Tea party members back axed prez

Dan82 · Sep 8, 2010

http://helenair.com/news/article_db160e0e-bb0f-11df-86ef-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story

Members of the Big Sky Tea Party Association strongly defended former president Tim Ravndal at the group’s meeting Tuesday night following what many called his unfair and hasty ejection from the group over a casual conversation on Facebook that appeared to treat violence against gays lightly.

At a frequently contentious meeting, many of the approximately 30 members in attendence blasted acting board chairman Roger Nummerdor and chairman Jim Walker — absent because he’s hunting in the Crazy Moutains — for stripping Ravndal of his position and membership without giving him a chance to defend himself, and for announcing the move to the press over the Labor Day weekend.

In the end, Nummerdor said the available board members would meet soon to consider reinstating Ravndal’s association membership, although he did not specify a date for that meeting.

Among the critics of the board decision was Kristi Allen-Gailushas, Republican nominee for a Helena-area House seat, who said she would resign her membership and her position of association secretary.

A statement issued over the weekend by Walker said a 4-0 vote of the board, with one abstention, approved Ravndal’s dismissal. But board member Tom Baird said he never participated in the vote, hearing only after the fact that a quorum and decision had been reached.

He called the move “a knee-jerk reaction that cannot be reversed.”

He abruptly left the meeting, saying he was resigning from the organization.

“My worry is that the association will turn tail and run in the opposite direction,” he said.

Board member Bobette Madonna abstained from that vote, but joined the group consensus that Ravndal could have been perhaps just reprimanded and removed from leadership, and that the complete ejection was too quick and harsh...

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Emberstone · Sep 8, 2010

Is 'Crazy Mountain' where they go to find their cannidates?

I am still shocked tea partiers are trying to force through the removal of most of the 1964 civil rights act, then still trying to claim there is not racisem in their ranks.

It is like jim crowe, and john birch got really drunk, and said "lets start a uprising."

This sort of behavior reinforces the glaring intolerence of tea partiers.

Revan · Sep 8, 2010

Is this a joke or something? Big Sky Tea Party? Crazy Mountains? Sounds like a joke post...

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