NCGOP Vice Chairman’s Race: Pick Your Poison (Part 1)

Ever been presented with the choice between a swift kick in the ass and a hard punch to the nuts? And you wonder just how everything went so wrong so as to end up with two totally unappealing and pathetic choices?

Oh… every Election Day, you say?

Well, I and the rest of the NCGOP Convention delegates have a similar choice this weekend in Wilmington. The two declared Vice Chair candidate, Tim Johnson (incumbent) and Wayne King leave much, and I do mean MUCH, to be desired.

During 2009,’s heated chairman race,  I sent a questionnaire to all of the declared candidates so I could give y’all a look at where they stood. I had considered doing that for this race, but… well screw it. They both suck. No questionnaire answer is going to change that. I don’t care who wins because either way we are going to get a lousy vice chairman.

Let’s start with Tim Johnson, the Tea Party favorite. He won the vice chairmanship two years ago in an upset while pledging to bring an outsider’s voice to the closed-door NCGOP hierarchy. To some extent he has, and this along with his outreach to Tea Parties and local Republican clubs has made him popular among the rank-and-file Republican activists.

Unfortunately, Johnson is also a resume-inflating lying blowhard. The “blowhard” description is easy enough to prove after just five minutes of talking with him. I have considered him a blowhard before his vice chair election and he’s done nothing since to change my mind.

As for the resume inflation charge, “Doctor” Tim Johnson, as he calls himself, really does have a Ph.D… in “Total Quality Management” from LaSalle. Except not the LaSalle. The “real” LaSalle never offered a Ph.D. in “Total Quality Management” and Johnson was never a student there.

Johnson recieved his Ph.D. from a diploma mill (since shut down) with a similar name to LaSalle. Johnson currently teaches at Shaw University where he is paid at a Masters-level salary. He can call himself “Dr.” Tim Johnson all he wants. But it’s about as authentic as me calling myself “Celtic, the Duke of Waterford & Exiled King of Eire and the Leprechaun Lands”.

Oh yeah, he beat on his first wife too. Back in 1996. He was open about this part of his record and said she endorsed him. Except… yeah, she didn’t:

Facing controversy over a domestic violence conviction involving his ex-wife during his successful 2009 bid for vice chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, then-Buncombe GOP Chair Tim Johnson produced a statement, supposedly from her, supporting his candidacy. Now, she says she never wrote that endorsement or had any knowledge of it until after his election.

“I absolutely did not say that,” Ofelia Felix-Johnson, now living in Nebraska, tells Xpress. “This was not done with my consent, and I didn’t even know about it. I didn’t appreciate him putting my name out there when I had nothing to do with it.”

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And from what I understand the NCGOP Central Committee passed a very strongly-worded resolution calling Johnson to the carpet for misleading the delegates in 2009. I cannot confirm this, however. Personally, most of the Central Committee can lick my ass; I have no use for them. But it’s still another black eye for Johnson.

Well, there ya go. That’s our first choice. A bit later in I’ll rip the shit out of Johnson’s opponent, Dee Stewart/Patrick McHenry dick-holder Wayne King.

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