Porter County GOP finally takes a stand

After berrating meeting attendees for having the audacity to ask where the PC GOP stands on the local Regional Transit Authority referendum up for a vote in Nov, that created bigger government, removed local contol and granted taxing authority, and telling attendees that the vote was a personal choice that they should investigate for themselves, and it was one that the Porter County GOP party officials would not take a position on, either out of self-proclaimed ignorance, or because it was not a "partisan issue" (since when is higher taxes and bigger government NOT a GOP partisan issue???), on election day the Porter County GOP manned a phone bank urging voters to get to the polls and vote YES.

Yes, you read that right! The party of limited government and lower taxes LIED to life-long GOP members, who attended a party meeting in good faith and in hopes of genuine discourse with their party officials, and then like the lying, charlatans and mountebanks they have shown themselves to be, came out in support of something they proclaimed rather insultingly that they were not taking a position on - 'shame on anyone for assuming otherwise!'

It seems the St. Joseph county GOP, whose county voted on the referendum as well, had no problem understanding what role and position the GOP (the party of conservativism) should be taking on the issue. They took a stand publically and vocally against the RTA and in support of the ACTUAL principles of the Grand Old Party.

Now it would have been bad enough if the Porter County GOP had revealed their actual intentions, but at least it would have been honest. The mere fact that these officials, as represenative of the party, LIED to members, and then used resources that are ultimately provided by membership support and contributions, is INEXCUSIBLE!

I guess if there is a silver-lining to be found it would have to be that the Porter County GOP hasn't gotten any better at getting out the vote than they were in 2008 (or maybe it is that a great many ACTUAL conservatives and Republicans know that the Porter County GOP no longer represents them or the party and cannot be trusted). The referendum went down in flames in both St. Joseph and Porter County.