Last night the San Diego Republican Party took the unusual (I’ve never seen it in 25 years) step of ousting a member: Michael Crimmins. I was not present for the event but I did get several reports. I can’t stress enough how unusual, again, it was to have such an ouster and as much a vote like 44 to 1 (Crimmins being the 1) calling for Crimmins to be removed. Normally any action in this or any other political party has at least some sort of other side. The reason Crimmins was removed involved (1) unproved accusations of corruption against other committee members (2) racist comments towards Congressional candidate Mason Weaver, who is African American. As he left, several persons saw Crimmins bump Executive Director Barrett Tetlow and mutter something along the lines of “this means war.” Seriously, Michael? Do you really have to be that much of a Warner Brothers cartoon?
It gets better though. Although some of the coffee house press was present, the promised press conference of “a dozen San Diego and California Republican Party members” providing evidence of various crimes alleged of CRP Chairman Ron Nehring and Tony Kravaric never materialized. Shocking!