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Great time at the annual Oconee County Democratic Committee Christmas party last night at Becky Vaughn’s Meriweather Drive home in Bogart’s Jennings Mill County Club, despite a relatively small turn out. My only complaint is the lack of announcement of the second vice-chair based on the fact that this perspective candidate person is not yet even officially on the committee, and I felt like if the nominating committee is going to recommend a slate of candidates, they need to be straight up with the whole slate and not just part of the slate due to their inability to even get a firm commitment for this person to officially join the committee, yet alone be the largely ceremonial officer. It is not like there is a huge line of people wanting to be involved in the committee’s inner machinations. Even though I know she refuses to be chair, Dr. Patricia Priest is once again in my humble opinion the de facto chair with her outstanding public relations work and many engaging programs involving the public.
I had some words with the incoming chair about his self-professed lack of reading blogs when he then told me he had watched portions of the Gear-Mough murder trial on the blog of the Athens Banner-Herald, as if there is any distinction between a newspaper blog and this one (or any one for that matter). Newspapers are a slowly dying beast at best, and those who do not evolve are destined to join the junk heap of history in the very near future. This blog has as big a circulation as the county organ, but you don’t see me lobbying to get the legal ads here. I would well imagine there will be bike rides in our Oconee County Democratic Committee future again. I hope we can involve the community in new and innovative ways in the near future. Anytime we have a change of leadership there remains the prospects for some fresh perspective and viewpoints in how we get things accomplished.
Anyhow, no Christmas parade participation this year, no major inroads for the Oconee County Democratic Committee except a few new people like wonderful new Vice Chair Ann Stoneburner who has experienced the Democratic-majority of Oconee County of more than a decade ago and knows the major tasks we need to accomplish in the next 24 months. I also want to thank Carl McGrath for joining up with the Oconee County Democratic Committee and spearheading the Oconee for Obama movement in neighboring counties such as Greene County. The Oconee County Democratic Committee needs to become more involved and recruit candidates to take on the Bob Smiths and Paul Brouns of the world.
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