Schimmel the Shiller, at it again.

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As I pointed out earlier, Gary Schimmel has abandoned any pretense of fairness or objectivity in violation of the duties of his office of Cowlitz County GOP Chair.

Shannon Barnett, of course, can have anyone he wants screwing up his campaign. But Schimmel's efforts so far have resulted in a, well, less than stellar outcome, and hanging someone so lacking in ethics around your neck that they would exercise such an abuse of power in their over-the-top support of a candidate in an open primary would provide cause for anyone else to reconsider his "help."

So what's Schimmel done now?

He sent out a bizarre notice of a "birthday party" fund raising notice for the candidate he's working so hard to protect in the 18th District open primary:

Notice the bizarre disclaimer?

Here. Let me help them with that:

We are forwarding this campaign information as a service. The Cowlitz County Republicans have not endorsed any candidate in this race. But the Cowlitz County Republican Chair is totally in the tank for this guy, and will continue to abuse his authority and position to make sure he gets elected.

These actions are indefensible and despicable. Schimmel should resign, and Barnett should know better. Clearly, they deserve each other.
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The Schimmel slimeball defense ain't gonna cut it.

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In response to my demand that Gary Schimmel, Cowlitz County GOP Chair resign due to his blatant favoritism and lack of ethics, some moron stopped by and deposited this burning bag of crap on my blog doorstep:

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I thought Gary did them a favor because the facts were as follows:

That of course, is your first problem. You know... that you believe yourself capable of thought. Your second is what you so wrongly believe to be "facts."

Ann reported $20,000 raised in the release.

Their report to the PDC was 18,000+ of which $4,000 was put in by the candidate.

This is the next in your moronic observations.

In your eagerness to show how clever you, whoever you are, believe yourself to be; you failed to note one tiny fact:

The report to the PDC, for whatever the reason, has not shown as updated.

So, idiot stick, here's the last reporting date showing for ALL of the candidates in the 18th.

1. Barnett - Last shown donation: 1/30 (And as a brief aside, Barnett directly or indirectly donated almost half of the total amount he declares, or $1730 pathetic dollars out of $4080)

2. Carson - No detailed report available (Invoked $5000 Rule)

3. Kampe - Last shown donation 2/19

4. Rivers - Last shown donation 2/18

5. Vick - No donations showing

In other words:

a. The $20,000 figure was achieved after the last report showing on the PDC. That the numbers have not been visibly updated... FOR ANYONE... does not mean the amount hasn't been raised.

b. Even removing the $4000 loan, Rivers raised 4 times as much as Barnett.

c. NO ONE has been able to visibly update their figures in the 18th since at least the 19th of February. Nor has either challenge candidate in the 17th, and both show their last report on January 29.

Now, I get why Barnett doesn't show any donations for the entire month of February. After all, who would give a loser any money?

But that doesn't explain why neither of the challenge candidates in the 17th show any donations for February, or why no candidate shows any donations in either the 17th or 18th since February 19.

In short, the "$18,000 +" figure was accurate as of the 19th of February. Just like the $20,000 figure was accurate as of the day of the press release.

Your inability to figure all this out is rather meaningless, and, of course, provides Schimmel with precisely zero defense of his deliberate and inexcusably unethical conduct as a county party chair, engaging in Nazi-like censorship to support his "right" candidate.

Thus the amount raised was $14,000+.

Uh...... no.

The amount raised was $20,000 plus. That you disagree with that figure is meaningless.

Look, I get that your guy's fundraising is pathetic. But then, the fundraising tends to reflect on the candidate.

You can jump up and down until you turn green, if you like, but the number speaks for itself.

In the same period of Barnett getting in the race he out raised her by 6700+ to 6000+.

Yet, using your own bizarre "reasoning," Barnett ONLY reports a TOTAL of $4080 since he started. Yet you make some bizarre and false claim while you babble about a clearly mythical $6700?

Whoever you are, avoidance of hypocrisy demands that if you're going to apply one standard to someone you oppose... you must apply the same standard to that who you support.

Because, in addition to being a liar, you certainly wouldn't want to be a hypocrite as well.... would you?

Clearly, to support this guy is to be a delusional clown.

Here. Let me draw a picture for you.

In addition, she only had reported 600+ in expenses. Doesn't seem right...

Like your proof that figures don't lie, but you figure?

Here's one you can try out:

Our local cardboard cutout of a state representative, Ridgefield Barbie, reports that she has raised, according to the FEC, $55,750. Never mind that the vast majority of that came from 8 contributors set up by Slade and McMorris.

Herrera is showing precisely ZERO in expenses.

Nada. Zip.

Here's THAT picture if it'll help:




Clearly, you have no fricking clue. What doesn't "seem right" is your lame-assed attempt to defend someone violating the tenets of his position because he doesn't give a damn about the duties of his office... he only cares about getting his boy elected, abuse of authority be damned.

They should send Gary a thank you note for not sending it out and embarrassing them.

The only one "embarrassing" themselves here is you.

Gary has acknowledged that the only reason he failed to send the note out was his support of Barnett. And for that, he ought to be ashamed of himself.

Funny that as the mouth piece for Rivers you were not aware of the "mistake" in the press release....

Funny that as a mouthpiece for Barnett, you have to make crap up while you babble about things you know absolutely nothing about.

Not funny haha, you understand... but funny queer.

Schimmel is a political, Boss Hogg-style disgrace. If he can't do his job, then he needs to resign so someone who can will be appointed in his place.

Juvenile, amateurish crap like this, also from someone named "Gary," changes nothing. And neither does your monumental ignorance.
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Someone claiming to be Gary Schimmel swings by: Ethics are no big deal.

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Not long ago (day before yesterday) I suggested that the Chair of the Cowlitz County GOP should resign for his now active conflict of interest in both refusing to utilize the Cowlitz County GOP email list to pass along campaign communiques or press releases which don't meet his arbitrary standard of acceptability, particularly when he has to fabricate fictional reasons for when those efforts don't pass his muster; and his endorsement of any candidate in a contested, open, primary.

As a result of that endorsement, he has made the decision to censor the communications of other candidates with districts that include any part of Cowlitz County, there by exercising his control in a completely unethical manner to support candidates he has endorsed.

That kind of tyrannical application of an arbitrary standard has a basis in such luminarious local political systems as North Korea... Iran... Nazi Germany... and the Soviet Union, to name a few.

And given how weak the candidate he's now shilling for actually is, I can understand his fear that telling the people the truth about that candidate's competition would certainly further endanger said candidate's dimming chances while further calling into question the judgment of anyone who would endorse him in the first place, particularly when such an endorsement is improper, unethical and a violation of the tenets of the office he holds.

Apparently, in Gary Schimmel's world, ethics are no big thing.

Someone claiming to be Schimmel swung by and left the following comment to my post demanding his resignation:

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Thank you for the offer. I do not plan on resigning. I am to[sic] excited about the[sic] getting the right candidates into office; and yes, I do want the "right" candidate to succeed.......................................................................... (Gary Schimmel) 1:19 PM

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Naturally, if he wanted the "right" candidate to succeed, he wouldn't be wasting his time with the one he's chosen.

And, of course, no where did I indicate that county chairs could not have people they support. As misguided as it is to want Shannon Barnett elected to anything, that, of course, is Schimmel's right.

But there is no excuse for publicly endorsing any candidate in a contested primary, and there is certainly no excuse for abusing the authority of your position by silencing anyone wise enough to run against your boy.

I am given to understand that because of Schimmel's juvenile antics with communications that show the weaknesses of Schimmel's choice, the candidate in question will not be allowed to use the Clark County GOP net as he otherwise would be if his puppet would give people the credit they deserve and allow them the right to read these things and make up their own minds without being told what to think by those with an insipid bias.

I've frequently wondered why Cowlitz County is controlled by democrats. All 3 commissioners are democrats, even though it's immediate neighbor to the south is controlled by Republicans.

Now I know.

Good job, Gary. And you really should take me up on my offer.
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Cowlitz County GOP Chair Gary Schimmel should resign.

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Earlier, I called for the resignation of Clark County GOP Ryan Hart for his misguided endorsement of Jaime Herrera.

It wasn't because, for whatever the reason that God only knows, Hart endorsed a clueless empty suit not qualified to be elected 8th Grade Class President. I would have made the same demand if he had endorsed ANYONE.

In that earlier post, demanding Hart's resignation, I wrote:

It has gone so far as to cause an otherwise honorable county chair to make an endorsement in a primary, something completely forbidden and unacceptable... something that even the democrats won't do. And in this or any other case, any county chair endorsing in an open primary under any circumstance should resign from their position as county chair.

My concern was that this unacceptable form of favoritism would, at some point, result in overt favoritism for or against a candidate. And that favoritism is not something a party chair may engage in without furthering the concept that our efforts and processes are corrupted by insiders and deals.

And such is the case with Cowlitz County GOP Chair Gary Schimmel.

A few days ago, one of the candidates for the 18th District House seat being vacated by Herrera, apparently sent out a press release, accurately reinforcing the fact of her fund raising superiority, having raised far more over the past 60 days or so she has been running than any other candidate.

Ryan Hart sent the release out at the candidate's request to the Clark County GOP List.

Gary Schimmel did not.

As I stated, I do make subjective choices of which statements I forward on. The statement in question is not appropriate in my opinion. I know money is important but it tinged on disparaging fellow Republicans which we are wanting to avoid in Cowlitz County.

HHhmmm.

That's a crock, of course. There was nothing within the press release remotely disparaging to any other candidate, save the obvious fact that they don't have a clue about fundraising. The fact is that Schimmel is protecting Shannon Barnett, and here's why I made that conclusion:

So what is this?

It's part of a screen capture of Barnett's web site, listing some of his few endorsements.

Clearly, the basis for Schimmel's objection to sending out the press release is that he does not want to make his guy look pathetic in comparison to other candidates.

And this is PRECISELY the kind of thing that can happen with county officers endorsing in primaries.

And for those excusing the act as these people are somehow capable of separating their official position from their endorsements... well, I've got to say that in this instance, how'd that work out?

Obviously, political corruption runs rampant in the Cowlitz GOP.

It is VITAL that party officers avoid even the APPEARANCE of favoritism. In this instance, the lame actions of the Cowlitz GOP Chair should serve as a warning of both a lack of accountability and integrity when party officers violate the conditions of their office and wrongly endorse candidates in a primary.

This is precisely the reason why that should never happen.

And particularly those who use their county mechanisms to overtly support those candidates they have endorsed.

And as a result, I renew my call on both Ryan Hart and now Gary Schimmel to resign. Anything less is to hang an unnecessary cloud over the process, a cloud that casts aspersions on the entirety of the system and those laboring under the illusion that this is somehow "fair," when those in charge are manipulating the outcomes... much like, come to think of it, happened when Herrera somehow got appointed.
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