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ORP Chair Bennett: No Summit County Involvement
- Filed under: Arshinkoff / Coughlin
- Date: Apr 5,2008
Some Saturday news for you in the Summit County GOP saga……
Ohio.com: Ohio GOP Chairman Robert Bennett won't preside over the Summit County Republican Party's organizational meeting later this month. Bennett said Friday that the state party has only intervened in county parties' central committee meetings under extreme circumstances — and always when the help was requested. Summit County party chair Alex Arshinkoff doesn't want the state party involved. He said he plans to follow the meeting protocol provided in state law.
That is very comforting. Arshinkoff says he plans to follow protocol, so let us take that as the gospel. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 21, and as of now, will be open to only Central Committee members. Arshinkoff himself is not a Central Committee member himself anymore (neither is Klinger) - so whether or not they will even be allowed there is a major question right now.
No kidding Arshinkoff doesn't want the state party involved with any sort of oversight. You may recall that "certain" petitions were checked with a little more scrutiny at the Summit County Board of elections under the direction of Alex's supporters (when he was still on the BOE; some of those workers are now gone). There isn't really any indication that this type of shady behavior would not take place at the meeting - after all, we are talking about a guy who is spending over $300,000 of party money to keep his job, bullies opponents, tries to get bloggers fired, gives himself posh benefits for a part-time job, etc. If I made over $70,000 a year with the benefits Alex gets, I would probably do whatever it took to hold on to my job too. There aren't really specific by-laws in place and things are kind of up in the air still as to how the April 21 meeting will be run. As I reported the other day, NSR supporter and Summit County BOE member Don Varian has contacted his fellow board member Jack Morrision (Arshinkoff supporter) to try and set some ground rules. Naturally, Morrision has not yet responded.
I am not surprised that Bennett doesn't want to get near this - though I think he should. This would qualify to me as an "extreme case." Bennett has never wanted to take on tough issues, so of course he won't do anything here. He always has preferred the "taking a blind eye" approach. Well, I shouldn't say always. When he took over as Chairman in 1988, he really helped turn the ORP around, but just like Alex, he became a little too comfortable in his position. However, unlike Alex, Bennett decided he was going to leave on his own terms - this will be his last.
P.S. Don't forget to vote in our poll - asking your preference between Alex Arshinkoff or Carol Klinger - which is in the right hand sidebar.
13 Responses for "ORP Chair Bennett: No Summit County Involvement"
Bennett and arshinkoff are both first rate hacks. I hope at least one survives to continue the carnage.
I did not think Bennet's involvement will matter. Alex will win by a comfortable margin no matter who runs the meeting.
The Ohio Republican Party's involvement will not make up for Coughlin's poor choice for party chair.
No, the ORP involvement or non-involvement wont make up for anything as far as that goes….but I still think Klinger was a good pick.
I voted for Alex in our poll. As a Democrat, I'm happy with the status quo.
I hope Keeler shows up at the organizational meeting so I can hear him speak with his crazy lithp!!!
Don Varian called Morrison??? Varian is sleeping with Jones. Why would Morrison even respond to the piece of garbage?
Let me see. Alex is no longer pulling in the cash he used to because he is looked upon as a liability rather than a money maker. His core organization has almost totally fallen apart and now has high priced air-heads working for him at HQ (truth hurts, don't it Angela). Bob Bennett is either a coward or he is savoring watching Alexes organization desintegrate, probably the later of the two. As far as those petitions are concerned Alex and Jack were voting thru petitions that had only two good signatures and the rest bad (don't believe me then check it out). In the last two to three years Alex has lost over $150,000 - $250,000 Thousand A MONTH in income because the donors, clients, candidates, employees are tired of it. They cannot wait to see him go. If he would have quit 5 years ago we would not have had this problem now. So beleave me when that door hits his rear end on the way out I won't shed a tear. I say this with confidence, from what I have seen and heard he is done, period.
Secret ballot sounds good BUT I fear there are may be games played by those that made the rules before the vote. Hopefully my fear of Alex doing whatever it takes is unfounded.
What happened to the race between John Frank and Robert Kopp, which I thought was tied?
Truthfully I am not sure about that one - but the Summit Co. election site says Kopp won 45-44.
I know it wasnt one of three that tied which they had coin tosses for.
Yes it is confirmed that John Frank did lose. Thank goodness now I won't hopefully get anymore phone calls from his wife.
It's all about political gamesmanship with ARA. Every procedural move that he can possibly be pulled, will be. He's been acting way too calm and cool lately. He's got something up his sleeve.
The idiot commenting under Queffer needs to get a life. If you don't like Keeler than go read you're buddy Alex's pathetic self aggrandizing blog site where the pointless personal attacks are welcome.
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