Bet she didn't think she would ever reach their breaking point! LOL
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2010/01/29/roach-expelled-from-gop-caucus-meetings/
Roach expelled from GOP caucus meetings
Citing “hostile behavior,” state Senate Republicans have kicked GOP Sen. Pam Roach out of their private meetings.
Roach, an Auburn resident who represents the 31st District, no longer will get a voice or a vote in her caucus, where lawmakers huddle by party affiliation behind closed doors.
“As your fellow Senators it is difficult to be in a room with you when you erupt in anger,” Senate GOP caucus leaders said in a letter to Roach obtained by the News Tribune. “For our employees it is unacceptable.”
The rare step stems from an April 15, 2009, confrontation between Roach and a Senate staff lawyer who handles personnel and ethics matters, Michael Hoover, but reflects years of conflict between Roach and other Senate Republicans.
Roach reached back to those past incidents in an interview today to argue GOP leaders are persecuting her. She said she has filed requests for reconsideration of the caucus ejection and a reprimand of her by a bipartisan Senate committee that Republicans cited in their decision. But she doesn’t mind being left out of caucus, Roach said.
“It’s not anything I’m missing at all,” she said, “and it’s kind of freedom-evoking.”
The reprimand is the fifth disciplinary action by the Senate against Roach for her treatment of staff, according to the documents associated with the investigations and obtained by the News Tribune. ...
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Roach's husband worked under my direction back in my newspaper days, when she was just getting her political career started.
Losing control is not only lack of control, but now loss of power.
She earned it.
Wasn't she the one that got busted for DUI?
Sidrat:
Nope, Jim and Pam Roach are strict Mormons, except when the church says the family should be lead by the father.
From The Olympian - ReasonableRepublican wrote on 01/30/2010 08:08:07 AM:
Something to be proud of my party, after the embarrassment of their behavior in dialog with the President, yesterday.
Ouch!
"Angry_Randy wrote on 01/30/2010 07:16:33 AM:
If they could, they should kick her out of the Senate all together. She has been an embarrassment for a long time.
shaydo: Her behavior has no defense. I have talked to people who have been abused by her or witnessed it. The quotes from this article are tame. She is a disgrace of a human being, not just elected officials"
BUT THEN....
"Angry_Randy wrote on 01/30/2010 08:32:55 AM:
This behavior is not unique to republicans. Although his behavior is not as outrageous as Roach's, Frank Chopp is a complete @$$. Not even the Ds like dealing with him. And on the national level, apparently none of you are familiar with Rahm Emanuel's legendary f-bomb tirades directed at staffers and collegues.
This is not constrained to one party or ideology, as some of you seem to insinuate."
I wonder how long Randy gritted his teeth before releasing his true partisan attitude of "they did it too", even though "they" don't have the reputation of Roach.
I only wish more people would have been online the Sunday evening a couple of years back with Randy and I, when he told me that "gay men stare at me in the showers at the health club". He denies it today and it's not archived because it was on the old comments software, but that statement told me a lot about old Randy.
Angry_Randy wrote on 01/30/2010 11:21:40 AM:
"Another sign that the GOP is fractured and struggling."
As much a sign as having a majority in congress and still not being able to pass key health care legislation even after buying off members of your own party for their vote? Or governships in the last few state elections going to the Rs? Or a long-time D stronghold senate seat going R in MA?
Both parties are fractured and in disarray. It is people like peabody who are part of the problem. On the left and the right.
Angry_Randy wrote on 01/30/2010 11:19:00 AM:
She is a total disgrace. It doesn't matter what she may, or may not, do in how she "cuts through the BS at a bill hearing". Her overall behavior overshadows any good she might do. Anyone who defends her behavior has problems.
"Another sign that the GOP is fractured and struggling."
Idiotic comment of the day. The GOP, in the super-minority here in WA, kicks a crazy woman out of their caucus and this is allegedly a sign that the GOP is fractured and struggling. Get a grip.
RANDY - wipe the foam off your mouth and quit repeating yourself.
The gift that keeps on giving. Randy knows that it's everyone's perception, as opposed to what he says:
Angry_Randy wrote on 01/30/2010 03:54:51 PM:
Kay: peabody goes after me b/c he/she is brainwashed by all the left-wing propoganda they spout. He/she can't help it. It doesn't bother me. I'm used to it. I usually get accused of "right-wing" talking points at least once a day.
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