Problems on the Home Front

The reason I was in Annapolis today was to attend a portion of the State Young Republicans Convention. Which was fine. Of course, there were three things that I found somewhat disturbing about the proceedings:

• At the luncheon that was originally supposed to be addressed by John Leopold (naturally, Leopold didn't keep his word. I'm stunned), a senior Leopold staffer speaking in his stead urged the YR's to get behind Congressman Wayne Gilchrest in his re-election campaign. Leopold has endorsed Gilchrest, which is fine. However, what the state party apparatus is not supposed to do is take sides in contested primary elections. The staffer knows this because he fought against the issue when the state party tried to change the rules and allow for that to happen. And we've dealt with this issue before...
  
  
• There was a program for the event. Apparently spellcheck was broken.
  
  
• I saw State Party Executive Director John Flynn and he was wearing a New York Yankees wristwatch. Tsk tsk tsk.

I hope that these issues (well at least the first two: John Flynn can do whatever he wants) are not problems that we are going to continually have to deal with between now and the 2010 election cycle...