VA DEM Party concedes validity of Goldman's appeal, admits only permissible endorsement process must be one where "everyone's voice is heard."

The Jones for Mayor campaign needs to heed words of Bob Dylan:

"How Many Times Can a Man Turn his Head and Pretend That He Just Doesn't See?"

It is blowing in the wind folks.

By Paul Goldman

In today's Richmond Times Dispatch, the Virginia Democratic Party had this to say about my challenge to the RCDC "endorsement" action of last Thursday night:

" We're not going to pre-emptively change anything, but we want a process is [sic] which everyone's voice is heard," said Jared Leopold, a state party spokesman." [Emphasis added].

Given that one of the basic, fundamental premises of my challenge to the Richmond City Democratic Committee "process" that "endorsed" Delegate Jones is that even the RCDC members concede that it was not a process in which everyone's voice was heard - quite the opposite really - then this official statement from the Virginia Democratic Party concedes what all fair-minded people already know.

Everyone's voice was not heard last Thursday night at the RCDC meeting BY DESIGN, indeed the whole "process" never even allowed the candidates to speak to the RCDC, or even fill out the usual questionnaire PRIOR TO THE SURPRISE, NOT-PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED endorsement move.

As Jefferson might say, that is why it is self-evident that the RCDC process and action VIOLATED THE VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLAN AND THE RCDC'S OWN BYLAWS.

In fact, the reason the Jones for Mayor campaign did what he it did WAS TO ACT SO THAT ALL VOICES DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO BE HEARD!

So this is why I have urged the Appeal Committee created to hold their hearing ASAP, to ask Delegate Jones to allow it to be held ASAP, so we can quickly correct the damage done by the RCDC failures to follow the basic rules and values of the Democratic party.