Monthly Archives: December 2006

Speeches so far

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So a lot of people I’m running into are hoping that Martha picks up some ex-officio delegates so that she doesn’t come in last on the first ballot. I couldn’t agree more. Martha has earned a lot of respect from people within the Party (very much including me) – I’m hoping she quickly finds a role that enables her to channel all her energy for renewal into reality.
It was odd to see Volpe walk offstage with a baby in his arms… the optics of that scene are not good. My friend commented “Volpe’s carrying one of his financial backers offstage!” Ouch. But it sums up the feeling of the crowd near me.

Third Party Monitoring of internal Elections (cont.)

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Okay, so not to talk about my pet peeve again but I can’t help it after running into an old friend at one of the party’s this evening (and yes he was crashing it). He mentioned in passing how he’d been to a conservative party convention as a volunteer with one of the big four audit firms (I believe it was Deloitte). His job with the Deloitte team? To help monitor and facilitate the party’s internal elections and voting process! Better yet, apparently he and the whole Deloitte team had been operating as volunteers. Some of you will recall from a previous post how LPC President Michael Eizenga’s main concern with my question about having third parties monitor internal elections was that the cost would be prohibitive… good to know we can strike down that obstacle.

More on this in the future.