Friday, April 15, 2005
Eating Our Young
I had wanted to hold back from talking about what's going on the Election Commission office with Fran Dzik, but now that she has announced her resignation as Elections Administrator.
This is an abomination. It seems completely evident that Fran has been run out of office by a group of worthless fools who, while ostensibly serving the people of the county, want to let nepotism reign supreme. Since Fran, God forbid, actually disciplined workers who didn't do their jobs, they decide to run her off.
Losing longtime Republican Curtis Adams is one thing. But the fact that Fran, our former party chair and a loyal Democrat, feels her only home is in the Republican party is ridiculous.
It makes me sad that this is what Democrats in our county do. Particularly - yes, I'm about to go there - in the minority community, it seems to me that any sense of values was long ago replaced by self-serving foolishness. In a community based on nepotism and selling votes to the highest bidder, we will end up losing every election. Our entire structure as a party and county is built on racial division and power struggles. It shouldn't be that way.
The challenge now falls to Stuart James. Can he do what others have not? Can he make our party a cohesive unit, burn off the dead weight, and win some elections?
Here's hoping.
This is an abomination. It seems completely evident that Fran has been run out of office by a group of worthless fools who, while ostensibly serving the people of the county, want to let nepotism reign supreme. Since Fran, God forbid, actually disciplined workers who didn't do their jobs, they decide to run her off.
Losing longtime Republican Curtis Adams is one thing. But the fact that Fran, our former party chair and a loyal Democrat, feels her only home is in the Republican party is ridiculous.
It makes me sad that this is what Democrats in our county do. Particularly - yes, I'm about to go there - in the minority community, it seems to me that any sense of values was long ago replaced by self-serving foolishness. In a community based on nepotism and selling votes to the highest bidder, we will end up losing every election. Our entire structure as a party and county is built on racial division and power struggles. It shouldn't be that way.
The challenge now falls to Stuart James. Can he do what others have not? Can he make our party a cohesive unit, burn off the dead weight, and win some elections?
Here's hoping.
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