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No, the responsibility is all Jennifer Horn’s…

WMURI’ve been meaning to get back to this for a while; from WMUR’s Political Standing from 9/6/2013:

Kelly Ayotte: She takes the down arrow on behalf of all New Hampshire Republicans. All these problems are now her problem. They are too big, even for NHGOP Chair Jennifer Horn.

Now there’s a declaration that is about as wrong as it gets.  The MAIN job of the NH GOP is to get candidates to run.  Period.  That’s it, seemingly (er, I can think of a lot of things, and if you’ve been reading the ‘Grok for any period of time, I’m guessing you know what some of those are).  And there is ONLY one person responsible for this, and that is the NH GOP Chair, Jennifer Horn.  While some might see Kelly Ayotte, being the highest elected Republican official in NH, as being the “titular head”, getting people to run is NOT her responsibility.  And Pindell is dead wrong in trying to lay this on Ayotte.  When you are the Chief, the buck stops with you (regardless of what President Blameless says).

Now, he may be right in that the problems facing the NH GOP are too big – so the obvious questions is why did the NH GOP let it get them to the “too big” status in the first place?  A moment in time, a nexus of negatives, or a whole timeline of dumb stuff and people not willing to say something (er, which would not be us, btw).  And it is a valid question to ask “Is current NH GOP Chair Horn able to make “too big” into “manageable or insignificant”?  The onus is on her; the accountability is on her.  Let’s go back to the Wayback Machine, shall we – what were the things that she campaigned on?

  • She ran on uniting the Party – how’s that promise going?
  • She ran on bringing in big bucks – how’s that promise going?
  • She ran on redoing the Party’s technology – how’s that promise going?

I get accused of all kinds of things – and generally akin to “you help to elect Democrats” because I (sometimes loudly) hold Republicans to account (rarely do I do “silent” on important matters – it is rather unbecoming).  Here’s one of those times – by her own words, by her job description.

Accountability.  Consistency.  Trust.

Translates to votes AFTERWARDS, not before.

 

 

 

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