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the opportunity to attend the Republican 6<sup>th</sup> district Gala held at
the Stonewall Jackson in Staunton Virginia this weekend to recharge the
“Conservative Republican” batteries. Impressive attendance with over 210
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a few usual local party people and learned that several were not attending due
to the ongoing petty BS power plays by those who once “Ran” the local party. M<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">u</span>st
say that I DO NOT MISS the political bickering and powerplays by these people
and in fact it’s probably good that these people did not attend this
celebration of conservative ideas and practices for they would have only been
undermining the efforts of the 6<sup>th</sup> GOP at every opportunity. So much
time and effort spent/wasted on promoting themselves and their efforts to
control the party and oppose<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> </span>the people working to return this unit to an effective
and growing unit. Gone are the days were a select few influenced and ruled the
local committees to obtain and control the local members to march in their
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great event to visit and talk with old local GOP “activists” friends who
continue to be active in the party and have become active in building a new
inclusive party that returns and promotes more control to the local units as it
should be. The 6<sup>th</sup> district now has a new Chairman in Scott Sayre
that strives to build the units and help them to both coordinate their
individual units as well as work in unison with other units to represent the 6<sup>th</sup>
district and its members. I have spoken with Scott several times and like the way he thinks regarding on how to build/re-build a strong conservative party in Virginia at the 6th district level. His ideas on how to build the local party database to coordinate the single voter regarding both local, State, and National issues is very impressive and needs to be installed all across Virginia. Sayre has brought much to the 6th district and it was evident at the 6th district gala...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I saw that in many of the old friends at this event and the direction they are steering the local party. I was told there were over 210 attendees to this event and I saw many encouraging comments and actions to prove this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the last 15 years that I have lived in Virginia I have made the pilgrimage down to Buena Vista Virginia for the Labor Day parade which has always been the kick-off for both the Virginia and national campaign season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Buena Vista in the past was known for the "Sign Wars" between the major parties and there have been hundreds if not thousands of campaign signs along the parade route. If I get a chance I will post some photos from years past for you to compare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> With the many signs in the past the Democrats also showed up with large groups of college aged "Kids" who "Volunteered" to help put the signs up and cheer whenever the democrat candidate said a approved "Talking point" during the speeches. Many times I watched as these "volunteers" looked towards their coordinators to signal when to cheer and shake their campaign signs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This years parade and festivities were very much different with the lack of Democrat support & exposure. Instead of hundreds\thousands of campaign signs and massive democrat "Supporters" today we saw the small contingent shown in the first photo. Approximately 10-12 "Senior-crats" with two small "Hillary" placard signs and not a college-crat to be found. There were signs for Degner but as his elections have shown in the past no big deal at all and nothing to see here...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By far the most interesting thing was to see the lack of support for the Hillary\Kaine ticket especially with Kaine being a ex-governor of Virginia. With that NO elected Democrats showing up to support their ticket or platform.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lack of college "volunteers" shows that without "Compensation" or "Stuff" results in no turnout from this voter bloc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did have a interesting conversation with one of the GOP workers regarding why they could not make a sensible selection of campaign signs when it came to set-up and got a rookie response. Boy it's hard to find proper sign techniques and practice when you need it... </span>RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-55528923151863295792016-08-05T19:09:00.000-04:002016-08-05T21:12:45.505-04:00Remember before when you said you would vote for a Garden Gnome before you voted for Hillary...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back before and even in the early GOP primaries many of you said you would vote objects and even a garden gnome before you voted for Hillary...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we have a legal and proper presidential candidate in Donald Trump and many, including elected Republicans, who are saying they will rather support\vote Hillary instead of Trump.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fine. Stand on your principles and devotion to the established Republican party that has for far too long forgotten the hard working people that they claimed to fight for while putting up weak candidates. Even those who were elected, including majorities in House & Senate, failed to fight\defeat Obama's Liberal & Progressive actions thus losing the support of long time Republican voters...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many of us are just done with a "established" national party that claimed they were supporting smaller government but watched a debt that is now close to $20,000,000,000,000 even when this party "controlled the purse strings" in the House. We watched the Speaker of the House in Boehner who would cry in a heartbeat but failed to confront Obama and the Democrats. And there are so many things over the past 8 years and even decades that people from both sides and the "middle" are fed up thus the popularity of Trump & Bernie.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So go ahead and vote for Hillary with everything you know about her and what she has done over the decades. <b>Ignore</b> the lies. <b>Ignore</b> the theft and manipulation of the media and public. <b>Ignore</b> her actions, and lack of action in Benghazi as the Secretary of State. <b>Ignore</b> the Laws that she has broken and damage done to so many people. <b>Ignore</b> the many promises that she continues to make that will drive this country even further into the hole. <b>Ignore</b> her lack of integrity and honesty and history of intimidation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So instead of supporting Trump who might not be the "Ideal" presidential candidate, go ahead and elect Hillary and live with that. Instead of working with a President Trump to correct what Obama & Democrats have done over the past decade and get us back towards a conservative and ethical government, go with Hillary...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How much support do you think you will get from the true Conservative and Independent (middle) voters next time after 4/8 years of Hillary?</span></div>
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RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-88482791180770252222016-06-06T10:30:00.002-04:002016-06-06T10:30:10.828-04:00D-day...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Leb7ynduCU" width="420"></iframe>RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-37183333603857346942016-05-27T08:44:00.000-04:002016-05-27T08:44:12.976-04:006th District Chairman Scott Sayre...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Well said by the new Chairman of the 6th district and exactly what the VA-GOP needs !!!</span></div>
RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-31374915018243040502016-05-24T22:10:00.002-04:002016-05-24T22:10:25.316-04:00Where is the coverage in the 6th?...As I search for coverage of the 6th district convention that recently happened I find nothing but crickets chirping from the old standby Valley bloggers such as LynnRmitchell & Bearing Drift when you would think they would report what was going on in the 6th? Turns out every day when I check I find "Nada" on these sites and can only imagine they are NOT HAPPY with the results from the convention...<br />
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What is up with that for both of these sites have been very vocal on other conventions in Virginia so I can only take that they are NOT happy with the outcome of the 6th convention...<br />
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Sad, for the results show that the population are tired of the politics of the 6th and the same old leadership coming out of the 6th. As with national politics we are looking for STRONG conservative leaders who will stand for the constitution and what the people believe in...<br />
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RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-35669230535475183382016-04-27T12:27:00.002-04:002016-04-27T12:27:19.468-04:00Identify the Problem(s)!!!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6taDcZzvAEg" width="560"></iframe>RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-62453194426021321622016-04-05T23:36:00.003-04:002016-04-05T23:36:42.190-04:00Grassroots Republicans grow in number and influence...<h1 class="title" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="paragraph 0">Major events are occurring in the Republican Party of Virginia. This article will discuss some of those events and explain their significance.<br />
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<span class="paragraph 1">Let’s begin with a brief description of the organization of the RPV. The base of the Party encompasses 133 local committees, such as the Waynesboro Republican Committee.<br />
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The next level encompasses 11 Congressional District Committees, which overlay the geographic areas of Virginia’s 11 Congressional Representatives. The 6th Congressional District covers the Shenandoah Valley and is represented in Congress by Bob Goodlatte. The members of the 6th District Committee are the Chairpersons of the local committees within the District.<br />
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The top level of the RPV is the State Central Committee which has 84 members who are elected at Congressional District Conventions in the Spring of even-numbered years.<br />
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As you may know, there are two main groups within the Republican Party, the Establishment and the grassroots. The Establishment is led by elected officials and funded by large corporations. The grassroots are local people who seek to elect officials who will accurately represent them. They receive no outside financial support and are staffed by volunteers, not employees.<br />
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Now, let’s look at the long-term trends and recent events.</div>
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Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the center of gravity of the Republican Party has been shifting from Establishment to grassroots. On a sustained incline, the influence of the grassroots has been increasing.</div>
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The tug-of-war between the Establishment and the grassroots continues today. Increasingly, the Establishment cannot depend on Republican voters to sustain them. That is why 33 State Republican Parties, such as Virginia’s RPV, use Open Primaries, which allow non-Republicans to choose Republican candidates for office.</div>
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But month after month, and year after year, the Republican Establishment is eroding like a sand castle. And month after month and year after year, the grassroots are becoming more numerous and more influential.</div>
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There is no better place to see that shift than right here in the 6th Congressional District.</div>
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The 6th District Committee has 32 members. Years ago, the majority of those members were supporters of the Establishment. Today, the majority of the members are grassroots people, or as they preferred to be called, Constitutional Conservatives.<br />
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A key member of the 6th District Committee has always been the Chairman. The current Chairman declined to run for re-election. To fill the vacancy, the Establishment enlisted Ralph Smith, a retired State Senator from Roanoke. On Tuesday, March 22, Smith announced that he was withdrawing from the race to be the Chairman of the 6th District Committee. With two months of campaign time left before the election, Smith quit.</div>
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In a published statement, Smith wrote, in part, “The outcomes of recent local unit chairmanship races and the degree of turnover within those units, make it abundantly clear that the gap within the Republican Party that I saw earlier has continued to expand rather than shrink.”<br />
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The most significant insight from Ralph Smith’s campaign is his inability to identify the cause of the gap within the Republican Party. Most people, even casual political observers, understand that the gap exists because the Establishment does not represent grassroots voters.<br />
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Here are two examples of the lack of representation. The Establishment funds Obamacare, and the grassroots want it repealed. The Establishment funds illegal immigration and the grassroots want it stopped.</div>
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For some inexplicable reason, the Establishment just does not get it. And because they do not get it, the grassroots of the Republican Party will continue to increase in numbers and influence.<br />
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Ken Adams is the Chairman of the Waynesboro Virginia Republican Committee.<br />
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</article>RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-14540206792957154942016-03-25T22:58:00.001-04:002016-03-25T22:58:42.143-04:00Maybe if Obama was a real Leader...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bob Stuart over at the NewsVirginian reported once again on this ritual mass meeting as he has done for years and wrote that Delegate Ben Cline came out in support of Curt Lilly who was the eventual winner of the chairman position. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.3333339691162px;"><i>Cline said it is important to capture as many of the 13,000 county voters who participated in this month's presidential primary as possible in November."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.3333339691162px;">I also read elsewhere about the LARGE turnout at the <a href="http://thebullelephant.com/change-comes-to-the-halifax-gop/">Halifax mass meeting</a> where over 300+ eligible voters attended and changed the leadership there also. The losing side noticed and appears to have issues with numerous busloads of church goers showing up and voting. Seems like the kind of people we want to show to help fix this mess to me...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.3333339691162px;">The "Live Blogger" Lynn R Mitchell was quick to point out anybody who was, or perceived to be, a Tea Party member as soon as they were mentioned and in a less than favoring manner. In fact this blogger even "Live blogged" that the husband of the ACRC Chairwoman who was replaced by Lily is the director of the Shenandoah Valley Tea Party Patriots. Boy, just Tea Party people showing up everywhere you look...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is talk that the establishment would install the candidate of their choice and go against the majority of the voters who voted in the presidential primaries. This week John Boehner came out of "retirement" and stated that Paul Ryan would make a good candidate...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the past few months there has been many examples of "Foolish" Dirty-Politics on both a national level and here locally in the 6th district of Virginia. Last week Mitt Romney came out with his Rant & Rave against Donald Trump filled with numerous contradictions from four years ago, that all Romney did was solidify Trumps supporters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Six+ years ago I stood on corner in Washington D.C. with two good friends and watched THOUSANDS of people walk by for three hours at the first Tea Party march. Even at that time there was a growing segment of Americans who saw their country headed in the wrong direction and not just by one political party. Sure we prefer and support the "Right" party, but we have also seen this "establishment" group continue to take the people for granted since they were still "better of the two evils" when it came to voting time. This ignorance of what has happened to the American people over the last seven years has lead to Donald Trump running so strong in the presidential primary and astounding the "establishment" at every corner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We continue to see "Foolish" Dirty-Politics here at the local level and the type that divides the party instead of uniting a strong cohesive entity. The national party failed to incorporate and use the strong conservative members of the Tea-Party and once their elected members made it to Congress they plotted to exclude these members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The same has been going on here in the 6th district for quite some time and far too long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">I have been informed that Barbara O'Shields sent members of the Rockbridge Republican community a one-sided misrepresentation of a meeting of the Sixth District committee intended to harm Scott Sayre.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="https://lynnrmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/wendell-walker-out-ralph-smith-in-as-candidate-for-6th-district-chair/">WENDELL WALKER OUT, RALPH SMITH IN AS CANDIDATE FOR 6TH DISTRICT CHAIR</a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Interesting the support and influence of the Congressman at this level.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <br clear="none" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Barbara should have sent my blog correcting the misrepresentations, which I am including <a href="http://rightsideva.blogspot.com/2016/02/two-sides-to-every-coin-just-dont-let.html">here</a> " </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But even more appalling was the way that people were required to cast their ballot. All of us wishing to vote had to be credentialed at which time we were given a blank "Neon Green" 3x5 index card and white\blue name tag. When it came time to cast our ballot we were instructed to the front of the room where we exchanged the neon green index card for a printed ballot with each candidate for committee chairperson name on it. There were no tables or secure\private area to complete your ballot but instead two people standing there with clipboards held flat to write on. While the voter marked their selection for their candidate there was the person holding the clipboard as well as other people standing there watching your actual vote selection. This was noted and discussed by many people who voted. (The above photo shows the actual process taking place. Note the female with white sweater marking her ballot on a clipboard held by another person).</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Had the
opportunity to sit down with a friend from the past and share some “Catch-up”
time since dropping out of the local Shenandoah Valley political world to focus
on work. During this get together that featured a fine “Romeo-Y-Julieta 1875” a
sip or two of a fine single malt, conversation came around to political turmoil
in our nation’s capital with the upcoming 2016 election. Little did I know that this was about to be
overshadowed by the antics going on now here in the Shenandoah Valley. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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got caught up on what happened recently at the sixth district meeting at the
Homestead it came back to me how the VA-GOP has perfected the art of destroying
the perfect atmosphere of the Homestead with political antics. Turns out a
familiar name surfaced once again and after I read her <a href="https://lynnrmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/wendell-walker-out-ralph-smith-in-as-candidate-for-6th-district-chair/">vivid “description” of the meeting at the Homestead</a> I got
sucked back into local 6<sup>th</sup> politics and her somewhat “fantasy world”
of the blogworld. Now RightsideVA is not one of the big ones out there with
impressive logos, graphics, or even a neat decal to put on my laptop, but it
does give me the opportunity to ask\investigate a question or two. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reading Lynn Mitchell’s post which failed to cite sources, I made a call, text,
and visit to check into the facts regarding the most recent Sixth District
Republican committee meeting held at The Homestead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;">What a
nice place to tarnish with these antics and falsehoods…</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turns out, only <u>three</u> committee
members opposed what the other 22 committee members wanted to get done at
the meeting. Those three Committee members; Georgia Long, (the wife
of Ed Long, who has worked for Congressman Goodlatte and who was conveniently the
Parliamentarianfor the meeting) Roger
Jerrell, (former employee of the Congressman) and Cole Trower, (current
employee of said Congressman) were
accompanied by three proxies: the Chairman's wife, Roger Jarrell's
Secretary, and a college student from JMU.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, Lynn Mitchell says
the meeting was hijacked. Neat catchword and I am sure it works well with
some in the political blogworld, but how so in this case? When 22 members allow
three members and the Chairman's wife (as a proxy) to shout, attempt
parliamentary procedure tricks, and call into question the integrity of the
committee's Vice Chairmen and others for 2 1/2 hours, one can hardly describe
this meeting as being hijacked. This sounds like a familiar writer with an
opinion influenced and bias with prejudiced disposition towards the majority of
the members of the Sixth District committee. And that describes the
SWACGIRL from the past.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From what I hear by the
end of the meeting, the 22 members allowed almost every
substantive amendment to the business they were trying to conduct, which
was the adoption of a draft Call for the District Convention submitted by
the Vice Chairman two days in advance of the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reveals that most of the amendments were made by the Roanoke County Chairman
(now Virginia State Senator) David Suetterlein who never attempted to
amend the location of the meeting. What was the reason to have a district
convention all the way in the extreme south of the district when a more
convenient location, say the central region, would have been better for all of
the district members? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I hear it by the two
and a half hour mark the shouting, innuendos, provocation and questioning of
their integrity led a member who opposed the three vocal committee members to
Call the Question. Who will ever know if David Suetterlein did not oppose the
location of the meeting because the eventual nominee would be his boss, State
Senator Ralph Smith, also from Roanoke? Well that’s just darn convenient.
Is this what Ralph Smith meant when he said at the Botetourt County
Ham dinner three months ago that he was not retiring from politics?
This would not be the first time the Senator and his
Legislative Aide, now Senator, have worked together to create a
favorable outcome (<a href="http://thebullelephant.com/virginias-new-senator-stooge/">see Virginia's New Senator Stooge by John Fredericks, TheBull Elephant</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I called Vance
Wilkins to get the facts on the scoop Lynn Mitchell presented. Turns out he had
not talked Sixth District Republican Party politics since June 2015 to anyone
on the committee or present at the meeting that day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I called Scott Sayre
to find out more regarding Lynn Mitchell's "sources" uncovering a
secret meeting held on November 21st in Rockbridge County. Turns out Sayre was
at the Virginia Tech football game that day. He admits caucusing with several
members of the committee, but they share a common goal of bringing efficiency
and conservative principles to the table. Something that we just have to get
back into Virginia Conservative politics. <a href="http://rightsideva.blogspot.com/2016/02/senator-emmett-hanger-shoots-down.html">I now just read</a> that Republican(?)
Senator Emmett Hanger was one of the two “R” votes that sunk the Charter School
bill in Virginia. Surprised?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also asked him about
the video he made the day before the District meeting. He commented that he
planned to announce he was running for district chairman at that particular
meeting because it was at the same meeting, two years ago, where Wendell Walker
voted against his motion to research and recommend a database for the entire
Sixth District. Had the draft Call not been adopted nor the date set he simply
would have run a different video. As to having a website up and running
before the end of the meeting he said that was just his way of being prepared.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and confirms what I learned a long time ago in 6<sup>th</sup> and “Valley
Politics”. You have to make some calls, send a text or two, and fill the email
boxes to find out the “other side of the story” and not rely on a single feed
coming from some blogs. I saw in the past that when there is only one info feed
to the troops that is all they have to go on without any other voice present.
That is something Richmond never understood about what was really going on in
SWACLand for they were only getting one feed and that was from a committee chairman not interested in growing the local GOP party for the good of the party. Smaller committees are much easier to control but exclude the people we need to seek to grow the party...</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-24763290250540717652016-02-15T20:42:00.002-05:002016-02-24T22:12:56.580-05:00Senator Emmett Hanger shoots down Charter schools...<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once again Senator Hanger has shown his true "Heading" no matter what he sells the Conservative voters of the Shenandoah Valley during his campaigns. Here he was one of the two "Republican(?)" votes that shot down the Charter School bill in the Senate...</span><br />
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<i>The denial of the measure was a blow to conservatives, who got the Republican-led House and Senate to pass an identical resolution last year. But this time, two Senate Republicans voted against it. Neither one spoke against it during the floor. However, Democrats who led the charge against the bill said it would undermine the authority of local school boards.</i></div>
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<i>When Obenshain finally called for a vote Monday, it failed 21 to 19, with Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr. (R-Augusta) and Sen. Ben Chafin (R-Russell) opposed.</i></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Back during the last debacle in Richmond I got very disappointing comments and reactions from my local State Senators when they said "We don't have enough votes to do anything"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several news sites and broadcasts have focused on how Obama cried during his announcement of new gun restrictions yesterday. He started "Crying" when he thinks about the small children killed during the Sandy Hook shooting. Maybe he should focus on the murder capital his hometown Chicago has become and the small children killed there for the past 7 years. The Mainstream media continues to give him a pass and fail to ask the obvious questions...</span>RightsideVAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933540804900931601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15898206.post-36756695126392481632016-01-04T18:35:00.000-05:002016-01-04T18:35:41.259-05:00By the time you hear about it...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google search "Market Crash" and numerous articles already predicting a major "Correction" and likely "Crash" sometime during 2016. There were several articles saying that there will not be a "Crash" this year and why but even they had to admit that our markets and economy has been propped up by no interest Federal Gov for years. Look long enough and you will even find the guys who will even admit that the big shots on Wall Street and other top financials guys will get theirs before the next crash. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I met Stephen Moore at a Conservative convention near Washington DC a few years back and heard him speak about what would happen if Senator Obama was to be elected and he pretty much was right on. Bought his book "The end of prosperity" and if we knew then what we know now...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He has a good piece here at Investors Business Daily about the move "The Big Short" which is out now and makes several good points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The new hit movie "The Big Short," based on Michael Lewis' bestselling book, is an entertaining and suspenseful reenactment of all the breakdowns in the banking and housing industries that caused the financial world to go collectively mad and the many unsavory characters.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Very much true we need to learn from our mistakes and unfortunately we do not have a leader in the White house and in fact one who is dividing more than anything.</span></div>
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