Where is the sanity? Politics have surely run a ground when it comes to logics. I had stepped away from politics a few years ago only to come back to an even bigger disaster. Here's my story:
The GOP county convention 2022
The executive board hired the same lawyer guy that has been convention chair for 20+ years to conduct the convention. I asked if my group of election integrity could have a table for literature. I was told no, there was no room, the college and high school groups have the tables. I asked if I could pass out election information standing as the people registered. They said, OK.
When I got to the convention there were 2 large tables one with the college stuff spread out and a few students standing with it, there was an empty table next to it with one kid standing there. First sign that the county party wasn't on board for fair elections.
A week prior to the convention I submitted a resolution calling for a forensic audit of the 2020 county election. It was rejected. So, I knew what I had to do.
During the convention, the many committees took their votes for approval. The convention chair asked for all approve the agenda. I looked around for a copy of the agenda...I was told there weren't any. All in the room approved the invisible agenda. Again, when asked to approve the minutes from last year's convention, all approved the invisible minutes. Yet, again, when asked to approve the Plan of Organization, all approved an invisible plan of organization. When the resolutions committee stood up for their turn, I stood up and asked for a suspension of the rules in order to submit my resolution. It didn't pass because the convention chair wouldn't let the people know what the resolution was about, so it didn't get added to the invisible agenda.
The same thing happened again this year 2023. No agenda, no minutes...in fact, the convention chair (the same guy as before) asked where the minutes were, and if anyone was taking the minutes for this convention, no plan of organization. No wait, I think there were a few copies in the registration table, but no one knew what they were. Not a priority!
The convention went on to the resolutions where this year a 4-page resolution was approved for the agenda concerning the confederate statues. The guy who submitted this resolution is a huge statue hugger but isn't too worried about the elections. He was on the resolutions committee last year and explained to me why he denied my resolution. He and the others were worried about the legal fees and money to conduct such an audit. But this year his 4-page, drawn out resolution that was basically a lecture on confederate history was approved for the invisible agenda. Those in attendance were upset at the length of the resolution that the convention chair was required to read. It was denied approval only because of the length of the resolution, but the subject.
Fascinating how a population of intelligent people can sit and approve things they do not see or know anything about and allow this to happen year after year?
Anyway, all this to say this situation represents the sleeping population that are allowing those that are in control to run the country, states, counties anyway they want and get away with it.
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