Lucas County Republican Party

This story from the Toledo Blade, April 30, 2008: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS09/804300423/-1/NEWS

Seriously folks, the Lucas County Republican Party must have as its mission statement something along the lines that it exists merely to make it easier for Democrats to get elected in Lucas County. What a comedy of errors this organization has become.

Surely the Grand Old Party can find someone with a better record than Joanne Wack to serve as its executive director.

Then we have a typical "courageous" quote from one of the few GOP elected leaders in the county, State Senator Mark Wagoner of Ottawa Hills, who states this regarding Ms. Wack, " The Chairman needs to determine whether she can continue to be effective with these sorts of distractions." This sort of reminds one of his quote regarding former Governor Taft as noted in a Toledo Blade story on August 21, 2005 in which he said, "In regards to the governor's future, he has issued an apology to the people of Ohio. We need to see whether he can continue to be effective. If he can't be effective, he needs to decide for himself whether he needs to continue." Strong words, Mr. Senator!

Of concern in Mr. Wagoner's quotes is his questioning whether Wack or Taft (in 2005) "can continue to be effective". We should probably remind Mr. Wagoner that in order to continue to be effective, one must be effective in the first place and there is no evidence that Gov. Taft in 2005 was effective with the same holding true for Ms. Wack in 2008.

Two situations when a so-called "leader" in the GOP could have shown some courage and used his position of influence to take a strong position, working for a better more effective government and party structure, but instead serves up some of the same vague "gobbledygook" which has characterized his tenure as a public official.

Certainly the Dems in Lucas County can rest easily in defending the county offices at stake in November with the GOP in constant turmoil. After all, it is fairly difficult to defeat Quilter, Gerken, Telb, Earley and others when you don't even field a candidate to run against them, which leads me back to our State Senator's silly line of questioning regarding whether Ms. Wack can continue to be effective. Oh yeah, she's been really effective thus far!!

Have a great evening! ; )