The World Is Watching, Mr. Costas
Last week, I blogged about the loyalty oath being required of appointed delegates in Marion County.
I have also blogged about the firing by Marion County GOP chairman Tom John of a long-time party volunteer for criticizing such tactics (when said volunteer wasn’t even in the United States to make such criticisms as claimed).
And I have blogged about a meeting of Marion County GOP leaders where Tom John and Jon Costas’ campaign manager laid down the law, saying that the Governor said that “any county or delegate who did not cooperate would be punished.”
I have even named names and pointed out that most of Marion County’s 103 appointed delegates are either members of the Mitch campaign, staffers for the Governor, lobbyists, or their spouses.
Since then, Jon Costas told convention delegate (and fellow blogger) Brian Jessen that the “strong-arming needs to stop,” despite (unbelievably) denying any knowledge that it was going on in the first place.
Yesterday, Tom John even admitted what he was doing.
I’ll now join the calls of others.
What say you, Jon Costas?
(Read more after the leap)
Will you, in a public statement, denounce these tactics?
Not on the phone to a delegate (where you can tell one delegate what they want to hear, and tell the next delegate the opposite, because it is what they want to hear).
In a public statement.
Will you call upon Dave Miller, the fired Marion County volunteer sacked by one of your supporters without cause, to be reinstated?
Will you insist that the threatening of county chairs and elected officials with phrases such as “keeping score” end?
Will you ask that delegates forced to sign a loyalty oath be released from that pledge and allowed to vote their conscience?
Again, what say you, Jon Costas?
The world (or at least the state) is watching.
(This post is also available via the Hoosierpundit)
May 28th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
“[A]nyone who has lost a party position, as of late, has been more about competency than politics.”
Competency? Yeah he dared support Mayor Greg Ballard.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:04 am
A person who runs for a 4-year office and then quits after 2 years is not my idea of a person who views their job as something that is important. Strike that, not as important as their own career. Further the whole back and forth on his own view of himself, progressive or conservative, is troubling. The forcing of him on the rest of us is clearly needed to get this man through the convention. It will kill us in the general election as those voters cant be fired for not voting for Costas.