Mark Winslow
To Me
Sep 4
Actually it's now Judge Blackburn.
The election is over and the people of my district said clearly they are satisfied with my work on their behalf.
Find something else to bitch about.
Mark Winslow
Tennessee Republican Party
State Executive Committee
District 19
615.424.0883
Me
To Mark Winslow
Today at 10:33 AM
Mark,
I just now found your email.
The election may be over and you won but that still does not make what you did right. I do not see how in good conscience you could work to elect a Democrat and defeat a Republican and still serve on the Republican Party Executive Committee. Please do the honorable thing and resign your position with the Party.
Sincerely,
Rod Williams
A Disgruntled Republican
home 292-8900, cell 509-3900, work 850-3453
Please visit my blog: http://adisgruntledrepublican.com
In case you do not know what this is about, see below.
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Mark Winslow, the member of the Republican
Party State Executive Committee who works
to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats. |
Remember Mark Winslow? He is the member of the Republican Party State
Executive Committee who worked to defeat a Republican candidate and
elect a Democrat to the office of judge in Davidson County. He first
worked to help Melissa Blackburn win her Democrat nomination. When he
came under criticism for working for a Democrat, he claimed that he was
only working for her during the primary and would not be doing so in the
General Election. He claimed he was doing so only because it was
required by his employer, SmithWaterhouse Strategies. We know that
Winslow continued working for Blackburn because he was still seen at
events with her and putting up yard signs on her behalf during the
General Election. He helped Blackburn beat our Republican candidate,
Marian Cheadle Fordice for that office. Our candidate had much more
experience in the field of mental health law and had a real heart for
the job.
Winslow's candidacy to run again for a seat on the State Executive
Committee was challenged on the basis that he was campaigning for a
Democrat. Unfortunately, Chris Devaney, Chairman of the Party and a
person up until that point that I had always respected, failed to rule
Winslow as ineligible to run for that seat. Winslow ran and was
reelected.
Serving on the Republican Executive Committee gives one access to
Republican strategy and data and puts one in the position to vote on how
much, if any, funds will be given to Republican candidates.
I do
not see how anyone cannot see that having a member of the Republican SEC
campaigning to elect a Democrat and defeat a Republican, is not a
conflict of interest.
I do not see how Mark Winslow in good conscience could work to defeat a
Republican and elect a Democrat and still serve on the SEC. A person of
character would have resigned his position with his employer or would
have resigned his position on the Republican State Executive Committee.
One cannot serve two masters.
I had heard a few weeks ago that Winslow was working for Judge-elect
Melissa Blackburn, but wanted to wait until it was confirmed to bring it
up. Below is a news paper story that confirms he is still working for
Blackburn.
Two fired from Davidson Mental Health Court
by Brian Haas, The Tennessean, September 3, 2014- Newly elected General Sessions Judge Melissa Blackburn is quickly
making her mark as the head of Davidson County’s Mental Health Court.
Two
weeks ago, she forced all five court employees to resign and reapply
for their jobs. On Tuesday, she told two of them they would not be
re-hired. .....
Blackburn’s transition into office included an Aug. 14 email sent to
all Mental Health Court employees forcing them to resign by the
following day, with a resignation date of Sept. 1. (link)
“All employees,
if you wish, shall be eligible to reapply for positions with the court
as part of Judge-Elect Blackburn’s evaluation of performance, efficiency
and staff cohesion,” read the note, penned by Mark Winslow of
SmithWaterhouse Strategies, a political consulting firm. (link)
I am so disgusted by this whole episode that I am at a loss for words.
One
thing I am not going to do; I am not going to give any money to the
Tennessee Republican Party as long as Winslow is serving on the State
Executive Committee. I will not be attending the Statesman's Dinner or responding to party solicitations for contribution.
I
think only real Republicans should be sitting on the Executive
Committee, not phoney Republicans who are working to defeat Republicans
and elect Democrats. I don't know, but I would suspect that there is
a way the Executive Committee could refuse to seat a member or remove
one. They should. If this is the kind of Republican Party we have, that
can allow a political mercenary-for-hire to have a seat on the
Executive Committee, then I want no part of that Party.
I guess there is no point in beating a dead horse, but one more piece of
evidence that Mark Wislow is a Democrat in Republican clothing, he
picked up a qualifying petition for Gary Blackburn to run for the male
seat for District 21 of the
Democrat Party. Why would a State
Executive Committee member of the Republican Party pick up the
qualifying petition for someone seeking a seat on the Executive
Committee of the other party? See the below record.
To learn much more about Mark Winslow, follow
this link.
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