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FAILS MISERABLY
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (TPS) – The Spartanburg County GOP’s bad boy mob boss Rick Beltram, who announced last week that he will run for state party chair, sent out a news release Monday heralding a “press conference and information session” to be held Thursday, Sept. 20, at 1 p.m. at the Party headquarters, 880 E. Main St., Spartanburg.
The Press Conference will discuss the following issues:
1) Candidate Filing time-line and cost
2) Expected integrity of the campaigns (Presidential and local)
3) Candidate involvement in local events.
a) sponsorship of Bronze Elephant Dinner
b) membership in the Bronze Elephant
4) Tools available to all candidates
5) Executive Committee meetings
a) November 1st, 2007
b) February 7th, 2007
c) May 5th, 2007 (Candidate Forum)
6) Avoidance of hurtful gossip by all GOP members
7) Pre-Presidential Primary ramp-up of staff and expected courtesies
To begin, Beltram desperately needs a PR person. With grammatically-challenged quotes such as, “it has become very apparent that the 2008 campaign for President and local races is off to an early and very active start,” and the random capitalization of words like “PRESS CONFERENCE,” the release looked like it was written by a middle schooler. In fact, we’re surprised it wasn’t written in crayon and uploaded with a scanner.
That aside, this was a rather ridiculous attempt by Beltram to deflect attention from his recent attack on Fred Thompson’s wife. Beltram’s comments came at a special meeting last week during which the Spartanburg chairman announced he would lecture GOP state senate candidate Lee Bright about negative campaigning. Bright had previously called on his opponent, Scott Talley, to fire his political consultant Warren Tompkins in the wake of the “Phoney Fred” fallout.
Beltram not only defended Talley, but rather than address his comments and apologize, he chose instead to laugh off the statements. So what better way to dodge a screw up than hold a press conference on something completely unrelated.
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