November 17, 2006
Severely Disappointed
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Seth Wimer, has completely and utterly destroyed the Delaware Federation of College Republicans in his 2 terms. My previous post (a long time ago- I've been busy) included the achievements in 2004, which led to Delaware being named "Most Improved" at the DFCR's annual business meeting. The "achievements of 2006", if any exist, were dismal.
Seth Wimer, the chairman of the DFCR, engineered a complete and utter disaster on the College Republican front.There was no mass-based youth effort (A very small cadre of "CRs" worked for the Jan Ting campaign for US Senate) Average meeting attendance at University of Delaware stood at a 3-year low at 15/meeting. In 2004 it peaked at over 70/meeting (pre-election fall semester), and in 2005 it was over 25 in the off year. As far as Wesley College, from which Seth Wimer hails, I haven't found a single person who would be able to inform me if they even held meetings this fall!
There was no leadership. Seth Wimer didn't recruit a single college student on his own initiative. In fact, Seth Wimer hasn't held a DFCR meeting (properly announced to the whole DFCR board in advance per the DFCR constitution) in the last three months (also known as election time). This was not only unconstitutional, but absolutely unheard of in election time. Seth Wimer was too busy with other self-promoting activities.
Seth Wimer decided he wanted to run- the abysmal US Senate Campaign in Delaware's history instead, while also maintaining the Chairmanship role (in word only, not in deed). Not only did his candidate barely squeak by with less than 42.5% of the Republican primary vote. On the Republican ticket, he failed to get more votes than a complete unknown candidate for Treasurer who barely ran a campaign. His election totals signify that his candidate not only failed to win any portion of the Independent vote, but that Republicans turncoated as well.
At CPAC in 2005, CRNC Chairman Paul Gourley called Delaware "One of my favorite State Federations," and hailed its leadership as superb. Then again, Mr. Gourley has always been a great judge of character and leadership ability, hasn't he?
Note: I wasn't going to post this, because Seth Wimer has efficiently dug his own grave here in Delaware. However, when I heard he was paying his own way to CO, because he didn't want the rest of his board to know he was going (like i said, he hasn't had a board meeting in months)- i felt obligated to let the truth be told. So, if any state chair hear's Seth Wimer parading, doing the "politics" we've all come to know and love in the CRNC- just be aware its all politics, and that there's not a single positive thing that he's accomplished this past year. Please, Don't take my word for it- just see for yourself at CPAC- when the "Delaware Delegation" will (hopefully) be present. In 2004, we took over 40. In 2005, there were about 20 CRs. In 2006, the goal is 10 CRs (some HSers might be present)- if they can get that!
Further evidence:
Death of the DFCR blog:
The DFCR website: (established the summer 2005, promoted, and then left dry. Seth promised a "new website" at the end of August... but... I guess he didn't get around to it)
posted by DERepublican at 7:39 PM
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