NEW VIDEO: YouTube SENSATION & MINERVA COUNCILMAN PHIL DAVISON LEARNS FROM STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT THAT THERE WAS A STARK REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO SQUELCH HIS DAY IN THE SUN!

BLOG WILL BE REPUBLISHED AS A LEAD STORY ONCE THE HUFFINGTON POST LINK BECOMES AVAILABLE

UPDATE:  The video is temporarily not available due to technical problems encountered by the SCPR in coordinating the video with The Huffington post for whom The Report acts as a Citizen Journalist in its "Eyes and Ears" forum.

ORIGINAL POST

Phil Davison, Stark County's very own "firestorm" political orator, when told by yours truly that a member of the Stark County Republican Party Executive Committee asked The Report to take down the blog of his speech, he was incredulous.

The speech video appeared on The Huffington Post "Eyes and Ears" Citizen Journalist forum (for which yours truly is a citizen journalist reporting on the Boccieri side of the Boccieri/Renacci 16th district congressional campaign) initially at 12:04 PM on September 9th and by 2:47 PM that same day the Stark GOP executive committee member was on the phone to the SCPR asking that the blog be taken down.

Why? - Davison asked The Report.

The Report's answer?

The high level Stark Republican said the request was based on a desire to protect Davison from himself. He wasn't being who he really is. 

But the SCRP wasn't buying.  Moreover, The Report is not buying the executive committee member's protestation that he was acting on his own.

The Report believes Jeff Matthews (chairman of the Stark County Republican Party) et al were trying to protect their concept of what a Stark Republican should look like.  And Davison's rhetorical flourish style did not fit.

Organized Republican and Democrat political parties are desperate these days to get the attention and respect of the American voters in national, state and local elections.  Only about 20% of the electorate has any regard whatsoever for America's two political parties.  However, they are  not about to embrace Davison types.

Any maverick-esque politicians like Davison can be sure that the organized parties will do everything they can to marginalize them.

As far as Phil Davison is concerned (as can be seen in his own words on the included video), his speech was an old style Lincoln-Douglas Debate type speech.

Only trouble is that only a Lincoln proxy (Davison) was present at the Stark GOP event last Tuesday.  None of the other candidates simulated Douglas.  Nor in the year 2010,  will there be any.  Davison is definitely one of a kind.

Davison himself recognizes that he is "special" in terms of having a flair about himself as he manifested in his presentation to the Stark GOP.  But he offers no apologies and thinks that local political parties need to excise themselves of their blandness, staleness and mediocrity. 

On Saturday, The Report sat down with Phil Davison for an extended interview regarding:

• his life since the video went viral on YouTube, 
• his explanation for the ferocity and intensity of the speech, and 
• what he thinks his political future might be. 

The included video has all his answers to those questions.  Moreover, the interview shows Davison to be a thoughtful, articulate person notwithstanding his - as thought by many viewers - "over the top" speech of September 9th.