Posted: May 1, 2012 at 12:03 pm

Well Played, Ravalli Dems

Ravalli County Dems have exactly zero interest in letting cackling TEA Party simpletons succeed in their plot to take over the local Democratic organization.  This week, they are fighting back.

After seven teabaggers filed paperwork to run for Democratic precinct committee person, a party leadership position, the Missoulian is reporting that local Dems will have write-in candidates for every single precinct in Ravalli County.

Ravalli County Democratic Central Committee chair John Meakin and vice-chair Corrine Gantt expect to have 44 (a record number) official write-in affidavits for these party leadership positions.  The filings come after a nasty plot was discovered in Ravalli county, hatched by the local Tea Party.   Embarrassed at the fact that they have become a national joke, the Montana Tea Party resorted to an attempt to invade and infect the Democratic Party, Trojan Horse style, and take it over.

When you vote in a primary in Montana, there is a place on your ballot to vote for “precinct committee person.” This is an unusual item to be found on a ballot for a state election because a precinct captain is a Party post, not a government office. Yet Democratic and Republican ballots both provide this opportunity to vote for a candidate for this political position.

And what is a precinct committee person? There is one elected from each voting precinct in every county, and these people make up what is called the “central committee” for the county. A central committee is simply the governing board of the county party.

The fraudulent TEA Party candidates are: Lyle E. Goracke, Jan Wisniewski, Donna Gibney, Pamela Nearpass, Catherine Lieberth, Wayne K. Dunkin and David J. Erickson.

So far, the plot to prevent local Dems from turning out voters in support of Steve Bullock, Jon Tester, and others appears to have backfired.  Instead of being overrun by fraud-intent imbeciles, the local democrats are more organized than ever.

10 comments

  2. Dan T.

    Great news. GO RAVALLI DEMS! I wonder how they recruited all those people to run. Anyone know?

  3. Publius II

    VOX POPULI…OCCUPY DEMOCRACY and throw expose the frauds! If they can’t run on the courage of the own convictions, they truly are desperate if they must resort to deceiving the People.

  4. lisa o'conner

    good luck to you all over in Ravalli County! glad you are turning this scam to your advantage. it really shows you that the tea party has no values or scruples.

  7. Montana Mom

    I heard that there may be a Tea Partier doing the same thing in Sanders County. Can anyone tell us what that person’s name is, please?

  8. Bob Morse

    I’m new to Ravalli County politics. This will be my first vote since moving here last year. Where do I find a list of the write in candidates so that I know who to vote for and for what office? I’m assuming (since they’re “write in” candidates) that their names won’t be on the ballots. Thanks for your help.