Comments on: GOP Names Harford County Farmer, Jason Gallion, for Norman’s State Senate Seat on Primary Ballot https://ceciltimes.com/2018/03/gop-committees-pick-harford-county-farmer-jason-gallion-for-normans-state-senate-seat-on-primary-ballot/ News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Benjamin Camp https://ceciltimes.com/2018/03/gop-committees-pick-harford-county-farmer-jason-gallion-for-normans-state-senate-seat-on-primary-ballot/#comment-53124 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:19:02 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=5178#comment-53124 Mr. Gallion was not picked by the Central Committees. At least in the Harford delegation, no vote was ever held. The Central Committees authority was usurped by Governor Hogan, Harford County Executive Barry Glassman, and Republican State Party Chair Dirk Haire. The process was simply circumvented. The aforementioned will argue that time was of the essence, and thus they themselves made the pick, but time did exist on Sunday or Monday morning for a conference call between the Committee Members of the two counties to try and hash-out a resolution.

We elect our Central Committees to make the decisions and represent the grassroots of the Party in such situations. But once again the interests of the grassroots has been overridden by the GOP establishment. To Party Chair Dirk Haire, why did you specifically stand in the way of a conference call being held, and not allow Committee Members to have a say or vote in this important decision.

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