Last night, prior to the LCRC meeting, I met with some of the members of the current Virginia 10th district committee. They confirmed that Anna Lee of Fairfax will announce her run for Chairman of that committee at the FCRC meeting on Monday night. Anna Lee ran in 2008 to be a member of the state central committee from the 10th district. She lost to Jo-Ann Chase, Kay Gunter and Gary Lofton. This May she will run against John Whitbeck for Chairman of the 10th district committee. It is my hope that she will reconsider because she will lose in a landslide.
John Whitbeck from Loudoun County has the support of the current 10th district chair, Howie Lind. Howie spoke at last night’s LCRC meeting about his support for John Whitbeck, a well known and well respected attorney in Leesburg. John lost in a primary to Randy Minchew for the House of Delegates. John has been a tireless worker for republican candidates in Loudoun county. Randy Minchew is one of John’s many supporters. John Whitbeck’s supporters include:
State Senator Dick Black
Delegate David Ramadan
Delegate Randy Minchew
Loudoun County Board Chairman, Supervisor Scott York
Loudoun County Board Vice-Chairperson, Supervisor Janet Clarke
Supervisor Suzanne Volpe
Supervisor Ralph Buona
Supervisor Geary Higgins
Supervisor Shawn Williams
Supervisor Matt Letourneau
Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio
Supervisor Ken Reid
Middleburg Mayor Betsy Davis
Former Supervisor Mick Staton
Former Supervisor Steve Stockman
Former Supervisor Joan Roakus
Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman
Treasurer Roger Zurn
Commissioner of the Revenue Bob Wertz
Clerk of the Court Gary Clemens
Former Leesburg Town Council Member and 10th District Chairman Candidate David Schmidt
Chairman of Clark County republicans and current member of the 10th district committee, Kay Gunter
Current member of the 10th District committee, Mary Gail Sweson
Loudoun county activist and member of the Government reform committee, Tom Julia
Chairman of Young Republicans Loudoun County, Ryan Nichols
Former Candidate for Chairman in Fairfax County, Spike Williams
Candidate for Chairman of Clark County Republicans, Andrew Nicholson
Vice-Chairman Loudoun County School Board, Jill Turgeon
I see no way that Anna Lee can mount a credible challenge to John Whitbeck. I do not see where she will find support for her candidacy. As another Loudoun blogger has reported, there is a very small group of people that does not support John Whitbeck. That group is lead by Jo-Ann Chase and her supporters. They have tried for weeks to find someone willing to run against John Whitbeck. Their reason for disliking John is absurd. Any blogger who gives them any credence deserves ridicule. Here’s their reason for opposition to John: At times John Whitbeck has represented David Ramadan as his personal attorney. That’s it. But to the Jo-Ann Chase supporters (and apparently the local blogger) that means John much be a closet supporter of Sharia law and must be opposed! Of course both David Ramadan and John Whitbeck hate Sharia Law. The charge is beyond absurd, but we know it’s possible to fool some people all of the time. Jo-Ann’s handful of supporters are, unfortunately, those kinds of very gullible people. Jo-Ann Chase’s supporters have convinced a local blogger that they have a following in the LCRC big enough to make a difference in this race. They don’t. Even more bizarre than the naivete of a local blogger who believes Jo-Ann, is Jo-Ann’s support of Anna Lee for Chairman! Those two have hated each other for years and the local blogger has hated both of them too! Now the three of them have jumped into the same political bed against John Whitbeck! “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” seems to be the motto they have embraced. Loudoun politics is always amusing, but this is one of the most entertaining episodes of the Loudoun county strange bedfellows comedy programming.
I am asking Anna Lee to reconsider her bid for Chairman of the 10th district committee. Anna, You have been a long time republican activist who has worked hard for our candidates. I hate to see you end your time in republican politics with the loss that you will surely face against John Whitbeck. Support from Jo-Ann Chase, and a very unpopular local blogger, won’t be nearly enough for you to win. Since you have not yet announced your candidacy, there is still time to reconsider and change your mind. I implore you to do so.
Filed under: Loudoun County Politics, Loudoun County Republican Committee, Republican Party of Virginia, Republican Party of Virginia 10th District
I know John will make a terrific Chairman of the 10th District committee. You can add me to his list of supporters!!
~Jill Turgeon, Vice-Chairman
Loudoun County School Board
Thank you Jill! I am happy to add your name to the list of supporters!
John will be a great Chair, his support is broad among the activists in the 10th and people know him to be a harder worker, dedicated conservative and all around nice guy.
Another vote of support for Whitbeck here. And I’ve worked with Anna Lee in the past….so I’m scratching my head trying to wrap my brain around the unholy union of these two entities.
I can only correct one small issue in the original timeline.
“She lost to Jo-Ann Chase, Kay Gunter and Gary Lofton” should read She lost to Jo-Ann Chase, Kay Gunter and Howie Lind.
Howie came in as a State Central Committee member after that Convention, and then stepped up as the Chairman after a contest in early 2010. I did not support Howie at that time. Since then, I’ve been pretty vocal that Howie has been exactly the right kind of leader for the Tenth. His leadership has been right down the middle, and increasingly fair and even.
What is overlooked by some is that Chase became unglued by Howie’s even-handed approach in his new position. He was supposed to be a ringing endorsement for Chase. The first attacks on Lind were paraded out last year during the debate schedule. They were led from a non-disclosed position by elements of the Chase campaign. They occurred after Lind parted company with Chase. Interestingly, that blogger has become the ACH for attacks on both Lind and Ramadan. It’s all rather telling once you figure out who’s bidding he’s been doing over the last year.
Now Gunter has also backed Chase’s opposition. This will be an interesting race to the bottom of lunacy on Chase and Lee’s part.
That “blogger” is reporting that Whitbeck only has a “handfull” of endorsements. LOL
And of course, he’s left out the BEST part. Anna Lee was the last of a long line of folks who were approached by Chase and company… where all of the previous inquiries laughed them off. So Lee was the last to be selected for the inquiry. This is a comedy in the making.
And then there’s the standard response to Greg L. He’s for sale.
This is where the reasoning ALWAYS goes with that inept blogger.
Nevermind that it falls to pieces when you consider that I did massive amounts of work for one of his candidates…and by his reasoning, that SHOULD have secured my undying loyalty to that Candidate. It did not. Business is business….and support is still my individual call.
Mr. Bulletproof:
What is your problem with me? I have never had any issues with you.
I represent Christian, Conservative, Mothers, Grandmothers, Women and Hispanics in the Republican Party. Why does this upset you?
I believe that you too, have volunteered in the Republican Party for years because you care very much and want to make a contribution.
I wish you would try to contribute in a more positive way to recruiting women, and minorities to the Party. This Presidential year is very crucial to all of us and instead of attacking women and Hispanics you should embrace them. I am sure that the leadership at the national RNC level would greatly appreciate it. Right now I am in the process of assisting with The National Hispanic Outreach at RNC.
I hope you have a great day!!
God Bless
Jo-Ann Chase
RPV SCC 10th District
Vice Chair RNHAVA
Anna Lee does not have the temperament to be 10th district chair. When your biggest cheerleaders are Joanne Chase and an attack dog blogger, it does not bode well for your chances. All 3 of these characters have quite a bit in common, chief being lack of civility and ability to maintain friendships. It’s actually kind of sad.
I just want to say that I like Anna Lee as a person and get along with her well. I cannot point to any lack of civility on her part or issues with temperament. When we disagree (as we currently do on the presidential campaign), we do so without being disagreeable.
I am a big fan of Anna Lee. She had done great work for many Republican campaigns and for the 10th district. Anna will be wonderful as 10th district chairman.
So, as you read the giggles at that other blog, keep in mind who’s feeding the trolls over there behind the scenes.
It’s almost comical to see some of the commentors belittling Lind for backing Chase as a fellow selection to the State Central Committee, back in 2008, all the while commenting about Lind’s endorsement of Whitbeck this time…
WHILE commenting in a post that was given to the author by … JoAnne Chase and her bunch of malcontents.
AND ignoring the fact that Lind bucked Chase immediately after he became the 10th District Chair. That is the exact moment that the long knives came out for Lind…
Everyone else sees the irony.
Has anyone read the rebuttal of the incredulous blogger? This fool is being played once again. Palling around with Joann Chase has obviously taken it’s toll. No one cares about his new conspiracy, and does this guy even have a job? He never, ever shuts up.
I have known Anna Lee for many years. We have worked on many campaigns together. We’ve also had our disagreements. She has nearly always been civil in our exchanges but I know full well that she does not always play well with others. Her hatred for Jo-Ann has been intense. I think John would make a MUCH better Chair for the 10th district as does nearly everyone I have spoken with in Loudoun, Fairfax, and Clark counties.
Your information is not correct. I am NOT running Analee’s race.
Jo-Ann, What are you running for? You mentioned you were running your own race.
Another opinion here that this isn’t personal. I have had favorable interaction with Anna as well. It just does not serve her well allowing herself to be dragged into JoAnne’s abyss.
As for the rebuttal? Who reads the garbage that that site generates anymore?
Correct, it is not personal, not at all. I don’t want to see Anna run and lose with only the support of Jo-Ann and one idiot blogger who shall not be named.
Where are you getting all these misrepresentations from? In proper journalism you should call and ask for comments before running a FALSE story. Not PERSONAL, are you kidding me? Attacking a member of SCC 10th District Committee on a personal basis is PERSONAL!!!!!!!!
I don’t understand why John Whitbeck should be the ANNOINTED candidate for a grassroots volunteer position in our SCC? These slots are usually filled after having had some experience as a volunteer elected member of SCC, just like MR. Howie Lind. He ran for Chair after he was elected to SCC with my assistance and that of many other VOLUNTEERS in the 10 counties that represent the 10th District Committee. Why didn’t MR. Lind give other members of his volunteer Committee a fair opportunity before he decided to annoint this candidate?
John Whitbeck, is running for Chair, without ever serving in this Committee!! This is a TOP DOWN non GRASSRoots volunteer approach, and it is not the right way to run political races!!
What does the lack of experience and NO service to the SCC by this candidate have to do with SHARIA LAW??????????
I believe that VOLUNTEERS are the HEART of political parties, and as such these selfless individuals should be treated with respect and be given the SAME opportunities bestowed upon other political candidates.
I REPEAT I am NOT running anyone’s race other than mine!!!!!!!
God Bless
Jo-Ann Chase
RPV SCC 10th District
Jo-Ann,
I don’t recall ever saying that you were running Anna Lee’s campaign. I said that you support her over Whitbeck. I appreciate you comments clarifying and confirming that.
Anyone in the party can come forward to run for Chairman of the 10th district, including yourself. As I recall Jim Rich wasn’t much of a ”grass roots” guy before or after his election to Chairman. So your bottoms up characterizations of the position may not be entirely accurate. However, John Whitbeck is very much a grassroots candidate who worked with all of our candidates, door to door, and phone call to phone call, to elect our candidates. If the others on the SCC wanted to run for Chairman, they should have made that known. To my knowledge, they did not.
You say you are only running your own campaign. Would that be a run for your current seat on SCC or for Chairman or something else? The SCC field in the 10th is getting rather crowded. I would suggest you throw your hat into that ring soon if you are intending to run.
This same Loudoun Blogger allows all five members of his fan club to rail on Senator Dick Black for his recent support of SB484, all the while avoiding comments that identify the author of that Bill…. who is one of the few Senators he does seem to respond to,
“That legislation from Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Fauquier County, would amend Virginia’s informed consent law to make women undergo ultrasound imaging to determine the gestational age of the fetus.”
Yet, no mention of Vogel at that other blog…only condemnation of Black.
Ms. Chase, I thank you for your confirmation of my analysis, even as you deny your involvement. I have a great many contacts….and they have recieved phone calls. To think that we wouldn’t be privy to those calls is foolish at best.
My problem with you? I spelled it out in person to you at a Shawn Williams event in Brian Reynolds home. IF you went after Ramadan on the anti-Sharia Law platform (after being informed that he was not pro-Sharia), there would be problems. After that encounter, you still drove that element against Ramadan, and employed at least one befuddled blogger in that effort. This is what finally cost you the respect of people who once believed in you.
You reap what you sow. Mr. Whitbeck’s efforts in the last year are to be commended. He lost (graciously) to Randy Minchew. By all accounts, Cara and John have been very involved after that primary in assuring Mr. Minchew would carry thru Election Day. They WERE the volunteers, as they made numerous phone calls and appearances for Randy.
I was highly impressed with their level of Unity in electing Randy.
Whitbeck and Townsend issued their congatulations almost instantly as the results of that primary were made known.
I was rather dissappointed (at best) with your decision to challenge Ramadan’s residence, and with your delving to the depths of using other people to do it. That is the OPPOSITE of “unity”, Ms. Chase.
It is the epitomy of personal destruction methods employed by democrats when they don’t get their way. That you did all of this while sitting in a State Central seat is twice as damaging. SCC is charged with electing Republicans…not destroying them.
It’s devisive and does not achieve the securing of that Delegate’s seat. It probably is responsible for the close race in that District, too.
Way to be a team player.
Any one who publicly supported a victory mosque at the stie where 3,000 people died on 9/11 in 2001 in New York, signing his name next to a lobbyist for Moammar Qadaffi, should be our last choice for a candidate of any party.
I don’t care if he is a Baptist. And most religious apologists for anti-American influences ARE nominally CHRISTIAN. Most people promoting a globalist perspective are from certain strains of the Catholic Church, Unitarian church, Presbyterian church, Quakers, etc. Doesn’t matter what their religion is. I spent my political career opposing the “Blame America First” Left, which has FREQUENTLY meant me arguing against the efforts of various liberal Christian organizations and leaders.
Any one with the tin ear and insensitivity to 3,000 dead people in the worst terrorist attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor sort of places himself in the same category as Lyndon LaRouche in my book. Religion has nothing to do with it.
Nor is there any doubt about it. Ramadan signed his own name right next to Moammar Qaddaffi’s lobbyist.
Ramadan has no one to blame but himself. He is the one who signed the public letter.
He is also the one who signed a public petition asking to vote in Lebanese elections. What is a person doing running for office in Virginia, while signing a public petition for the right to vote in Lebanon’s elections?
Had Mrs.Chase prevailed in her silly lawsuit, we would now have a democrat sitting in Mr. Ramadan’s seat in Richmond. As I told Mr. Lind, I have a real problem with someone sitting on our state central committee while trying to replace a republican with a democrat in the House of Delegates. That is NOT representing my interests as a republican!
When the subject matter is ethnic outreach, we agree….at least in writing it here.
Your actual history is a bit more suspect in that regard.
Glen Caroline moved ethnic outreach to the forefront and even supported the creation of an ethnic outreach adhoc committee in the LCRC.
David Ramadan was selected to Chair this committee.
Later, you slandered Caroline and Ramadan.
I served under Ramadan on that Committee, and so did Verne Dickerson. We made many wonderful contacts. Two champions in that cause are Tito Munoz and his wonderful wife.
And notice that these are FACTS. The Cilntonesque change-the-subject tactics trying to smear the real conservatives are based on trying to question the FACTUAL circumstances.
FACT: David Ramadan signed a public petition demanding the right to vote in Lebanon’s elections. FACT. No speculation. No doubt about it. He signed it.
FACT: David Ramadan signed the letter next to Moammar Qaddafi’s lobbyist (only 1 of 6 signatures) promoting the converstion of a building at Ground Zero hit by aircraft debris and once containing human body parts from the 9/11 attacks — once a crime scene — into a surpuflous and unnecessary mosque. Manhattan already has too many mosques for the population they serve. Another is not needed. The organizers are struggling to raise the funding, because there aren’t enough attendees to support another mosque. It served no purpose but to celebrate the 9/11 atacks. The name “Cordoba House” recalls the Muslim conquest of Spain, in which Cordoba’s cathedrals and other Christian churches were torn to the ground and replaced with mosques.
Does Ramadan believe all that?
WHO CARES?
It’s poliically appalling.
If a Republican wandered into a KKK meeting, he should RUN — don’t walk — and get out of their fast.
WHO CARES what Ramadan believes?
To sign such a letter is politically appalling, no matter what he believes.
Maybe none of that represents Ramdan’s beliefs. I don’t care. He shouldn’t sign such a letter, especially if it is not what he believes.
Who cares? It is apparent Mr. Moseley that you care, very, very, much. David Ramadan is a sitting delegate. He won. Your candidate lost. It is time for both you and your candidate to stop this constant criticism of Delegate Ramadan.
LOVETTSVILLE LADY, it is YOUR THESIS that:
“Their reason for disliking John [Whitbeck] is absurd. Any blogger who gives them any credence deserves ridicule. Here’s their reason for opposition to John: At times John Whitbeck has represented David Ramadan as his personal attorney. That’s it. But to the Jo-Ann Chase supporters (and apparently the local blogger) that means John much be a closet supporter of Sharia law and must be opposed!”
The problem wih David Ramadan in 2011 was *NOT* speculation about Shariah law, but what Ramadan explicitly advocated. You don’t have to go beyond what Ramadan himself said and did to be opposed. Your THESIS of strained conspiracy theories is off course.
Mr. Moseley, screaming will not make your arguments more cogent or more believable. Please stop it. I would ask that your client, Mrs. Chase also try to restrain herself from screaming at others while on this site. Thank you.
In response to your latest scream, I’ll let the readers here draw their own conclusions as to the reasons for the dislike of John Whitbeck that you and your client possess. As you both are indeed, possessed, over David Ramadan and Sharia Law.
I honestly don’t know this, so I will ask the question instead of making any statement: What did David Ramadan do — AS AN EFFECTIVE POLITICAL CANDIDATE (having nothing to do with his religion) — to undo the damage by mourning the 3,000 dead on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
If I were running a campaign for a candidate with his baggage, I would have him up in New York on 9/11 in 2011 weeping at Ground Zero and telling every camera in sight how awful it was.
Now, we’re getting somewhere. Folks, this is the lawyer that defended the residency challenge in court and provided three witnesses that Ramadan’s lawyers said “that if they’d have known what their testimony was, they’d have called them to the stand ourselves”.
Nice to see ALL of the elements in the conversation.
Yes, the four neighbors told us one thing privately before the filing of the lawsuit, then changed their story when they came to court.
The evidence actually STILL proved that David Ramadan was not eligible to register to vote in the 87th District, but as I predicted any judge is going to need an overwhelming case to dislodge a voter’s registration.
What we found out was that David Ramadan actually voted from Quits Pond Court in 2008, 2009, and 2010, while CLAIMING to really have the intent to live at America Square. Ramadan relied upon his supposed intent to make America Square his home, while he was in fact voting from Quits Pond Court. HUH???? So then he wasn’t eligible to vote from Quits Pond Court in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
What we found out was that David Ramadan waited until the district boundaries were settled and ONLY THEN — suddenly and immediately — “moved” to America Square, in a narrow window between the settling of the new district boundaries and the time to start collecting peittion signatures.
However, the State Board of Elections’ regualtions clearly state that moving for the purpose of registering to vote in a district is PROHBITED, and does not count for registering to vote.
So had the SBE regulations been forcibly applied, Ramadan’s registration should have been held invalid.
But as I said, no judge is going to do that lightly, without an overwhelming case.
Remember that one of the neighbors testified that she saw a moving van — that David Ramadan’s lawyer admits never existed.
So we had a neighbor so helpful that she saw a moving van that didn’t exist.
Mr. Moseley,
I am requesting that you refrain from arguing your failed case under my post on an entirely different subject. Thank you.
Well, then Lovettsville Lady, why did you and Bulletproof Monk bring it up?
Maybe you should consider two separate articles simply presenting the qualifications of each of the candidates for 10th Congressional District Chair, and leave the conspiracy theories out of it.
But it is your thesis that Jo-Ann Chase is *SECRETLY* running Anna Lee (her strong opponent in 2008) as a puppet because Jo-Ann Chase thinks that John Whitbeck is a closet promoter of Shariah Law.
Far more likely there are simply different groups and factions in the Republican Party with different agendas.
But it is you and Monk who introduced the thesis that Anna Lee’s candidacy is all about David Ramadan and Shariah law.
Is JAC indicating she is running for SCC or some other office? Sounds like she is ticked off because Howie did not endorse her run for Chairman, which might be the campaign she is referring to.
We don’t need much more evidence of the Sharia nonsense than Moseley coming in as backup for JAC. Thanks for the proof guys.
My thoughts exactly. It’s always nice to have confirmation, straight from the horse’s mouths.
We’re all anxious to learn for what office Mrs. Chase is running.
Just learned that Anna Lee is the source of the ”inside” information about Howie. She’s calling around Fairfax and Loudoun with this story that Howie is ‘’shifty” with the 10th district committee money and therefore people shouldn’t support John Whitbeck. Ridiculous. Howie has done nothing that is not authorized and completely within the rules of the party. He is allowed by the rules to have his gas covered when he’s doing our republican business around the state and the occasional lunch for political meetings. His expenses show nothing at all out of the ordinary. Anna’s peddling this silliness with the hopes of bolstering her own chances in the 10th. Of course only the fools believe her, those who never liked Howie and are dumb enough to believe the stories that Anna Lee peddles. I hope to have more on this non story later tonight.
Still waiting to hear what office Mrs. Chase is pursuing. It’s very clear Anna Lee is indeed running for chair with the support of Mrs.Chase who clearly does not like Mr. Lind or Mr. Whitbeck.
Mr.Moseley, I have never said that Anna Lee’s campaign was ”all about Sharia Law”. Clearly it is not. That’s the agenda of the followers of Mrs. Chase, not Anna Lee.
Lovettsville Lady, I happen to know that Anna Lee is at a conference in Nashville, because I tried to call her to confirm her number of years with the State Central Committee. (I don’t know here and have never met her.)
I heard she was on the State Central Committee for 16 years. TURNS OUT IT IS 23 YEARS.
John Whitbeck: 0 years.
But while trying to confirm this, I learned that Anna Lee is unavailable at a conference for work in Tennessee.
So how is it that she is calling all around Loudoun and Fairfax?
It appears that Anna Lee has a cell phone and knows how to use it.
How nice that you are keeping such close contact with Anna that you know her whereabouts and her schedules. I’m sure that she appreciates your continued support.
It appears that we will have to let the 10th district decide who would make a better chairman. Anna Lee, with your support, and her time on the SCC, or John Whitbeck with his grassroots work, his calm demeanor, his leadership abilities, and his support of the party and its leadership. It won’t be close. That’s why I hope that Anna Lee will reconsider. I hate to see her embarrassed like that after all her years of dedicated service on the SCC.
I am glad that Anna is making calls for support, she will learn the reality of this fool’s errand. I want to see her spared the embarrassment that is sure to come if she decides to run.
So your argument is an anti-woman steretotype that women are “TOO EMOTIONAL” to hold positions of leadership?
Aren’t you discriminating on the basis of Anna Lee’s female characteristics as being dynamic, outgoing and energetic, over John Whitbeck’s male characteristics of being dull?
The same way many discriminate against ethnic minorities in the Republican party because they don’t fit certain White Anglo-Saxon Male patterns of behavior and templates. If someone comes from a different culture, you can’t accept their individuality.
As a man, I will say that men tend to be dull compared to the life and energy and vibrancy of most women. Viva La Difference!
I know John Whitbeck 1000 times more than Anna Lee, well really an infinite times more because I’ve never met Anna Lee and wouldn’t recognize her walking down the street. John Whitbeck is a good guy, and although I don’t know him well I would count him as a (distant) friend. In any emergency I’d trust John Whitbeck with my life helping near by, as he should vice versa.
But as an attorney he knows that if you advance a man with 0 years of experience on the State Central Committee over a woman with 23 years of experience, you really ought to have a damn good reason more than just like a man’s nice calm demeanor.
I’m in strong support of Lovettsville Lady here. The case was tried…and it was lost. I know, because I was there.
If you deposed three folks who later changed their story….well…I’m just in awe of your legal mind.
As to trashing a sitting Delegate, please stop now. The voters decided, and anything more from you about a failed case is subject to banishing you from any republican associations.
Thankfully, Ms. Chase walked the line on that point of the discussion.
She did, however, ask “what my problem with her was.” Her inquiry is what introduced the matter of the discussion that you now find yourself asking about.
Monk, a candidate’s own public statements are not “trashing” them.
Conservatives believe in personal responsibility. If you publicly call for a victory mosque to celebrate a terrorist attack in Manhattan by sigining your own name next to the lobbyist for Moammar Qaddaffi, WHO IS DOING THE TRASHING?
Methinks Thou dost trash Thyself.
For God’s sake, the man, David Ramadan, the most loyal American, is in the House of Delegates! Give it up! It’s over.
Please stop! You’re making yourself look more foolish with each post. Poor Anna, with people like you and Jo-Ann supporting her.
And you say your support has nothing to do with Muslims and Sharia Law?! Obviously that is NOT true!
Please stop. You are not convincing anyone of anything except that you are still obsessed with Delegate Ramadan and still trying to discredit Delegate Ramadan.
You mean the “loyal American” who publicly (quite recently) demanded the right to vote in Lebanon’s elections? No speculation. His own “signature” on the petition.
If Ramadan were not flashing cash and throwing dough around, do you think any other candidate with that kind of baggage would be taken seriously?
BUT LET’S BE CLEAR: Why did you bring him up? What were you trying to accomplish by bringing David Ramadan into the discussion? Why are you trying to make Ramadan an issue now?
Because you are trying to mischaracterize and belittle certain people with legitimate, fact-based objections, by misreporting what their objections are.
It is reasonble to correct the record, and not allow you to mischaracterize what the concerns and objections were.
Even as he MISCHARACTERIZES the actual position taken by Delagate Ramadan.
Now Del. Ramadan’s arguments for the Mosque were land use arguments.
More specifically, that the damned Government had no place imposing their position on a City to place or not place a religious building in that City…because it was treading awfully close to a freedom issue.
Twisting that stance is juvenile and petty.
The great prognosticator has warned us of a “crushing” defeat in the works. We all know what this means…right? I mean, with pearls of wisdom like “Higgins will be a three time loser”….shouldn’t we be shaking, or something?
Wow, Jill rounds out about thirty folks….and that’s just the notable endorsements. Ther will be more second tier endorsements , and finally lots of the busy kind of activists criss-crossing the 10th.
[...] running against John Whitbeck. Some have speculated that she may be running because Mr. Whitbeck is friends with David Ramadan. But what happened at the FCRC meeting sunk her to a new [...]
2/10/2012 — Three more stunning endorsements!!
Heidi and John Stirrup, TAG Greason, and Marianne Horinko.