It was just days ago that the Columbian pretended as if they just now discovered that the Clark County GOP had sanctioned one of their own for his frequent strays from conservatism and selling out our conservative interests to side with liberal Democrats, going against his campaign promises of supporting conservative values. In a nutshell, he frequently voted against the best interests of the citizens in order to further the liberal Democrat agenda.
I have been one of the few willing to stand up for the Clark County GOP, even as party leaders now cower and seem prepared to throw open the doors and re-embrace Marc Boldt, to be decided this Tuesday I am told. Republicans, spineless as they now are, have no need to appease liberal Democrats or suck up to the Columbian, who cannot find a good word to say about them, except for those RINO’s that are more liberal than conservative, such as the current 3rd Congressional District Representative.
In my expressions of defense of the GOP I have made several references to a scathing post against Marc Boldt and why he deserved to be sanctioned that I wrote back in November 2011, but never posted, due to his one time vote against the baseball stadium admissions tax. Below is that post in its entirety with a prediction I made then bolded.
Marc Boldt was first elected as Clark County Commissioner in the 2004 general election, defeating Jeanne Harris by nearly 10,000 votes in large part due to a strong conservative record as a 5 term representative of the 17th legislative district. In 2008 he again defeated Jeanne Harris, who challenged him for the seat by nearly 12,000 votes. Voters indicated their desire to have a more conservative lean to the Clark County Board of Commissioners as 2008 also saw the election of Republican Tom Mielke who defeated Pam Brokaw by a narrow margin.
Steve Stuart remained the only Democrat sitting on the Commission, or so many thought.
Boldt maintains he is a Republican, but voters who have watched closely have seen a shift to the left, supporting Democrat policies and party platform while turning his back on conservative Republican policies all too often.
From supporting the Columbia River Crossing projects extension of Portland’s Light rail into Clark County to issuing a robocall in support of C-Tran’s Proposition 1, after an independent audit raised serious questions about the need for the tax increase, to holding private meetings with Commissioner Steve Stuart, excluding fellow Republican Tom Mielke.
After the failure of C-Tran’s 2004 effort to increase taxes on citizens, Marc Boldt sided with Democrats in gerrymandering a smaller sub-district to ensure the tax increase passed in a 2005 special election. That those now denied a vote still must pay that tax, considering all major shopping resides within the sub-district was ignored.
Boldt voted to raise property taxes on us while we remain mired in a deep recession and while home values plummet and foreclosures were widespread and has endorsed Democrat Party candidates over Republican candidates for elected office, while maintaining he is a Republican.
Suffice it to say, Marc Boldt, elected to the Clark County Board of Commissioners runs for office as a Republican enjoying the generous support of the Clark County Republican Party and receiving a majority of Republican votes, more often than not of late sides more with the Democrat Party promoting their policies and candidates for elected office.
Several efforts have been made by the Clark County GOP to remind Boldt that he must return to his Republican roots if he expects to continue receiving the party support and by all appearances, those efforts have been ignored by Boldt.
After numerous attempts to have Marc Boldt appear before the Executive Board of the party, Tuesday November 22, 2011 saw him appear before the board to defend his sedition against the Republican Party Platform and where the board voted on what action should be taken by the party in regards to Boldt. Boldt is said to have apologized for his past actions, but for many it apparently was too little too late.
The vote was 11 to 5 for the Clark County Republican Party to “reject” Marc Boldt.
That does not mean he has been ousted from the Republican Party, but that the party will no longer offer their support to Marc should he run for reelection as a Republican nor will he be allowed access to party literature or mailing lists.
Some preferred a meaningless ‘letter of censure,’ but given Marc’s past history on the Board of Commissioners, that would have been an exercise in futility in my estimation.
The hope is that this move will remind Marc of his GOP conservative roots. There remains a good chance he will switch to the Democrat Party and enjoy their support, which will gravely damage his chances of being reelected in the North County region, which remains heavily conservative Republican.
Sources already credit the Democrat Party as claiming Boldt as one of their own, but it is more likely they will humor Marc while setting a candidate of their own choosing up to defeat him in the upcoming election.
Marc Boldt has fooled us long enough and the Clark County GOP has woken up about his selling out our principals. We need to begin grooming a good solid conservative candidate to run against both Marc Boldt and the candidate the Democrat Party will no doubt run in 2012.
Undoubtedly, the Columbian and the Democrat Party will attempt to seize upon this to further demean conservatives in the Republican Party by painting the Clark GOP as mean-spirited, harsh and heavily partisan.
As their effort to further demean the GOP over this unveils and they try to paint another gloom picture of the GOP, indicating the Democrats never act in this manner, we only need look back to former 3rd Congressional District Representative Brian Baird over a single issue he sided with Republicans and former President Bush over, the Troop Surge in Iraq in 2007. While the Columbian tried to put a positive face on Baird’s switching, others amongst the Democrats did not, see DemocraticUnderground, Michelle Malkin, DailyKOS and Tacoma’s News Tribune’s, Baird’s visit to Iraq must have included trip to ‘spin city’.
Democrats were so incensed over Baird supporting the Troop surge that the Columbian’s Kathie Durbin wrote an October 10, 2007 article, “Baird war stance spurs activists to form local MoveOn.org chapter” and the Seattle PI reported, “MoveOn.org TV ads chide Baird on Iraq.”
Needless to say, when an elected official actively runs as a member of a party, seeks that party’s support to win an election and then goes against that party’s platform, party leaders are not too pleased.
Based upon that, Marc Boldt should not receive another term on the Clark County Board of Commissioners unless and until voters who elected him on his claims of conservatism actually see those conservative actions.
It’s now up to Marc Boldt.
The Columbian can whine GOP Wounds Self-Inflicted as much as they want. A blind man can see their effort is to protect liberal Democrats and oppose any free thought in our community of our traditional strong conservative values and desire to keep our country and community free.
Along with denigrating successful businessman David Madore, who the Columbian despises for his well spoken opposition to the CRC, the hatchet job continues as they desire to coerce the weak kneed Republican leadership into caving once again to liberal Democrats.
If the GOP does, that will be their “self-inflicted wound.”
For those who say Democrats don’t sanction their members? Refer them to Joe Lieberman,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR2006082101427.html
http://spectator.org/archives/2006/08/07/democrats-danse-macabre
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/lieberman-gop-convention/2009/12/12/id/341603
http://www.larryelder.com/b/Liberal-McCarthyism/490807936909736265.html
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