Frederick’s Rapid Response
By Jason Kenney | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | PoliticsJeff Frederick responded yesterday to the letter from nine unit chairs asking for his removal by dismissing their leadership:
He noted “only nine” chairmen signed the letter and they represent just “7 percent of 130 local GOP units in Virginia.”
“While I greatly respect the hard work our local unit chairman perform on behalf of our party….I think the news here is who did not sign the letter,” Frederick said.
Frederick, who is accused of mismanagement and incompetence, also accused the chairman of “expressing an individual opinion.”
“There is no evidence suggesting they are speaking on behalf of the people they represent,” said Frederick. “I would hope before jumping to conclusions on what is best for our party, they would carefully weigh the evidence and the long-term consequences to our party.”
These areas represent some of the largest localities in the state.
Not only that, but as I’ve noted elsewhere, yesterday’s letter coupled with Alexandria’s resolution two weeks ago represents every unit chair in every locality that has had a special election this year coming out against Jeff Frederick:
Alexandria (Joe Murray – 46th)
Fairfax (Pat Herrity/John Cook)
Virginia Beach (Barry Knight – 81st)
Norfolk (John Coggeshall)
These are the areas that have most recently experienced Frederick’s leadership at RPV first hand. These are the insteaces of trench fighting that have laid the groundwork for 2009. These are all unit chairs and units that have called for his removal.
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Jason Kenney has blogged at J’s Notes since 2001, is the director of RedStormPAC providing online fundraising for Republican candidates in Virginia, and co-founder of K6 Consulting. He is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides in Richmond, Virginia.
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47 Responses to "Frederick’s Rapid Response"
What Frederick ignores is that one of those chairmen – Anthony Bedell – was his own transition Chairman.
That says a lot.
Agreed
I can tell you Donald Williams of the Chesterfield County unit is not speaking for CCRC.
Personally, I know that all of my conservative college-age friends who are in the trenches in those very areas support Jeff Fredrick.
And I regret that my unit chair did not reflect my opinion.
NEWS ALERT:
Today, God Himself came out publicly against Jeff Frederick. The Supreme Being and Creator of the Universe proclaimed from the heavens “It is time for Jeff to go.” Waters parted and white doves were seen accompanying the thunderous voice.
In response, Chairman Frederick issued this statement:
“While I very much am thankful for the Lord God bringing the cosmos into existence ex nihilo, I think we should be careful to not misread His importance. Yahweh, or Jehovah, is only one deity of one major world religion. The real story here is who didn’t reveal themselves to our mortal coil: Mohammed, the Buddha–and let’s not forget Shiva.”
Frederick further added: “I would also point out that the Lord here is only speaking as God the Father. Jesus the Christ and the Holy Spirit have not been heard from, and I think it would be dangerous to the party to say those two divine personas of the Tripartite desire my resignation. Additionally, since the last time anyone physically heard from God was over two millenia ago, can He really be said to represent the will of the grassroots?”
Mr. Roboto, your comments are in poor taste to say the least. Mr. Frederick is justified in bringing attention to the fact that only 9 of 130 unit chairs signed the letter. Mr. Merideth does not speak for me or any of my friends, even if he is our unit chair.
Didn’t the republicans just win a special election in Fairfax? You know, “supposedly liberal” northern VA. Who was our party chairman when we won this election? Hummm…I think it was Jeff Frederick. I think the majority of those who want Jeff out never wanted him in. The folks who released the 10 charges against Frederick to the media have given the democrats the upper hand in November. Thanks a lot!!!
… one more supporter of Jeff from the CCRC.
I know Hager supporters were upset when he lost, but enough is enough.
Come on, stop the petty bickering….Jeff was duly elected and now is no time to quibble….I realize that some of you may prefer Hager or Davis, but the time for that is past. It’s now time to join forces and win, not divide the party!!
Elizabeth, Gretchen, Amy and Clete:
Hey can I get a copy of those rapid response team talking points?
Thanks
Yes, he was elected after spending $130,000 to mobilize the “grassroots”, but just as the party plan allows for said election, it also allows for the similarly elected State Central Committee to remove said Chairman with a 75% super majority.
The SCC members were elected in a wider range of conventions across the state with more votes than frederick. they represent more of the “grassroots” than Frederick does. Wake up, people, he’s a two-bit hustler preying on you. Get a real conservative worthy of the responsibility in there.
Go learn about this scheister’s PAC and who really controls him:
http://tooconservative.com/?p=3444
“Didn’t the republicans just win a special election in Fairfax? You know, “supposedly liberal” northern VA. Who was our party chairman when we won this election? Hummm…I think it was Jeff Frederick.”
No, the party chairman as Anthony Bedell. Anthony is the Fairfax County Chairman. The Fairfax County party was very involved in the Fairfax County special election. The state party was not. Anthony deserves a lot of credit for the win.
Also Anthony Bedell is as conservative as you can find and was a major Frederick supporter at the 2008 convention. That Anthony now wants Frederick to resign says a lot.
People those chairpeople represent over 35% of the entire party membership in Virginia.
I join the 99.99999 % of Virginians who don’t care who the Chairman of either party is.
Just tell me when it’s over.
Hey, grassroots support for Jeff!
http://www.spankthatdonkey.com/spankthatdonkey2/2009/3/19/augusta-county-gop-support-jeff-frederick.html
Too bad Chris Green doesn’t tell you how the vote turned out.
10-9.
OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FOR CHAIRMAN FREDERICK! Feel the love!
If this is the best Jeff’s “Grassroots” can muster he’s screwed.
I disagree with the parroted talking points supporting the embattled chairman. Jeff has not adequately answered any of the 10 serious questions regarding his troubled chairmanship. Not a single one. Not one. Any one of them is sufficient cause to remove him from office. It looks now, absent a good second try at a defense, like he should be removed 10 times. And he had more than two weeks to post the first non-defense – why should we listen to a second non-defense.
His supporters who claim that this is an ideological and a personal battle are guilty of trying to destroy the Republican Party of Virginia.
None of this is ideoligical or personal. It is about restoring conservative governing principles to the Commonwealth of Virginia. To do that, we must win. To win, we need a new chairman who understands the complexities of assembling a statewide winning coalition. It really is that simple.
I resent being characterized as a liberal.
Frederick is following the same selfish path of his mentor, Pat McSweeney. They were both disasters as RPV Chairmen.
Bedell would be a great replacement for Frederick. I hope he’s interested.
Mike, I am a Jeff Frederick supporter and my words are my own. If those posters defending Frederick are parrotting talking points; I say, welcome I wish you’d been here sooner.
As to your contention that the points were not answered, to your satisfaction: You may never be satisfied given your view. Charge number 1 implies skimming. If Jeff Frederick has been stealing then bring him up on criminal charges. If you have no evidence, then those charges should have been left out and you go with the others. Leaving it in without prosecution makes it look like trumped up “kitchen sink” throwing.
There are some serious liberal RINOs on your side of this. This does not mean that you are personally. Maybe I missed it but, I haven’t seen anyone say Mike Lane is a liberal. I don’t know of you well enough and wouldn’t characterize you that way simply because we disagree on Frederick. That would be blindly throwing ad hominems.
No one said it was stealing, but it looks very bad that the Chairman of the party was taking 7% of the online donations through his company. It’s distasteful and unethical, but not illegal.
Was he authorized to take that 7%?
If so, that’s the RPV’s doing for allowing it. If he wasn’t authorized, what would you call it? If there was logical and fundamentally sound business reason for holding money in anticipation of expenditures, merchant account rules etc. then that kinda looks like some of you anti-Frederick people are smearing his name.
If Frederick is forced out that likely amounts to damage. That damage can probably be grounds for slander/libel suits. Additionally, anyone that followed the dump Frederick move, thinking he stole, will feel fleeced and not be happy with those that put up the allegations.
And you are wrong. People have called it stealing in this blog let alone elsewhere. If you look back you’ll see that. The word ‘larceny” was even used. Yet, thus far, no criminal charges. Just name smearing propaganda.
I support Jeff. He was freely elected for a 4 year term and the charges I’ve seen even if true come down to a disagreement over style and power sharing not over whether Jeff should be able to hold his chairmanship. Given that now that I know what the charges are and have read Jeff’s response this really looks like sour grapes on the part of Jeff’s detractors. I really can not stomach the approach his detractors have taken.
Eric Cantor specifically has been particularly disgraceful and he is someone I had till more recently had great respect for. I thought he was a fighter and till his vote for the bailout at the end of the Bush admin and his more recent vote for what is a flagrantly unconstitutional piece of legislation concerning AIG I’ve come to doubt his credibility. Now he and this same cabal that is trying to publicly lynch Jeff are calling for outreach to moderates? What is that all about. Bill Bolling and Bob McDonnell both have won state wide elections in this state by running as clear conservatives and the Democrats who have been elected ran as conservatives.
We are not losing elections because we are not pro-choice or because we are not supportive of the left’s sexual activism or because we are not more supportive of big government programs that minorities are supposed to like so much that’s insane. We have lost because of disunity and backbiting and lack of principle by many of our elected representatives. I was never so disgusted of how derelict many were in defense of our Senate candidate Jim Gilmore. His name was drug through the mud by Warner and the silence was deafening.
I live in Chesterfield and sometimes I have to wonder who the liberals are given the total lack of understanding that many on our side have of the idea of limited government. No, I’ll support Jeff. It is disgrace what some are trying to do. They couldn’t win the chairmanship fairly, now they try to take it underhandedly. I suppose they know better and represent better breeding than the rest of us in the grassroots. Well they can keep their company with Keith Olbermann and Rachael Maddow in attacking our Chairman and if they succeed in removing him they will never receive another penny or another hour of work from me.
If only they had such fight in them when dealing with Democrats.
Britt Howard:
You’re right of course!
Because some commenter on a blog post used the words stealing and larceny, naturally SCC should retract its charges!
It’s so simple! It’s all ball bearings these days!
It is amazing how the Jeff-haters got all excited when unit chairs from areas with 35% of the Rs signed a letter dissing the current chairman. I may have gone to a public school, but even I can tell that 65% is more than the claimed amount. Beyond thatk, we really have to look at the fact that each one was speaking for him or herself and not for their units.
I am another CCRC member who supports Jeff Frederick and I am really disappointed in the SCC where many supported his opponent, gave him a hard time in just about everything he did, and now tell us they have evidence supporting his removal. Whether or not there actually is any merit to the charges, the process just does not pass the smell test.
This may just be one skirmish in the battle for the soul of the party… and I hope it does not put us in the position of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory this November.
Looks like I kicked a nerve, or was it nerve in a small sack?
Only if you’re the nut.
Jeff was duly elected by the grass roots at the convention in 2008. Many so-called moderates immediately began plotting to get rid of this solid conservative. Those who do not like his performance should run a candidate against him at the appropriate time.
This attack and attempt to oust him, less than a year after his election, promises to make it much more difficult for us to pull the party together and win in November.
That solid conservative is more like solid waste. I can’t believe some of you schmucks have fallen for his snake oil. Unbelievable.
If Frederick fought as hard to stay in military bootcamp as hard is he fighting to stay as Chair of RPV, he might be an Admiral by now.
it’s amazing to me, absolutely amazing, how so *many* astrotruf conservatives here claim to support Frederick, when he didn’t even make it out of bootcamp. These kool-aid drinkers have really bet the farm on a serial loser who simply doesn’t have what it takes to lead grown men and women in real combat, much less the *faux* combat of politics.
Please join me at the General Custer/Little Big Horn re-enactment taking place on April 4, 2009, at the next RPV SCC meeting. I want to see the whites of the kool-aid drinkers eyes as I stick it in and twist it on Frederick. You’re dealing with grown men and women who ain’t scared of your lightweight asses. Do us one last favor while you still curry friendship with the walking carcass known as Frederick, make *it* resign before *it* wets *it’s* skirt crying again—ala boot-camp days.
Screw your “FEARLESS” leader, immediately after he is voted out of office, I’m going to snap a pic ot him crying like Tammy Faye Baker. Immediately after tthe vote and Jeff Frederick is removed, I strongly suspect we’re gonna be treated to the BONUS smackdown of watching Jeff’s wife AMY whip his ass for being a wussy loser.
gretchen
Frederick won the fairfax special election?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
It’s refreshing to see Frederick supporters stay on point and resist the pathetic filthy comments from Jeff’s enemies!
I guess TheseNuts and the SCC want to pick a fight and don’t care what the costs may be. Even if that means causing a rift in the party and pulling McDonnell into a fight that will erode the support he needs to win in November.
Member of the CCRC supporting Frederick.
“Astroturf Conservatives” is a great term! I’ve see plenty of them. They show up at conventions and they show up at blogs, but I don’t see them volunteer for candidates. I don’t see them at fundraisers. I don’t see them volunteering for the local party.
Refreshing?
Refreshing would be seeing Frederick actually honor one simple oath he made, “To protect and defend the constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic.”
Frederick broke that oath when he rolled out of bootcamp. The SCC will do Frederick a favor by helping him to remember that oath when they roll him out of the Chairmanship.
And “Dewey”, filthy sniping is when ThezeNuts talks about teabagging somebody and I haven’t done that yet.
PW Conservative -
I never said Fredrick won the Fairfax election. Apparently you need to read my post again.
Theze Nuts -
Why do you find it necessary to stoop to name calling? And then you turn around and call yourselves “grown men and women”! Wow, what logic you employ.
I think perhaps those that think it is time for a third party might be right. Try winning in November after you’ve personally insulted all of Frederick’s supporters.
Democrat Party Virginia contributions. 2004-2008
Democrat Senate Caucus. 2.8 million
Democrat House Caucus. 2.6 million
How much have the Republican Caucus given?
I love all these quotes from Jfred supporters…”heart and soul of the party”, “moderate plots” and so forth. If Frederick truly cared about the party as he claimed he would have resigned a long time ago. At this point jfred knows he has offended so many people he probably has 0 chance of winning at theSCC. Good conservatives don’t like to be told they are being armtwisted, moderates, used by Tom Davis to overthrow jfred.
At this point this is probably about Frederick either preparing for a future statewide run for office or a potential Congressional primary next year.
Gretchen:
It’s ThezeNuts back at ya, Frederick insults me,and if your a kool-aid drinking has got you blinded and your too doe eyed to see he is a despot cloaked in wolf’s clothing, that is your problem not one for ThezeNuts.
If anyone has more on frederick’s sorry stint in the military, please visit TC and email me.
Aren’t we the party of law and order??? Of a strong military??? Frederick is being brought up on charges and will face a vote as allowed for in the Party Plan. That’s law and order. Frederick apparently was a military wash-out, and continues to show that he is unfit for any “leadership” role. He bought the Charimanship with $130,000. He’s no more “grassroots” than any other RPV member.
Party of law and order? He’s being brought up on charges?
Do you specifically mean criminal charges, Loudoun Insider?
Just being sure……..
God…give it a rest Britt Howard.
The board can fire Fredrick for the color of his shoelaces if they have a 3/4 majority.
Not they need to. Unethically making his own firm an RPV vendor, then lying about it, and about a million other improper things are plenty enough to equal cause. Go back to watching Boston Legal–you’re obviously obsessed with criminal proceedings.
Another home run by Mr. Roboto!
Yeah, I thought we were the party of law and order and ethics and morality. I never said anything about criminal charges. State Central Committee is following the Party Plan, as it should. All this whining about usurping the “grassroots” and the RINO power play is a bunch of absolute bullshit drummed up by Frederick and his minions. Can’t you see that?
Go vote in this poll to remove Jeff Frederick as RPV Chairman:
http://www.crystalclearconservative.com/2009/03/21/poll-do-you-think-rpv-chairman-jeff-frederick-should-step-aside/
The loser needs to go. He is selfish and self absorbed. He will cause us to loose the House and yet again statewide elections!
Well, people from your side have called him a theif, accused him of skimming, and used words like larceny. If that isn’t a load of crap and “this is the party of law and order”, then you have a legal and moral obligation to file criminal charges.
You’re right, if you have the votes you can fire him for anything. However, if peoples opinions have been colored by his being repeatedly and falsely called a thief, then he has been libeled/slandered.
Your side is so confident and say all kinds of things yet,………no charges. Gee, I wonder why?
Britt (by the way, is Britt short for Brittle?):
Your defenses of Fredrick would be laughable if they weren’t so ludicrous.
95% of the elected officials in Virginia have come out publicly against the chair because he lied. LIED. L-I-E-D.
Because he’s a weasel. Who campaigns as the purest of all and then turns right around and awards himself and his firm RPV contracts. Who the hell can believe anything he says or does after that?
(Apparently, you.)
Roboto, give it up. He and the rest of the Frederick Groupies have totally been brainwashed by this guy. It’s starting to get scary in a Jim Jones kind of way.
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