It will not come as a surprise to anyone that the Tea Party was not the first to object to excessive Taxation.
In order to avoid taxation on piglets farmers and their customer used to rendez-vous in the dead of night to make the transaction,
The pig was often in a poke,
Problem was sometimes it was not a pig but a cat that got let out of the bag later.
The Linn County Republican Central Committee just recently had a similiar experience with the outcome of our Leadership's new concept of how the Presidential Caucuses should go.
I refer to the Pig in the Poke meme because with the exception of two of our members almost everyone who had REAL experience with setting up Caucuses was shut out of the planning
The rest of the Committee was also shut out,
We were told that the Caucus Team Leader was invoking his "Singular Authority" to declare the Caucus Team Meetings closed.
Oh and two member that did have experience?
It was not deemed necessary to allow them to have a vote on the Team
Central Committtee members will recall when the new Team Organization was rushed through committee hidden was the detail that only 5 Team members on a Team could vote and it seemed like the Exectuives decided who they would be.
That describes the Pig we thought we were buying
And what can describe the Cat that was let out of the Bag during the Caucus debacle?
Well first as our Chair Cindy Golding told us at our last meeting before Caucuses
There WAS a rumor that all the Precincts would meet in ONE location
That was NOT the case as our Chair Cindy Golding pointed out
But like Mark Twain's description of the "Best Way to Tell A Lie"
Ms Gokling left a few things out.
Which was for the first few months of their deliberations the rumor that all of the GOP Precinct in Linn County would met in a single location came from
The Caucus Team
Who were asked that quesiton on several occasions
Until another rumor emerged that to have it in one location would cost several times what we had in the Bank account.
So we ended up with quite a few locations in the County most having 2 or 3 Precints in one location
And 3 for ALL of Cedar Rapids
One at Bethany Lutheran.
Some at Kirkwood
And 30 Precincts at the Double Tree (in 3 rooms)
Other things which emerged like Cats being let out of a bag was the intense frustration many felt at the crowded and chaotic conditions.
There were thousands of people at the Wreck of the Double Tree who were very upset with the process. Among the problems were the inability to check-in, trouble finding your caucus location, way too few seats available, starting more than 30 minutes late, not getting to break out into your precinct until 8:30pm, no one could hear their caucus chairs because of all the surrounding noise, no place to count ballots, limited to no handicap and elderly accessibility, poor signage, too few check-in people, and the list goes on.
I sure hope you do not do this horrible caucus system again
for a presidential caucus. It was too disorganized, did not
start on time and many potential caucus goes left because
they could not get registered to vote? More than anyone
would want to admit.
If anyone wants to know if the statement many potential caucus goers left because they could not get registered to vote is an exageration.
Well they do way a picture is worth a thousand words
And if a picture is worth a thousand words, I wonder that a video is worth
What is really sickening is to run the numbers for this event
Last time we spent about twice what Johnson County did which is not surprising as we have twice their population
THIS time we spent about TEN THOUSAND Dollars more than we did last time
To put that in REAL perspective we spent around One Thousand Dollars TOTAL last time.
And what did we get for our extra Ten Thousand Dollar expendature?
The Buck Bags we sent around for donations were
DOWN by
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
Yes our Pig in the Poke Mega Caucus Media Event
Cost 10K more and took in 10K less.
You do the rest of the Math
The ONLY thing that keeps Linn County Iowa from being the laughing stock of the Nation is what happened in Polk County
The lets decide a Precinct Caucus by flipping a coin.
For those involved in the planning of Monday Night there is one bright light
That this was an event held by the Linn County Republican Central Committee.
Had it been run by say the Mafia?
Those responsible might be resting at the bottom of the Cedar River with brand new shoes on.
Updated: Friday, 5 February 2016 2:58 AM CST
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