Republican men running as ... women? | |
By MARGARET GIBBONS , Times Herald Staff | |
COURTHOUSE — Montgomery County — where the men are men and women, too. Of the three county Republican men who have already filed nominating petitions to run for GOP municipal committee posts in their party’s April primary election, two have filed to run as committeewomen. Both Brian Miles and Patrick Broderick are seeking re-election as committeewomen, Miles in Whitpain 8 and Broderick in Lower Merion 13-1. Under state Republican bylaws, each voting district is assigned two municipal committee posts. One is for a committeeman and the other is for a committeewoman. “The goal is to guarantee parity but sometimes there are exceptions when you have to borrow the title,” said county GOP Chairman Ken Davis. Sometimes party officials simply cannot find someone of the necessary gender to run for the post, said Davis. “I can’t say I support that kind of thing but I can understand how it happens,” said Davis. (ed. note: Ask Ken Davis how many of the committee-men he appointed in the last few years were women...I know of at least two in Whitemarsh) Davis said he would not support a change in state committee regulations “because I think striving for parity is a good thing.” Democrats scrapped their gender-based designations years ago and now just assign two “committeeperson” posts to each voting district. Note to Peggy Gibbons: before you try to ridicule two of the party's most hard-working individuals, make sure you check all of the facts...there are a lot of male committee-women and a fair number of female committee-men. The past few years have seen some strange appointments being made for some pretty obvious reasons. For Ken to say he "can't say" he "support(s) that kind of thing" is untrue, as he is the reason this particular dynamic exists. Call Peggy and give her hell for being petty by sensationalizing a non-issue just to put ink on paper! Margaret Gibbons can be reached at mgibbons@timesherald.com or 610-272-2501 ext. 216. |
Friday, February 1, 2008
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4 comments:
If a committee person is willing to do their job and strive to do everything they can to strengthen and better the Republican party, it shouldn't matter their title. What a waste of an article.
p.s. Brian is my uncle. =)
I think you guys are making a big deal over nothing. Ken wasn't saying anything pro or con. You can't have the Party Chairman saying in the newspaper he doesn't support parity between men and women. You guys are off base on this one, Ken wasn't attacking anybody or questioning it - he just said he understood why it was necessary in some cases to fill both spots.
Beat the guy up when he deserves it, but he was just answering Peggy's questions.
I wasn't criticizing Ken. I was criticizing Peggy for writing a pointless article that tries to make an issue seem like something major when actually it isn't in the slightest.
Milton-
I would respectfully disagree with you here...If you read carefully, I am not just taking a potshot at Ken on this one...he says the following:
[Sometimes party officials simply cannot find someone of the necessary gender to run for the post, said Davis.
“I can’t say I support that kind of thing but I can understand how it happens,” said Davis]
As soon as these words left his lips, he contradicted his actions of two years ago.
If he "can't say he supports that kind of thing" then why does he perpetuate it by putting men into committee-woman seats (and vice-versa)? Because sometimes, putting them there is, in fact, self-serving (especially around re-organization time when he appointed a woman in Whitemarsh to fill a committee-man seat, when, in fact, there was a male volunteer ready to step into that seat).
–ed.
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