Michigan Finally Secured?
Written by Mark Harris on March 23rd, 2005CRNCTruthCaucus has confirmed the Michigan “myth” is actually no myth, guess MI CR Blog is going to have a little egg on his face.
Well it looks like we can now move Michigan from the Gourley column to the Davidson column. Ryan Cassin, the elected chairman apparently has been removed and replaced with a pro-Davidson chair by the state party. This is a devestating blow to the Gourley to the campaign. Not sure I like the precdent of this, but what’s done is done.
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This is the end of the Gourley campaign. This swings 12 delagates into Davidson’s column.
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Gourley is done. It is time for that coalition to find a new candidate. Even in the unlikely case that Gourley still won, the GOP would not work with him.
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this is crazy, they’re removing an elected chair for an endorsment? Have we really stopped believing in democracy? What they are really saying is that CRs in MI are too dumb and immature to elect their own chair. This precedent affects us all, and we all should be outraged. I and 90% of the other crs in MI are firmly for cassin
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What it says is that Cassin doesn’t have the requisite moxy to realize that Paul Gourley is bad for the party and bad for the President’s social security agenda. In the end this is about the party, not Ryan Cassin or Paul Gourley, and the party is not served well by Gourley.
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Can I just ask, where the hell is the outrage? The so called truth caucus, this blog, and other blogs supposedly dedicated to fighting what they see as endemic corruption have nothing to say about this incredibly unfair and corrupt move. A legitimately elected leader was overthrown not from within his own organization and its members, but by an entirely seperate organization. This is frankly disgusting, and all fair-minded people, no matter who they support should join in condemning this undemocratic coup.
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Coming from Michigan I can tell you he did interfere. Davidson hasn’t done anything here in Michigan. It seems all Gourley does is cause problems. I wish he would just go away.
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Outrage? I think the proper outrage was expressed by a state party that was confronted with a CR Chairman that endorsed Gourley and his fraud on seniors. Direct your outrage at Hoplin and Gourley, that’s where it belongs.
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His organization did through him out, which is why Sam Moore is the new chair. I thought we were all Republicans, and I’m guessing that Anuzis has more credibility than Gourley, as he works for actual candidates.
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Maybe we can all take a lesson from this, THE PARTY WON’T WORK WITH GOURLEY.
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wrong all, i’m from MI and the chatpers are squarly behind cassin, as well as many electeds, the only word for the attitude in MI is “outrage”
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The only outrage in MI is by Cassin. He is a loser.
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Like I said I don’t like the precedent this sets at all.
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That’s funny, if you look on bconservatives.blogspot.com you’ll see a growing list of people saying that they are ready to move on. Cassin is done. He might as well just go away. He and Gourley can start a home for washed up state chairs.
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The precendt has always been there. This case doesn’t set it. What is wrong with a state party acknowledging a major wrong and doing their best to correct it.
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What’s wrong with it is that the state party had no moral right to do what they did. Your attitude could lead to profoundly activist state parties that feel that they can overthrow a state chair at any time. The Chairman of the Michigan College Republicans is to be chosen by the Michigan College Republicans. The Chairman of the CRNC is to be chosen by college republicans from around the nation. Anuzis’ action was an extreme abrogation of our autonomy as an organization. It makes me sick to see so many CRs passively accepting this invasion of our organization.
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Please remember that the CRNC is a part of the republican party. If Cassin was stealing money would the state party have the right to get involved? What if he was doing something else to embarass the party? Cassin embarassed the republican party by supporting Gourley, they had an obligation to step in.
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Well I mean, while I agree Gourley is an embarassment to the CRs, I think this power will be far more often to hurt principled conservatives than to help us
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I agree, although it wasn’t the best way to do it, the state party had no choice. It is clear that Paul Gourley is bad for the Republican Party. The state party did have an overwhelming obligation to step in and right a wrong that they knew Cassin would never correct. He owed his chairmanship to Paul, he could not be counted on to step up and do the right thing. Now he owes losing his chairmanship to Paul. There is no moral argument you can make that supercedes doing what is best for the party.
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“There is no moral argument you can make that supercedes doing what is best for the party.”
This is where we part ways.
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Clearly the biggest problem with what happened in Michigan is that the state party chair and two tiny schools formed a new federation. This makes an already growing divide between cr’s in Michigan and state party become even larger. There was already widespread distrust of state party and now it will be endemic. What you are seeing when you see people lining up for Davidson now (whether that be good or bad) is a response to intimidation. State party has made it clear that no idependant voices will be tolerated. This is a scary road to travel.
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“State party has made it clear that no idependant voices will be tolerated. This is a scary road to travel.”
It’s no scarier than the precedent of the crnc handpicking state leaders to ensure the continuation of a crnc regime, at the expense of the state federations.
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Anon #22 has a point, I just am more worried about State Committees opposing solid conservatives b/c we won’t toe the line all the time.
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Gourley is done. He ought to just stop embarassing the Republican Party and get out of the race. His candidacy is an exercise in futility and if he is elected he will harm the President’s agenda. Do what’s right Paul (for the first time), get out of the race.
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OK, Mark, I see your fear, but what would you propose to fix that problem? A national Young Conservatives organization? It sounds good right now, but you’d potentially run into the same problems if the organization wanted to do something contrary to the wishes of its major donors and supporters.
You’re going to run into the problem of outsiders trying to control any succesful organization through power and money. It doesn’t matter whether it’s called the CRNC, Young Conservatives of America, anything, the fact remains that people will try to use it for their own purposes, there’s no getting around it. Given that we’re talking about an organization of college-age students, and they tend to be short on power and money, you can’t escape the issue, only deal with it.
The best we can do is to establish an understanding between the GOP at the state and national levels, and the College Republicans, that the CRs will have some leeway to make their own way, pick their own officers, and the party will have some influence in CRs. It will work as long as there are good people on either side- it breaks down when there aren’t, like now with the awful CRNC leadership.
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