.This
.
.
This is part three.
Part one – the “charges” against Greg, and his response.
Part two – we learn that the hearing will be a closed “Star Chamber.”
Out of nothing comes everything!
My fondest wish in politics has been to be in an honest political party dedicated to freedom and liberty, but also to fairness and mitigating misery.
That’s obviously not in the cards right now, so I have to settle for my second-best outcome: doing what I think is right and, if removed, have it be done in a completely arbitrary and capricious way.
I don’t want to characterize the reasons for my removal, because anything I say would sound so ridiculous that people would think that I was making it up. Ask Chumley or Florice or Skurnik or Lenore or Ray Cordova or some of the other people on that side and see if they can explain it. If you put them in separate rooms, I think you’d get all different explanations — none of which would have anything to do with the CDP rules regarding removal. I’m willing to make distinctions among Republicans and Democrats, is the main thing — and even when I follow the letter of the law, that’s not good enough. They wanted blood and nothing could stop them from getting it.
“I spent years working to improve the Democratic Party and all I got is this bloody shirt!” But a bloody shirt can be damned useful!
That’s all I have to say for now — but I’ll have plenty more to say later Stay tuned for updates!
And nobody wept.
Not like when Shawn Nelson fired you. About five people wept over it, tops.
But I don’t think that I was enough of an asshole to gouge the wound that day. You have something very wrong with you.
*Dr. D., “everything happens for a purpose” they say. The worst thing you can do is be involved with people who hold animosity or jealousy in their hearts. They will do everything possible to denounced your actions because of “another agenda”. Sometimes is strictly personal and has nothing to do with efficiency, intelligence, productivity or effectiveness. The cool thing of course is that those traits and good patterns are wanted “elsewhere”. So, complaining does none of us any good. What does do good is to vent the process. Remember always, that secrecy is always the enemy of the caring and kind! So, lets start another party, join up with an existing elected, kibitz in the corridors of power. Volunteer to even join “the undercard” perhaps! Lots to do…..not enough time to do it. Heck, run for Water Board and really piss ’em off.
“Ding Hao great one!” “No energy is made or destroyed…..only transferred!”
Strength to your sword arm Greg. I look forward to see what the next thing is.
I’m reading “How Democracies Die” and one of their theses is that Political Parties were part of the “guardrails” of democracy, keeping those with strong authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies out of the arena. It’s a bit depressing to realize that the Democratic Party, at least in Orange County, but perhaps state-wide, is willing, eager to do such an anti-democratic thing, out of naked self interest on the part of certain of it’s members. It’s unlikely to be able to function in this postulate “guardrail” role when it acts like that.
*In every major organization there are “Infiltrators”, “Usurpers”, “Naysayers”, “Power Mongers” and more often than not “Traitors to the original cause!” Yet,
knowing this makes us all stronger and more than just wary of “Intent and Agendas of less than meaningful consequence!” Those that are the “Power behind the Throne” make the phone calls, write the checks and fire whoever gets in their way!
Having said that….words like “Intrepid, dedicated and detail orientated” all come to mind. The method to achieve change however comes when you gather the rose buds of the organization….and find a meaningful constituent base, The Lone Ranger does not work without the help of the Citizen base as we all know.
Then, pretty soon…..you will find “A Convoy!” which can takeover when the wheels come off the organizational base. Hard work, many times doesn’t always win. The wars can be or result in pointless or less than fruitful results. But you must Soldier on….if you actually want to make significant changes. What do they say: “Not for the weak of heart!”? Dr. D., has a great track record in this regard and we fear not that “The Times they are a Changin” will be coming soon.
Thanks! That sounds like an interesting book. For the benefit of other readers, it’s from Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt; I won’t recommend the site because I haven’t used them, but you can download a PDF copy here.
Question: How do you get expelled from a political party when you have the right to register in any political party you want?
Technically I was expelled from the California Democratic Party’s leadership committee, the Democratic State Central Committee (analogous to DPOC for the county), but people know what CDP means and don’t understand DSCC.