Gopgal - YOU of all people should know that Evie Axdahl, Tony Sutton and Brian Sullivan are ALL VOLUNTEERS and Ron Carey is a VERY WELL PAID employee of the MN GOP and the MN GOP (his employers) are made up of all of the grass roots activists, including Andy Aplikowski, Michael Brodkob, you and I! In the end, as an employee he has to answer to the majority of the MNGOP shareholders who are his employer and if the majority sees an inherent conflict of interest (which as Sean laid out is very real) well then the Chairman has a huge problem on his hands.

Personally, I don’t want to see him fired - but I would like to see him make a choice between the MNGOP and the Huckabee campaign.

LL

The Democrats are thrilled to have your help.

Joe,

My sources are far better than you could ever guess. You are joke in the DFL.

And for what little it’s worth, I’m actually a Huckabee supporter, so it’s not even about WHO Carey chose - it’s about THAT he chose.

One small, slightly now off topic, correction DJZ: “This post did inform me that Sullivan is supporting Romney. One rich kid who got richer on daddy’s money supporting another. Big shock.”

Actually, yeah, Sullivan comes from money, but he has earned all his coin (all the mounds of it) on his own. Daddy didn’t have that much to do with it.

I figure if I, as a GOP-er, have to be intellectually honest, everyone else needs to be, too…

Huckiepoo may be a fundy who rejects science and news but, he actually gives a damn about poor people which is a lot more than the others could try to say. Plus he drives Andy Aprilowski crazier, that’s worth seeing him prevail in some of these primaries alone.

Carey is paid to do a job that carries a 24 hour a day title. When Hucks list him as Chair of his MN Campaign, it will no doubt say MNGOP Chair Ron Carey. Not, Ronald F. Carey.

Pawlenty gets along with Carey like Hillary and Bill did in late 1998, they have to or they both could loose everything political. You’re involved and know some of those staffers and you know the deal that relationship. Repya was so damn awful, those two had to come together or the party’s Exec Director would have been AAA.

This post did inform me that Sullivan is supporting Romney. One rich kid who got richer on daddy’s money supporting another. Big shock.

I can hear the big checkbooks all around Lake Minnetonka slamming shut.

Nice.

This is one of the sillier things I’ve heard out of a grown ups mouth. Ron Carey isn’t ‘an activist’ he the activist for the Republican party in the state of Minnesota.

As the Chair of the Party he is charged with representing the Party — all of it’s activists, all of it’s donors, all of it’s voters. He doesn’t get to be Joe Blow supporting Mike Huckabee because it’s his professional responsibility to be the activist for all those folks — it’s his responsibility to be their leader.

There is no off and on switch for him. He can’t be “Ron Carey Chair of the IR” at 4:59 and “Ron Carey, humble chairman of the Choirboys for Huckabee, Minnesota Chapter” at 5:01.

“This sort of thing happens every four years, people within the same party disagree on what other people are doing in the presidential race, it comes with the territory of politics.”

Actually it doesn’t GOPGal — when you read the news coverage of this, you’ll actually read things like…

In what may be a historic first in Minnesota politics, state Republican Party Chairman Ron Carey today endorsed Mike Huckabee for president and announced he would serve as honorary chairman for the former Arkansas governor’s fledgling campaign in Minnesota.

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_7904700?nclick_check=1

In an unusual move, Ron Carey announced his personal
endorsement.
Brian Sullivan, a businessman and Republican National Committee member who is supporting Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

“It’s hard to disassociate what he wants to do personally from what his official capacity is,” Sullivan said. “I don’t think that that’s possible.”
 http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/13508721.html

“The move is unusual…”
 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2008/01/state_gop_chair.shtml?rsssource=1

It’s unusual for the leading party official to take sides during a hotly contested nomination battle.
 http://wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=7589506

Now I know I’m going to sound like some college-edjumacated-elitist-liberal-goober but all of those things mean “this ain’t never happened before, and if it did, it was a stupid idea all those times too…”