Woodbury County GOP Implosion - anyone got popcorn?

[DU9598]

<http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/08/19/news/local/7d4c139c022a388b8625761600785a8e.txt>

Two Sioux Cityans contend they faced removal votes from the Woodbury County Republican Party Central Committee for not embracing a key plank of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign by Bob Vander Plaats of Sioux City. On Thursday the county party's central committee voted to oust Dennis Hill of Sioux City, while former five-year county chairwoman Barb Vakulskas survived a removal vote. The two were targeted, they say, after they reacted to Vander Plaats' statement that as governor he would issue an executive order to overturn the April Iowa Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in Iowa.

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Steve Salem, the Woodbury County Republican Party Chairman following Vakulskas' tenure, said a continuing rift driven by Christian social conservatives is harming the party. "The one crime that I see that (Hill and Vakulskas) committed is that they did not follow the radical right in lockstep," Salem said Tuesday.

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Following the 2006 election, Salem said "Christian fascists" were driving the county party to the right and that it would be hard for Republicans to win elections as a result. He said Tuesday "the radical left" has seized power nationally, while in Woodbury County the "radical right" is holding sway.

"This party is out of control," Salem said.

[rurallib]

1. didn't they do this about a year or two ago also?

I remember reading (probably here) that the chair got locked out of his own meeting. Mightr have been some fistfights also?
Will tollbooth Terry B. ride in on his white horse to save the day?

[progressoid]

2. Mmmm, schadenfreude

It's what's for dinner.

[47of74]

3. It's so much fun watching the reich implode