The select committee voted not to restore Robby Starbuck, Morgan Ortagus, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump one week before she announced her candidacy, and Baxter Lee to the ballot after they were previously removed because of verified challenges to their bona fide status.
Chairman Golden said in a statement, “This was a decision of the committee.”
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Ortagus Reacts to the TNGOP’s Decision to Disqualify Her from the Ballot
Former State Department spokesman and now-former candidate for the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District seat Morgan Ortagus issued a statement on the decision by the select committees of the Tennessee Republican Party to disqualify her candidacy.
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Man, I'd hate to be her husband right now. She sounds pissed as hell.
The committee did the right thing. But that a committee says who can or cannot run for election is absolute BS. Where in the matter is the voice of the people?
ReplyDeleteThe committee simply applied the rules that were passed. And it's not supposed to be the voice of the "people." It's the voice of the party. There's a reason that rules like this exist -- it's to stop people who simply want to manipulate the party from organizing a fake registration drive to put in fake candidates. This is particularly an issue for small precincts where the party is in the minority, and a relatively few members are voting in a primary.
DeleteImagine a situation where there are 1000 Democrats and 100 Republicans in the district. Let's say it's a caucus state that has a real state convention, and about 50 of those Republicans would bother to vote in the caucuses to send a delegate to the state convention. A Democrat "community organizer" could control that local caucus simply by having 80 Democrats register as Republican the week before the caucus, vote in delegates for the Republican candidate most likely to lose, and then re-register as Democrats the week after.
When I was in North Carolina in the very early 1980s, something similar happened. I was fairly active in the Republican party then, but this was back when Republicans were still a small minority (at least in my county).
One day we had a precinct meeting. It was an election year, and we were going to vote on delegates to the state convention. However, instead of the normal 15-20 people, there were about 80 people. They voted out all of the officers and voted in delegates for people we lifelong Republicans were adamantly opposed to. We went back and looked, and sure enough, almost all of the people who came to the meeting had changed their registration from Democrat to Republican in the week before the meeting.
We went ahead and elected our own slate of delegates and let the State convention decide who to seat. It turned out that there was a bylaw that said that any delegate to the convention had to have been a registered Republican for at least a year.
I have never cast a ballot for a party. In every instance have my votes been for an individual person.
ReplyDeleteIt seems every day Iwake up to a new thing that shows I have been lied to my entire life about what my country is.
WTF was her idea in coming to a state where she had no ties to try to run for office?....I thought she was sharper than that....
ReplyDeleteGood, I guess. I would *really* hate that carpet-bagger to "represent" me in dc. Of course no one is going to represent me in dc, they will always and only represent the $$ that sent them there, so in a sense I don't give a flying fuck. Whoever goes to dc will end up either completely impotent, or completely corrupted by the end of the first 6 months, so it's does not matter.
ReplyDeleteAs WRSA often reminds us, local, local, local. I'd rather the mayor of Murray county stay in the state, to keep doing things well here. I figure he'll win and end up either impotent or corrupted within weeks. You can't rule in hell unless you become a demon.
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Rhinos in bed with Fuck Joe Biden
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