There’s nothing new under the sun. Every county has someone like this. The Slimer-Climber. In “Power Attracts Pathological Personalities”, Mollie and I explain what sometimes can cause this bizarre behavior, sometimes by people you might never expect it from. But, sometimes it’s very predictable. “I'm sure we all know this one guy. He's a fakriot/paytriot. This guy is just a parasite who bounces from host to host. He uses up one asset until there’s no spring left in the board, then he finds a new spring-board to further his personal ambitions, and the cycle starts all over again. Of course, on his last bounce, he usually destroys the spring board, ruthlessly. After all, he can’t leave a witness with an impeccable reputation to bear witness to his actions.
Back during my years as the State XO of “The Florida III% - Sons of Liberty”, I met a few people like that. They usually end up destroying the organization through a fury of personal destruction of reputation.
You see them in corporate America, too. The manager or team-leader who never learned that lifting the team also lifts the leader. Instead, these people stand on the corpses of their team members, to appear taller.
And, certainly unpaid politics is no exception. Most of us do what we do because of our deep love of our county, state, and nation. Very few people intentionally get into the REC to make a personal name for themselves, create a following, or even to launch a political career. Sometimes, they may gravitate to running for office out of a disgust with the shallow gene pool in politics, but I’m not referring to that. I’m talking about people who just can’t see anything wrong with bringing down others, to raise themselves up. They are magnetically drawn to power, for power’s sake. And, it’s like a drug. With every person they destroy, it takes a little more to get high on the next one.
I have spoken with no less than a dozen such spring boards across Florida, who fell victim to this fake, fraud, and phony. And, each of them claims to have spoken with a dozen, who also probably know a dozen. Actually, it just keeps growing, every time I mention that I’m from Lee. They ask me, “How do you feel about ‘Empty MT’”? I answer truthfully, and then they open up with relief that it’s not just them. That there are others who can corroborate the truth. The story is very similar almost every time. In fact, we’re starting a reunion/victim’s group, as soon we can find a location large enough to host it. Actually, that’s just a joke. The one thing every one of these people have in common is this guy doesn’t live rent-free in their heads. These are a collection of strong-minded, strong-willed individuals, who are all leaders in their own communities. Whether they be members of an REC, the RPOF, state or county RLC(Repub. Liberty Caucus), FL Repub. Assembly, Election Integrity advocates, or a myriad of other America-First issue advocates. They continue to fight, and make strides in their particular chosen field of interest. And, they aren’t looking back for this guy.
I’m talking about a guy who spent 2 years working to expose the machines as corrupt. He accomplished absolutely nothing in 2 years, before becoming an REC chair. Within a month and a half, he was bought off with the promise of a committee assignment in the RPOF, if he could reign in resolutions, especially any anti-voting-machine resolutions. And, when his interim EI Committee Chair refused to stop going after the machines, he removed him from that committee. Then, once he sold out, the RPOF committee assignments came out, and all he got was the caucus committee for our local Congressional District. What a let down. What a sellout.
It’d be like if Judas Iscariot was offered 30 pieces of silver to turn Jesus over to the Sanhedrin, then after he did, Nicodemus threw him a shekel. But, when he went to catch it, it slipped through his fingers, fell through the street grate (This is my parable. Just pretend that the Romans put in street grates in Jerusalem), and it rolled down the sewer.
It all just begs one question… “What’s next”? Maybe he’ll make another video. Maybe he’ll make a ton of videos for his new SpringBoard Blog… that we all pay for… through the REC.
Since then, he promised the RPOF that the Ban the Jab resolution would never come up in Feb, because the 2-hour timer would run out. We effectively put an end to the 2-hour timer. So, the chair and vice chair then resorted to loading the agenda with time consuming unnecessary steps, pomp, circumstance, and repetitive speak, even explaining one vote 5 times, the exact same way all 5 times. Just to consume the meeting, and the member’s patience. Both of them were seen working with the establishment RINO, who came to the meeting to make a motion to “object to consideration” of the Ban the Jab resolution. If you were there that night, the ringer that they were working with sealed defeat of his “kill” motion by disparaging Trump, in a sea of Trump supporters. The vice chair was even seen silently mouthing to this Never-Trumper “I’m sorry, I tried”.
It almost worked, almost. Except, many new members joined that night, specifically to vote for the resolution, and they held their resolve. And, we kept quorum.
At the next meeting, the same 2 board members worked tirelessly to disallow the “Election Vote Accuracy” Resolution from being placed on the agenda. Even though it wasn’t our particular pet project, Joe and I saw a fellow member being abused, so we helped amend the agenda. A 3-5 minute vote in a normal atmosphere. And, yet again, the chair and vice-chair worked tirelessly to disparage the resolution that they refused to allow to come up for a vote. Keep in mind, the chair and vice chair are supposed to remain neutral, and not even disclose their opinions on such matters. And, again… campaign promises to allow member resolution to come to the floor went up in smoke, as did an hour of meeting time. Unnecessarily. Unruly. They tried to convince members that if we just kept it off the agenda, they would let it come up under New Business.
But, seriously, after disallowing the motion for a myriad of grammar and punctuation issues (like the use of commas, instead of semi-colons) and adding “the” in each “Whereas”, then an hour spent telling the body that it was a bad resolution that needed to be rewritten, who in their right mind would trust that it would even come up for a vote? Well, those 2 board members must be the smartest people in the world, because 90% of the membership didn’t see what was so bad with the resolution, and passed it. 90%. That was better than Ban the Jab, which probably only had around 80% support.
Once again, we all need to hold our resolve. And, we need to stop the filibustering by a couple board members. If we get disgusted by their trickery and leave, they win. Walking out sends the message that your resolve has a known and given expiration. Once it stops working, and they give up these tactics, the meetings will return to normal.
But, let’s define “normal”. Is it “normal” for board members to single out a few members, and incite people to boo, shout, or even vote against their motions… even if you agree with it?
Is it “normal” for board members to usurp powers never delegated to them by the body or the rules? Remember, this is a bottom-up organization. Every board member campaigned on that point. The board exists to facilitate meetings, and act in accordance with the direction given to it by the Executive Committee (votes, motions, resolutions).
County Model Constitution (CMC)
Art III: Membership
Section 8: County Executive Board (pg 3)
The Executive Board shall have general supervision of the affairs of the County Executive Committee between its meetings, make recommendations to the County Executive Committee, and shall perform such other duties as may be specified by Party Rules. The Board shall be subject to the orders of the County Executive Committee, and none of its acts shall conflict with action taken by the County Executive Committee.
Again, I urge all members who are disgusted by this board’s bad behavior to hold the line. Do not quit the REC, just because of their actions. Once we get this straightened out, we will resume making the Lee County REC a formidible force against the democrats, the Deep State, and the Globalist’s Great Reset.
Thank you