Good Riddance
Delegate Rick Weldon has left the Republican Party.
As the guy who told Weldon to not let the door hit him in the ass on the way out of the party last year (it's about two-thirds of the way through the broadcast), I'm not exactly sad to see him go. It's about time Weldon showed his true colors...
(Crossposted)
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I did not have the time to listen through the archive of your comments on Greg Kline's podcast, but I jumped all over Weldon last year over his public bullying of a Catholic monsignor who objected to the presence of pro-stem cell research Delegates at an Eagle Scout induction held in his church.
The issues here are freedom of religion, freedom of association and private property. Mr. Weldon may be a good man in many ways (and conservative blogger Kevin Dayhoff thinks highly of him) but Mr. Weldon had no business bringing down public ridicule of and implied threats against the monsignor on a letter sent to the Sun presumably on official stationery. While I favor stem-cell research strongly, this was unwarranted and Weldon should have apologized (I don't know that he did.)
I talked at length to Rick after a memorial dedication in Brunswick back on Memorial Day about our scuffle over the O'Malley budget.
He seemed surprised that parties act in a partisan manner. Go figure.
I wish him well, he's a good guy. But he's also a testament to what happens when you elect people to office who's political philosophy isn't much more developed than "good government".
Good riddance is right. But it's Rick who is saying it with anything approaching meaning.
"But it's Rick who is saying it with anything approaching meaning."
Something you can't seem to do, One Life To Live.
Now, If he could just take afew hundred more "leaders" with him....
mister d,
That's all you got?
Maybe that's why he jumped ship. You're an example of a bigger problem.
Insult and whine first, complain later.
Pot, Kettle, Black
You got that right,Mark. ;-)
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