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Alabama GOP Convert Gets Abandoned By Staff



Jan 4, 2010 28 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Alabama congressman Parker Griffith has lost most of his staff after switching parties from Democrat to Republican last month.

Chief of staff Sharon Wheeler said in a resignation statement Monday that the economy of north Alabama’s 5th District has benefited from decades of Democratic representation in Washington.

The region relies heavily on defense and aerospace jobs.

She said Griffith “abandoned the legacy” of conservative Democratic leadership in the district, which includes Huntsville.

Several legislative aides and spokesman Sean Magers also quit.

Griffith is a former state senator. He narrowly won the seat last year but said on Dec. 22 that he could no longer support Congressional Democrats on health care and other policies.


  • Jim D

    Dissent will not be tolerated!. I recommend getting a new staff.Start them out at half the pay, america will love you for it

  • GRIZZ

    Fuck em.
    One of Ws mistakes ,was keeping some of clintons minions on.

  • GregGS

    who needs em.

  • http://deleted tedders

    They know where the unemployment office is don’t they?

  • joesephus

    The whole office will be shut come the end of 2010 anyway.
    Hire temps.

  • http://none gzero

    There is no such thing as conservative dem leadership after they sent the bluedogs to the pound. Another example of your party leavin ya for socialist corruption.

  • REV Jeff

    Another southern Dem. waking up after all these years?

  • amy

    I would think the district would benefit with a Republican. If obama gets his way, he’ll cut the military. Griffith’s district would lose jobs. But that’s logical and she’s a democrat. The 2 don’t mix well.

  • Double Tap

    There is no such thing as “Democratic Leadership” and “Democratic Representation” when referencing politics of the left. The proper terms are Democrat Leadership and Democrat Representation. Democrat and Democratic are absolutely NOT the same thing. Democrats have not been advocates of Democracy for at least 40 years. They do not believe in a government by the people and for the people.

  • Nanny

    According to posts from those in his Alabama district he won’t need any staff. This change of party was not because of principals it was done because there are a couple of really conservative candidates running for this seat and they have the upper hand. I didn’t see a whole lot of positive things said about him from those posts. Sounds like he is just trying to hold onto a job.

  • rosie

    I don’t know why this is news. Rats always scurry when a door opens to let some light and clean air in.

  • jasjfarrell

    They probably all got positions with whomever is going to run as the democrat against Griffith in the next election.

  • Knighthawk

    Go get some Obama buck$$

  • Nanny

    Have to go way back more than 40 years Double! These Marxists have been pushing socialism way longer than that!

  • http://none WWTD
  • Charlie from New Jersey

    Republicans are conservatives i.e., for the Constitution
    Democrates are socialists, i.e., for themselves. There is no such thing as a conservative democrat… they are extinct.

  • Sully

    Um… so what? Who gives a fuck if Dem apparatchiks quit their job for ‘ideological reasons’?

    AP making a ‘story’ out of nuthin’…. probably for Nanzi or Rahm as a weak parting shot.

  • mike3481

    Parker Griffith now knows the who, how and why he was being played for a fool by the majority of his staff.

    COS THEY WEREN’T WORKING FOR HIM. THEY WERE WORKING FOR THE RADICAL LEFT THAT’S TAKEN OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!

    Welcome to reality new guy. :roll:

    Jeez. :roll:

  • Hawkerdriver (Pisson the Koran)

    America won’t ever love this guy when they see his track record,including his contributions to HAMAS..

    http://www.bootparkergriffith.com

  • ATTILA

    Screw this ship jumping quisling opportunist, elect real repubs.

  • dwarvenho

    I live in Parker Griffith’s district. In a heated town hall meeting on health care last year he was asked by a tea party member “Where do we get our rights?”

    Griffith’s answer: “From us.” – meaning Congress.

    There within lies the problem.

    I like to think that our rights come from God and are in turn guaranteed by the constitution.

    Make no mistake, Griffith may be a Republican now, but he’s no conservative.

  • Sully

    Hmmm…. really? Where was that town hall with Griffith? I went to what was his only one and don’t recall that question.

    I went to town hall meetings of 5 or 6 ‘blue dogs’ last summer. Mostly because I’ve been saying for a year that there’s no such thing as a conservative Dem and couldn’t understand how a district can vote 60+% for a Repub Senator or POTUS but then elect Dems for *everything* else.

    I’m 100% behind electing the most Conservative Republican *possible*.
    What it seems most people forget is how KEY it is to take control of the House this year.

    The Marxists are counting on maintaining the 2011 re-districting power after the 2010 census to assure their control, as Carville has said, “for generations”.

    I’ll put up with a few RINO’s to take that power from them.

  • dwarvenho

    There was one in Florence, Athens, Crestwood Hospital and then one at the Space and Rocket Center. I believe the question was asked at the Athens townhall.

  • Kentucky Jim

    I like to think we get all the rights from God, and we agree, through the Constitution, to allow the government to borrow a limited number of our rights from us. I like the content of Bill of Rights, but not the name. It should have been called the List of unceded rights or something like that to emphasize that all the rights belong to the people and congress gets its rights from us by our permission..

  • Sully

    I was at the SRC and he was asked a ‘similar’ question that he surprisingly answered quite well. Something like ‘as long as we keep electing dumbfucks, we’ll keep getting dumbfuck legislation.’
    (True that eh?)
    Seems to me the answer that we get our rights from Congress would have garnered alot of attention.

    I’m not one of his fans but I do think we’re seriously fucked in 2011 if we don’t get control of the House.
    Conservatives will get re-districted out of political power for a very long time.

  • MIDTN

    ………AMEN………

  • MIDTN

    Conservatives don’t need this chicken shit, sinking ship jumping demo rat, RINO wannabe……..

    GET LOST!

  • Sully

    Yeah maybe.
    Too bad they don’t vote.