Suprise, Suprise, Suprise! As Gomer Pyle used to say. Executive Committee member Charles Crowe (king of morning radio naysayers and number one Joey hater) got his cronies on the Republican Executive Committee to vote for a censure of Raymond Mackay for voting his conscience in a non-county Presidential primary. If you were at the Council meeting and saw the band of negative characters that were there hooping it up for Bob, you'd be scared silly. Bob is their boy, and they know they'll be running this county if they can beat Raymond MacKay next week. But what makes the Republican Executive Committee a joke is their righteous indignation at Raymond MacKay for voting for John Edwards in the national Presidential primary. I know that members of the Republican Executive Committee who voted to censure Raymond for voting in the Democratic Presidential Primary were personally involved in 2004 and 2006 in instigating and delivering successful petition candidates against the duly elected REPUBLICAN nominees of County Council District #6 (2004) and County Council District #3 (2006). Don't recall any censures over that. Folks this is about rotten party politics, not party loyalty. District #1 should vote for the man Raymond MacKay next Tuesday and lets clean up our County Council and our local Republican leadership. "Its time for a change".
john-cleese, could you elaborate a little more? Also, do you have a list of the Executive Committee names who voted for the censure and the attendees who were present at the meeting on Monday night?
Members of the ACRP Executive Committee
Jon Holmes (if I understand correctly, this is Mr. Chick-Fil-A, for which I will no longer patronize here in Anderson).
Ed Allgood (if I understand correctly, this is the same Allgood of Allgood Tire, for which I will no longer patronize either).
Anyone have the other names of the members of the ACRP Executive Committee that voted for this. In addition, if they run a business, please list it as I know there are a number of folks ready to boycott.
- SSHM
Susan Aiken and Charles Crowe are the only other current Republican Executive Committee member I know. However, the suspicious vote to censure was unanimous.
John I am intrigued by your take on the Republican Party here in Anderson. I have been dismayed for some time by the direction our party has taken. The Anderson County Republican Party has become a cult of personality lead by Queen Bees--Cindy Wilson and Susan Aiken. Almost all of the members (with one or two exceptions--notably Mary McAbee) are followers of the cult of Cindy and are regular callers on the Rick Driver show. In addition to Charles Crowe, Rodney Sanders, Cathey Driver, Bennie Sue West, Celeste Fuller, Peggy Tayler, Dan Harvell, Skip Gilmer, Rick Freemantle, etc are regulars at the meetings. I don't know who is actually a member of the executive committee. It is very difficult to tell since the party follows no regular set of rules. In fact the quorum consists of whoever shows up. Technically Rodney and Charles could get together and have a meeting and do what ever business they wanted to do. The officers are listed on the Anderson GOP website but not the precinct executive committeemen. It is my understanding that less than half the precincts in Anderson are organized. The Anderson County Republican Party has been hi-jacked by loud, obnoxious, ignorant, ungracious, intolerant ambassadors for Cindy. The party leadership has allowed it to happen in the name of unity, or even worse because they actually believe what the Cindy Cult spews out. Either way there's no place for real Republicans in Anderson County.
This was a voice vote. There were not nay votes that were heard. I don't think you can call a voice vote a unanimous vote. Some people might not have voted and some people there don't get to vote. Of the officers, only the state executive committeeman gets a vote. Only precinct committeemen have a vote. I too would like to see a list of who the executive committee members are. It should be public record. Maybe it's like Dan Harvell's bogus taxpayer group--there is no list of members. Isn't it ironic that this group that screams and shouts for open and honest government hides who its members are?
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