6th District Convention: The Gil-Hooligans Lose Big!

After all of the nastiness from the Gil-Hooligans over the past month, Sue Everhart was re-elected chairman with 66.67% of the vote. In fact, Judson “Scudson” Hill’s candidacy didn’t even get a chance to exit the Scud missile tube…thus likely saving Cobb GOP Chair Anthony-Scott Hobbs from making his nominating speech for Scudson.

So, this was the set-up: Unlike the folks who sat on the Nominating Committee for the Cobb County convention, the 6th District Nominating Committee demonstrated maturity and fair-mindedness to all those who came before them. They produced a slate with Sue Everhart as chairman, and an even mix of candidates from both sides of the warring factions (to those Gil-Hooligans who wonder why Scudson wasn‘t nominated on the slate, it was because Scudson didn’t bother interviewing with Nominating...duhhhhh).

There was a vote to allow all District officer nominees to be voted on in a slate format, and the convention voted in favor of it. When the vote on the slate was held, 200 of the 300 total voting strength voted for the slate. Comments were made afterwards regarding the fact that there may have been a lot more votes for Sue because the folks not voting in favor of the slate could have been voting against other nominees on the slate, and not Sue herself.

Anyway, we find it really amusing that of the 208 delegates from Cobb who were authorized, only 120 bothered to show-up. Of the 202 alternates that were authorized, 69 showed-up and were immediately moved-up to delegate status, making the total voting strength from Cobb only 169. So, after all of the screwing by the Cobb Nominating Committee of long time activists at the convention last month, the Gil-Hooligans couldn’t muster enough of their reptile clan to come out to vote against Sue. Someone needs to send the Psycho-B**** some Tylenol. Make sure the instructions say "Take With Booze"...

Noteworthy Observations At the 6th

As usual, the Resolutions part of the convention had its always-reliable mix of nutty vs. sane resolutions. The nuttiest resolution came from Frank Molesky. Molesky introduced a resolution on immigration that stated, to the effect:

"Whereas, in order to be a U.S. citizen, anyone born on American soil must have at least one parent who is an American-born or naturalized citizen…” (or else what, Frank? Be deported?)

The really amusing part of this resolution stems from the fact that this statement violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thus making Molesky rather anti-American in our eyes. This is what Section 1 of the 14th Amendment states:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

The sentence says “born” in the United States. So, if a kid is born on American soil, it doesn’t matter if the parents are both from Alma, Georgia or both are from the country of Georgia...the kid is a U.S. citizen. Period.

While we are certain to set-off tons of e-mails back to us from lawyers galore, there is another aspect of Molesky’s resolution that displays total idiocy. You see, Molesky is one of those folks whose whole life revolves around abortion, and his opposition to it.

So, allow us to set-up the example that shows the ludicrousness of Molesky’s proposal: Let’s say there is a Hispanic female who is an illegal alien. She was impregnated by another illegal alien. She wants to have an abortion. Frank would be diving in front of an abortion clinic and screaming “no-no-no-no!!!! You must take your fetus to term! All life is sacred!” Then, 6 or 9 months down the road, when the baby pops out, there Frank will be again, holding his resolution and demanding that the both the woman and the child, who he will declare a non-U.S. citizen, be deported.

Gosh, does the fact that Frank is out there proposing all of these weird and whacky resolutions give all Republicans in Georgia and the country a great sense of pride about ourselves? Yeah, we thought so. Someone bring us a barf bag!

As a side note, it was Frank, along with 7 other members of the Cobb County Nominating Committee (i.e., Calvin Rhodes, Bill Lathem, Patrick Jenkins, Lew Stafford, Linda Gruetter, David Meyer, Dawn Strickland) who chose to exclude the Republican editor of the Political Vine from being a delegate to the district and state conventions merely because he chose to exercise his right to free speech…a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It’s looking more and more like these Gil-Hooligans are not Republicans, but Fascists.

Noteworthy Observations After the 6th

Cobb GOP Chair Anthony-Scott Hobbs and 6th District First Vice-Chair Mike Dvorscak were spotted at Houlihan's in huddle after the Convention. Hmmmm...wonder what they were discussing...?

7th District Convention:

After spending two months telling everyone up-and-down the 7th District that she would never run against Mike Royal, 7th District Acting Chair Kathryn Gartland opened-up a campaign against Royal this past week, only to get buried by her own incompetence in organizing the convention.

Gartland, by the way, is a protege of (cough! cough!) political know-nothing Maria Strollo, so, we really should have guessed the outcome. One convention participant summed-up his experience succinctly: “Well, as a candidate, she sounded good on the phone. She had great ideas. But, this convention is such a colossal cluster-f***, there was no way I’m going to trust her with managing the 7th!”

11th District Chair Convention:

Well, well, well...this was a banner day for the Gil-Hooligans. For they not only got stopped at the 50-yard line at the 6th, they had no better luck advancing their ball in the 11th.

Gil-Hooligan Dawn Strickland (AKA “Mini-Marilyn” for she is as evil and nasty as Marilyn Gilhuly when it comes to fabricating innuendo) was chairman of the 11th District Nominating Committee. Everyone who came out of Nominating who faced opposition from the floor got trounced by the floor challenger.

And the two sweetest wins for the “good guys” was Keith Howell for Chairman, who is also current chairman of Floyd County, and Larry Ceminsky for 1st Vice-Chair who, according to Miss Mini-Marilyn, wasn’t “conservative” enough for her. Well, Mini-Marilyn is the one with rotten eggs on her face. (And, hey, rumor is that she smiled…no…wait…okay, the reporter on the scene says it was just an eggshell oozing down her chin...Nevermind.)

By the way, you folks want to know what being “conservative enough” for the Gil-Hooligans means? It means being able to lie, cheat, beat (if necessary) and abuse people’s rights with no remorse. In fact, their definition of “conservative” is really “fascism.”

In fact, in the case of Strickland, she is more of a religious fascist much like what was experienced during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. In one of the candidate interviews, she asked the candidate this series of questions:

1) “Tell us what you can bring to the District”. Answer: “Hard work, experienced from what I’ve accomplished in my own county.”

2) “Uh-huh. Tell us. How many members of your delegation are members of the Christian Coalition?” [PV note: we kid you not.] Answer: “Well, we don’t exactly classify our membership by whether they are members of the Christian Coalition. My delegation is composed of Republicans...etc.”

3) “Okay. Well, how many Christians are in your delegation?” [PV notes: again, we kid you not. However, at this point in our interview, we were so shocked that we didn’t listen to the candidate’s response to Strickland’s line of questions.]

It should be noted that Strickland, along with Gilhuly and Calvin Rhodes, were hard-working members of the campaign of Cecil Staton in his primary bid against Congressman Phil Gingrey. Long time readers of the Vine will also recall that Linda Hamrick, Elizabeth LaVack, and…in the background, Ralph Reed and Tim Phillips were consulting on the Staton campaign as well. Gee, we still cannot figure out how Cecil could have lost that race...

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