UPDATED: Fallen Timbers and Oregon Republican Clubs support Simpson as LCRP chairman

UPDATE:

The Oregon Republican Club has added their support to Jeff Simpson as chair of the LCRP, per this email:

For Immediate Release

Motion of Support Chairman Jeff Simpson
January 13, 2010

The Oregon Republican Club would like to formally recognize and congratulate the recently elected Chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party, Jeff Simpson. We look forward to working with you to promote and elect quality Republican candidates throughout Lucas County.

"The vote to support Chairman Simpson was unanimous and we are thrilled with the LCRP Central Committee's choice" said Marvin Belknap, Club President. " The LCRP was in need of new leadership and Chairman Simpson is someone we can all agree on."

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ORIGINAL POST:
This just in via email:

For Immediate Release to the Press
January 14th, 2010
Fallen Timbers Republican Club
PO BOX 2851, Whitehouse, OH 43571

Press Release

The Fallen Timbers Republican Club members at their regularly scheduled meeting, January 13th, 2010 voted unanimously to recognize Chairman Jeff Simpson as the newly elected Lucas County Republican Chairman.

The Fallen Timbers Republican Club is excited at what Chairman Simpson brings to the position. Chairman Simpson has been a leader in the community for years now and has taken recognizable stances to uphold the core values of the Republican Party. The Fallen Timbers Republican Club has full confidence that with Chairman Simpson at the helm he will bring new life to the soul of Republican Party promoting conservative values and principles.

FTRC President and Lucas County Republican Party Executive Member Christine Seles stated that she was “appalled at the recent desperate acts and non-factual accounts that have streamed from Former Chairman regarding the December 21st, 2009 Central Committee Meeting”. She further stated that “It reflects negatively on the Republican Party and I would expect that a Chairman or Former Chairman would not put the party’s reputation in question just to further their own personal gain”. The officers and membership body of the Fallen Timbers Republican Club have restored hope that under the direction and leadership of Chairman Jeff Simpson the Lucas County Republican Party will become a respectable and viable force in local politics.

Sincerely,

The Executive Board of the Fallen Timbers Republican Club,

Christine Seles, FTRC President
Larry Romaine, Vice President
Diane Haupricht, Treasurer
Kristin Blochowski, Secretary
Joanna Shaw, Sgt. at Arms

Copy of Motion Below:

Motion of Support Chairman Jeff Simpson
January 13, 2010

The Fallen Timbers Republican Club recognizes that December 21st, 2009 a meeting was called for the Lucas County Republican Party’s Central Committee. Furthermore it is recognized that the aforementioned meeting was not started on time and that after over a forty minute delay there was a movement to begin the meeting without the Central Committee Chairman.

The Fallen Timbers Republican Club membership and officers fully support the majority decision of the Lucas County Republican Party’s Central Committee to appoint a temporary Central Committee Chairman in the absence of the currently elected Central Committee Chairman Meghan Gallagher.

The Fallen Timbers Republican Club membership and officers fully support the majority decision of the Lucas County Republican Party’s Central Committee, under the leadership of Temporary Lucas County republican Party Central Committee Chairman Chris Myers, to remove Lucas County Republican Party Central Committee Chairman Meghan Gallagher and furthermore supports the majority vote which took place to replace Ms. Gallagher with Paul Hoag.

The Fallen Timbers Republican Club membership and officers fully support the majority decision of the Lucas County Republican Party’s Central Committee, under the leadership of the Lucas County Republican Party’s Central Committee Chairman Paul Hoag, to remove Jon Stainbrook as Lucas County Republican Party Chairman at the aforementioned Lucas County Republican Party Central Committee meeting which took place on December 21st, 2009.

Furthermore the Fallen Timbers Republican Club hereby recognizes and supports Chairman Jeff Simpson as the newly elected Lucas County Republican Party Chairman. The membership body is encouraged and inspired by the positive changes that his leadership will undoubtedly bring to the county. His election brings hope and unity to a party divided and distracted by personal goals, rather than for the greater good of the Lucas County Republican Party. The Fallen Timbers Republican Club membership and officers have full confidence that Chairman Simpson’s leadership will foster support and spread the core beliefs of the Republican Party, and that he will work diligently to help republican candidates county, state and nationwide.

Therefore, I respectfully submit this motion to be voted upon by the membership body and forwarded to Ohio Republican Party chairman Kevin DeWine and to the Ohio Republican Party’s State Central Committee for its consideration.