MUTH’S TRUTHS

The hurry-up-and-wait attitude of Nevada’s GOP leadership when it comes to installing former state Sen. Sue Lowden into the Chairman’s position continues to astound.

Not only is the party silent on issue after issue coming up nationally and before the Nevada Legislature while the party’s Executive Committee sits back and waits for a late-April election to replace outgoing Chairman Paul Adams, but it’s going broke in the process.

Indeed, word on the street is that the party has less than ten grand in the bank and may even have trouble making payroll very soon. And with donors not sure who’s in charge, who’s going to step forward to bail them out?

This is NOT an indictment against Vice Chairman Paul Willis, who is serving as acting Chairman during the vacancy in the top position. Paul’s a longtime friend a good party soldier. But how much can the poor guy do, especially in the fundraising department, when everyone knows he’ll only be in that position for a couple of months at most?

The problem is, this kind of foot-dragging lethargy and inaction is the rule for the Republican Party, not the exception. This is exactly the kind of hurry-up-and-wait mindset that Sen. Lowden will be facing if she ever finally gets the party’s top job.

Which raises the question: Is it worth it? Does the Nevada Republican Party even deserve someone like Sue Lowden?

My advice to the former state senator is to consider a woman’s inalienable right to change her mind and give this endeavor some second…or even third thoughts.

A party organization, especially one that controls the governor’s office, which can’t or won’t find a way to implement a key leadership decision that has all but been officially decided, isn’t a party. It’s a nightmare.

Sen. Lowden would probably be better off just starting her own PAC. Who needs this hassle?

Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada