RPCC Chairman response on Party Jumping of several Mayors

After much thought I believe the hypocritical email response to RPCC members from Republican Party of Cuyahoga County Chairman, Rob Frost, regarding the Party Jumping of several Mayors needed to be posted...

From my email --

If you saw the Plain Dealer this morning, you may be scratching your head about recent political developments with some suburban area mayors. (If you haven’t seen the article, you can read it here:

http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1204795956158941.xml&coll=2).

Most of the story is old news: Orange Village Mayor Kathy Mulcahy made clear her intentions last year as the article states, and while unfortunate, it is one of the reasons we were unable to endorse her in her re-election bid against a Democrat last year. Jeffrey Lansky in Maple Heights (a life-long Democrat until he fought with Dimora in 2006) and Sam Alai in Broadview Heights (who long ago became an Independent) both ran as Independents against Democrats in 2007, and neither one was supported or endorsed by the Republican Party in their races. So these switches in Party registration do not change the fact that 84% of your endorsed Republican candidates for local office won in 2007.

As for Kevin Patton in Solon, who was not up for re-election in 2007, his motives became clear two years ago when he made the ill-advised and ill-fated decision to support a Democrat against State Representative Josh Mandel. It just happened that Tuesday was the first opportunity since that time for Patton to make his defection formal. The people of Solon will have to wait until next year to speak on the issue.

What should really bothers Jimmy Dimora is that he has a Party in disarray. His fractured Party will be battling itself all the way through the summer over the nomination for President, and he has a Governor and a Congresswoman on opposite sides of the fray. Despite Dimora’s best efforts, along with Tim Hagan and Peter Lawson Jones, he couldn’t deliver enough votes to seal the deal for Barack Obama and prevent a statewide blowout by Hillary Clinton. Obama could only eke out a narrow Cuyahoga lead, as Dimora could not even deliver the 10th Congressional District for him.

Speaking of the 10th Congressional District, Dimora’s Democrat incumbent, Dennis Kucinich, received the support of only 48% of Democrats who voted on Tuesday, when you consider that over 5,800 Democratic primary voters chose “none of the above.” Congressman Kucinich is heading into the General election bruised and battered without the support of a majority of his own Party behind him, and he’ll face a strong and rested Jim Trakas. Meanwhile Dimora has four disappointed Democrats, two of them elected Democrats, and all of their supporters disaffected that yet again the local Democrat machine is only concerned with protecting its own lamentable grip on power.

That mentality is why Jimmy Dimora is so concerned about what he refers to as “his” mayors. Parma Heights Mayor Marty Zanotti, a Democrat, is publicly supporting Republican Debbie Sutherland for County Commissioner. That threat cuts right to the heart of Commissioner Dimora’s reprobate reign over Cuyahoga. Perhaps the dim realization has entered Dimora’s consciousness of late that he’s got more troubles than just political headaches.

JOHN McCAIN for PRESIDENT – JIM TRAKAS for CONGRESS – DEBBIE SUTHERLAND for COMMISSIONER – REPUBLICANS for REAL LEADERSHIP IN CUYAHOGA