The MD GOP's proposed 2008 budget
I've got a copy of it and posted it here.
Some thoughts:
Some thoughts:
- Why does this party project to spend $50,000 on the Red, White, and Blue dinner when projecting to raise only $100,000? Particularly in light of the financial boondoggle that this year's dinner was?
- Total projected revenue of just north of $300,000 for a major party trying to compete in a state like Maryland is, to put it lightly, meek.
- Raising only just north of $300,000 for a major party that is spending $124,400 on two full-time equivalent employees is insane. Particularly when you consider that the party used to employee six people and those positions are no longer filled.
- $1,600 on party development. $1,600. Contemplate that.
- $65,202 on rent. Over twenty-percent of the money is spent on rent for the headquarters!
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posted by Brian Griffiths at 10:14 PM
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Again, my point about the MDGOP needing a leader is validated.
this is a very good discussion that needs to be had, but first i think there's some questions that need to be posed:
1) why did 12 out of 14 state senators vote to remove flynn in february? (ignore the fact that they really don't have direct power to do that, although they do hold considerable sway with their county central committees)
2) why does pelura schedule executive committee meetings when he knows people cannot show up (during the holidays for example) and why does he cancel the executive committee meetings at the last minute?
3) why was the state party so embarrassingly quiet during the special session that brought us the largest tax increase in the history of MD? the tax rally was organized by senators and delegates with flynn and pelura forwarding the emails to their list after the fact--not a whole lot of heavy lifting on the state party's part.
4) why does the state party have NO communications with the house and senate leadership?
5) what are the fundraising numbers for 2007 for the state party? why has no one seen them?
the correct answer to the above questions is clearly because flynn and pelura are running the party into the ground. they have demonstrated nothing but dishonesty, arrogance, incompetence, and detachment from reality.
the senators voted to get rid of flynn a mere 6 weeks after he started in the job. that's a heck of a feat. the vote came about because flynn sent an idiotic, juvenile, arrogant, and offensive letter to all senators basically saying that he wasn't going to play with them anymore. he walked his butt over to the miller building and HAND DELIVERED this letter that was so full of sanctimony and sophomoric pontifications that it is just unbelievable. the way i see it, flynn has never been elected to anything in his life while the senators and delegates obviously have and for him to be so brazen and arrogant 6 weeks in shows he is a terrible fit for the job. and he has only made it worse from there. as such, the delegates and senators have no communications with the party because flynn and pelura have no idea what's going on yet they seem to think they know everything. and they think they're mightier than all.
talking about the state party's lack of fundraising and who/who isn't helping is an easy statement. but it would hold a lot more weight if we ACTUALLY KNEW THE NUMBERS. why hasn't anyone seen what they've been doing? why don't we know what's in the door, what we've taken in, where we're falling short? because flynn and pelura dont' want us to know. they do not want to be subjected to the scrutiny that is small "d" democracy.
SHOW ME THE MONEY! SHOW ME THE NUMBERS! until we see them, everything is speculation and attempts to blame straw men.
the special session was a huge opportunity for the party. why is it that the only two press releases that came out of west street were two days late and $2 billion short? because flynn and pelura were too busy rubbing their hands together trying to plot ways to concentrate their power. they have spent months trying to rig the convention, get these bylaw changes passed, and create the ultimate oligarchy. they spent more time putting together the harlin amendment (who has been a true party guy, plus all of the other GOP businessmen and women who have in kinded their services throughout the years to keep our voice out there), the oath amendment, etc. that is a deriliction of their duties. they failed and couldn't even manage to swing at an underhanded pitch. make no mistake about it, the rally was organized by senators and delegates. flynn even had the womens republicans clubs buses cancelled, which cost the rally countless attendees.
i urge everyone who cares about this party to stop this insanity. do not allow these bylaws to go through. as governor ehrlich said, GET ANGRY! demand answers.
if we are going to hold the maryland 5 accountable for their vote, then it would be hypocrisy for us not to do the same with flynn and pelura. this weekend is our chance. the bylaw changes must be given the right scrutiny and not rammed through. also, it should be asked if flynn's 10k raise is in the 2008 salary figures (because alienating the senators, delegates, grasstops, and rainmakers, lying to voting and non-voting executive committee members outright, and basic incompetence deserves a 10k bump, right? fiscal responsibility indeed)
if we do not take this opportunity to get straight answers and carefully deliberate what they are trying to do, it won't be mike miller running us into the ground. it will be our own doing and we will be no better than the maryland 5 or the montgomery county delegation. we will be suckers who let ourselves get beat and fooled.
do the right thing and if you are a voting member, at the convention this weekend, put the party first. we've had many chairmen and ED's over the years, but the party has remained. we need to make sure that continues, even in these difficult times. speak now or forever hold your peace.
STAY UNTIL THE END ON SATURDAY! flynn and pelura have devised a plan: they're going to wear us down with mundane stuff all morning, then breakout sessions that are meaningless. the real action will happen when they think people have left for the day. stay the whole day and demand answers, concrete answers. do not settle for anything less.
if you really care about the future of the party, ask the questions and get the answers, tough out the day, weed through the ploys flynn and pelura will put out, and do the right thing for the party.
this is dire, folks. john flynn and jim pelura have been operating without transparency, honesty, and without being forthright. in good conscience, ask yourself why are you there? if you're there because you believe in our party, then what you need to do should be clear. take the opportunity that is this weekend and do not allow the death-knell to be sounded for the MDGOP at the hands of Jim Pelura and John Flynn!
thanks for the time and the forum.
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