10th District Drama

Ya gotta love this…

The Leesburg Today is reporting that Heidi Stirrup, who lost her bid to be Chairman of the 10th District GOP Committee, is going to challenge the result of the election to the state central committee in Richmond.

At the convention Stirrup attempted to remove folks “from the credentials report who had supported Sen. Russ Potts’ (R-27) independent bid for governor, Leslie Byrne’s (D) bid for Lieutenant Governor or County Chairman Scott K. York’s independent bid, among others.”

To me, this seems to be a moot point because Stirrup lost the election by almost 60/40. In other words, did that many folks on the credentials report support Potts, Byrne, or York?

Of course, no one knew what the results of the election would be prior to the so-called “inconsistencies relating to parliamentary procedure”, but now that it’s over one would think you could determine if the supporters of non-republican candidates actually had an impact. Did they?

If they didn’t then I would have to agree with J. Warren Geurin’s comment, “It’s 24 pages of sore losership…This idea that every vote hollered from floor has to be recognized is just crazy.”

Stirrup claims that, “the nominating convention was fraught with inconsistencies relating to parliamentary procedure. Motions from the floor, for instance, to alter the credentials report—who could be a delegate—were either not recognized or ruled out of order.”

Full disclosure; I wasn’t at the convention, but I was told by folks who supported Jim Rich & Heidi Stirrup that it was a fiasco.