Breaking News: Bob Tiernan eyes State GOP job
Oregon Catalyst has learned that former State Representative Bob Tienan has announced his plans to run for State Chair of the Oregon Republican Party, now held by Vance Day. The election likely will be held late January or early February.Bobis a Navy veteran and a two-term lawmaker from Lake Oswego. Tienan is promoting himself as "having the key ingredients to reinvigorate, recharge and lead the Oregon Republican Party to success."
Last Sat. he attended the State Convention and did not introduce himself to anyone.
Vance has done a good job and I believe he is now in a position to reset the Republican base. "Bob Who"
It's painfully obvious that Participation does NOT equal competence.
Welcome back, B-1 Bob. Now, impress me with your ideas.
Now that the public seems to be sick and tired of Right wing culture warriors, the anti-government and anti-union fixation, and the intellectual and economic bankruptcy of unregulated capitalism, what the Republicans really need to do is lurch further to the Right.
The reality based world salutes your determination to render yourselves completely irrelevant.
Any chance you could bring back a few other Brain Surgeons like Wayne Scott and Tootie Smith, while you're at it?
So, he uses it to present a dog and pony show for his own re-election.
Party members learned there that the debt incurred under his and the previous lawyer/chair's tenure is down to a mere $100k. And that is if you ignore a $76k bill to AT&T (which he apparently wants to do, just imagine it doesn't exist.).
His case: The party is "trending" in the right direction. Really. It would trend better through competent leadership.
The election for a new party chair in January is about competence equally as much as it is about ideology.
The fact that the chair couldn't find enough meaningful tasks to have at least three meaningful meetings this year, isn't that alone enough to indict his leadership?
And as the meeting progressed, I must say that I've never heard such talking down to members of a group as what came out of this slip-n-fall lawyer's mouth.
At the end of the meeting, in his closing argument (he conducts meetings like a trial), he actually wanted members to close their eyes and picture being some kind of civil war combattant and imagine why they had run for the position they were in.
As a jury, I was ready to settle. Settle for new leadership and nothing short of it. I wanted to imagine why anyone would ever vote for this empty-suited act.
A Different Bob Tiernan
What are you talking about? If we had unregulated capitalism we wouldn't have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and mega-tons of regulatory oversight (yes, our economy is heavily regulated), but I guess you wouldn't recognize real free enterprise if it had a sign on its head and bit you on the nose). What we have is closer to mercantalism.
What we have seen in the past several months is a failure of the managed, mixed economy.
A Different Bob Tiernan
Now back to the fracas....