Comments on: Shawn Hanley elected Fulton GOP Chair.

By: Mike Hauncho

Mike Hauncho — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:48:48 +0000

I find it funny how Mike is blamed for not doing anything yet the people who are complaining are ones who many times have never lifted a finger in the party. Mike made serval mistakes during his time as Chairman and dug himself a hole too deep to get out of but he was not as bad as some would have you believe. It is time for those who took their ball and ran home for the past 8 months to stop complaining and get in the game. I welcome them back with open arms but they do not get a pass from sitting on the sidelines since the convention. Get back here and get busy.

By: juliesme

juliesme — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:00:55 +0000

I recived a letter from Sean about a plan to help the party and then i received emails from Mike focusing on Division. Seems like Mike’s whole strategy was to focus on deviding while Sean focused on getting something done. Maybe if Mike had actually done something in the past he wouldnt have to campaign on divison and he’d still be Chairman

By: Mike Hauncho

Mike Hauncho — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:48:39 +0000

juliobarrios,

you are right. It might actually be worse. Shawn has a tuff road ahead of him. His 9 in 9 plan is great and all but it does nothing to pull people together. He needs to stop talking about unity and actually show. There is a lot of bad mouthing going on behing peoples back and that needs to stop. Mike was scapegoated for a lot of this and I hated to see a nice guy be attacked by friends like that. Some true colors came out in the past 8 months and we will be licking our wounds for a long time.

By: juliobarrios

juliobarrios — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:21:20 +0000

I don’t think the Fulton County party was/is nearly as divided as Dvorsack tried to portray it.

By: Brookhaven

Brookhaven — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:51:24 +0000

I am glad to hear that this “long county nightmare” is now over. What an incredibly close race and a 92% response on the ballots-by-mail is impressive. Unfortunately, it sounds like there will be a lot of wounds to heal in Fulton County’s GOP, but we’ve all got to come together to run a solid campaign for our Presidential nomniee, Saxby and for state races in 2008, so best wishes to Shawn.

By: DMZDave

DMZDave — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:20:06 +0000

Hanley worked for the International Republcian Institute and tried to bring democracy to Iraq . He spent a year there working with local political institutions but the terrorists and the IEDs were nothing compared to what he faced when he tried to run for office in Fulton County. Fortunately the state party was able to do an instant replay of the tape of the convention, saw that the ref (the convention chair) blew the call and called for a redo. I was at the convention and left it completely outraged that something like that could take place in a Republican party gathering. Thanks to the State GOP, it can’t.

Now it is up to Shawn to demonstrate that he has what it takes by increasing membership, raising funds, recruiting and supporting candidates, doing some significant outreach to minorities and standing up for the basic principles that make the Grand Old Party a great political institution. There’s the hill Marine, go take it. Semper Fi.