10th District Results
By Greg L | 17 May 2008 | RPV, Loudoun County, Manassas Park, Manassas City, Prince William County | 17 Comments
Congratulations to Jo-Ann Chase, Kay Gunter and Howie Lind for being elected to the Republican State Central Committee for the 10th District! This represents a pretty substantial victory for conservatives over the slate endorsed by 10th District Chairman Jim Rich, who was re-elected without opposition. There was some minor confusion as the initial results indicated that Anna Lee had prevailed over Kay Gunter, but a re-check of the spreadsheet used to tabulate results showed that the Loudoun County delegation had not been tabulated, and when corrected showed that Kay had won by a substantial margin boosted by her strong results in Loudoun.
This kind of human-induced error is a persistent concern, given pressure to release results quickly, multiple races being managed simultaneously, and the use of spreadsheet software to manage the election process. This should demonstrate pretty conclusively that developing and distributing more effective software to manage conventions should immediately become a top concern for RPV (a challenge right up Jeff Frederick’s alley). Current systems that risk user mistakes, compounded by the understandable pressure to conduct balloting, tabulate, and certify results as quickly as possible, simply invite this sort of problem. I’m pretty impressed that the elections committee noticed something amiss so quickly and were able to correct the problem within minutes, nonetheless. Sometimes your character is demonstrated best not by what happens when everything goes right, but how you react when something goes wrong, and these folks identified, quickly reacted to and corrected what absolutely appears to be an honest mistake.
Ron Paul supporters attempted to elbow their way in as delegates to the National Convention and as electors to the Electoral College, and were pretty much shut out. One of them was booed during his floor speech, which was a particularly bad one — starting off your speech saying that you’ve done utterly nothing, but want to be a representative to the national convention is a pretty dumb move. One Ron Paul supporter may have been selected as an alternate, but that’s it. Among the convention delegates was Gainesville Supervisor John Stirrup and Chairman Jim Rich giving us a good cross-section of the local party. The elector for the 10th District was a long-time party activist from Fairfax County, whose name I don’t recall, but she won over a young and inexperienced, but rather enthusiastic Ron Paul acolyte in a landslide.
Also of note was that John Hager was the only person giving a speech without any time limit, and was completely ignored when a procedural question regarding suspension of the rules was considered, although he was less than ten feet from the folks discussing the question. You’d think if there was a question involving the RPV Party Plan, the convention call, and a floor motion if you had the RPV Chairman almost within arm’s reach you’d at least bother to solicit his opinion about the motion before giving a ruling. Bob Marshall gave a good speech with the one minute allowed, and Jeff Frederick and Jim Gilmore were no-shows, perhaps tied up at the 11th District convention which was held at the same time.
This was MUCH better than the 10th District convention two years ago. Not perfect, but at least in this case any irregularities seemed honest.
UPDATE: More on this is over at NOVA Town Hall.
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I agree, much better run convention this year. The McKinley dude running against Wolf appeared to be a complete goofball that could not even read his speech. I hear he is a Ron Paul guy too.
It was good meeting you again at the convention.
I think the Elector was Bobbie Kilberg.
Good roundup of the event. Do you have the names of all the Convention delegates and alternates who were elected at the 10th District meeting?
I know David Ray & Patsy Drain were reelected to State Central in the 11th but didn’t stick aound to see who won the 3rd seat.
Rep. Tom Davis & Del Scott Lingamfelter won RNC delegate slots but a 2nd ballot was necessary to determine the 3rd slot for State Central & RNC delegate.
Former Gov. Gilmore did arrive late giving a 2 minute speech to about 30 people.
The story of the day- Conservatisms coat tails were longer and stronger those of Jim Rich.
Ron Paul is the only hope for the republican party. Nobody else is bringing in fresh faces. Everybody else is running as fast as they can away from the republican party.
I’ve voted republican in the past. Never again. Except for someone extraordinary like Ron Paul. The Republican party has become the party for fascism. From scapegoating powerless and poor immigrants, to invading foreign countries that are no threat, to stripping us of habeas corpus and establishing a police state at home. If people like Greg are the face of the Repub party now, it’s only a matter of time before the party becomes irrelevant.
OT again, but guess who showed up at the HELP SAVE MARYLAND rally at the Gaithersburg MVA this morning….Annabel and her flunky camera jockey Eric “the Liberal”.
I only half recognized her at first - It was one of those I know the face but not sure of the place moments and thought she was a POST reporter. I asked her if she was with the POST and she said she wasn’t a writer just a photographer.
Fast forward 2 hours to the end of the rally and as I was getting in my car I noticed her again and instantly recognized that pitiful little deer in the headlights gaze and it clicked - 9500 Liberty trolls! I went up to her again and said, now I know you…she fessed up and asked if me for an “interview” but I was wiped and had someone waiting in the car so I declined. But I did tell our rally leader who she was and I saw him speaking to her as I was leaving…not sure what was discussed.
Eri-bel are pathetic.
G.Stone you don’t seem to understand that all Republicans are conservative.
Some more than others. You should have said “the extreme conservative wing of the Republican Party” because Jim Rich is also a conservative Republican. It is like a straight line with 180 degrees. You and Cuccinelli may be 180 degree conservatives where as I may be only 120 degrees but still a conservative Republican.
Thank you, Anna, for all the hours you put in organizing this convention.
You had no time to campaign for State Central but congratulations on being elected a National Delegate.
Sully Voter I’ll bet we can find a whole bunch of Republicans that even by their own definition would not consider themselves conservatives.
Congratulations to Kay, JoAnne and Howie on their victories!! It is a great day for the 10th District. Also, congratulations to David Ray and Patsy Drain on their 11th District victories. Conservative leadership prevails!
Here are the results I received from Howie Lind last night:
State Central Committee
- Jo-Ann Chase
- Kay Gunter
- Howie Lind
Delegate to the Republican National Convention
Primary:
- Jim Rich
- Anna Lee
- John Stirrup
Alternate:
- Gary Baise
- Randy Minchew
- Scott Walker
Elector
- Bobbie Kilberg
I found the booing extremely rude. If someone doesn’t agree with the guy’s comments about “putting a stop to endless war,” don’t vote for him, but c’mon, let him have his say. Isn’t that the point of the process? There certainly are Republicans who feel that way, so why shouldn’t one of them have a shot at representing the party to the committeee? And there are enough Republicans disappointed in McCain that maybe it wouldn’t be the end of the world to have a Ron Paul delegate or two onhand to remind the party of some of its core principles.
Congrats to JoAnne, Howie and Kay. A good day overall.
Well said here:
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Sometimes your character is demonstrated best not by what happens when everything goes right, but how you react when something goes wrong, and these folks identified, quickly reacted to and corrected what absolutely appears to be an honest mistake.
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My congrats also go to the folks who ran an honest tellers committee this year.
Oh, & Keith Damon won SCC on the 3rd ballot @ the 11th.
I guess the Tom Davis slate for 11th Dist State Central was not a good place to be. 0 for 3.
Congrats to Keith Damon!
Update on the 11th District: The third delegate to the National Convention, who was elected on the 3rd ballot, is Terry Wear.
8th District SCC winners: Vellie Dietrich-Hall, Michael Giere, and Mark Kelly. 8th District National Convention delegate winners: David Avella, Helen Blackwell and Orson Swindell.
The Truth …. I’m sorry, I didn’t get past “Ron Paul is the only hope for the republican party” because I was laughing so hard.
If Ron Paul is our hope…then all is lost. Sumbitch can’t accept defeat gracefully and bow out with his head up. Wait till his Paullock followers are the scurge of the Convention where the rightful delegates are 2000 strong, but the losers only get their 9 delegates.
Linda B.
I lost a nephew in the war. I’ve served and woke up many a morning in the service of my great country. He’s lucky I’ve mellowed with age, or I might have marched up to the stage and stuck my boot in his arse for that stupid statement. I’d have a whole lot more tolerance if the pansy had ever had the occasion to wake up in the service of his country….so he had a fleeting clue of that which he spoke.