A Federal Judge has added RPV to the lawsuit filed by 3 pastors against the ‘statement of Affiliation’ on the Republican Primary Ballot. The three pastors are Trump supporters but are not affiliated with the campaign. Also today the State Board of elections asked U.S. District Judge M. Hannah Lauck to dismiss the lawsuit. A hearing has been set for Wednesday. More on the story here and here.
Judge Adds RPV to Lawsuit Against Primary Ballot Oath
written by Jeanine Martin
January 11, 2016
29 comments
Jeanine Martin
Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.
29 comments
Well I guess I might as well come right out and say it but I’m moving toward the viewpoint with this all too frequent tendency of RPV self inflicted damage to ask if it is not time to rethink the role, size, composition and authorized function of the State Central Committee. It often appears to me too unwieldy, strife ridden and fractured by partisan wing internal politics to be effective in strategic thinking and reacting to real time events. It often comically looks to me like an uncoordinated gaggle of individuals fighting for control of the steering wheel while jostling in the back seat. Why not just strengthen the party infrastructure under it’s chairperson and place strict power and decision checks and balances at the unit level were the base actually resides? You get more accountability and effectiveness in decision making and “unmaking” and hopefully less reams of the type of PR you most certainly are not looking to create.
For the record, I was the one that first came up with the metaphor of the SCC being like the clown car at a circus. Take a look at the makeup, look at how many non-unit representatives there are. This sop to this demographic, this pander to that hyphenated Republican group, this half of the state gets a bonus vote. I’m still trying to figure out why the numbered vice-chairs get to vote and what they represent.
Should the unit only vote the interest of adult males because the multiple SCC affinity groups cover Student Republicans, Young Republicans, and Women Republicans??
Get rid of the ‘entourage’ SCC votes and the units will be better represented and the SCC will vote to better represent the Republicans of the state consistently and equally instead of the magic weights now in place favoring non-unit units.
I agree with your assessment but I would just dump the entire organizational layer and distribute it’s existing functions back directly to the units and the installed party chair.
Night of the Long Whitbeck. He would love that!
anecdotal: i had lunch with high-info voter yesterday. He said that he nor any of us family would vote in RPV March primary because of the statement of affiliation. He said he is an independent.
OK, you say, he’s not a real Republican & we don’t want his interference in our primary. This gentleman went on to say that because of this further evidence of exclusion by “the Republicans”, he would be less likely to vote Republican in the future. After all, he concluded, Virginia Republicans really didn’t want him anyway because he is not born-again evangelical.
this is the signal that RPV is sending now. Which stirs up simmering negative feelings.
Doesn’t sound very high-info to me. We do have a branding issue though.
Sorry, your story does not compute. Anyone who says he’s staying away because he’s not a born again never wanted to be in the party in the first place. There is NO evangelical movement in the State Central committee. Having a loyalty pledge has nothing to do with being evangelical or even Christian. Your imaginary friend is clueless and sounds rather snobby too. Hmmmm…………
Oh there are, but we are quietly drawing intersecting arcs to avoid being pilloried. The Cult of the Carpenter is being driven underground. One of the reasons the RPV/RNC is stuck on suck.
Jeanine, sorry this doesn’t compute. I just pass along the comments of a regular person who is very bright & follows news closely.
i did not say that he intimated there is correlation between statement of affiliation & the growing evangelical movement in the Republican party. But he is concerned about the exclusionary practices of the evangelicals in the Republican party.
Who might those evangelicals be in Virginia? What role do they have at SCC?
would you not describe Ken Cuccinelli as evangelical?
there are some onSCC. their religion is their own business but should not affect decisions that affect Republicans of all stripes
& since KC couldn’t beat McAuliffe, I can’t see where KC-on-steroids, Ted Cruz, could beat Hillary in Va.
Because Hilary is a crook with unfavorable’s through the roof who is losing voters, both male and female, at a quick rate.
Cuccinelli is Catholic, the Evangelical movement is Protestant. Although their are Evangelical Catholics, referred to by that name, Cuccinelli is a classical Catholic and not an Evangelical one.
So no, he’s not an Evangelical by definition. He’s a Catholic Christian who endorses Evangelical causes, but he’s not Evangelical.
I Googled the terms Ken Cuccinelli and Evangelical, so I see where you are getting these talking points. Which are just that, talking points, namely about how Evangelical Christianity wasn’t enough to elect Cuccinelli. The fact of the matter was, that it wasn’t because of Social issues that Cuccinelli lost.
He lost for two big reasons, Bill Bolling poisoning the well, and an utterly crappy effort by the RPV to get him elected. The RPV was a ruined wreck, destroyed by infighting and incompetence, when Cuccinelli made his run for the Governor’s seat. I’m not even going to touch the issue of Sarvis.
You go to Virginia Beach, Southwest Virginia, Lynchburg, and you will see Evangelical Christianity in Virginia and the Republican party is alive and well. Will they blatantly dismiss a voter like your friend was talking about?
No. Your friend sounds like someone inclined to believe gossip and hyperbole instead of checking things.
Tell them to Ballot for Bernie.That way they get to vote republican without having to sign a pledge. 😉
This could get expensive quick for the RPV. Hope it was worth it.
Yeah, wonder who appointed the judge.
As a general rule I dislike lawsuits, but I have to say that these men are correct in what they are doing.
Would never have happened in Convention or Canvass. But the establishment gets what the establishment wants.
then we would certainly get Cruz.
I would hope not, I would like to think that there would be sufficient credentials challenges to assure that not happen. After all, we did pick Ed Gillespie, so the cra-cra doesn’t run THAT deep.
Ed lost. That’s not a good example to use.
Point was we have elected pretty good nominees across the spectrum in convention.
Wouldn’t that have been awesome? Virginia would have a real say in who the nominee is. This way we’re just more of the sheeple for Trump.
Yes, and we’d certainly be better able to address our ineligibles through the vetting and credentialing process.
awful
The Establishment is actually hawking for Trump in Iowa.
For now.
Paging, RNC! RNC = RPV = Jim Crow laws II. Stick a fork in the RPV; they’re DONE!