locogringo...Little by little the enemy creeps forward just like they have done in what use to be great briton and europe...citizens did not pay attention to what was happening and the utter stupidity of their elected government people. :-(
County Liberals Protest Republican Club's Choice of Speaker
The Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club's invitation to Fred Grandy to speak at a club function has not gone over well with Montgomery County Democrats.
By Laura L Thornton
August 17, 2011
chevychase.patch.com
Maryland Juice sounded online alarm last week about Fred Grandy's speaking engagement with the Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club. Credit MarylandJuice.com Photos (1) Photos Credit MarylandJuice.com
Add your photos & videos Fred Grandy, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa and a former actor who played Gopher on "The Love Boat," is scheduled to be the featured speaker for the Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club on Sept. 24.
Grandy recently left his job as a morning radio talk show host for WMAL in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Grandy has said that he was forced out, but WMAL said that he left on his own.
The club, which is private and membership-based, often invites prominent Republicans to speak at club functions.
Still, liberals in the area are voicing concern over the club's choice of speaker.
A blog post on MarylandJuice.com sounded an online alarm Friday, and Democrat Saqib Ali, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2007 to 2011 representing Gaithersburg and Germantown, spoke to Chevy Chase Patch about the matter earlier this week.
"Clearly, Republicans are too embarrassed to expose it to public scrutiny," Ali wrote in an email. "Using phrases like 'Shariah-compliant' to refer to American Muslims is bigotry. Complaining that American Muslims are in government is bigotry."
Ali added: "Why are Republicans inviting bigots to address their meetings?"
Patch tried to reach out to the communications chair of the Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club for a comment via email but had not received an answer at the time of this article's publication.
Regarding the club's choice of speaker, Montgomery County Republican Central Committee Chairman Mark Uncapher said that "complaining that a program on 'Islamic extremism' is an attack on all of Islam makes the same mistake critics unfairly accuse Fred Grandy of."
He added: "'Islamic extremism' and Islam are not interchangeable terms."
Ali said that he is hoping that when the public knows of this event, it will put pressure on the club to cancel with Grandy.
Two of Grandy's upcoming speaking engagements in Virginia have been "cancelled by political correctness," according to Grandy's website.
"If I'm unsuccessful at this effort [to get the event canceled]," Ali said, "I will certainly be there with picketers. ... I will not let Montgomery County become a home for hate."
Stay tuned to Chevy Chase Patch for more information.
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