Ragnarok The Battle Between the Gods and the Frost Giants
Choose Wisely Tonight
You might not get another choice for a while
Updated: Tuesday, 17 February 2015 2:39 PM CST
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Ragnarok The Battle Between the Gods and the Frost Giants
Choose Wisely Tonight
You might not get another choice for a while
On the 4th Day of the 11Th Month in the 220th year of the Republic
At the far edge of the Universe
As Witnessed by the Oracle Hubble
The Eye OF Sauron
OPENED
And a Great Darkness Fell Upon the Land
And the Pundits Said: "By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them"
And the Fruit Shall Be Bitter
What is Theirs is Theirs
What is Yours is Theirs
What you Built You Did Not-- They Did
They shall Stand Before you in Robes of Blue
And They Shall Hide Their Blue Hearts Beneath Robes of Red
And Walk the Earth as DIABLOS
(Democrats In All But Label Only)
And so we Come to the Heart of Our Saga.
In My Last Post Taking Candy From a Baby
We discover that 3 Months AFTER the Election some of our Bills and Commitments have yet to be made Good?
Now the Chair DID provide some of the background
To me the important part is
Jim Conklin (MR06) is checking on the legality of these proposals
That was done and our Treasurer cut some checks which the Chair did NOT Sign, Refused to Sign so they were Signed by the Treasurer and the Co-Chair.
Was this done because there was in fact some question of the Legality?
NO
The Chair is on Record that there was NO Illegality Found.
She Stated that TWICE when Questioned by Greg Hood,
She also stated that she did not wish to Sign the Checks bcause in her discussions she and others decided the Program
WAS NOT A GOOD IDEA?
Which prompted a member of the Body to explode TWICE that She had Violated her Constitutional Duty to Fulfill the Instructions that the Body had issued by their Vote.
Do such minor Details MATTER?
Not to this Chair it seems.
And so we have a Young Man who EVERYONE knows worked tirelessly during the Election denied his rightful dues and the Chair is now Stonewalling.
Wants Records from someone who has no official duty to provide such things but who did herself work tirelessly at the Victory Office
To the Extent that she ended up with this
That was aquired during the After Election Cleanup.
An Event that had very few take part in.
And according to his person who DID stay and work cleaning up the Victory Office
Cindy Golding never set foot inside that office to help clean or collect any files, such as volunteer numbers.
So a Young Man who had every reaon to believe that the LCRCC would make good on their commitments.
Still has not been made Whole
THREE MONTHS
After the Election???
And exactly WHO has been responsible for this matter most of the time since?
As I recall at the November Meeting shortly after the Election All Financial Matters were placed in the Hands of the Chair and an Interim Treasurer.
Now everyone knows this young man work himself to the Bone during the election.
As a matter of fact while a nice lookning young man he IS a tad too thin.
Some of us might remember being the same when we were young and sometimes ends were hard to meet,
We all KNOW the Committee owes him this money
What kind of Meanspirited, Petty, Vindictive Mentality would just Stonewall this issue?
Maybe the Same Meanspiirted, Small Minded Petty Person who read ladies working on an Event the Riot Act because they put out more than 5 mints on each table?
Or the same Meanspirited Small Minded Petty Person who proclaimed in a emailing to the Body about an LCRCC member recognized as the “Best in State” caller for the Victory Program. When in fact she tried to prevent that presentation to the Body.
Or the person who never realised that they should pay the same price as everyone else for a Ticket to the Christmas party purchased after the Discount Deadline and gave themselves the lower Price?
Of course their excuse was
I paid for a guest speaker dinner at the $40. so the LCRCC would not be out the cost of the guest dinner.
I too have in the past paid for other people to attend Events
The difference between me and the Chair is that I paid the same price as everyone else
We had a couple of speakers who were able to come at the last minute. We didn't expect them to speak an then pay to be there.
At this point I can only shake my head in confusion
I am stumped,
What kind of twisted mentality will try to foist a story like that over something that is Public Record?
I mean you can go to the DR-2 and SEE that the persons giving the Discount Price after the Deadline
are folks that regularly attend LCRCC meetings and not a couple of speakers who were able to come at the last minute
I am not posting their names they just paid what they were told to,
The Chair is at fault here
You can look for yourselves in the
and see who got the discount.
Does the Chair feel that we are too STUPID to click on a link that will take us to an Online Report to the Ethics Board?
Or is it like her disregard for the County Constitution, Our ByLaws and Rules of Order
That She just thinks it does not matter what she does because She IS after all the
IMPERIAL CHAIR
While it is True that anyone who has ever used the phrase, "As easy as taking Candy from a Baby." has probably never TRIED to take Candy from a Baby.
It does evoke the image of taking a mean spirited advantage of someone defenseless.
The image brought to mind would not one might think be that of the Linn County Central Committee but under the present leadership it is.
A lot of us may remember the dustup over a difference of opinion concerning an Ad earlier this year.
Our Chair claims there was an agreement to place an Ad and that they recieived Art Work for it,.
The Business does not dispute that but takes the position that that is not the full story,
They claim they informed the Chair that a Proof Copy for review and a Contract was required of ALL parties they entered into an agreement for an Ad with,
And that lacking that there was No Agreement.
The Chair threatened them with exposure to the Central Committee and the potential for Bad PR
Within 24 hours our Webmaster had placed on the LCRCC Facebook Page and on the Facebook Pages of 20 people a Call to Boycott them for, Failure to Pay their Bills.
So everyone might understand why I was surprised that the Chair was stonewalling on US paying volunteers for efforts that we had agreed OURSELVES to compensate for,.
The following is an Email exchange concerning on very active young volunteer who is staill Waiting for His compensation,
I Will make more comments in a follow up post later this morning,
For now I will let you peruse this exchange.,
However since the August Minutes of the LCRCC Meeting are brought up I have provided a link to the FULL Minutes
They were very selective in their quotes and refrained from presenting some important Facts that I WILL bring up in my Follow Up Post.
Linn County Republican Central Committee Meeting Minutes 08-19-2014
Althea,Do you or Ian have any documentation regarding this issue? I certainly want us to live up to our promise and reward the efforts.I have included the wording of the motion.Pending the review & approval of the Iowa Ethics & Disclosure Board, I move that the Central Committee provide monetary tokens ofappreciation for results, to volunteers who collect absentee ballot request forms and completed absentee ballots.Pay $0.50 for each completed request form from a registered Republican
Pay $1.00 for each ballot returned from a registered Republican Party Ballots***Democrat, Independent, Third-Party, or Non-Party Ballot/Request forms are not eligible toward a volunteer’s tools. ***Included in this motion is that the LCRCC body fund this with no more than $500.00 from the general fund, but continuously supplemented by earmarked donations specifically for this door-knocking absentee ballot effort. Motion made that the incentive program discussed at the Executive/Advisory ($10 Gift cards per 8 hour shifts) & the incentive program approved tonight be approved subject to putting procedures together so these programs can be implemented as soon as possible – amended to $750.o Jim Conklin (MR06) is checking on the legality of these proposals
Motion made for all four Executive Board members must unanimously approve whatever legal rewording required ifnecessary if the original motion is not approved by the Ethics & Disclosure Board and maintain the integrity and intent of thewording of the original motion. MSPI will be happy to review and respond once we receive the documentation of the ballots retrieved and review how much was already spent toward this program. To date, we have not received documentation regarding program since September totals. I don't recall any donations earmarked for this program but will look into it (or pass it on to whom ever is the chair on Tuesday).
Cindy GoldingChair-----Original Message-----
From: Althea Cole <altheacole8@gmail.com>
To: Cindy Golding <clgolding@aol.com>;Subject: Concerns RelayedDear Executives,On Tuesday evening, immediately after the Central Committee meeting, I spoke with Ian Hollinger, a door-knocker who brought back over 140 absentee ballot request forms during the 2014 campaign. Per the motion that was made and approved in August, he is entitled to a token of appreciation in the amount of fifty cents per returned request form.Early on in the campaign, Ian received a check in the amount of $18.50 for the first 37 request forms he brought back. However, he has yet to receive any monetary reward for the remainder of the request forms he collected. The monetary award he has not received amounts to well over 50 dollars.Though we have had a change in the role of treasurer, it is important that we do not allow items like this to fall through the cracks, especially when it comes to rewarding those who worked tirelessly to bring us quantifiable results of getting Republican votes. Ian is working extremely hard to support himself financially, and based on statements he made to me personally during the campaign, I believe that 50 dollars can easily be the difference between whether or not he is able to afford to feed himself in the days leading up to his next paycheck.I ask the Executives to ensure that the proper people are working together to resolve this issue to make sure that Ian and anyone else who has deserved these tokens of appreciation receive what is due to them. I would like very much for this to be completed no later than by the next Central Committee meeting in February.Respectfully,Althea
Entered: | Monday, 16 February 2015 - 14:01 CST |
Name: | "The Malcontent Miscreant" |
Comment: | I've corresponded with Nicole French as of late. She is quite legitimate. She served as the chair of the Young Republicans and put in quite a lot of work to get James Knox elected. "I went to his house for Thanksgiving and helped that idiot get elected," says she. I learned so many painful political lessons as a result of that election. Good grief, if I'd only known who I was helping elect." |
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Entered: | Monday, 16 February 2015 - 06:47 CST |
Name: | "D. C. " |
E-Mail: | wons1850@yahoo.com |
Comment: | WTF Reading your postings, you say this guy is charge of your local Republican party web site. This looks like a huge embarrassment, or a lot worse just waiting to happen. Why do you people put up with this?
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Entered: | Sunday, 15 February 2015 - 15:13 CST |
Name: | "concerned citizen" |
Comment: | I'm sure she will. Taking responsibility is not how she operates.
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Entered: | Sunday, 15 February 2015 - 14:14 CST |
Name: | "iowa live reader" |
Comment: | "Evil is at 250 and below. Grand larceny scores 40." Linn County Chair Cindy Golding scored 11. |
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Entered: | Saturday, 14 February 2015 - 10:49 CST |
Name: | "Pete in Polk" |
Comment: | WOW! The chair of a county Republican party demanding bank records of another group that are none of her business. That chair threatening to use her position to drag in the media. What kind of twisted dictator is running your county Republican party?
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Entered: | Thursday, 12 February 2015 - 12:40 CST |
Name: | "standing on the sidelines" |
Comment: | try this little ditty complaints, james knox, billings, montana enough said |
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Entered: | Thursday, 12 February 2015 - 10:33 CST |
Name: | "JC" |
Comment: | Mr. anonymous, this is a great question. We have informed the Chair, and Co-Chair of the Linn County Republican Central Committee (LCRCC). Mr. Knox rants continue. As a matter of fact, the Chair, Cindy Golding, is in support of Mr. Knox attacks. She has even brought Chair of the Republican Party of Iowa (RPI) into this local county political squabble. Because of Cindy Golding’s shamelessly misleading statements about me, it appears that the RPI Chair is supporting her. Between the Chair, Mr. Knox and three others, the LCRCC has violated LCRCC By-Laws and Constitution 13 times this year (In my opinion). Under the thought of full disclosure, I am the LCRCC Treasurer. And I am one the targets these people are actively attacking. Just like the Obama-inator; Mr. Knox the “LCRCC’s appointed Webmaster by Cindy Golding”, Gary Ellis the “LCRCC’s appointed one man committee???”, Matt O’Neal the “LCRCC’s elected Office Committee Chair” and, Cindy Golding “LCRCC’s Chair” all appear to be using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. And yet they call themselves Republican… If you are interested in helping the local Republican Party, please do so by simply looking up these people on the web and share their own words. Again, Mr. anonymous, this was a great question. Jim Conklin (JC) |
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Entered: | Thursday, 12 February 2015 - 07:21 CST |
Name: | "anonymous" |
E-Mail: | wons1850@yahoo.com |
Comment: | Who is this Mr. Knox? You can hardly understand what he writes. Is he supposed to the spokesman for your local Republicans? If he is, why the hell don't your Republican leaders knock this guy off their Facebook wall. Mr. Knox makes them all look like idiots.
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Entered: | Monday, 9 February 2015 - 03:47 CST |
Name: | "John Haible" |
E-Mail: | haiblehaus@gmail.com |
Comment: | This is what I have been saying ever since we switched to "we must be done by 8:30." We were elected at our Cacaus to represent our Precincts at the meetings. When we only meet once a month one would expect us to finish buisness almost every month. When we have not had a functional meeting since September, have old buisness that we are not allowed to discuss. How is that representing our Precincts? How is that getting Republicans elected? |
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I have found at times when one takes a stand, generally a righteous stand is when the most vicious attacks upon ones integrity occur. I do not know about you, but I have also notices these attacks most often are made with ‘empty arrows’; that is false accusations, purposeful misconstrued information, and outright lies.
Haters hate! This is what they do. They revel in the moments they feel their arrows strike victory and then revel again when they can deceive, but mostly they revel when you are unable to love.
I love a good Hater for it reminds me I am on track, hitting the mark and impacting outcome in a positive manner.
Quest for Lawful Good
It would seem I am a topic of conversation again,
Not hard to understand it the result of
shedding of light on some of their activities that I provide
In the comments to a Billings Gazette
opinion piece endorsing his opponent for
city council last election cycle, James
Knox logged on asjknox65 (whose profile
says he is a fan of the Billings
Heights) and defended himself in the third
person, as if he was a separate human
being. Here’s what he had to say about
himself.
First, Knox says he came to his own door
to campaign in the rain:
I must applaud Mr. Knox for he is running hard and showing through actions that he wants the position of serving us in the heights. He came to my home while it was raining, thought it was odd he was willing to campaign in the rain, but I could see no alternate motives at all.
According to a report released by the city of Billings yesterday, Knox’s ongoing and one-sided feud with the firefighters didn’t end with his cool new website. It appears that he was not only commenting on the Billings Gazette online forums under various online identities, he also caused a serious altercation between the Fire Chief and several retired and active duty firefighters while they were eating at a local restaurant. Here is the story:
Retired firefighters Don Regnier, Phil Phillippi and Ed Newlin and active firefighters Mike Martin and Ron Martin (no relation) were having their weekly breakfast on Dec. 7 at the Alpine Casino on 16th Street West. A firefighter made a reference to a comment left online in discussion (shown below) of a Billings Gazette article about the firefighters by “taxed2crabbiness” who they suspected was actually Rep. James Knox who was seated at the next table- also eating I presume.
Althea Cole is Runing is for Secretary
You may read her Bio and Position Statement
Dan, we as a Central Committee have a large group with such a diverse set of talents and gifts. I feel that our talents are being underutilized as of late, and I'm optimistic that this will change with new, effective leadership. Once we return to being the vibrant, enthusiastic, active body of Republicans that we have been in the past, we will find ourselves questioning the role of the Executives less and celebrating our successes as Republicans more."Assist in the formulation of policies.""Subject to the orders of the Linn County Central Committee.""None of its actions shall conflict with actions of the Linn County Central Committee."
Oh we got Trouble
Right Here in River City
And that Starts with a Tee
Which Rhymes with a Cee
and that Stands for Chair!
Has a scorching investigative report on
IOWA'S POLITICAL, COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEES NEEDLEADERSHIP!!
Greetings, Governor Branstad and all—
Controversy in the Linn County Republican Central Committee (LCRCC) caught Iowalive net workers’ attention and led to this performance report for both Linn County Republican and Democrat Central Committees—and for County Central Committees in the entire state as well. The 3rd table below shows a threat to the future of two political parties, if not the American Republic itself. And Iowalive net workers also found the larger the county population, the worse the performance numbers. Bigger is not better, Governor!! It’s worse!!
The Linn County controversy arose over The Linn County Republican Central Committee Treasurer’s refusal to sign checks sought by the Chair without the entire committee voting to spend the money. The Treasurer was following the committee's rules on expenditures.
Then there was a $100 check the treasurer, having an impressive Integrity Index Score of 560, mistakenly wrote on the LCRCC instead of the Iowa Conservative Union (ICU), in April 2014. Realizing his error, the treasurer immediately contacted the Iowa Campaign Ethics and Disclosure Board (ICEDB) to rectify the error—which easily resulted in a check for $100 issued by the ICU to the LCRCC. End of story as far as the ICEDB was concerned.
Except, the LCRCC chair and the webmaster have pounced on the $100 check non-issue and fabricated and perpetuated a mess, and are much more interested in obtaining ICU financials than improving LCRCC’s pathetic efficiency and effectiveness. Suffice it to say, an officer with a high Integrity Index Score of 560, doing his job in the LCRRC, appears to be unwelcomed by the Chair of the Committee. The numbers in the following two tables show evidence of poor chair leadership.
LINN COUNTY REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT CENTRAL COMMITTEES SHOW WHY POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS COST SO MUCH AND ACCOMPLISH AND INFORM SO LITTLE
LINN COUNTY POLITICAL PARTIES WOULD BE WELL SERVED TO ELECT MUCH BETTER TOP LEVEL LEADERSHIP! The Perceived Problem With the Republican Central Committee Treasurer is a Fabrication! The Chair Candidate and 4 New Candidates Seeking Sub Tier Positions Are No Improvement. Source: Iowalive 2-12-15 | |||
LINN COUNTY POLITICAL PARTIES | Integrity Index Score, Year-to-Date 2-1-15 | Avg. Operating Efficiency, Year-to-Date 2-1-15 | Avg. Political Effectiveness, Year-to-Date 2-1-15 |
Linn County Republican Central Committee Executives, Other Than Chair | 260 | 30% | 20% |
Linn County Democratic Central Committee Executives, Other Than Chair | 150 | 18% | 13% |
Linn County Democratic Central Committee | 2 | 5% | 3% |
Linn County Republican Central Committee | 25 | 15% | 2% |
Linn County Republican Central Committee Chair | 11 | 3% | 1% |
Linn County Republican Central Committee Finance & Election Teams | 13 | 3% | 1% |
Linn County Democratic Central Committee Treasurer and Finance | 2 | 1% | 1% |
Linn County Democratic Central Committee Chair | 1 | 1% | 1% |
Integrity is Adherence to Moral and Ethics Principles. The Antonym of Integrity is Evil | |||
Integrity Index Score Derivation Methods are Posted on Website:http://www.iowalive.net/integrityderivation.htm | |||
*Average on a scale of 0 to 1,000 tops, where significant integrity starts at 300, evil is at 250 and below. Grand larceny scores 40. | |||
Operating Efficiency Derivation Methods are Posted on Website:http://www.iowalive.net/deriveopeff.htm Political Effectiveness Was Determined Similarly. | |||
Anyone Claiming to Have Better Numbers is Asked to Provide Them, Along With Derivation Methods Used. |
COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES PRODUCED POOR RESULTS
LINN COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES CLAIMED BY THE CHAIR | Integrity Index Score | Avg. Political Effectiveness | COMMENTS |
Played a significant role in electing Joni Ernst & Rod Blum | 2 | 1% | As a result, Joni & Blum each gained about 1,000 votes in Linn County (1.1% of Co. vote for Ernst) |
Brought FOX News & Congressman Jason Chaffetz to our caucus | 100 | 2% | Chair’s objectives and results expectations for these activities were not clearly defined and communicated |
Collaborated with other Republican groups to co-host a TV-broadcast US Senate Forum | 110 | 2% | |
Hosted the District Convention | 100 | 1% | |
Donated money to our local candidates | 300 | 15% | Chair didn't say how much was donated |
Integrity is Adherence to Moral and Ethics Principles. The Antonym of Integrity is Evil | |||
Integrity Index Score Derivation Methods are Posted on Website: http://www.iowalive.net/integrityderivation.htm | |||
*Average on a scale of 0 to 1,000 tops, where significant integrity starts at 300, evil is at 250 and below. Grand larceny scores 40. | |||
Operating Efficiency Derivation Methods are Posted on Website: http://www.iowalive.net/deriveopeff.htm Political Effectiveness Was Determined Similarly. | |||
Anyone Claiming to Have Better Numbers is Asked to Provide Them, Along With Derivation Methods Used. |
We have a late entry in the Executive Board Elections
Althea Cole is Running for Secretary,
I have sent her my Nominee Questions and will post her responce when I get it.
Her Bio and Postion Statement can be found
Anyone Else who wishes to send her Nominee Questions can do so at
altheacole8@gmail.com <altheacole8@gmail.com>
I received the following email recently. It concerns events I have posted in--
And
Keith would not mind if you do what you do with this.
John
Cindy Golding
Just my opinion but the above does not sound like what the way a Party Official should be treating a formerly, but probably no longer generous donor to the Linn County Republican Party.
Not a Good Way IMO to Help Republicans Get Elected.
But a VERY Good Reason to
ELECT NEW LEADERSHIP