Chair Joe Murphy
Will Rogers once
said, he was not a member of any organized political party, he
was a Democrat. Here in Clayberry, our own Demorat
party is trying to change that.
Sunday afternoon, over at Spread Park, a small band of Demo's convened a meeting of the Executive Committee in an outdoor setting. In all, just three members were present.
Turns out, only Joe Murphy is recognized by State leadership as being on the Committee.
They have right at $3000 in their checking account and plan to use those funds to support candidates this Fall via digital ads and bill boards.
In the way of getting organized, among themselves, new leadership emerged. Joe Murphy and Keith Lahti will serve as Co Chairs of the County Executive Committee with Keith's wifey accepting the Sec /Treas slot.
The committee does have an important project on their hands.
Demorat Donnie Triplett resigned his Sheriff perch several weeks back but did not remove his name from the Primary ballot nor the Nov contest. As of July 12th, his name will still appear on the Nov ballot unless he turns in a written request to have it removed.
IF he decides to have his name removed from the ballot and does so before August 11th, the local Demorat Committee can vote to place a new name on the ballot. Since there is one Republicrap (Allen King) already on the Nov process, the Demo's could do something else. They could just leave King as the lone candidate and a shoe in to win.
So.... the number one name being circulated around to fill the opening is, was, Poopy Holcomb who was appointed by the County Commission to serve the unexpired term of Donnie Triplett. Holcomb has been Sheriff in the past.
Since that rumor of Holcomb switching to the Sheriff race after losing in the 2020 County Commission race emerged, something changed. Randy didn't just lose the race, he did so poorly (only got 240 votes total county wide) , in one precinct, a dead person got more votes than Holcomb!!!
With his vote getting power at an all time low, it looks like the Committee is seeking a candidate more able to win in the November contest.
How about you? Interested in a $50K + job? You need to let Joe and Keith know. If your name is not in the hat, you will be left out in the cold.
Before you get too excited, the local Committee can do nothing official until Mr Triplett pulls his name from consideration. The next meeting of the Clay County Demorat Committee will meet on August 2nd, 6pm, Spread Park.
One last note.
Even with Donnie Triplett telling everyone he quit the Top Badge job, he still garnered nearly 800 votes in May!. That's enough to win in Nov. Maybe the best bet for a Demo Sheriff is to keep Donnie on the ballot. True Donnie didn't accomplish much while in that capacity, at least he didn't do a bunch of stupid crap and embarrass us like previous Sheriff's have done.
AW
Sunday afternoon, over at Spread Park, a small band of Demo's convened a meeting of the Executive Committee in an outdoor setting. In all, just three members were present.
Turns out, only Joe Murphy is recognized by State leadership as being on the Committee.
They have right at $3000 in their checking account and plan to use those funds to support candidates this Fall via digital ads and bill boards.
In the way of getting organized, among themselves, new leadership emerged. Joe Murphy and Keith Lahti will serve as Co Chairs of the County Executive Committee with Keith's wifey accepting the Sec /Treas slot.
The committee does have an important project on their hands.
Demorat Donnie Triplett resigned his Sheriff perch several weeks back but did not remove his name from the Primary ballot nor the Nov contest. As of July 12th, his name will still appear on the Nov ballot unless he turns in a written request to have it removed.
IF he decides to have his name removed from the ballot and does so before August 11th, the local Demorat Committee can vote to place a new name on the ballot. Since there is one Republicrap (Allen King) already on the Nov process, the Demo's could do something else. They could just leave King as the lone candidate and a shoe in to win.
So.... the number one name being circulated around to fill the opening is, was, Poopy Holcomb who was appointed by the County Commission to serve the unexpired term of Donnie Triplett. Holcomb has been Sheriff in the past.
Since that rumor of Holcomb switching to the Sheriff race after losing in the 2020 County Commission race emerged, something changed. Randy didn't just lose the race, he did so poorly (only got 240 votes total county wide) , in one precinct, a dead person got more votes than Holcomb!!!
With his vote getting power at an all time low, it looks like the Committee is seeking a candidate more able to win in the November contest.
How about you? Interested in a $50K + job? You need to let Joe and Keith know. If your name is not in the hat, you will be left out in the cold.
Before you get too excited, the local Committee can do nothing official until Mr Triplett pulls his name from consideration. The next meeting of the Clay County Demorat Committee will meet on August 2nd, 6pm, Spread Park.
One last note.
Even with Donnie Triplett telling everyone he quit the Top Badge job, he still garnered nearly 800 votes in May!. That's enough to win in Nov. Maybe the best bet for a Demo Sheriff is to keep Donnie on the ballot. True Donnie didn't accomplish much while in that capacity, at least he didn't do a bunch of stupid crap and embarrass us like previous Sheriff's have done.
AW