If you advocate a big tent, don’t endorse, and think that non-partisan elections during a partisan campaign is o.k., then you have to get the party apparatus moving to support every GOP candidate running, not cherry-pick.
Or, just be upfront about it, as we are in Chesapeake, and endorse a slate. Republicans still run against that slate, they just don’t get party help.
What am I talking about? Well, apparently Bill DeSteph and Toni Hedrick, City Council candidates, were told they could bring signs to party HQ for placement at polling places. They were never put out, despite the signs being at HQ for days, but many other GOP candidates were…
You many not agree with their politics, but the RPVB has an open-support policy. To close that support at the last moment is bad form.