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This about ErickErickErickErickson just showed up in my email from the excellently named David Davidson (I kid you not):
Macon City Councilman Erick Erickson plans to leave his one-term post about six months early to take a new nighttime job as an Atlanta radio show host.
“I will be 9 to midnight five nights a week on WSB,” said Erickson, one of three council members representing Ward 5.
Erickson, a frequent political commentator on CNN and founder of the blogs PeachPundit.com and RedState.com, has filled in for 95.5 WSB-FM host Herman Cain several times in the past few months.
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A special election probably won’t be necessary to fill Erickson’s seat. The council can appoint someone to fill out his term, and he’s been talking with Councilwomen Nancy White and Lauren Benedict about that, he said. They also represent Ward 5.
I can see why there is no hurry to get his replacement in place. It’s not like he was showing up for work anyway:
As Erickson’s media presence has grown, his participation in city business has shrunk. He is chairman of the council’s Public Properties Committee and serves on the Community Resources and Development Committee and the Ordinances and Resolutions Committee.
According to attendance records, Erickson missed 13 of the 27 full council meetings in 2010, nearly twice as many as any other council member. He appeared at only three of 19 council work sessions, and missed two of the 17 Public Properties Committee meetings.
The Community Resources and Development Committee met 20 times last year, but Erickson was only there for nine of them. He was present for just 14 of the 24 Ordinances and Resolutions Committee meetings.
Erick Erickson hates Big Government so much that he got a job in it and then didn’t show up. Hah! He wins.
So let’s total this up ….quitting his elected position early…..doesn’t show up for a job that he doesn’t seem interested in…. lands a cable media gig….uses violent gun rhetoric against government employees?
Erick Erickson is Sarah Palin with slightly smaller tits.
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Erick Erickson is Sarah Palin with slightly smaller tits.
Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.
Calling them smaller was really hurtful, when they clearly weigh at least as much, just aren’t as well-formed.
~ Harry R. Sohl
I hear Erick and David have a friend name Yon from a lumberyard in Wisconsin…
You could add Michele Bachmann to that list if only she’d quit. She never shows up for votes and wouldn’t know one of her constituents from a news show cameraman.
Judging from the picture he doesn’t know how to use a laptop either. Also.
I think that just earned TBogg another Moore Award(or whatever award he won this year from the Sully collective).
Which begs the question–what exactly IS she doing with the rest of her time?
The sad thing is that this man is getting paid to be a stupid, ignorant, nasty jackass. Where can I sign me up for some of that?
Quitting the job where you can actually do something in order to spend more time sitting around bitching. It’s the GOP way.
I think you’d have to have your soul, part of your brain, and your sense of ethics removed. I really don’t think it’s worth it.
Actually, I think Erick Erickson is Sarah Palin without the balls.
Ricky Gervais’ writers are gonna be steamed you wrote that last sentence ’cause it’s funnier than anything he had to say last night.
For a dickhead, that is the appropriate location for his “lap.”
Elected no-show,
Watch me balance a laptop!
Erick! Erickson!!1!
ftw and all that
The Free Market works yet again!
Shorter GOP:
“If you elect us, we’ll prove that the government is run just as terribly as we claim.”
Erickson’s term as City Councilman is the civic service equivalent of a rusty Chevy up on blocks. Something that he “meant to get around to someday”.
I hear there are cities that will ask officials to resign if they don’t show up for work often enough. Macon clearly isn’t one of them.
The question he’s contributing to the CNN presidential debate is, “Where’s the birth certificate?”
Hey T — this post is the most recent update on Memorandum. Cue the nutbags.
Are you absolutely sure that his tits are smaller than Sarah’s? Also, he needs to get some of them “librarian-y” glasses…
As far as Macon itself is concerned, here’s a linky about the place. A telling statistic:
Anything else y’all want to learn about Macon?
Does he breathe? Or snort?
Based solely on the call letters, he should be broadcasting on WATB, an AM station in Decatur, GA. However, he probably would not fit in there unless WATB wants to start carrying programming by and for the developmentally disabled.
Jayzus, quitin’s hard work- but it pays!
WATB AM home of the brave!
You can almost hear the wheeze-filled panting from having to hold his arms up for more than 5 seconds…
and smell the flop sweat. Can’t blame him though…being a Keyboard Kommando in the Repub “War of Ideas(TM).” Advocating for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent brown people using our tax dollars is hard work, after all…
I did theatre in my day. I can pretend. I can make mad monies out-crazing Michelle Malkin, then turn around and donate it all to ActBlue and/or Amnesty International.
Heh. I think you’re on to something here… All of this shit feels more and more and more like really bad theater. Given that I’m hanging out here I think there’s more acting and poutrage on the other side, but we’re not pure as the driven snow either.
Point taken. You could go for the Poe’s Law version – be such a scathing parody that no one can tell if you’re real or not.
Yes History, during the early part of the 21st century this person was considered a “deep thinker” by conservatives. A person they elevated to represent ‘them’ as one of their leaders.
I don’t know what else to say, other than it is my fervent hope you are reading this in a library with sunlight streaming through the windows and not in a bunker under a 25w incandescent light bulb.
No kidding? How’d he get there?
Marion: Yipes!