TO: Sergio Rodriguera Jr., et al.
RE: The Biggest Problem….
…was that the Republican Party organizational structure was ‘manned’, and I use the term loosely, by a bunch of dinosaurs and dinosaur wannabes. A group of cretins who did—as far as I could tell—absolutely nothing to use the technology available to present their ideals and goals to the rest of the nation.
Stephen Green, who lives a few score miles north of me even commented on PJM that he hardly saw ANY Republican door-knockers or any such presence during the run-up to the election. However, he stated there were certainly plenty of Democrats out there pestering people.
In my own county, in 2007, we took our dead-on-arrival web-site and turned it into an interactive, multi-tiered system to support the 2008 campaign. BUT, in my honest opinion, because the county party chair was LITERALLY in bed with the local newspaper, i.e., he’s married to the daughter of the publisher, NOTHING was EVERY allowed to be posted on the site. I suspect because the newspaper wanted to control its monopoly on the flow of information. Furthermore, it wouldn’t be good for filial felicity if the chair’s web-site contradicted what was published in the paper.
So, in 2008—just in time to support the disaster of the election—the web-site reverted back to a do-nothing thing that provided NOTHING to support the campaign.
RE: Steele
I look forward to what Steele is going to be doing. I REALLY like the business that he fired everyone at the national level upon assuming authority. I think that should be done in every state and county where nothing was accomplished to prevent the disaster of last November. Because as I witnessed it, at MY state level, the chair and his cronies did nothing useful to avert it.
You already have my opinion of the situation in my county. And I’m confident the problem was similar in most other counties as well.
RE: The Current Situation
Here, the chair, who is the same person who brought us November 2009 at the county level, has been talking a lot about coming up to the 21st Century in terms of communication. However, the problem, as I stated above, persists. He is STILL too closely tied to the local newspaper. So, I have my doubts as to the veracity of his claims. And I’ve advised some of the people on the team that is supposed to bring forth our new web-presence to keep an eye out for obstructions.
We’ll see what happens here. I hope it’s for the best, but I have my doubts…..
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Meet the new boss. He IS the old boss.]
