We pick on Spartanburg County GOP Chair Rick Beltram a lot because, as we told him in an e-mail reply to his latest charade, everything he does in his “official capacity” is for attention and self-promotion. So we actually thought we were doing him a favor. But apparently not because Beltram has been blasting out e-mails over the past few days attacking South Carolina bloggers for questioning his ridiculous antics.
Today he sent out the following press release:
SPARTANBURG- The Spartanburg County GOP would like to challenge all South Carolina Political Bloggers to a Pledge of Honesty. Over the past few months, it appears that the Bloggers are all trying to outdo each other with “over the top” statements.
It is certainly fair game to criticize public people and be humorous in the style of presentation. However, personal attacks and the publication of completely false information is not to be tolerated.
Since, most of these Bloggers are known political personalities and work for firms that engage in daily Political Consulting; there needs to be some restraint imposed by the employer. These Bloggers generally aspire to have credible political voices for the present and in the future. As a result, the intent seems to be to teardown pillars of our political world not to make the World better.
Rick Beltram, chairman, states “As a frequent target of attention by these Bloggers; I certainly have no problem with them editorializing on facts. However, many of the statements made in these reports have no basis of validity. Heck, all they have to do is call and ask a couple of questions. My contact information is well known and I am very accesible.” Finally, several of these Bloggers do not make known to the Public, contact information for the Editor of these web-sites. This is just plain bad form! Guys, let us know who you are and how we can contact you.
For more information please call: 864-542-1992.
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First of all — and we’ve noted this before — Beltram has the grammatical skills of a two-month old chimpanzee. Actually, we take that back because that’s not fair to chimpanzees.
But more importantly, GET OVER IT.
Not only does Beltram spend every waking hour seeking validation and self-grandeur, but then he starts whining after he goes out of his way to act like a fool and people call him on it. We’ve got news for you Ricky, when you use your bully pulpit to cover your own ineptitude, you’re going to make enemies.
And we really question the validity of “the Spartanburg County GOP” challenging anybody when the group has just become a shill for its daft leader’s future aspirations. Is this really the “trophy mouth” the folks in Spartanburg want speaking on their behalf?
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what a douche
Rick Beltram wants to be Mr. Chairman of the SCGOP. We cannot let this fool ruin the state GOP like he has the Spartanburg GOP.
He took an excellent county party and turned it into a laughing stock. We cannot let this happen to our great state and our great party.
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