Justin McFarland Resigns
KU College Republicans Chairman Justin McFarland has resigned his position, effective today. While Justin leaves the group in the able hands of Vice-Chairman Josh Steward, this is a loss for Republicans in Kansas.
For the past 18 month Justin has provided solid leadership and a stable hand for the KUCRs, by far the largest College Republicans group in Kansas. Political leadership, especially volunteer political leadership is always a tough road, but Justin has done a good job. Justin lead the KUCRs through a divisive primary election and through an impressive performance in the general election. Last weekend Justin lead a group of CRs to Iowa to help President Bush secure a narrow win in that state.
Justin has been an able leader and a good friend, I look forward to the day when he chooses to enter political leadership again.
Timothy Burger
posted by Timothyb @ 2:29 PM
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7 Comments:
Tim,
I appreciate the compliments (not all deserved though) and have loved serving the group that you, Erin, Joe, Ward and many others made so great. Back in May I made some very unwise financial decisions, not with the intention of defrauding the group. I'm not going to try to justify what I did as right or even acceptable. I know it was wrong, I have acknowledged, accepted, and now apologize for my actions. I feel great remores for the relationships I've put in jeoparody and the negative attention for the great organization. I know the KUCRs will pull through, and I look forward to staying active in the organization, just not in a leadership role.
Also, when we spoke the other day, I gave you another reason for my resignation. While I wish it was true, it was what the group agreed to say. Then someone leaked the story to the Kansan. I didn't want to lie to you, but felt I had to uphold my end of the deal, at least for awhile. Didn't want to explain it this way, but that's the way it goes.
Justin
reality check.
1. Wasn't J.McFarland/CR's censured for innappropriate support of a candidate in that very 'divisive campaign?'
2. I'm sure the Iowa Republicans thank the CR's sending their people to Iowa. The local Democratic candidates surely say 'thank you' for abandoning Douglas County on election day, thus allowing a sweep in Douglas Co.
Wait a sec, he just lied to Tim. When does this all stop!?!
Justin's "censure" was a joke, State CR chair Jordan D'Angelo created a new rule barring CR chairs from helping Republican candidates during a primary. He made this rule without consulting the club chairs or getting their aproval. The D'Angelo "censured" Justin without the aproval of the club chairs. After he sprang this on everyone, his rule was thrown out by the club chairs, so I really wouldn't call that a censure. On top of that Justin was elected by the KUCR group (a group that probably has 1/2 to 1/3 of the total CR membership in Kansas, in contrast to Jordan D'Angelo's chapter that is basically him and two of his friends) after D'Angelo's antics.
The KU group did go to Iowa, a state that the President barely won, so I would say that would be a better use of manpower than helping the county clerk, or whoever you would have rather seen them help. It is a good idea to move your people to where they can be most effective.
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Sorry, I did not mean to delete my post.
Thanks for all the kind words about Iowa. I put allot of work into organizing that trip and I think it was well worth our time. Had students/volunteers not crossed over onto battleground states, we could have very well lost the presidential election. I think our trip to Iowa was well worth it and I'm proud to say I was apart of the RNC's efforts to reelect "W".
Marcy Marcy Marcy. Let your grudge against Jordan go. Sure Justin said he was not a crook and won re-election. Well, he was a crook and he got his hand caught in the cookie jar. In this aftermath how about we come together. Forgive and forget. The censure was a slap on the wrist and it turned out he committed every transgression listed. Life goes on. Oh, and that censure was passed by all boards except the KU College Republicans... go figure!
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