{"id":2771,"date":"2009-12-15T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T15:43:06","slug":"taking-over-a-political-operation-is-no-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/taking-over-a-political-operation-is-no-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Over a Political Operation is No Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Chuck Muth)<\/em> &#8211; Swadeep Nigam, now former Treasurer of the Clark County Republican Party (CCRP), confirmed for us yesterday what had been predicted and widely suspected since Tea Party activists took effective control of the CCRP during last June\u2019s elections. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExisting donors have started canceling their donations to the CCRP,\u201d Swadeep writes, \u201cand also there are no new commitments from any of the fundraising breakfast attendees due to the direction in which the new CCRP group is going.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Swadeep continued, \u201cOfficers who resigned (at last Thursday\u2019s executive board meeting) were getting no support from the tea partiers. Chairman Richard Scotti and I put a 2010 budget together along with a detailed political plan to confront D\u2019s but got no support. TPs did not even have the courtesy to provide an alternative plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn every issue TPs had their own agenda whether it was about hiring an Executive Director or even putting a Christmas Party together. Simple etiquettes were missing, as some of the CCRP officers did not even respond to the Chairman Richard Scotti\u2019s or my emails concerning important decisions and policy issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I continue to support the limited-government goals and objectives espoused by the Tea Party movement, but running a political machine is a whole lot different from showing up at a rally and waving signs for an hour or two every couple of months.  It\u2019s hard, non-glamorous grunt work.  <\/p>\n<p>I keep hearing that the Tea Party movement is organized and has its \u201cstuff\u201d together and will be able to turn the Clark County GOP into a more effective political machine for conservative candidates than it\u2019s been in recent memory.  But so far they kinda just look like the Gang That Couldn\u2019t Shoot Straight.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe if they\u2019d just stop standing in a circle and firing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Chuck Muth) &#8211; Swadeep Nigam, now former Treasurer of the Clark County Republican Party (CCRP), confirmed for us yesterday what had been predicted and widely suspected since Tea Party activists took effective control of the CCRP during last June\u2019s elections. \u201cExisting donors have started canceling their donations to the CCRP,\u201d Swadeep writes, \u201cand also there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}