Turns out the Washoe GOP really can't help itself. How many shovels does the party have to keep digging this hole deeper?
On its Facebook page, the party attacks a college Democrat for speaking out in favor of taxes at this week's Washoe County Commission meeting. "This young man needs to get in the real world of making a living then form his views," the post says.
Really?
Forget the implication that the kid doesn't have a right to speak up. This is from the same party whose chairman oversaw a radio program with one of the panelists being....a college Republican! By the way, that kid said all kinds of enlightened, real-world stuff about women, including how too many put their careers first and dump children in child care. Genius.
I guess Tom Taber has never heard the expression, "Let sleeping dogs lie."
Why else would the Washoe County Republican Party chairman have sent out another missive to the party list, raising again his role in a Caveman Radio appearance in which he presided over a discussion of women that could have taken place in the 1950s?
Not content to let the issue fade, Taber felt compelled Friday to respond to a five-day-old (!) Reno Gazette-Journal editorial about Gov. Brian Sandoval backing out of a Washoe GOP fundraiser scheduled for Monday. But the email blast posted below continues to miss the point that Taber can't address: Why didn't he or his vice-chair, Tom Dickman, criticize the comments rather than participating in the discussion?
It's easy to call the opinions expressed "ignorant" and "unpopular" after the fact, but there was zero indication he thought so at the time, thus lending the party's imprimatur to what was being said. The wailing in his dispatch Friday about allowing such asinine opinions to be expressed being a fundamental right is a pathetic diversionary tactic because no one argues with the right to say inane things. Indeed, judging by recent events, the party of Jim Wheeler seems insistent on making that point.
It was only after being exposed that Taber's contrition arose, raising doubts about the sincerity.
UPDATE, 9:30 AM:
Turns out the Washoe GOP really can't help itself. How many shovels does the party have to keep digging this hole deeper?
On its Facebook page, the party attacks a college Democrat for speaking out in favor of taxes at this week's Washoe County Commission meeting. "This young man needs to get in the real world of making a living then form his views," the post says.
Really?
Forget the implication that the kid doesn't have a right to speak up. This is from the same party whose chairman oversaw a radio program with one of the panelists being....a college Republican! By the way, that kid said all kinds of enlightened, real-world stuff about women, including how too many put their careers first and dump children in child care. Genius.
Keep digging, boys.
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I guess Tom Taber has never heard the expression, "Let sleeping dogs lie."
Why else would the Washoe County Republican Party chairman have sent out another missive to the party list, raising again his role in a Caveman Radio appearance in which he presided over a discussion of women that could have taken place in the 1950s?
Not content to let the issue fade, Taber felt compelled Friday to respond to a five-day-old (!) Reno Gazette-Journal editorial about Gov. Brian Sandoval backing out of a Washoe GOP fundraiser scheduled for Monday. But the email blast posted below continues to miss the point that Taber can't address: Why didn't he or his vice-chair, Tom Dickman, criticize the comments rather than participating in the discussion?
It's easy to call the opinions expressed "ignorant" and "unpopular" after the fact, but there was zero indication he thought so at the time, thus lending the party's imprimatur to what was being said. The wailing in his dispatch Friday about allowing such asinine opinions to be expressed being a fundamental right is a pathetic diversionary tactic because no one argues with the right to say inane things. Indeed, judging by recent events, the party of Jim Wheeler seems insistent on making that point.
It was only after being exposed that Taber's contrition arose, raising doubts about the sincerity.
Here's what he sent out:
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