I'm Late, I'm Late for a Very Important Date!

 There are some peopl who have a fetish about time.

We have a few in the Central Committee.   They seem to place a greater importance on what time the meeting ends than if whether or not the business needed got done.

I recall an online exchange I had recently with a couple they were ecstatic that the meeting adjourned at 8:30 PM.

As for me I was concerned that for instance the Finance Subcommittee had FIVE items that they wished to bring to the Body's attention and were not given the time to do so,

But then shutting off presentations by the Finance Subcommittee by the Chair is not a new issue.

Sometime back the Finance Subcommittee spent 3 months working on a new insurance proposal, getting quotes, comparing prices etc.

The Chair had been informed of this.

When their Chair tried to be recognized at a meeting to present the Subcommittees findings the Central Committee Chair ignored him.

Later the Central Committee Chair presented the Executive;/Advisory Committee with a CRISIS.

The Central Committee's insurance was about to EXPIRE.

There was NO TIME.

Action must be taken NOW.

My understanding is that a member of the Finance Subcommittee who was at the Executive/Advisory Subcommittee meeting made a motion to allow the Executives to cut a check to renew the Insurance (with the Insurance company the Chair has their business insurance with)

Now this person KNEW the Finance Subcommittee had been working for THREE MONTHS on other better methods of insurance and he went behind their backs at this meeting and undermined them.

How slimy IS that?

Other problems with this aciton is the situation definition of meaning which alters an  ADVISORY Subcommittee in to one who makes DECISIONS for the Body?

Not to mention the FACT that their were only TWO Executives at the meeting and it takes a Quoram for the Executive Board to Act on ANYTHING.

I am sorry but a Quoram is MORE than One Half and One Half or TWO of a FOUR Person Executive Board is NOT more than One Half,

Not to mention that it was ILLEGAL and a Violation of the Bylaws for the Check to be written WITHOUT the Signature of the Treasurer?

But then RULES, Constituions ByLaws etc are not meant to be applied to THESE People they are ABOVE such petty matters.

Now we will come to the upcoming Elections.

When they tell you that they HAVE to be held the SAME Night as the Nominations and that we HAVE to only allow the Candidates 2 minutes and that we CANNOT allow Questions from the Floor,

Are you going to tell them that YOU the Central Committee decide differently and CHANGE their Proposed Rules?

Or are you just going to

JUMP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 1:45 AM CST
Updated: Friday, 6 February 2015 10:43 AM CST
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Back in the Clinton Era there was a lot of Debate on the Meaning of Is

At the Linn County Central Committee we have been discussing the meaning of  a few terms. Committee and Manage.

It would seem that some have adopted and Alice Though the Looking Glass definition of the meaning of words.

This first arose when members of the Communications Subcommittee took issue with the monthly meeting Committee Reports including the Webmaster.

Because we said the Webmaster is not a Committee and the Communications Subcommittee has been givern the mandate by the Central Committee of oversight on the Website as is stated in our Charter.

This created some controversy and for instance the Organizational Subcommittee refused to remove the Webmaster as a Committee in the section of its Agenda titled Committee Reports.

Our position is based on two portions of our Charter.

And

The Chair of the Office Subcommittee disagrees with me.

"The webmaster is not under the jurisdiction communications committee. Take a deep breath and relax while I try to educate you on this… The communications committee is responsible for "content" as you correctly identified. It is the responsibility of the office committee however for the management of the communications infrastructure!"

The Charters for both Subcommitees can be found in Appendix B of the July, 2015 Central Committee Minutes

HERE 

I have looked through the Office Charter several times and it does say that they are responsible for the Computer, Hard Drive and Records that are IN the Office,

And thery are responsible for the Internet Conneciton that is IN the Office.

But try as I may I cannot seem to find ONE instance where the word Website  is mentioned.

You would think if the Office Subcommittee is responsible for that it might be mentioned at least once in their Charter.

It is mentioned Twice in ours?

Might I also point out we had the Website Mandate before there WAS an Office?

Let the Office Subcommittee stick to its own kniting and stop trying to raid other Subcommitees. 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 8:07 AM CST
Updated: Thursday, 5 February 2015 9:25 AM CST
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During the Soviet Era one of the few means for the common people to practice resistance was street Humor,

Some of the anecdotes concerned Elections.

Dimitri was walking to the Ballot Box when he started opening his Ballot,

"Dimitri!"  The Political Commisar snarled, "Just WHAT do you think you are doing?"

Excuse me Comrade Commisar, but I was just curious who I was voting for.

"Dimitri you FOOL." the Political Commisar growled. "Don't you know this is SECRET Ballot." 

The Central Committee is scheduled to have an Officer's Election. 

The Details and Proposed Rules can be found HERE.

Upcoming LCRCC Nominations & Elections   Dear Republican, The bi-annual election of officers for Linn County Republican Central Committee (LCRCC) will be held at our regularly scheduled meeting, Feb. 17, 2015.  The location isLongbranch Hotel & Convention Center, 90 Twixt Town Rd., Cedar Rapids.    If you are interested in running for an office, please send your name and the position you are seeking (Chair, Co-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer) to the webmaster.  You may include a 3-5 sentence statement (bio or other info) and a picture, but these are not required.  If received by Feb 8, it will be included in a Mailchimp Email and distributed through our social media.      Proposed Rules - Nominations/Election  2/17/2015     Process/procedures  Voting will be by secret ballot. One vote per eligible voter per ballot. No ballots shall leave the voting floor. Must be present to vote - no proxies. Candidates may observe the vote count. Nominations require a second and will be accepted at the February meeting. Candidates shall have two minutes to speak at the February meeting. There will be no questioning of candidates from the floor. Elections will be in the following order: Chair Co-Chair Secretary Treasurer Who can vote Precinct representatives and assistant representatives must check in with the credentials team. Credentialed Precinct representatives and credentialed assistant representatives may vote. Assistant representatives may vote only if Precinct representatives are not present. If more assistant representatives are present than positions to be filled, seating shall be determined by first arrival. Credentialing cuts off when all in line are credentialed. Precinct representatives and assistant representatives will be notified by USPS, postmarked 10 days prior to the election. Notice of the election will be posted on the Webpage, Face Book Group invite, and sent out via Mail Chimp.

When someone talks about changing how elections are run to Improve the process??  It gets my attention,

There are a few things that caught my eye,

For instance:

1. Candidates shall have two minutes to speak at the February meeting.
2. There will be no questioning of candidates from the floor.

1. If more assistant representatives are present than positions to be filled, seating shall be determined by first arrival.

3. Just so everyone does not think that I am totally adverse to change there is one I would suggest

ELECT NEW LEADERSHIP

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 12:55 AM CST
Updated: Wednesday, 4 February 2015 10:03 AM CST
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Hi everyone my name is Dan and I am an

                                         ILK

 HI DAN!

It is because I am lacking in any aspect of Human Decency, Compassion for my fellow Party Members or Comprehension of the Concepts of Morality and Ethics

That I wish to completely destroy the Linn County Republican Central Committee and Suck the Marrow from it's Bones.

 Or at least that is the claim relayed to me by the Chair of the LCRCC's Office Subcommittee.

&thus u have just revealed how sick u all are. Taking pride in the destruction of the LCRCC. truly it's a sad day...go ahead & give yourselves a nice pat on the back! 

But I think he does me too much credit.  I am only one person and am not in a position to do much destruction.

Now I do understand the process.  I have been watching with dismay while for over a year an expert has been demolishing what we built up under the Previous Chair.

So the First Step is--

Get Elected Chair.

Now you want to pick a nice healthy Central Committee one with a good Treasury,

It is not much of a challenge to demolish a Central Committee that is in  disarray with a depleted Treasury and you will not get much street cred amongst your fellow Central Committee demolishers.

You want to start small.  The basic method is based on the frog in s slowly boiling pot of water. 

 You might want to start by berating and castigating volunteers setting up for a function for placing more than 5 mints in the center of the tables.

This will prompt them to refuse to volunteer for anything that you might be involved in and you must make certain that you are involved and insist on running EVERYTHING.

About this now it will be time to CLAIM that certain aspects of the Constitution and ByLaws do not apply to you.

It is important NOT to violate any of their provisions just make the claim.

You might start by saying that some people want to move the meeting and while you COULD make that decision yourself, you think it is best to let the Commitee decide,

You see there is this pesky little part of the Constitution that says.

 The Executive Committee is subject to the orders of the Linn County Central Committee, and none of its acts shall conflict with actions of the Linn County Central Committee.

If you have done all the above or even some of it you MAY be able to take a Central Committee that had cohesion, unity and a track record of accomplishments and turn it into a ruin,

THEN run for a second term so you can finish it off. 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:01 AM CST
Updated: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 3:16 AM CST
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Who's There?

Webmaster

Webmaster Who?

Webmaster Gone Wild!

And that is certainly the truth.  Our webmaster has gone off the reservation,

Why do I say that?  Well he does not seem to be able to read the Communication Subcommittee's Charter,

Now IT says :

Mission Statement - The objective of the Communications Team is to manage the LCRCC correspondence including Facebook, website, news releases and online calendar. 

 

 It also says:

Activities and Duties include: • Coordinate the use of the LCRCC web site and Facebook content. 

 

For some reason he has a problem with the above.

He has expressed this to us

 I do not see the website as under communications. I have asked that the meetings be changed to a more reasonable time and perhaps location but you have yet to make any effort to do so.  

One could possibly be an issue of literacy. The inability to read what would appear to most to be simple and clear statements,

The other part I don't understand.  I mean on the one hand he complains that we hold it in a Bar,  The Starlite to be exact.  Now the Starlite does have a Bar, it also serves food and I have seen a lot of people bring their children there.

Including our Webmaster. As I recall we brought his daughter to one of our meetings there.

I cannot either understand his adversion to there being a Bar in the Building,  Does he not notice the even larger Bar at the Lone Star when we goes to an Organizational Meeting?

Of course he does. Where else would he get the schooner of Beer he enjpys during the meeting.

For many years the Communications Team has met Saturday nights at the Starlite,  Maybe 8 or 10 people attend our official meetings there.

I do know that some churches including the one our Webmaster goes to have services on Saturday night.

I also know those services end an hour to an hour and a half before we meet.

I think his objectons are a tad this side of verasity.

One of the problems we have with each other is he thinks we are old fashioned.  We have to tried to convince him that we do not use archaic and primative forms of communication,

But to no avail he has gotten vehement at times,

I read your minutes and I must say I will be apposing this and very verbal about it too. I have attempted and continue to attempt to simplify things and the maintaining of a group page and your retiring of the fan page is in direct opposition to this effort.

 

The removal of access what voted upon and has been previously discussed in meetings.

 

I will not be reporting to the communications team. PERIOD. You and the rest of the team do not communicate, your lack of understanding of technology hinders this and the continual desire to meet on a Saturday evening in a bar opposes any modicum desire to be effective in meeting.  If you and your committee wish to have communication delivered through the technology avenues available, I would suggest you begin to develop strategies and either deliver them using them or through me. Either way is perfectly fine as my role is to provide and assist, not to inhibit. Your aforementioned actions are to inhibit.

 

Last the dissolution of website hosting.  If you present this YOU will look like an uncommunicative old

 

(Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,)

 

Obvious to me this is a personal attack, but one YOU will look bad as you present this.

This little diatribe was the result of our understanding that the webmaster consdiered two Face Book Pages redundant and wanted to get rid of one,

We looked at the situation during a meeting in his absense as usual and thought  Hmm The Group Page has 370 members the Fan Page has 67 Likes ( I think it is up to 96 now)  Which one do we delete?

Since then we have discovered again without the benefit of the webmaster there are facets of the Fan Page that can be up great use.  Which for some reason have never been implemented.

As to the website?  Website providers have over the years become more and more user friendly.  While it is nice to have an IT specialist handling it NOW, it is our desire some time in the future when this process has developed to the appropriate stage to transition the website to one anyone one wiht a minimum amount of trainling could use.

We want to stay current with the newly developing technologies ;-) 

Lastly as for what could be considered a personal attack of our Subcommitee Chair?

Old  (Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,)

As a Old  (Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,) myself I can recognise a younger and fledgling  (Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,) and think that this was mostly projection on our webmasters part..

Our Webmaster during the last meeting brought up some new features he wants the Committee to purchase for him to play with.

I have to admit, while I have no problems with automatic posting that he extolls, I WOULD like to see some effort to edit out the duplicative and redundant posts that result.

The Facebook Group Page recently had One post showing the three upcoming dates for the Office Committee Meetings.

The Fan Page had multiple posts for each of the dates.

Now I suppose it might be a matter of taste which looks better One Post with 3 Dates or Three Posts each with a different date,

I do feel that most people might think that SEVEN posts for the Three dates was overkill, and that some manual editiing to remove the FOUR uneeded Posts might be in order?

So as for his requests for new features?

I think that when Little Jimmie Knox learns to Play Well With Others.

And Take Care of the Toys He Has Now?

We might talk about getting him some more Toys. 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:31 AM CST
Updated: Monday, 2 February 2015 9:39 AM CST
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It has the Rules of Order, the ByLaws and the County Constitution Smeagol.

One Rule to Bind them. Once Rule to Guide them.

One Law to Light them from the Darkness.

During the last Central Commitee Meeting we had the distasteful Duty of removing one of our members for a Violation of the  County Constitution.

 A member may be removed by the County Central Committee for inattention to duty, incompetence, or active support of an opponent of a Republican nominee.

The issues involved in tfhe removal have been aptly described by State Central Committee member David Chung on his blog HAWKEYEGOP in

DOING THE RIGHT THING — THE LINN COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE VOTES TO REMOVE A GOP SUPERVISOR 

 Though that title is a tad misleading he is still a County Supervisor, but was removed from membership in the GOP County Central Committee for a Violation of Our Constitution.

The Gazette chimed in with an anlysis from the Left in

Linn County GOP boot prompts soul search

 I liked the bit about:

It would have been smart for the county GOP to let it slide. All’s well that ends well. But rules are rules, apparently. And all that GOP talk we often hear about traditional values, like loyalty and friendship, for example, is null and void if it means crossing partisan trenches. 

Yes we removed others for this same offence in the Past so it just makes sense we excuse it this time because the person who did it is important?

We do espouse Traditional Values and they include besides those mentioned above respect for Constitutions and Rulle of Law.

But as has happened in the Past during our deliberations we heard the Baaaaaa  Bleating of

What does this have to do with Electing Republicans? 

Everything.

At the Birth of our Nation the Founding Fathers realized that as Evil as the Tryanny of the One was the Tryanny of the Many.

So they set Checks and Balances to protect Minorities and Individuals.

They created not a Simple Democracy but a Constitutional Based Representative Republic based on the Rule of Law.

Some believe in this.  Some just give it Lip Service and Some don't even bother to give it that.

The outcry:

What does this have to do with Electing Republicans?  

 Loosely translates into:

We don't need No Steenking Constituion. We want to do what we want to do and if it is in the Way, Ignore It 

If we do that Once then the next time will be easier and that road leads to a place where we have given up those Principles that we used to Stand For,

The Constitution, The Rule of Law, Personal Responsibility. the Concept that for Our Actions there can be Consequences and a Real Man or A Real Woman accepts  that their Actions have Inherent Results.

There was NO Secret about what our County Constitution Said.

If we give up our Support for the Sanctity of Constitutions, the Rule of Law and all that means then we will no longer be helping Elect Republicans but something that wears the mantle of the word but is instead the mirror image of the other side.

Our Party will be composed of people no different than our opponents who desire Government by Edict rather than the Rule of Law, they will just want to be the ones giving the Edicts.

For the Sanctity of the Constitution is MORE than a Belief

It Is Who We Are 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:31 AM CST
Updated: Friday, 30 January 2015 9:16 AM CST
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The phrase Musical Chairs does not refer to funiture which can play instruments but to the Fair Game where the Chairs dissapear one after the other.

Somewhat like what the Chairs of the Linn County Republican Central Committee seem to do about every two years.

I recall the first Chair and Commitee I met maybe 10 years ago.

There seemed to a lot more attending in those days.  Everyone seemed to like the Chair.  As far as I could tell there was a lot of spirit but no real direction.

But I had not been around long and maybe did not at that early stage understand how things operated.

I watched, listened chipped in to help where I could and did not really say much.

Then we got a new Chair.  Again a Lot of energy, focus and drive.  We developed Subcommittees. We got an Office. We ended an Election cycle not as many Central Committees in the hole or just breaking even.  But with money in the bank,  A bit over $6000.

To me things seemed to be going very well but I detected a few people who got together in small groups before and after the meeting who did not seem to like the Chair.  Why I did not know.

I continued to watch, listen, chipped in to help where and when I could and did not say much.

Then we got a new Chair with a complete new set of officers.  A lot of them had been those who got together in small groups before and after the meetings who did not seem to like the Chair. Why?  I did not know,

That is when things changed.

They closed the office and moved the meeting. They did this on their own and did not consult the Committee.

I watched and listened.  I heard people ask them, " By what authority do you do these things?"

The answers were. We won. The Constitution and the ByLaws give us that authority.

So I got copies of the County Constitution and Bylaws and I READ them.

Then I thought about them. And I realised that not only did the Constitution and ByLaws NOT give them the authority to do what they were doing, it said they were not to do them PERIOD.

There was this pesky section in the County Constitutionwhich said:

 The Executive Committee is subject to the orders of the Linn County Central Committee, and none of its acts shall conflict with actions of the Linn County Central Committee.

I thought about this a long time.  And when I had thought about it enough?  I---

                    SAID SOMETHING 

I said it here as a matter of fact, The first section of articles on Hot Issues From Linn County Iowa dealt with what I decided to say.  

Which was.

You are Violating the County Constitution and Bylaws and this is--

                         WRONG 

And thus I became a participant in the  controversy that we hear has been a trade mark of Linn County,.

I was not the only one who spoke out there were others. Quite a few of them. 

We battled for a while and eventually that Chair and that Executive Board was

                          GONE 

The membership had gone down and the all the money in the Bank Account was gone. But a bad time in Linn County seemed to be over. 

The new Chair made a pledge in one of the first meetings.  He promised to act as a partner and assist and advise the Committe and to follow the Constitution and Bylaws and recognise that the Committee was the one who made decisions.

And he also said that if did not these things he was certain that--

I would say something to him.

Things went very well after that. We did at the start have to take up a collection during the meeting to pay for the room because the bank account did not have enough in it but things got better.

Attendance went up as people came back, There was a new drive and new unity and energy.

We ended up an election cycle with over $20,000 in the Bank 

Then as every thing does this part of the cycle came to an end.  The Chair, because of business and health reasons had to step down.

And we got a new Chair.

Who decided that what the Constitution or the ByLaws said did not matter,  That THEY were the Executive and THEY could make decisions for us.

I was at this time the Pariliamentarian, who is supposed to be neutral.

So

I watched and I listened and I did not say much but it was a strain.

Then the Chair decided to dispose of my services.  The same night they convinced the Treasurer to step aside TEMPORARILY (?) and--

I did not have to be neutral any longer

So

                  I SAID SOMETHING 

I said it here just like I had done those years before.

Which was.

You are Violating the County Constitution and Bylaws and this is--

                         WRONG 

And thus I became a participant in the  controversy that we hear has been a trade mark of Linn County,

 Again.

At the last meeting of the Central Commitee the State Chair and a Local Member of the State Central Commitee spoke to us about getting along,

The said all the Conflict got in the way of Getting Republicans Elected.

The State Chair can tell there has been and is at the present time quite a bit of controversy, But he has not been around here so he does not know the issues,.

The Local Member of the State Central Committee over the years has been busy with his Family, his Church and representing us at the State Level so He ALSO has not been around much.

If he had,  He would know that just a few years ago the Linn County Central Commitee was EVERYTHING He and the State Chair said they wished it could be,

There was no Fighting, No controversy there was an Energy, Unity and Focus and a lot more people attending the meetings.

We can get all that back.

We know how to do it

We did it before

The first thing that needs to happen is the present Chair and entourage needs to be--

                              GONE 

We need New Leadership,.  And this time it would be nice if we did that BEFORE all the money in the Bank Account was spent and too many of the members who supply the bulk of the volunteer acitvity and work are gone.

We can get them back and we can rebuild the Bank Acount, We have done it before.

But it would be nice if we did it at the Officer Elections Coming up soon.

If we want to go back to when things really Worked?

             VOTE NEW LEADERSHIP IN 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 3:05 AM CST
Updated: Thursday, 29 January 2015 3:23 AM CST
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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,. 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 1:49 AM CST
Updated: Wednesday, 28 January 2015 2:21 AM CST
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Things used to be so much simpler.

There was Space. You knocked around in it.

There was Time.  You went from Past through Present to the Future, only.

Then they complicated it with something called Spacetime 

Everything is now all mixed up Spacetime and be bent, twisted and folded.  Distant points can be come close, time can be turned backwards.

Recently while perusing the most recent DR-2 forms I spotted some Temporal anomalies.

Could Spacetime in the DR-2 have been folded?

Looking through a DR-2 can be a lot of fun.

It is sometimes possible to Find Oneself.

And we all know how important "Finding Oneself" has become in the last 50 or so years. 

 So as I said I looked and there I was

10/21/2014 Check #1121

Kauffman, Daniel

1637 D Avenue NE

Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-5231

 $75.00 

Chili Cookoff

Hmm looks like I was a major, no I was THE major supporter, Me and my 5 tickets.

 Looking further I see

11/19/2014 PayPal

Kauffman, Daniel

1637 D Avenue NE

Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-5231

None $41.99 

Holiday Party

Number 2 nested between 

Hart, Brenda

235 Highland Drive N. W.

Cedar Rapids, IA 52405 

and

Knox, James P

372 Willshire Ct. NE

Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 

It is just passed this point the Temporal anomalies crop up.

As I recall the price of a ticket was to be $40 if purchased on or before November 25th 

Yes the terms were 

Price of tickets $40 until November 25

$50 from November 26-December 10

Location Longbranch Hotel

Social hour (cash bar) 6pm

Dinner  7pm

Guest speakers to be announced at a later time.

Questions,call Brenda 319 310-7302 

FAQs

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Call Brenda 319 310-7302

 What is the refund policy?

No refunds

Can I purchase tickets at the door?

There will be no tickets avaialble at the door.

But what is this I spy?  Must be about  12 tickets bought AFTER Dec 10.

As many as  7 on Dec 16  (at the door)

And even 4 not just after the cutoff date, but up to several days after the Party.

This was in reality a pretty good idea,.  Had they stayed with the original format they would have been seriously in the hole.

HINT: If you are planning an Event and you want it to be a Financial Success?

Perhaps it might not be wise to alienate a large portion of the membership  BEFORE you have their Money? 

Too bad that the word did not get around to everyone.  A Central Committee friend informed me that they knew of several people who would have/might have come if they had known the "There will be no tickets avaialble at the door."  had been changed.

But what really makes one wonder if Temporal Flow had been Folded and reversed is the number of people who not only after the November 25th CutOff Date but after the Decemeber 10th End of Purchasing Date, at the Door and even after the Party.

Managed to get the $40 price for their tickets.

Now I do not fault most of these folks in any way.

After all they merely paid the price they were told to.

Only ONE. person among them was in a position to changer the price.

While it is true the Chair bought 4 tickets before November 25th through PayPal for $40 plus the PayPal charge

They ALSO paid $40 for a ticket the night of the Party.

It really does not matter WHY this was done.

What matter is that it is inherently Unfair to the People who paid Full Price.

By my count there are about 15 people who are due a $10 refund on some 20 tickets.

You can go to the DR-2 Form and see for yourself 

What happened is NOT the way we should conduct our affairs.

Some might say this indicates a lapse of judgement by Leadership and for That?

There is a simple solution latter this Winter 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:35 AM CST
Updated: Tuesday, 27 January 2015 4:10 AM CST
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There is an old saying in the Business World.

If it's not wrtten down, it doesn't exist.

Recently there was a difference of opinion on what was and was not written down between the Linn County GOP Central Commitee Chair and a Local Business.

I Posted about this previously in

Show Us The Proof    and In Their Own Words

One side says we requite a Proof Copy to review and a Contract for both of us to sign before any agreement is settled.

The other side maintains that they had an agreement over the phone and some artwork was sent to them so therefore the money for the ad is owed.

Let us set aside for the moment the issue of who was or was not right or wrong.

Let us look at the events and the History of this Business and the local Conservative Community.

Was this the first time they had engaged in a charitible donation activity?

Hardly not there are numerous examples of their generosity to the Conservative and Republican Cause,

Why I understand during the last election they sent a shipment of pizzas out to the Victory office for the workers,

I also understand someone else tried to take credit but that everyone knew where they really came from.

That being the case and considering their long history of generosity and donating in support of us.

What would a Wise Leader have done? 

Some might say they would have considered the Business's long History of generosity and said something like

Oh I am terribly sorry for the misunderstanding don't give it another thought. I will take care of everything.

They might not suggest continuing to send bill and or tell them it would be really terrible if this got out in public and gave the business some bad publicity.

What would NOT every be advised would be that the Webmaster would put a boycott request on the County GOP Facebook Group Page or on 20 other people's pages including a sitting Congressman.

I mean that sort of activity would NOT be condusive to attacking donors and Helping Republicans Get Elected.

So what should WE do to alter this sorry state of affairs?

I think a change in Leadership might be in order.

There should definitely be some  discipenary action taken over the Boycott posts.

It is never in the best interest of Helping Republicans Get Elected to slander donors. 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:12 AM CST
Updated: Monday, 26 January 2015 2:37 AM CST
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