The Tea Party effectively has assumed control of the Washington State Republican Party. I don’t know if this is good, bad or indifferent. The Teapartiers in my county are all elderly malcontents that left the Republican party in the past couple of years. They were lazy, mean spirited individuals that tried to block any attempt at progress.
I for one, don’t have much faith in Kirby being able to lead this party anywhere except to Dick’s Drive-in for lunch. I hope I’m wrong, but Kirby is a knee jerk reactionary and did not exhibit much vision when he was a radio personality. Additionally, I was a delegate to the GOP Convention last year and witnessed Kirby in action as the Convention Chairman...he did a terrible job. Unlike previous years when Kirby ran the conventions, this last one Kirby seemed to be in over his head. We didn’t get to all the agenda items because Kirby allowed the convention to time out!
I have even less faith in the complexion of the new X-Board. Time will tell.
I've heard of a foundation or non-profit he is running, but I've never heard of what it does or if there are any accomplishments to date.
Running a state party must be a terribly hard job. Maybe energy is a prerequisite, he seems to have a good share of that.
With all due respect....
The problems with timing State conventions stem from several things: 1) delegates who are new to the process and have not read nor care to abide by Robert’s Rules of Order, 2) the lack of advance notice with time to offer alternatives to platform planks besides bringing them up as issues in a protracted floor fight (the platform committee has representation from ALL walks of Republican life and if you want up front input, just volunteer for it or go and observe), and 3) the plethora of “resolutions” that come up at the last minute and threaten to delay the timely close of the meetings to the point where folks just get up and walk out.
It is not good policy to send delegates to a convention who have no idea what is is or how to behave so that the business is conducted in a smooth and timely manner.
Kirby is from the 45th District (ours) and he runs a tight ship. He gets the main business done in a timely and orderly fashion. Conventions are not fora for airing the party’s dirty laundry - that should be reserved for PCO meetings and board meetings, which incidentally, are all OPEN.
So, before criticizing Kirby Wilbur, try doing his job.