Randy Covington’s Ranting Betrays His Angry Agenda

Randy Covington’s Ranting Betrays His Angry Agenda

Republicans ended slavery. Republicans helped enact Civil Rights Laws. Republicans helped us defeat Fascism and Communism.

Those were Liberal Republicans, people who valued humanity.

What happened to them?

They’ve been pushed out of their party. By whom? By outrageous sheeple (sheep-people, a/k/a the People of the Lie), fueled by Karl Rove , Ann Coulter and the Koch Brothers (owners of Georgia-Pacific, which wants to pollute our St. Johns River with a pipeline designed for that purpose).

GOP no longer stands for Grand Ole Party. It stands for Grouches, Oafs & Pitiful!

Today’s GOP practices smear and fear – it lacks ideas, so it emits emotions.

Oceans of emotions. Emotions emitted at the behest of Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers.

These other-directed Tea Party political animals are unhappy. Unctuous. Uncouth. Hence, they demean every government agency they ever encounter (except the St. Johns County School Board). These Teabaggers turn every disagreement about policy into something unpleasant, something nasty, threatening fisticuffs and making gun noises and gestures at our County Commissioners. They call themselves “the Tea Party.”

Here in St. Johns County, there are two different feuding groups of these Tea Parties, each one of them massively misinterpreting the Constitution, misappropriating Revolutionary War drag and flags. These Teabaggers don’t know anything about history. They don’t know beans about the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. They are imbued with self-righteousness – they know not that they know not that they know not!

Case in Point: Your Republican State Committeeman, Randy Covington. Who is Randy Covington? Mysterious international businessman? Humorless hack and sadsack. Corporativist anti-park schoolyard bully, who actually called our St. Johns River “private property?” Insecure, unelected leader of one of two local Tea Party factions (which he took over after filing for a corporate charter and seizing power in a Beer Hall Putsch on August 22, 2011. ). Who got the $6000 treasury? Has there been an accounting?

As reported in the St. Augustine Record (August 22, 2011): “Board secretary Esther Miller said Tea Party Chairman Eric West and board member Randy Covington met Saturday without informing the party membership, then informed her she was no longer secretary. ‘They want some of us to form another Tea Party,’ Miller said. "They're shutting us up. I won my seat in a contested race. I'm not leaving.’ Board treasurer Lance Thate was also dumped Saturday. ‘I had no idea (that would happen),’ Thate said. "There was no discussion, no notice, anything. We had been in touch with the Republican Executive Committee hoping to rein in (West and Covington). When they called me to 'discuss the future of the Tea Party,' I called Esther Miller to go with me.’ Thate is often seen demonstrating in a tricorn hat and holding the yellow ‘Don't Tread on Me’ flag. He and Miller believe West and Covington have a continuing conflict of interest by being on the boards of both the Tea Party and the REC. Thate said, ‘The Tea Party didn't come into existence to be a branch of the REC. If the Republicans had been doing their job, the Tea Party wouldn't have been necessary.’"

Covington told the Record: “The Tea Party is the only organization with the energy and focus to affect change in our political institutions."

At the Beer Hall Putsch style meeting, Covington and his allies took over the group, stating there were no rules.

Covington does not even believe in the laws of physics, or in having experts write school books. Earlier this year, at a meeting of the St. Johns County Legislative Delegation, Randy Covington actually told our state legislators that he is against “experts” writing school curricula – he wants parents to do it. Personally, I would prefer that mathematicians write our math books, wouldn’t you? Future nuclear engineers, scientists and airline pilots – and those who rely on their work --- will thank you!

Covington and his ill-mannered, ill-breed, uninformed crowd of crackpots opposed the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore. Cutting off their noses to spite their face, they laughed at the prospect of good green jobs at good wages. Instead, they prefer prattling sloganeering about socialism. Picture Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, except they’re not erudite and lie even more!

Now crotchety old Randy Covington shows his recklessness by attacking Rev. Ron Rawls, Judith Seraphin, and little ‘ole me. Randy Covington accuses Rev. Rawls of living in Gainesville (true) and Judith Seraphin and me of “intimidating” our School Board by asking the Justice Department to investigate ‘em. When a bully-boy given to Brown Shirt tactics calls you a bully, I reckon that makes you an anti-bully!

Revealingly, rancid Randy Covington calls African-Americans a “special interest group.” Wrong, they are a protected class under our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which Covington purports to venerate.

While Covington hates government – any government – he has a strange romance with the St. Johns County School Board. He writes, “The School Board voted their principles, they should not be pressured to abandon that for the mistakes of the commission.”

Evidently, along among all of the governments on the face of this Earth, our St. Johns County School Board is beloved of Mr. Covington’s other-directed faction of our Tea Party. Why? Perhaps because our School Board dragged its heels on desegregation compliance. Or perhaps because it violated constitutional rights, recently held in violation (again) by a federal court for attempting to inflict religious songs on fourth grade graduation!

Evidently, GOP bully Randy Covington’s soulmates on the St. Johns County School Board share Covington’s animus toward our constitution and those who believe in it, including the “ACLU and NAACP.”

Hyperventilating, Randy Covington goes off for more than 1200 words on his blog. Cliches by the Carload. Mixed metaphors. Fox-News-like material misstatements of fact. Limbaugh-like appeals to unwashed lemmings to follow his prejudices.

Covington is enough to give shallowness a bad name. He’s out of his depth.

Read Covington’s disgustingly revealing diatribe, “Judith Seraphin Sees Racists Everywhere” for real and demonstrative evidence of just how loooow the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) and its revolting Tea Party ratmasters can go. Looooooooooower than whale droppings at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the world’s oceans (6.8 miles deep)!