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This does not surprise me in the least
February 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
Once upon a time I was a member of the College Republicans at Emory University. Charity prevents me from giving my honest opinion of the guy who was in charge of the CRs – Jeff Frederick. I was part of a failed coup to oust the guy (true story). He was not the sharpest knife in the drawer then, and it’s heartening to know that not much has changed.
Democrats currently control the Virginia State Senate, 21-19. But Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor is Bill Bolling, a Republican, and he would be a tie-breaking vote in the event of a 20-20 split. Today, one of the Democratic State Senators, Ralph Northam, agreed to switch sides, a move that would give the Republicans in the Senate a much greater share of power.
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for this moron, Jeff Frederick, who is the Republican Party Chairman of Virginia and the owner of a shiny Twitter account! Frederick, upon hearing the news, tweeted the following:
What King of the Dimwits Jeff Frederick failed to take into consideration is that, by tweeting this information, he was tipping off the Senate Democrats about this bit of parliamentary prestidigitation. And once they found out, Majority Leader Dick Saslaw adjourned the session so that it couldn’t happen. And then, the Senate Democrats gathered together and promptly browbeat the ever-loving daylights out of Northam.
So there you have it! Nice work, Jeff Frederick!
Fittingly enough I learned of the story on twitter, via Mary Katherine Ham.
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Sometimes, you have to PUT. THE. CRACKBERRY. DOWN.
That would require brains and self-control – some things do not change.
This is extremely unsurprising to anyone that knew Frederick at Emory… or hell, even knew of him.
I have to admit that the fact that he’s been elected in VA makes me weep for the idiocy of voters… I mean, of all the people at Emory, why does HE become politically active?
Oy.
Reminds me of some of my colleagues in the Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Illinois in the seventies. I quickly learned that people could have the same political beliefs I possessed while also being completely unreliable and ineffective.