The last electoral campaign has passed.
The Door Knockers have returned home.
The Phone Banks are Silent and the Victory Offices are no more.
All is Quiet on the Poltical Front, until the next cycle.
This one went well. That is not always the case.
In Linn County Iowa some years it is like the Charge of the Light Brigade for the GOP
Progressives to the Left of them Liberals to the Right of them, Community Activists Behind them Volleyed and Thundered.
But our Volunteers like the Light Brigade on the plain of Balaclava have always stayed the course.
We have one who has become a Poltical Icon. Presidential Candidates trek to Linn County as a Right of Passage to greet her,
And I understand she has taken a young woman under her wing who is continuing the legacy of Phone Bank excellance.
But now the Electoral Campaigns are over for a while and it was time to savor our sucess.
In our State Capital there was an Gathering for the Inauguration.
On one of our Facebook Pages we can see,
Some familiar faces indeed.
Inauguration day in Des Moines Left to right: Cindy Golding LCRCC Chair, Iowa State Senator Dan Zumbach, Richard Bice LCRCC Member, Brenda Krause LCRCC Member, Brenda Hart LCRCC Events Committee Chair.
At any event you will see these faces they are very active in the Linn County Central Committee.
And our Valiant Volunteers?
The folks we manned the Phone Banks sallied forth to Door Knock Day after Day after Day?
The ones who would be at the Top of a List of Campaign Workers?
They weren't there,
It seems no one bothered to obtain Tickets for THEM.
Now it is true as relayed to me by a friend who has been active in Iowa Poltics for almost 40 years that,
Invitations to the Gov.'s inauguration I have heard were not handled as in the past. It used to be county chair's submitted a list. I got my invite by submission online. I found out via Ken Rizer of the online site. I asked Don Lucas of Lee County what he knew. Lee County's current Chair called later offering to put me a list he put together.
Lee County it turns out had 10 extra tickets, Odd that Linn County could not round up a similiar number for it's Top Volunteers or even see that they had a way to Des Moines.
Our Committee and Our Leadership Failed on this Issue.
We MUST do better in the Future. Those who excell at Volunteer Work deserve more recognition and reward.
Now I have heard that some say, "Everyone gives in their own way and it is not Fair to single out a few for recognition."
That thinking is best used worked into the ground to inspire turnips.
We are CONSERVATIVES.
We beleive that people can with Hard Work and Perseverence endevour to Excell.
And that when they do? They should be applauded, encouraged and others encouraged to emulate them
WE DO NOT
Feel that everyone who plays deserves a trophy because playing is winning too.
Elections and Real Life do not work that way.
If we really want to Help Republicans Get Elected, we cannot set them on a shelf until the Next Election,
Lest they begin to feel as one related to me that they do all this work and a few walk in act like they can boss everyone around and then take credit for what everyone else does,.
Updated: Wednesday, 28 January 2015 2:21 AM CST
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