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Posted at 12:53am on Sep. 6, 2007 "By God we look like the laughingstock of the state, and maybe the nation."

By briangriffiths

I noted last month that the Anne Arundel County Republican Central Committee was embroiled in allegations about useful party building tools such as secret meetings and leadership coups. Well, it all came to ahead with a Central Committee meeting last night that was more reminiscent of Republicans eating their young than anything resembling party building...

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Posted at 9:20pm on Aug. 14, 2007 The Self Destruction of a Local Party

By briangriffiths

Promoted from the diaries by streiff.

Brian Griffiths has been doing yeoman's work at Red Maryland covering the melt down of the GOP in Anne Arundel County, MD and other items. Drop by for all the gory details.

One might think that, given the clobbering that Republicans received on the national level and here in Maryland in 2006 that Republican Central Committees and activists would have a mission. A mission to adequately prepare for the 2008 Presidential Election, and the 2010 elections for state and local office. To conduct party building efforts. To encourage new Republican voter registrations.

Obviously, you don't know the Anne Arundel County Republican Central Committee.

Over the last week, the committee has being embroiled in allegations about useful party building tools such as secret meetings and leadership coups.

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Posted at 7:17pm on Feb. 14, 2007 Primary Problems

By briangriffiths

Cross posted at http://blog.briangriffiths.com

I have a proposal that the General Assembly should consider. The Maryland Presidential primary should be moved up to next week. Then, Maryland can take it's rightful place among the first Presidential primaries, and have a key hand in determining our next President.

I say all of that in jest, of course. There is no logical reason as to why Maryland should move up it's Presidential primary. Nor is there a real good reason that California wants to move their primary to February 5th. Florida is talking about January 29th. Illinois and New York want to move their primaries up to at least February 5th in order to help their favorite sons (and daughter) in the nominating process. Alabama is moving to a Saturday primary. And still, none of them will come before the New Hampshire primary, where the Secretary of State will proclaim the Primary at least seven days before any other primary election by state law.

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Posted at 7:08pm on Jul. 24, 2006 Everything that is Wrong with the modern Maryland Democratic Party

By briangriffiths

Crossposted at blog.briangriffiths.com



Everything that is Wrong with the modern Maryland Democratic Party can be summed up in this post from Jamison Moody's blog. Mr. Moody is a candidate for the Democratic Central Committee in Maryland's District 31.

The Republican party as a whole is a massive support of corruption and criminality. From the top to the bottom of the party, Republicans revel in the criminality of their leadership and happily go to bat for them every chance they get. I can go to any America hating Republican right now and get a justification for every single criminal activity that the party has participated in without any hesitation or consideration of the damage it does to our nation. They literally don't give a damn, they just want their radical hate ideology pushed forward and ultimate they dream of the day that the United States has been destroyed. Hate, fear, and greed is all they know.

This statement is so broadly overreaching, it is farcical. And it proves why so many Democrats are having problems in polling and at the ballot box. The Democratic Party has ceased being a party of ideas. It is now more concerned with being a party of hate and intolerance of anything other than the politically correct orthodoxy as Democrats define it.

He ignores the crimes of William Jefferson, and his ridiculous misuse of the National Guard during the Katrina recovery. He ignores the Democratic intolerance of conservative values in virtually all settings. He ignores the sheer number of Republicans, myself included, who want to defeat everybody associated with the Abramoff scandal.

Instead, he spreads a Democratic message that pushes, ironically, hate, fear and greed.

What's even more amazing is that this kind of message does not represent all Democrats. There are many Democrats, particularly in our state and our county, that do not buy into this ultraliberal worldview. They are people of reason, principle, and moderate to conservative values; the same people who elected Governor Bob Ehrlich in 2002 and will do so again in 2006.

It's just disappointing when any activist or party member of any political stripe lumps other activists or party members of an opposing viewpoint into one collective group and says that they believe x, y, or z.

This is just a smaller scale example of the Democrats larger scale problem. While it adds nothing to the public discourse, it does ensure the continued ascendancy of Republican candidates and ideals.

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