The Bull Elephant wrote earlier about the 2nd District Parliamentary Ping Pong match to determine who will be 2nd District Chairman – Frank Wagner or Curtis Colgate. It seems that the referee, RPV Chairman Pat Mullins, has decided to step in and put an end to the nonsense in the 2nd District by affirming that Curtis Colgate is the right 2nd District Chairman, as elected at the 2nd District Convention.
VIRGINIA BEACH – Curtis Colgate is recognized as the Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia’s (RPV) 2nd Congressional District said State Party Chairman Pat Mullins on The John Fredericks Radio Show Wednesday.
“Curtis Colgate is the chairman of the second district – no question,” said Mullins. “I am not about to go down in Larry Sabato’s next ‘History of Virginia’ as the only party chairman that allows seven people to overturn the vote of 700 people.”
Mullins went on to say that the GOP needs to honor the district convention vote because the party is meant to be “inclusive” and a “big tent,” as opposed to “exclusive” and a “pup tent.”
Colgate easily won the district convention by a weighted vote of 508-362, which was held April 26 at Hampton University.
“Chairman Mullins is exactly right: our campaign had the most delegates filed to attend the convention, the most delegates to actually attend the convention, and, after the votes were counted, the most votes to win the convention,” said Colgate. “Now is not the time for confusion and parliamentary tricks: we need to roll up our sleeves, get to work, and be clear to the voters of the 2nd District about the Republican plan for getting government off our backs, growing the economy, and creating jobs.”
Mullins said Colgate has been recognized by the state committee and that Colgate is the only one authorized to call any meetings. He also said that should there be any contests to the convention results RPV will take appropriate steps to resolve the situation.
Listen to all of Mullins’ interview by going to Curtis Colgate’s page.
For background purposes to this story, Eric Cantor and Frank Wagner’s forces slated delegates in VA Beach so they would have the numbers to win at the 2nd District Convention. The disenfranchised delegates appealed the slate to the 2nd District Committee on the grounds that it was improperly executed and the appeal was upheld. The remedy from the 2nd District Committee was that all properly filed delegates from Virginia Beach were to be seated at the 2nd District Convention. As a result, Curtis Colgate won the 2nd District Convention and became the Chairman of the 2nd District.
Frank Wagner had members of the 2nd District Committee call a meeting (without the consent of the new chairman, Curtis Colgate) to overturn the election results of the 2nd District Convention. At this meeting, a select group of 2nd District Committee members unilaterally overturned the results of the 2nd District Convention. Chairman Mullins’ response to this latest maneuver by the Cantor/Wagner is decisively rebuked, as you can see above.
If you think this is unbelievable, you won’t believe what is going on in the 5th District. There 5th District Convention is this Saturday. Cantor’s people are pulling out all the stops. More to come on that. Stay tuned…
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Hello,
Not sure what the beef and gripe is with Linwood Cobb in the7th. I don’t know of any district chair that accomplishes what he has done along with the 7th District committee. All of the Republican candidates for special elections and challengers in the commonwealth get money from the 7th District Committee. He has done way more than his specified responsibility in retaining the 7th District with a Republican Congressman.
Best of luck to Mr. Gruber, I don’t know you, but you have big shoes to fill.
Best Regards
Pam
Ah, anything new about jobs or the economy?
Here is the recording of Chairman Mullins on Wednesday: http://www.curtiscolgate.com/…/2014/05/5-14-14-Mullins.mp3
Regardless of what goes on in the rest of the state, whether the RPV does what’s right or not, I’m grateful to Mullins for his ruling. Having attended the 2nd District Mass Meeting where the slating shenanigans took place, corruption of the political process almost enabled 32 crony, nepotism picked delegates to ensure the election of a man who decided to take over the 2nd District Chairmanship. It was a matter of “by fair means or foul,” and the process was corrupted to ensure the later.
Fortunately, the voting rights of 1,000 delegates has been upheld.
Thank you, Mr. Mullins for recognizing that regular folks want to participate in the party, not just the backroom dealers.
As a casual observer, and not so ‘inside baseball’ it is becoming obvious that there is no level of evil that the Cantor people will reject. Eric is willing to break the 10 commandments just to stay in power, that says a lot about the character of the man who claims to be the best friend of Israel. I’m specifically speaking of the one commandment that says ‘thou shalt not bear false witness’. I have letters from Eric where he willingly misleads the voters by equating David Brat as a liberal. Why can’t Eric just win by being honest? I guess he does not think his record is good enough to stand on. It is not by the way, in my opinion. Lying is from the devil, and is Satan’s most used tool, I’m so sorry to see someone join the other team just to win at any cost. The democrats are so happy with Eric Cantor, that they did not even put up a reasonable candidate to oppose him.
the 5CD convention in HSC could be terribly divisive. That’s too bad because we should be a super-reliable Republican district.
Not really. Just like four years ago during “Robert Hurt and the Six Dwarves”, everybody rallied behind Hurt and he knocked off Perriello.
Good to hear. Just wondering. Has Pat Mullins congratulated Fred Gruber yet? I haven’t seen that email. His Wednesday email didn’t mention Fred.
If your question is serious, the answer is “No, he hasn’t and he’s not going to because the whole 7th District process is an embarrassment to the RPV.”
Isn’t that special.
Troll-lol-lol-ing right along…
Me or you? I honestly think that the Chairman of the RPV has a duty and an obligation to congratulate the winners. All of them. He is supposed to be the chairman of the entire RPV. Not just the parts he aligns with. And his silence speaks volumns on the future support we can expect from Pat towards Gruber. And FYI, I don’t troll, I blog. And before I release a story on his silence I wanted to make sure I had not missed a statement from him.
I will have it out this afternoon.
Correction. This story is on hold until next week by request.
Isn’t that special.
Troll-lol-lol-ing right along…
Not at all. The bigger story is now who’s asked you to spike that story and why. Combine that with your apparent willingness to spike a good story on somebody’s request and you’ve got a pretty good article.
Me spike a story? You obviously don’t know me at all, dude. There are only 4 reasons I would not run a story.
1. If I determined it was not true.
2. If I found out the story was about to become moot.
3. If I received information that there was more to come and the story was not yet ripe.
4. If the timing of the story would have greater impact at or after a specific time.
We have already determined that the story IS true and Pat has been mum so far.
So it is one of the other reasons.
There is no one on this earth that could get me to spike a story. Many have asked, none will ever succeed.
Because I don’t care who I piss off telling the truth.
Shame on me. I read “This story is on hold until next week by request” as actually meaning a “request”. I didn’t know what that code word meant to you. You’ve now moved into “Drama Queen” territory now with “Oooh, I’ve got a story but I’m not telling you yet.”
Ohhh. That should have read “awaiting a response from my request”. Which is promised by Tuesday. Trying to do 3 things at once. My bad. No one requested I put anything on hold. But my preference is that Pat show a spirit of unity. I am told he does support Gruber. It would be nice to hear him say that. And if that happens, then there is no need to run a story, right?
No. Most of your stories seem to based on other people’s conjecture so if you were going to write something on this and be original, now would be the time to do it.
Mullins’ silence is probably quite intentional, but you’ll never get Shipley, Kenney or Mullins to say that on the record. You’ve got a good opinion piece right now.
Why was it an embarrassment? Because Eric Cantor and Ray Allen couldn’t even get enough supporters out in Eric’s district to ensure that his man won? Or was it that the Congressman was booed for continuing the lies about his opponent instead of making a valid case why he should be reelected? Troll-lol-lol-ing right along…
The booing.
You mean “the lying”. There wouldn’t have been booing if there was no lying.
No, I meant the booing.
Lying is standard in political speeches.
You are so right Bruce…The libertarians heckled Bill Janis during invocation …real class acts