OMG. There's Nerve, there's Gall and then there's Stella Adams.

Stella Adams with Gov. Bev Perdue, 2010

Stella Adams,  the first-vice chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, wants your vote again after a lackluster term as a party officer while a Republican slaughter of democratic candidates took place in the 2010 mid-term elections.  Adams, first elected in January 2009 along with party chair David Young (both with the full support of former chair Jerry Meek), promised to keep the presidential momentum going. Well, that didn't happen. 

"I was devastated by our losses in November and after a great deal of self-reflection I believe that there are critical issues facing our Party moving forward and I commit to help pick up the pieces and rebuild from our True Party base and constituencies," Adams states in her email plea to party voters.

"I hope I have earned the support of those who are better acquainted with my record," said Adams in her email announcement.  Record? What record? 

Adams claim she's done plenty for the party using social media by -- get this -- tweeting 700 NC democrats regularly. The same ones who can vote for her to retain her office. The rest of us didn't hear diddley squat from her. Adam's idea of working for candidates? She states she "promoted them through (her) Facebook page." Uhm. Yeah. Do you believe this?

Adams claimed she "deciminated" party positions. I have no idea what that means. Decimated them? Disseminated, maybe? I don't think she knows either.  Sorry, Stella, but your track record of "protecting the environment" and "defending the weak" and "speaking truth to power" did nothing to get out the vote in 2010 or rake in the contributions.

Still riding the Obama Campaign coat tails, the sly Adams planted a picture of Obama in her email and mentions how many young people and African Americans joined the Democratic party before admitting "we failed to keep them active and engaged." Nowhere does she mention how she'll fix this or get these voters engaged.  Still, if we re-elect her, Adams wrote, "I promise to re-double my efforts to involve and engage these voters in PARTY activities."

I guess that means twice as many tweets. 

Stella Adams, Back in the Day.

Stella Adams just doesn't get it. The problem is we need party leaders who know how to get out the vote and bring in the money.  Instead, Adams is all about "platforms" and "core constituencies" and other party buzz-speak that doesn't mean a damn thing while Republicans are taking the oath to office that Democrats once held.  "I am willing to stand firm," says Adams. 

Willing to?  No, thanks!

That sly ole Adams won't even use a current photo in her pitch for re-election votes. This glamor shot Adams included in her email is a few years old. Very different from the picture shown at the top of this blog, taken from Adams' own Facebook album this past year. 

Sometimes it's the little things that tell you as much about a person as the big things.