I went to the GOP headquarters last night, with a small group of activists and with what seemed for a while to be an even bigger group of media
And there, we waited for the puffs of smoke for the chimney (that none of us could find):
Gradually, some of the members of the executive committee started showing up:
And then, things settled into negotiation. Which was when I left. It was hot out there.
And, apparently, it got a little hot in there, too:
Carnahan started the evening demanding ten months of severance – likely over $100K, which is probably triple what the MNGOP has in the bank at the moment.
After a 2-3 hours of hammer and tongs, it came down to a 7-7 vote for a $38,000 severance deal. Aaaand, under the rules, Carnahan got to break the tie. Which she did. Basically skipping out with the MNGOP’s bank account.
Not, naturally, without leaving the DFL and media (ptr) a natural punch line:
I mean, on the one hand, it’s so obvious, even Jennifer Brooks got it.
And it’s not wrong.
Anyway – between the upcoming audit, the election for party chair in the next 45 days, the gut-shot this likely provides the Hagedorn race in CD1 (presuming his health permits a re-election bid), and Carnahan’s stated intent to run for that congressional seat (which has to be described as “dead on conception”, at this remove), not to mention the inevitable drama of the Lazzaro trial (or, more likely I suspect, guilty plea and showing where the financial bodies are buried, likely followed by the inevitable and justifiable clawback lawsuits on behalf of the victims, which will lead back to the party’s currently nonexistant coffers), the drama’s not over.
To say nothing of the that will attend the next year in MNGOP internal politics. Of the 14 non-Carnahan members of the Executive Committee, seven voted against the severance:
The rest of ’em need to have a short, sharp conversation with their voters. Hopefully leading to some down time, in many cases (although I can be convinced).
It’s not the end of the drama. It’s not even, as Churchill said, the beginning of the end. It’s onlyh yet another end of another frustrating beginning for the MNGOP.
That’s a pretty damn fancy office for a bunch of losers.
Maybe if they put the money where it counts MN wouldn’t be such a shithole.
This is the kind of move people make when they aren’t interested in being a governing majority. They don’t want to make public policy, they just want to be a large enough minority so that they can funnel political favors to donors.
Bill,
At least it just leased office space and not a whole building like the DemoCommies have.
Also, even though they agreed to pay her a severance, there is a state law that essentially nullified Carnahan’s vote. The MNGOP can tell her to pound sand and would probably win the law suit.
She has made the story about her instead of the sex trafficking. She should have quietly resigned days ago. No integrity.
BH, the reprobates earn their keep. There is nothing so low they won’t do it to win.
When the GOP gets to that level of determination, they can have their own building too. Till then, I think a pole barn would better serve to keep them focused.
As a resident of CD1, I am none too pleased at Jim Hagedorn running again. He is an uninspired swamp creature of a candidate whose campaign is little more than, “my dad had the job and at least I am not Tim Walz.”
Now he has his wife and her sex trafficking, “I’ve got bullion in my basement” buddy to weigh him down. The guy could hardly keep his head above water as it is.
The saddest part of her reign of terror is the number of solid, young people that were the future of the party, that she ran off. Apparently, she outed one young woman whom her at least two colleagues have described as a tireless worker. She was apparently a master of the phone.
Democrats are weak, and Republicans are foolish. Surely we can meet in the middle and have both.
The MN GOP has been lacking true leaders for many years. That is quite sad for my former home state.
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And then after JC resigned
Members Jennifer Larson, Gary Stuart, Dave Pascoe resigned from the board.
Mark Blaxill, treasurer, says he will resign but will assist in transition first.
A few staffers also resigned.
Things are going well for the Republican party.