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More Lincoln Day Musings

By Art Gallagher

Monmouth County GOP events are particularly enjoyable for me because I get to see many MMM readers in person and get face to face feedback, pro and con.  Positive feedback usually includes a warm conversation, laughter and a friendly dig.  Negative feedback is usually in the form of a cold shoulder, an evil eye or a faux smile.   More and more there is agenda driven feedback  and requests from people who want an issue covered or exposure for a candidate or cause.   All of that happened last night.  I appreciate all of it.

There were two related issues that dominated the feedback I received last night. 

One was my explusion from the Highlands Republican Club for the treacherous act of accurately reporting Anna Little’s decree that the New Jersey Supreme Court is unconstitutional.   I appreciate all the invitations to join or visit other Monmouth County Republican Clubs with no restrictions on what I write about.   I also appreciate that none of the “threats” I received to be removed from the dinner via “appropriate measures” were followed through.   My friend and fellow blogger Jim Hogan shared some hilarious emails he received from members of the HRC, including one from Mr. Neighbor, in response to Jim’s comments on my banishment.

The other issue that dominated feedback I received last night was my front page exposure and accompanying article in the triCityNews last month.

Senator Sean Kean greeted me with a smile and said, “Hi Art, I see Dan Jacobson likes you better than he likes me.”   Dan has been particularly critical of Kean.  I told Sean that I heard Jacobson was not the only one who felt that way. 

Another party leader said he saw Dan’s article. “Is that for real, you don’t support Anna Little any longer?” he asked.  When I told him it was, he was positively giddy.  Another leader did not seem so happy about that.

Mickey Gooch gave me a good natured razzing for not including his testimonial about MMM in my journal ad.   It is nice to know that someone actually reads the ad journal.  Here’s Mickey’s quote:

“MMM is a great source of insider gossip and news in the conservative wing of the Republican Party and the Tea Party. I don’t agree with everything I read, but I keep taking a look- it is definitely entertaining. However, MMM would be better and could have far greater credibility if Art Gallagher didn’t display his biases quite so obviously and ran an unbiased forum for discussion. ” ~ Mickey Gooch, Mickey Gooch

I told Mickey he’s welcome to write another quote now that my biases have shifted.

Thank you for reading MMM, and thanks for your feedback.

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Posted: February 14th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Highlands, James Hogan, Monmouth GOP | Tags: , , , , , | 4 Comments »

4 Comments on “More Lincoln Day Musings”

  1. James Hogan said at 12:33 am on February 15th, 2011:

    You know Art, I tossed and turned all night, or for a second or two, trying to decide if I should forward those responses to my honest questions along. For those who don’t know, I had sent an email on my own, Art never asked or forced me to question the issue, and in my email to the HRC I noted that I have a blog and I may or may not publish a reply. What I got back was “unofficial” replies from two people, who then proceeded to sign the email with their official title. I thought about it for a second, I disclosed who I was and the replies clearly identified the senders as club officials, seemed fair game.

    I’ve never met the people who emailed me back, they are probably nice guys and I’m sure one day I will meet them and we’ll be polite to one another even, but I think it’s important to note to all reading that there are some “whistleblowers” in the party who speak up when non-sense is abound, and as someone who isn’t afraid to speak up, I don’t expect to be punished why I, or others, say something.

    Which, if I may, leads me to a (silly) note of my own on the event regarding “whistleblowing”…. an anonymous post on my blog a month back or so suggested that Gooch’s votes were bought last year in her race with Little. I have to say, again, I worked hard to find those blank checks and loose cash but no one seemed to be passing out money… no one even offered to buy me a drink at the bar, cheap bums! (for the record, I don’t drink alcohol anyway) Either way, I just could not find any back-room deals, vote buying, threats or anything else shady going on last night. I have to say again, those suggesting conspiracy theories seem to be lacking reasonable and supportable facts. Also for the record, I didn’t say hello to Diane Gooch and she didn’t work the room. I did say hello to Anna Little and was happy to see her keeping up the work build support. Even if I think she says and does some silly things, she seems to have the work ethic and dedication to take on Pallone and despite silly personal differences, I suspect Anna knows I’d be likely to support her again unless a better, harder working candidate, magically appears.

    And as another note, no one threated me or kicked me out of any organizations (yet) for posting my notes on George Newberry. In fact, George Newberry and others seemed relatively happy that I made the effort to reach out to him and get accurate notes and answers and then did a reasonable job of posting honest, unbiased notes.

    In any case, the event was another fantastic opportunity to meet the people of the party but the highlight of the night for me personally was Chairman Oxley going out of his way to make sure I was introduced to Kim, and get a picture taken. Now if only I could find the picture. 🙂

  2. JustifiedRight said at 1:18 pm on February 15th, 2011:

    I have a column in me defending the Highland Republicans for booting you Art, and a criticism of Mickey Gooch’s criticism of your criticisms.

    Wish I had time to write it.

  3. ArtGallagher said at 1:21 pm on February 15th, 2011:

    I wish you had time to write it too, Tommy. I would publish it.

  4. Justified Right said at 1:39 pm on February 15th, 2011:

    Then it looks like I’m pulling an all-nighter tonight.