Augusta County Republicans may again be divided – this time over the party’s contested nomination for Augusta County treasurer.
Incumbent Richard Homes is being challenged by Tea Party blogger Jason Bibeau for the nomination, which will be decided in a mass meeting on July 28. Bibeau has raised issue with the move by the party to include Homes on its float in the Fourth of July parade in Staunton earlier this week when he wasn’t given the same opportunity.
“The absence of my signs and the presence of my opponent’s signs on the GOP float, along with Chairman Bill Shirley’s obvious display of my opponent’s lapel sticker, is making me question the integrity of the upcoming mass meeting,” Bibeau wrote on his blog this week.
The blog post included photos of Shirley, State Sen. Emmett Hanger and State Del. Dickie Bell in the parade wearing stickers for Richard Homes.
“It has become apparent to me that the GOP establishment good old boys are undermining my candidacy,” wrote Bibeau, who is making the controversial 2009 county reassessments a key to his campaign for the treasurer’s position.
An attempt to reach Shirley for comment on this story was unsuccessful.
No Democrats or independents have emerged as possible candidates for the treasurer job as of this writing.
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