Scott County Republican leadership speechless
Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz was in town Wednesday and was the featured speaker at a SCRCC fund raising event. About forty people attended. Given that his visit brought substantive information about voter fraud in Iowa, and assurances of more revelations to come, one would think that would be cause for some significant amplification on the SCRCC website. It should have triggered an informative report, or at a minimum a reference to the press coverage provided by Quad City Times reporter Ed Tibbitts, who did report substantively and objectively.
However the most the SCRCC leadership could muster was the cursory “A special “thank you” to Matt Schultz, our Iowa Secretary of State, for speaking to our Lincoln Club at @Biaggi’s!” That and a picture of no import, about five minutes of effort, was the most they would devote to his appearance with absolutely no reference to the important subject matter. Their treatment, breathtaking in its vacuousness, was posted on Facebook, a venue requiring membership which limits its reach and usefulness particularly as more and more Republicans become aware of its security and privacy corruptions.
There has been no mention of his important comments on the news pages of the SCRCC Web site or the associated blog “The Right Side of Iowa.” Of course neither of those would be considered vibrant go-to places for anyone interested in Republican thought or affairs. The last post on the blog page was September 5 and that was posted as an in-house post. Days and weeks can go by there and on the News page without any information being posted. Two weeks have gone by without any news on the News page.
It is not like the editors of the SCRCC are beyond just lifting information without attribution. We note that the assiduous powers that be in the leadership of SCRCC have posted a QC Times article before on the SCRCC News page, in its entirety without attribution, as if it was their own. We wonder what kept them from not taking the easy way as regards the Schultz visit?
The verbatim report by Ed Tibbitts of the QC Times regarding former Senator Scott Brown being the featured speaker at the organization’s Reagan Dinner fund-raiser in November, still sits unattributed on the SCRCC News page. We do not necessarily object to substituting the QC Times report for their own effort, only to doing so without attribution. As we made light of before, here and here, the QCT report (we think accurately) exposes Brown as a nincompoop, for complaining about another politician for not having a position on a high profile matter when he had no position on the same matter!
Maybe they are still evaluating the Tibbitts article about Schultz for hidden messages before they post it presumptively as their own? Once bitten twice shy?
Schultz’s voter fraud investigation benefits from public knowledge about the effort, both so as to encourage people to come forward, providing leads and other help investigating it, and to help suppress individual and systematic efforts at voter fraud. That Republicans are taking voter fraud seriously should be amplified at every opportunity. Related projects are enhanced as to effect. Certainly Secretary Schultz thinks so or he would not talk to the press about a generic ongoing investigation.
Read the QCT report about Schultz’s efforts online here. Find out what Republicans are missing on the SCRCC “portal to the community.” R Mall
Roger,
You are a very good writer!
And… You are consistently putting out information that should be on the
Scott County Republican Part blog…. And is not.
Have you considered volunteering to be the editor…..ghost writer….. Staff……
Of our parties blog??
Also, Did anyone tell our state Mr. Clean Elections Schultz that the Scott County Democratic Auditor has for about 40 years always put the Democratic candidates for every office in the top position on the ballets… For all precincts, and in every election?
Perhaps this is a democratic strategy for other counties as well….. Is against state law,
And seriously gives the Democrats an edge of ?? 3%. To. Perhaps 5%. A terrible injustice that should be persued by Mr. Schultz.
Roger, Thanks for your efforts!
Bob Kauth
Thanks for writing. This is a journal of opinion so here goes from this end. Absurdly the local leadership must think issues primarily divide Republicans instead of primarily unite them. The local leadership does not even take the hint from other Republican leadership to support Republican legislators in their public outreach travail inter election. They do not even try to seriously counter Democrats or Obama or liberal press narratives on matters of importance to the Republican base. They have heretofore refused to facilitate others by setting forth the tools to do so through the use of the Web site. They are oblivious to the full import of the state Republican Constitution and even the local one, which refer to promoting Republican principles and electoral activities.
Soon after the Chairperson was first elected she rejected calls for making the Web site more than a calendar. The leadership fosters the presentation of little or no reason for people to vote Republican on the Web site. Just look at it. The most recent in-house election confirmed the attitude that issues are not something they want to deal with, not even to talk to fellow Republicans about in furtherance of the platform. It seems they must feel that people should vote for Republicans, (and it apparently can mean anything), because people should vote for Republicans because they are Republicans. Circular reasoning is not an issue with them. It is a club membership thing in effect.
The current Web site is used primarily to post pictures and as a calendar of events. Just scroll thorough it and you will see. Educating people about the platform, going after Democrats, or for that matter even advocating their vague concepts of “Republicanism” much less any concrete application of it, has not been a very bright ping on their radar. It may be a control issue, which is a bureaucratic attribute, not a leadership attribute. Leaders delegate (but still take responsibility for their choices). Bureaucrats are scared and worry about control and niggling things and check marks that are subsidiary.
The cheapest tool at their disposal to grow the party and to foster communication within and to inform the outside world of what the Republican Party stands for, and oppose what Democrats stand for, is the vibrant use of the Web site.
Wow Matt Schultz is awesome and I would have loved to see him in person. Only 40 people there? I remember when he came out to the fairgrounds when we were delegates in 2012 and he rocked the place. He was fresh off of kicking Chris Matthews in the ass during an MSNBC interview!