For many Republicans, Frank Long's delusional ramblings at the last Carver county full committee meeting were at the least uncomfortable and at most remenscent of a 70s hippie mid bad trip.
Much like toxic sludge bubbling to the surface, Frank got up and read a letter cosigned by CD6 chair Bobby Benson and CD3 chair Patti Meier condemning Denny Lauftenberger for allowing a TIF district to be created in Chanhassen, which really has nothing to do with the BPOU whatsoever and the letter actually wasn't signed on to by either of the other entities. Our duly elected Chair resigned the other day because of the rat pack and thier inglorious leader Frank Long,
Who is an unreconstructed asshat, a serial bully, and a perennial opportunist,Who has occupied a seat at the table in Carver County politics for well over a decade and during all that time, while amassing a record of non-achievement notable even by the Carver County GOP's subterranean standards, he never once has troubled himself with deep thoughts rather he has engaged in loony toonish antics that accomplish nothing but make everyone want to boink him in the eyes everytime they have the misfortune of running into him at GOP affairs.
Frank reminds me of Jospeh Mccarthy in the way that he quickly found himself the leader of the Neoconservatives in SD47 where he established himself as a "True conservative." and a "beacon of morality " for Carver County Conservatives.
Then along came the moderates asking to be involved, and all of a sudden, Long sprang forward to defend his
dogma from these godless heathens, of whom I surely must be numbered as one, For reason of my centrist tendencies so my testimony is maybe unreliable to some. However, Seeing as Long has a 10 year extensive record of self rightesousness and Lunacy you, you needn’t take my heretical word for it.
Many residents in the past have taken to media outlets asking why Carver County GOP and our incumbent legislators why we continuoulsy cater to Frank Long when runs the party like it's the House un-American Activities commitee and everyone with a contrary opinion is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? and how come nobody does anything. They don't respond to the question and I'm on a rampage today so Let me tell you why?
You guessed it: Mute Republican impotence also is the norm hereabouts and his peers would rather endure a daily colonoscopy then to tell him to sit down and shut up
Frank is a Republican , and he knows that as a republican in Carver County, he is perfectly free to say and believe and do anything, or nothing, however egregious, nasty and untruthful, because there’ll always be a fellow “Republican” in need of the sin-eating services of a small-pond operative utterly devoid of scruples or ethical sensibility.
I’ve been describing Long's frequent Episodes of diahrea of the mouth for a very long time. His career in playacting at public service has been an embarrassment to his party and the senate district in myriad ways since before I even began getting involved several years ago, but there is something different about his most recent episode of frothing at the mouth.
It was unabashedly public rant. This was not behind the scenes backstabbery this was in front of every member of the full commitee
It’s worth remembering that Joe Stalin attended seminary school before embarking on his stellar career of thuggery and mayhem, and in like fashion, Long's attempts to protray himself as of man of moral turpitide have not been meant to bring him a step closer to a ragpicker’s sainthood.
Rather, it has been a convenient means to an end. It’s been about inciting and assembling an angry mob much like an crowd of angry medeval folks gathered together to watch a witch burn and who can be called back to the podium when needed.
Of course, in this case, it’s been about several years since party leadership changed, with nary a peep from Long. He didn’t care an iota about party procedure it was just another chit to be safegaurded whilst nursing his elderly white man’s panoply of grudges, at least until the right cue came along.
With the election of Denny Lauftenberger to chair the BPOU, Long got his chance to resume his duties as the Party jerk because in Franks mind the moderates had taken over
Speaking of Frank's mind the only person who probably could figure out him and his sordid delusions out is Sigmund Freud, himself but if Freud were reincarnated and ran for a party position. Frank would start prattling on about the Jews taking over. And a majority of his colleagues wouldn’t say a damned single word about it.
That’s because Long is accustomed to saying and doing as he pleases; after all, he’s a Republican in Carver county and generations of party leaders have been republicans , too, and none of them have ever tried very hard to discipline him.
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The moderates had the chairmanship under our control and we treated the gavel as though it had only recently been dipped in Ebola jam, Long's been bullying his cohorts for years. He knew everyone was going to be there, he knew he could do as he pleased, and he knew he’d not be censured for it.
That’s how enduringly tone-deaf the Republicans in CD6 are becoming
Frank's behavior is routinely despicable, but the GOP persists in enabling him. With people like Sanborn amongst thier ranks they have very few few ethical principles of their own to promote, local Republicans jokingly handle their “ Frank problem” by siding with Lyndon Baines Johnson’s preferred method of dealing with J. Edgar Hoover:
"Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than the other way around.”"
What’s more, the Frank Long isue don't just affect the BPOU the entire County pays for it , again and again, in a loss of civic reputation and people seeing us as some obscure regional backwater.
I’m hoping to be proven wrong, but there’s as much chance of Frank Long being censured for his schoolyard bully tactics as there is of the Waconia Ice arena actually paying for itself.
One person on the BPOU, Denny Lauftenberger had the intestinal fortitude to suggest that Long deserved some form of censure.
and everybody else sat there twiddled their thumbs and stared at the floor, all the while remaining pathetically incapable of grasping why they’re regarded as political laughingstocks by anyone in town who takes the time to observe them in thier bi-monthly repose.
What about CD6 leaderhship and Patti Meier? Frank Long has has been thier loyal, groveling Sancho Panza. Will CD leadership emerge from thier collective bunkers to publicly reassure the general populace that Frank Long wasn't and does not speak for them?
I doubt it. They believes what they read on the Carver County GOP's social media pages , Which basically just tell everyone exactly what they want to hear.there's no mention of a nattering nabob named Frank who undermines everything they do. An animated Disney feature contains more reality than this.
Long's snarling disregard for the rules of simple human civility is a nasty symptom of the rot within, one that is being left to fester by party officials at the local regional and state party levels alike. Long is a jerk, all right, but far more significantly that this, he’s an apt metaphor for the diseased existence of our local Republican party unit which , which seems to operate more and more purely from a principle of machine monetization.
There’s a lot of censure to go around.
None of it will
Think of it as a sorrow for carver county
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