Everything was set up for Kirby.
If you thought the unethical (and illegal) advantages Lori Sotelo gave herself for re-election – using Republican Party assets for her own, private re-election campaign (here: The real story of the 2012 KCGOP Organization Meeting Part I) – were outrageous, well, she has nothing on State Chair, Kirby Wilbur. While Sotelo used the power of incumbency to control the agenda and give herself about a two-hour speaking advantage in the King County Organization meeting, Kirby did the same thing over two DAYS at the State Party version:
- On Friday and Saturday at “required” meetings of bodies over which he never held and now, certainly no longer holds authority, Kirby and the allies of his re-election effort presented “orientation” to the cornucopia of benefits Committee members could receive if they re-elected him. All of them, the top-down, centralized control “services” that bureaucrats are practiced at producing (and that have led the GOP to perennial loser status in Washington State).
- At the meeting itself, while scrupulously segregating “non-Committee members” from the meeting floor, Kirby had the County Chairs seated illegally, before any vote of the State Committee could even pretend to have authorized it, simply because he held a perceived vote advantage among them. Lori Sotelo’s county was allowed to seat six representatives, in violation of state law, while no other county had more than three.
- Non-member “staffers” and Kirby partisans were given control of the venue (by Kirby), seemingly without any authority at all, while Kirby himself disavowed any power to control them saying, “I’m not chair, anymore…” And they let his friends in, keeping others out.
Nevertheless…
As we previously reported, after the first round of voting… and the dust of all the favoritism afforded the incumbent had settled…
A majority of the ballots cast were for someone other than Kirby Wilbur.
Wilbur got 56 votes
“Not Wilbur” got 58 votes
But the 58 votes were split two ways, necessitating a second ballot.
And it was clearly the price the “liberty” movement paid for the disunity sewn among their own ranks by self-serving National leadership. No effective Party leaders have been allowed since 2008 by the intentional, willful act of Ron Paul “professionals,” nor has cooperation with outside groups been tolerated. They will not be missed.
On the second ballot, for reasons that beg analysis, Kirby Wilbur collected Eleven (!) new votes.
Second Ballot
113 votes cast
Wilbur 67
Eichner 46
Kirby Wilbur won back for another two years the chairmanship that he has used to thwart every objective of the Republican Party. Under Wilbur we didn’t run conservatives (by his clear choice) and the candidates we DID run lost.
Is recall an option in party elections?
Of course… ~2/3rd majority vote of the Central Committee!
Oh … that’s right… the Central Committee, created by State law to protect the right of the electorate to control the outcomes of party activities in nominating candidates to the ballot, rarely meets to fulfill her critical liberty duty! For a long time now the mantel of power has been torn from her shoulders to be worn by that vulgar and parent-less creation called the executive committee.
However, even in the absence of that centrally powerful, anti-suffrage monster, the lack of will to return to liberty principles and leadership manifest by the current Central Committee presages a dark period once again for the party and liberty. The years ahead seem destined again to be marked both by the absence of Central Committee political action for true liberty, but also by a fatal weakness of will to muster the necessary 2/3rds required to replace the chair just narrowly elected!
There seems no doubt that the monster referred to above, and those who advocate it’s tyranny, have not a hope of gaining even a narrow win two years hence! But will those two years defend a living and breathing electorate, in liberty, and under the rule of law? That is a long time without ‘oxygen’ to sustain liberty in a dying body politic!
I doubt that the vital force of liberty will be sustained for two years!
Do not count on incantations to revive the corpse of freedom!
The time for life saving action is now!
I am proud to know I will not be missed! I am also glad to hear My money won’t be wasted either!
Thanks for your update, Doug. To the extent it’s possible, we need to keep track of everyone who voted to keep Kirby as the ever-abusive State Chair. As state-wide organizations form to end this nightmare of liberal control, we don’t want to repeat the kind of infiltration these same crooks accomplished within various Conservative candidate campaigns.
Same goes for PCOs who voted for Sotelo or the establishment regimes running other county parties. We can do without their sabotage next time.
At least one ‘Ike” supporter was seen cutting Ike’s throat, thick as thieves, with Kirby on Friday night. Couple that with Mitch’s supporters who decided to vote for Kirby….
This is the last year of ‘establishment’ control. The RLC (2014 KICK OFF) begins a new day for liberty.
The Establishment Strikes Back
Voting was done by ‘secret ballot’ – brought to you by the creators of the “UNITY” slate.
In Snohomish County, we lost at the org [meeting], but we made gains over the previous org [meeting]. I’m hopeful that with prayer, planning and hard work real Republicans will prevail in 2014. The big question is, will there be anything left to save? Two more years of running liberal Democrats pretending to be Republicans might be more that traditional Republicans can bear.
Leaving dust where they found a party would be mission-accomplished for the liberal infiltration project which has been destroying the GOP in several states for the past 30 years.
Same crap going on in Alaska.
we have made great gains. the tide has turned and the liberty caucus is in the ascendancy. let’s focus in making more gains in 2014 as we bring more liberty minded folk into the party. the dems and the neo-cons are only aiding us in our cause.