Too Conservative

Last night’s FCRC meeting at Woodson High School was our last meeting before the June 8th primary.  As can be expected, it was a packed affair, and our recruitment efforts on the committee have begun paying off, as we accepted nominations for over 20 new members at last night’s meeting.  I have to give a shout out to Lee District, who appeared (from my unofficial count) to pull in the bulk of the new members.

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The meeting was productive, with the committee adopting its first budget for as long as I can recall being a member (at least 2 years) and noting that we are in the black with the potential to raise a significant amount of money and hold on to it for use in the upcoming elections in November and next year’s elections.  Chairman Bedell also went through an abbreviated review of his goal for the organization and announced the revamped committee system, urging members to get in touch with him, Political Director Kerry O’Brien or the committee chairs if they want to get involved.

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We heard speeches from a surrogate for Patrick Murray who couldn’t attend the meeting, Matthew Berry, Keith Fimian and Pat Herrity.  Matt Berry was the first actual candidate who spoke and I’m happy it was him – his speech set exactly the right tone for the speeches that night.  He focused hard on retiring Jim Moran and thanked Patrick for his hard work and recognized that either he or Patrick would be a better replacement than Jim, which is clearly true.  His speech, in my opinion, resulted in a significantly less bloody round of speeches in the 11th District.  Keith Fimian, reading from a prepared script, provided a good speech that highlighted his differences with Connolly and he did not spend a significant amount of time bashing Pat Herrity.  Likewise, Pat’s speech focused on the Democrats in Washington, and was notable for discussing a issues that have been strangely absent in the 11th District Primary, such as illegal immigration.

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Overall, it was a good meeting, marred only briefly by the usual attempts at parliamentary games. We’re on the home stretch now! Less than one week until the primaries are over and we can all start focusing our attention on the real task at hand – defeating Gerry Connolly, retiring Nancy Pelosi as Speaker and taking back the Congress from the Democrats.

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Jun 02nd by Brian S