Cobb GOP Chairwoman Marilyn Gilhuly at either the 4th of July Parade in 2001 or at the Confederate Memorial Day Parade 2002.

Rumors have it that Cobb GOP Chairwoman Marilyn Gilhuly is in-line for an appointment with the new Sonny Perdue Administration as the Commissioner of Industry and Trade.

PV Violently Chokes: Ummm, guys? (i.e., the Perdue inner-circle) This just might be one of your worst considerations to ever contemplate, and it may be the worst decision of your administration if you follow through with it.

We're not saying we have anything too personal against her (unless you count the fact that she has screwed-up the Cobb County GOP with her divisive and duplicitous methods as a "personal problem" one should have against her). We’re really concerned with her true agenda in life.

To review, she was elected because she got the Cobb County Sons of The Confederate Veterans (most of whom were die-hard Democrats) to come out to the county convention and vote for her on the platform of her working on getting the CBF (“Confederate Battle Flag”) returned to the state flag position.

Since then, of course, hardly any of these members of the SCV have come out for a county committee meeting. (As a side note, there appears to be quite a bit of a communication problem from Gilhuly on broadcasting exactly when these meetings take place. There used to be regular meetings but when Gilhuly kept catching so much flack for violating rules, she suspended regularly scheduled meetings...no doubt taking a page directly from her good friend, ralph reed, on holding meetings.)

Prior to her election, she had never participated in the county GOP activities, and she and the SCV didn’t give a rat’s ass about politics. They were out to wrest power into their hands and to hell with anyone or anything else.

When Marilyn won as chairman, her speech before the convention included these statements: “We’re going to bring more minorities into the party! We’re going to bring more women into the party!” And the SCV members in the audience cheered her on with their flag-waving and hand-clapping.

PV Checks The Reality Meter: And, what has the result been of her stewardship of this county party? More minorities? Ah-hahahahahhha! Funny. Really. Hilarious, actually.

More women? Well, sure, if you count her and Paule Chalmers, Anthony-Scott Hobbs, and First Vice-Chair Paul Ploener’s stuffing the county committee rolls with names from the membership rolls of the Daughters of the American Revolution (unasked for, by the way, by these members of the DAR). A lot of whom 1) are not Republican, and 2) did not wish to have their name associated with ANY political party.

More people engaged in the county party? Funny. Try a lot fewer. Or, to be fair and state things in real terms: more people involved who are just as clueless as Marilyn, and less of anyone who really knew the history and what the party was supposed to be engaged in; Marilyn ran those folks off with her story fabrications and malicious gossipping talents.

Of course, those of us who actually wished to participate had this funny vice: we wanted to follow county party rules. Marilyn doesn't care about rules, and nor do her followers (most of whom can be categorized as arrested-development hoodlums).

During the 11th Congressional District primary race between Cecil Staton and Phil Gingrey, she, as Cobb GOP chair, and other officers of the county party (Parliamentarian Calvin Rhodes, Anthony-Scott Hobbs, etc.) used their control of the county party to work feverishly, and publicly, against the campaign of Congressman-Elect Phil Gingrey.

During her stewardship of the Cobb GOP, she has repeatedly referred to the Cobb County Republican Women's organization as the Al-Quaida of Cobb County to her special friend, Columnist Bill Kinney, at the Marietta Daily Journal, who prints her every word. Yeah, Marilyn would make a great choice for ANY state government appointment.

People like Marilyn Gilhuly and Anthony-Scott Hobbs have zero concept of right and wrong in party politics. They decide to run roughshod over anyone who disagrees with them because they decide they can. A Georgia governor just lost his bid for reelection for engaging in that identical behavior.

PV Concludes: And, just in case, Marilyn has schmoozed and snowed the Perdue people by erasing certain items on her resume, the fact is that Marilyn’s goal in life is still very much centered around the CBF and doing anything she can to insert herself into forcing that process. Put her in charge of Industry & Trade, and see that department become the equivalent of the Cobb GOP.

And, just in case she denies it, and her benefactors try to hide it, we have this little gift to the Perdue administration at the top of the page: A 1000-word picture of Marilyn engaged in exactly what she claims to not have a significant role in her life.