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Post by liberty on Aug 19, 2015 7:08:42 GMT -5
Rut-roh!
www.foxcarolina.com/story/29791563/sled-investigating-pickens-co-gop-chairman
Fighting wingnuts, one party chairman at a time. 
I sure hope it wasn't one of my fellow so-called "RINOs" - you know, those REPUBLICANS among us who are occasionally willing to compromise to advance the overall conservative cause in the long run - who lodged a complaint. Taliban Phil and his merry band of reactionaries already hate us enough as it is.
SLED also investigated councilmen because the Pickens Sentinel published an annonyomus letter. What ever came of that investigation. SLED is being used politically by our county puppet masters.
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Post by geraldgarrett on Aug 30, 2015 11:35:56 GMT -5
Well, now we know why the Honorable (sic) Mr. Bowers is being investigated by SLED:
www.independentmail.com/news/sled-probing-extra-pickens-gop-filing-feesparty-chairman-in-county-insists-surcharge-was-allowed_43001582
It seems (in journalistic jargon, we would say "he is alleged to have ...") King Phillip the First was tacking an (again that word, "allegedly") improper 10% surcharge to the filing fees candidates paid to run for office, then ("allegedly") indirectly rebating that surcharge to candidates who agree with him. In the past, that kind of stuff has been the hallmark of big-city politics in places like Chicago. Sadly, it has APPARENTLY (not "allegedly") come to our lovely rural county.
That Phillip Bowers and others in his merry gang of thugs penalize those who disagree with them is indisputable. The intransigence of the hard-right faction in American politics, both nationally and locally, has marginalized many Republicans who have the AUDACITY to think for themselves and take a pragmatic approach to governance. We are "RINOs." In their minds, the Republican Party's "big tent" of the Ronald Reagan years is big enough to hold only their own group-think party or, perhaps, a highly choreographed county convention with a pre-determined outcome.
The rise of that mindset has led, nationally, to a Republican Presidential primary that cannot be described without using the word "cluster." At the top currently is a certified buffoon - Donald Trump - while lurking nearby are hard-right candidates Ted Cruz (my guess: Phillip Bowers' favorite) and Rand Paul, whose isolationist views would do more damage accidentally to America's military strength and national security than Barack Obama could ever do on purpose.
More pragmatic candidates continue to struggle to gain footing in one or the other rings of the Republican circus.
The Democrats aren't much better, offering up a tarnished Queen Hillary, a left-wing former Governor (O'Malley), a self-avowed socialist (Sanders) and, perhaps, their own buffoon to trump our Trump (Biden.)
In any event, we have little control over who the Republican presidential nominee will be, since our own set of right-wingnuts have rendered our primary largely irrelevant over the past couple of Presidential cycles.
But we can certainly continue to fight for the heart and soul of the Pickens County Republican Party. Most of you on this site won't, because you've already drunk the Kool-Aid served up by Phillip and his Gang of Phools.
But I'll continue to fight the destruction of the party as the reactionary wing tries to move our party increasingly right of the mainstream. They have no ideas, just slogans and flags whose true meanings they've twisted to their own mindsets.
And God bless those like Neil Smith, Tom Ponder, Larry Martin and Davey Hiott who are willing to stand up to extremists within our party. THEY are the real Republican leaders in Pickens County.
Phillip Bowers and his followers are just boorish ankle-biters who have no long-term plans for future progress. In the FUTURE, they'll need "RINOs" like me more than I need small-minded wingnuts like them. Until then, I'll wear "RINO" as a badge of honor.
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