| That letter was written by Bill Cullen, who as recently as 21 September 2010, was a Vice Chair with the local Republican Party.
Oh - and Bill Cullen was the 2006 GOP-Endorsed Candidate, to run against Maria Ruud; Cullen lost by 10 points.
But Mr. Cullen didn't tell you that in his letter in the print edition last Thursday - and the Editor didn't catch it. And Mr. Bozanich didn't tell you that yesterday, when he reposted Mr. Cullens Letter To The Editor, entitled "Chameleon Candidates".
Mr. Cullen's letter to the editor starts out:
"I miss Paul Wellstone and Ronald Reagan. They were both leaders. They never pretended to be something just to get elected."
Well, it seems to me that former GOP-Endorsed candidate AND until just a few weeks ago a GOP Vice Chair Bill Cullen is pretending, too: pretending to be "just your ordinary, average concerned citiizen" and NOT the guy that lost to Maria Ruud 4 years ago AND until recently, was a local GOP Party Officer.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is dirty politics. And the local GOP has a history of playing this trick; in fact, in 2006, a local GOP ViceChair - Al Bode - did the same thing for then-candidate Cullen.
One memorable "trick" the local GOP pulled a few years ago, was reprinting letters to the editor from the EP News on their local GOP website - but changing the title the Editor chose to give those letters. This gave the casual reader it was THE EDITOR that gave the inflammatory titles that the GOP renamed the letters - because the GOP was saying "as published in the Eden Prairie News"
For instance, I had a letter to the editor that read in the newspaper:
"Voter ID bill not understood"
On the GOP website, it read:
Reprinted from Eden Prairie News, Letters to the Editor, Thursday, June 15, 2006
Voter ID supporter asks "simplistic questions" . . .
Another letter to the editor was published in the paper as:
"Election safeguards"
On the GOP website, it read:
"Maria Ruud Protects Vote Fraud"
By Al Bode
Yes, that Al Bode - at that time a current Vice Chair of the local GOP, as discussed above.
When the Editor of the Eden Prairie News found out and told the local GOP to change the titles back to as they actually were titled, do you think the GOPers did?
Of course not. They simply changed the posts to "as published in the Sun Current."
Needless to say, when the Editor of the Sun Current found out, they were not amused either. It's a real shame when local citizens visit a local party's website to get information, and they get DISinformation instead.
It's that type of behavior by the GOP that causes me to say, and say often:
"reasonable people have no reason to reasonably believe anything today's GOP "leadership" says."
Because these are but a few examples of how low the GOP has sunk.
If you haven't read why LTC (Retired) Joe Repya left the GOP, go read it here.
From it:
So why on Earth have I decided to leave the Minnesota GOP?
Simple: When a political party becomes so dysfunctional that it no longer can operate without tyrannical domination over the grass-roots, it is time to stop enabling bad behavior from that party. I have come to the conclusion that a majority of Minnesotans and many Republicans no longer trust the message of the Minnesota GOP. After years of ineffective party leadership resulting in a record number of defeats, lack of transparency in party dealings, alleged financial impropriety by former party employees, and numerous Federal Election Commission problems, can you really blame the electorate for abandoning the Minnesota GOP?
"...it is time to stop enabling bad behavior from that party."
Indeed it is, Colonel - indeed it is. |
