Below The Beltway

The Republican Party of Virginia holds it’s annual meeting at The Homestead again this year and, not surprisingly given the party’s fortunes under his tenure, Chairman Jeff Frederick is expected to come under fire:

RICHMOND, Dec. 4 — Several prominent Republican activists want to remove the state chairman after a series of missteps, internal disagreements and the party’s worst losses in Virginia in a generation.

Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick (R-Prince William) campaigned for the job of chairman six months ago as a young, energetic leader who blamed his predecessor for failures at the polls. But many now consider his short tenure a failure.

The state party’s governing body might try to remove Frederick at its meeting at the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Va., on Friday or at an unscheduled emergency meeting in the next couple of months, several party sources said.

“He’s not the right face for our party,” said James Rich, chairman of the 10th Congressional District Republican Committee and a member of the State Central Committee. “There’s no credibility there. He’s a joke, like something you would see on Jay Leno.”

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Longtime Northern Virginia GOP strategist J. Kenneth Klinge, who has been helping elect Republicans in Virginia for more than four decades, sent an e-mail to thousands of activists blaming Frederick for the outcome and calling on him to resign.

“I know a bad chairman when I see one,” wrote Klinge, who has also donated to Democrats. “Frederick ranks as the worst state chairman in the history of the Republican Party of Virginia.”

My guess is that Frederick has not annoyed the base of the party enough to get ousted this time around, although he probably deserves it just for being an idiot during the General Election campaign.

If the RPV doesn’t do as well as hoped next year, though, count on Frederick being ousted at next year’s Advance.