closed door session, stood and said to the SCC executive members “So you want to vote to remove the Chairman but don’t want to do it for all to see”?
Are the “Grass~Roots” to rollover and just become “Mushrooms”?…
You know the description for Mushrooms don’t you?…
