UPDATED:
There will be no eleventh-hour deal to save embattled RPV Chair Jeff Frederick. Apparently the one meeting that could have fostered a deal devolved into a shouting match didn’t work out. Attendees of this meeting included Morgan Griffith, Jeff Frederick, Morton Blackwell, and Kathy Hayden Terry. Apparently Frederick left the seven-hour meeting thinking the matter resolved.
Today’s rumor: Frederick resigns Friday.
(This rumor has been completely discredited.)
I was also informed that if a vote is required on Saturday, state central is going to shut-out the public. Where I had previously been told I’d be allowed to observe and report on the proceedings…I am now being told no-dice. So much for transparency.
In the meantime, more unit committee chairman are calling for Frederick to resign…
March 27, 2009
Chairman Jeff Frederick
Republican Party of Virginia
901 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219Dear Jeff:
As fellow conservative grassroots Republican leaders, we join the congressional delegation, our gubernatorial nominee, the General Assembly leadership, ¾ of our elected state central representatives and our fellow Republican county chairs in urging you to resign as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. For the sake of party unity and to ensure that we can win in November, we believe this is the proper course of action.
There is much to be done in the coming weeks and months, and we believe this is the right time for new leadership.
Sincerely,
Evans Thomas
Chairman, Appomattox County GOPJohn Wood
Chairman, Colonial Heights City GOPDon Lawson
Chairman, Henry County GOPJohn Hubbard
Chairman, King William County GOPColin Cowling
Chairman, Northampton County GOPJohn Anderson
Chairman, Poquoson City GOP Chairman,Debbie Harper
Chairman, Richmond County GOPRear Admiral Robert Fountain (ret)
Chairman, Westmoreland County GOPJeff Sili
Chairman, Caroline County GOPBlake Hite Slusser
Chairman, Essex County GOPBill Rilee
Chairman, King & Queen County GOPLee Davis
Chairman, Middlesex County GOPLinas Kojelis
Chairman, Petersburg City GOPJohn Marsden
Prince Edward County GOPStephen Trent
Chairman, Suffolk County GOPDoug Meade
Chairman, York County GOP
So what’s the end-state? Let’s say Frederick does resign: Who in the Republican Party has the time and the talent and the will to handle a mess as dysfunctional and incestuous as the Republican Party of Virginia? And, should their sanity be questioned for wanting the gig?
Apparently a couple names have started floating out there, including Sandy Liddy Bourne, Pat Mullins, Jay Hughes, Chris Saxman, Shaun Kenney, Charlie Judd, Paul Harris, Jim Gilmore, George Allen, and John Hager.