March 22nd, 2009 • 12:25 amExciting News From HD-16B!!!
I got some great news Saturday afternoon from Alison Krueger. That good news came in the form of HD-16B’s delegates sweeping out the pro-Olson cronies from their leadership positions, thus ending the pro-Olson regime in HD-16B.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!
Simply put, today’s GOP had to move beyond Mark Olson because his ethical lapses were an anchor around the GOP’s neck. We can’t be the party of family values if we still support someone that was convicted of a domestic assault midemeanor. We can’t be the party of personal accountability if we look past criminal behavior just because a politician “votes right.”
Ms. Krueger sent me an email saying that Jim Newberger had been elected the new chair and Dean McDevit had been elected the new co-chair.
Congratulations to Mssrs. Newberger and McDevit. It’s now their responsibility to provide the leadership that will be needed to strengthen the HD-16B’s conservative base and to build the ‘farm team’ up, starting with the school boards and city councils and ultimately the state House and Senate.
From what I’ve been told by contacts within the district, there’s a strong base to build off of, evidenced by Mary Kiffmeyer’s strong victory last November and Ms. Krueger’s strong showing in the SD-16 special election. If not for Mark Olson’s campaign, which he knew he had no chance of winning, we’d be talking about Sen. Krueger.
Let’s join together in wishing the Newberger-McDevit leadership team great success.
Technorati: Leadership, Jim Newberger, Dean McDevit, Mary Kiffmeyer, School Boards, City Councils, Alison Krueger, OP, Mark Olson, Narcissist, Criminal, Cronyism
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Removing clearly wrongly placed people should be bipartisan. DFL people should applaud Mark Olson’s lessening voice, as should sensible GOP people not personal friends or allies of Olson. Olson was attacked and undermined for all the right reasons, just as Jim Abeler was for wrong ones. Abeler is my rep, I would like a DFL voice there, but in comparison to some Abeler has been diligent, responsive, and conciliatory.
Comment by eric z • 22Mar2009 @ 7:21 am
eric, There’s no such thing as acceptable corruption or acceptable bad behavior.
What Mark Olson was convicted of isn’t just reprehensible. It’s the type of thing that should be condemned by thoughtful people of all political persuasions.
Comment by Gary Gross • 22Mar2009 @ 10:06 am
The GOP has to drop the ‘family values’ mantra. It is pure hypocrisy.
I am active in the party, and the lying, gossiping, slander, that takes place is breathtaking. And now it looks like the new MNGOP chair will be a man on his third marriage. Family values my eye.
Comment by cam t • 22Mar2009 @ 12:41 pm
There are three cautions to be made here.
1. There are those who think the State Party should intervene in cases like this, and tell the local who they may or may not endorse, or who can or cannot run as a Republican.
2. There are those who think that their civic duty begins and ends with electing “the right people” to Party office. They are badly mistaken. It is even worse if they elect those who are most rabid about their ideology, and untempered by the reality that elections must be won to advance the cause.
3. I don’t have time for “ultimately.” I want total victory in the next election, and no later!
I am sympathetic to the notion that we only want straight-arrow conservatives representing us, but I think we don’t have that luxury until we gain a sizable majority. If we throw everybody overboard now, there will be no one left to paddle the boat.
Comment by J. Ewing • 23Mar2009 @ 6:01 am