Tuesday, April 23, 2013

On Party of Lincoln dinners and yada yada yada...


Every year, the Summit County Party of Lincoln sets  aside a special fund-raising dinner to honor its icon's birthday. Though quite belatedly, this year's Party of Lincoln event, otherwise known as a Lincoln Day dinner on  Saturday is no different.  As County Party of Lincoln Chairman Alex Arshinkoff declared in the invitation (posted on the Party of Lincoln's web site as "Republican headquarters"), this year's event is a "not-to-be-missed opportunity to celebrate our Republican heritage." Indeed.  He expects that to be accomplished through his two Party of Lincoln guests,  Reps. David Joyce and Jim Renacci.

One of the Party of Lincoln's' heritage dinner highlights is what the chairman has boasted over the years as a watershed poll of Republican Presidential  candidate support. Last year the crowd went overboard for the hapless Rick Santorum, who just happened to be the celebrity speaker for the evening. So there!

Having no presidential candidate that survived the November election, the Party of Lincoln settled on Joyce and Renacci, both of whom find gun control quite distasteful. Which leads me to offer a reasonable alternative to a presidential survey:
How do Alex and all of his guests think Abe Lincoln, felled by a bullet,  would have voted on the background check?  C'mon. Be honest. If possible. 


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was by far the worst Lincoln Day Dinner I have attended. What a joke.

Grumpy Abe said...

Since you were there, It is safe to assume that you are a Republican. So I'm sorry to inform you that you are a member of a marginalized party in Summit County that few people, including those Republicans who boycotted the dinner, take seriously.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of the Summit County Republican party, are you going to do a post about them trying to unnecessarily add another juvenile judge? The party of 'fiscal restraint' wants to spend an extra $400,000 the county can't afford. And despite their apparent love of the Constitution, you should call them out on their violation of article 4.15 of the Ohio Constitution, which requires 2/3 for a new judge. The budget bill, which the put the new judge in to, only passed with 61 votes, not 66