MDGOP to the World: "Ignore Us"
It's hard to win elections when you make it hard for people to learn about your party
As reported last night, Congressman Andy Harris was taken to the hospital last night. Thankfully, he was released and appears to be doing fine.
But that’s not what I want to talk about.
No, what I want to talk about is this dumbass quote from Maryland Republican Party Executive Director Adam Wood. Because in an early version of the story posted by The Banner, Wood said:
“We’re at a convention and conventions are closed to press” is one of the most asinine, ridiculous, and stupid things ever said by a person in politics. Then again, Adam Wood isn’t actually from Maryland so has no idea what the hell is going on or how hard Maryland Republicans had to fight to get media coverage in the first place.
He has no idea that in 2013, people were literally fighting the party to get press credentials to the convention when another out-of-town Executive Director did not want to provide press credentials to legitimate bloggers covering the convention. I know, I was one of them. Hell, we were literally BROADCASTING parts of the convention on Facebook.
He was too busy sorting mail in a Congresswoman’s office to notice what we were doing and building here. I guess airdropping into Maryland solely for the purpose of being campaign manager for Nicolee Ambrose’s doomed run for Congress1 doesn’t prepare you for grown up jobs.
He seems to have forgotten that we had a Republican Governor in Maryland as recently as three years ago, so the press were always interested in the Maryland GOP convention and what was next for the party.
Wood does seem, however, unaware that the only way to get the press to cover your event is to let them actually come to the damn event. These are life lessons that I guess aren’t taught in Kansas or North Carolina.
Don’t get it twisted; I understand not commenting on the Congressman’s condition. It was not Adam Wood’s place to comment on the health of any convention attendee, much less his boss’s husband. But the idea that “We’re at a convention and conventions are closed to press” is the comment that a completely unserious, amateur clown says when they don’t want anybody to know that Maryland even has a Republican Party anymore.
You can’t just wait until the convention is over and send out a press release two weeks later, like Wood loves to do, to control the narrative when the news is weeks old and nobody cares enough to cover it.
The Maryland Republican Party is continuing to act as an unserious amateur hour at a time when the party already has its back against the wall with what’s coming. Until the party is ready to install adults with actual connections to Maryland in positions of leadership, the self-inflicted struggles will continue to pile up for Maryland Republicans.
That loss could not have happened to a more deserving person.