Last week, I asked – what role should a Congressional District GOP committee and administration have when it comes to assisting its associated Congressional District’s congressional candidate, as well as its various BPOUs’ legislative races?<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning, I went over some of the feedback I’d gotten. \u00a0And yesterday at noon, we looked at an email by newly-elected 4th CD GOP chairman John Kysylyczyn which seems to mean that he thinks that, as regards the district’s various races, there really is no role – and that, in Kysylyczyn’s own words, “To be frank, it does not matter if we are up to any particular speed for this fall\u2019s elections<\/em>…I sat down the first week on the job and read the state and CD constitutions and the bylaws. My analysis is strictly based off of those documents”.<\/p>\n In writing this series, I wrote to Kysylyczyn to ask him what he, the chairman, thought the role of the 4th CD in fact was. \u00a0His response: \u00a0“I read your blog and with all due respect, it didn’t rise to a journalistic standard where I would feel comfortable participating”. \u00a0 Further: \u00a0“Because I own a print newspaper, maybe my standards are unreasonable high, but they are my standards and I would ask for your understanding”.<\/p>\n Are Kysylyczyn’s standards as a print newspaper owner too high (he owns the Anoka County Recorder, a paper that prints public notices, syndicated copy and press releases)? \u00a0Are mine too low?<\/p>\n Maybe he’ll answer questions for the mere peasants who live and work and try to support a party in the 4th CD?<\/p>\n