Loudoun County GOP portrayed as worried more about GOP purity
The article in the post that I referenced in my last post spoke about more than the York “opinion poll” I wrote about. It also spoke of the ongoing effort in the LCRC to whittle the ranks of the County committee to only those members of the “Dick Black’s the best” choir.
Inside the Loudoun County Republican Committee, a debate is raging between those who think property rights should be a defining priority and those who think the party needs to erect a bigger tent to ensure electoral victory next year.
And the argument is taking some weird turns. At the last monthly committee meeting, Jack Shockey marched in wearing a safari hat.
The evening included what has become a standard affair — those who want to join the GOP committee are interrogated before an audience of about 300 — but two applicants decided to withdraw their membership applications and skipped the meeting.
I was at the meeting in question and I’m afraid this report is dead-on accurate. The more rabid end of the “RINO-hunters” in the LCRC literally are interrogating people as they stand before the entire body of the committee. In one case, a rather petulant-sounding demand was made that one of the people being interrogated be required to read – aloud – the oath of loyalty wherein a Committee member agrees to support the candidates selected and put forth by the Committee.
It was juvenile and, frankly, embarrassing. I’m amazed the MSM didn’t play that part up as high as it could go. Supervisor Waters is quoted in the story as saying she believes it sets the wrong tone. I agree. The people on this Committee are here to take part in the very adult action of engaging in the political process. The safari hat-wearing, oath-demanding, name-calling bunch of purity zealots need to grow up and act like the adults they claim to be. Perhaps Waters’ suggestion that they go to ettiquette school is the best way to go.
