Well, it seems the fine folks at Red Maryland are looking for more Republican blood to spill into the Chesapeake Bay Fresh off after another stinging defeat of the Republican brand; the Molotov cocktail throwers are setting their sights on unseating MDGOP Chairman Alex X. Mooney by firing squad this weekend at the State Party Convention In Howard County.
In their piece, Alex Mooney Must Resign, several editors of Red Maryland lay out specific charges against Mooney and why he should resign from the Chairmanship including this excerpt "While the Democratic machine organized and raised funds to defend their policies, there was no coordinated effort by MDGOP to ensure those laws were defeated at referendum. The defeat on questions 4 through 6, and to some extent question 7, lies squarely on Alex Mooney. Instead of organizing and raising money to win those races, Mooney was busy helping Roscoe Bartlett get shellacked by 20 points"
I have several questions that the members of the Central Committee and the media should ask the writers over at Red Maryland.
1) Where were their actions in this fight? As a volunteer who crisscrossed around the state at least 20 times, who spoke at Central Committees, Republican Clubs and yes, even Democratic clubs against Questions 4 through 7. I did not run into anyone of the gentlemen who are readying their rifle sights AT ONE EVENT.
2) Did Red Maryland volunteer any of their resources to work against any of the referendum issues? I know personally that Red Maryland chose to accept payment for my ballot initiative campaign against Question 5. Instead of being Conservatives first, and offering their help to get the word out to Republicans to vote against Question 5, they solicited advertising funding from us. Our ad ran for 1 week and Red Maryland finally decided to say they were against Question 5 on the day before the election.
3) What did Alex Mooney do to support the referendum process? Again, having been a part of this Congressional District process from day 1, Mooney was instrumental in getting the petition effort started by raising money for a poll that several members of the General Assembly contributed too. I also know that he was very helpful in raising money for Neil Parrott's MDPetitions.com organization that made it possible for the grassroots activists of Maryland to petition three bad laws to referendum.
Finally, if we are to have a circular firing squad this weekend, it should be pointed at all of us across the board. We, yes even I, thought that we would win Questions 6 and 7 because we believed it would happen. We ALL (from elected Republican office holders, to Central Committee members, to financial contributors and to all of our great volunteers) chose to focus on Republican candidates rather than four issues that had cross party support. We simply took it for granted that we won a small battle to get these issues on the ballot but we forgot about fighting the war.
P.S. I know that I will come under fire for this - but what the heck - I'm a African-American Conservative Republican in Maryland... I'm used to it ;-)
2 of your 3 points have nothing to do with the arguments made by red MD - They are simply an attack on the blog's credibility to speak on these issues. I would be interested to hear you write a response to their argument that Mooney is more concerned about his own political future then that of the MDGOP.
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ReplyDeleteWho in politics is not concerned about their political future? It is all self-promotion. When Mooney was elected, the members of the Central Committee knew he was going to run for office in 2012 or 2014. They made the decision to vote for him because of his ability to raise money. I did not vote for Mooney because of that reason.
However, the point of the blog post is that their attack on him is disingenuous because they do not know what Mooney did or did not do on the ballot questions. If they want to attack him on his fundraising (or lack of it), that is fair game, but choosing to put all of the blame on him when it was a group failure is not realistic.
"Republicans for Obama" - enough said, Tony.
ReplyDeleteReally... that's all you got. Enough said, Henry.
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