{"id":26580,"date":"2015-09-25T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26580"},"modified":"2015-09-25T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:44:19","slug":"unfortunately-sometimes-the-bad-guys-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26580","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunately Sometimes The Bad Guys Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted an article<\/a> about the shadow Republican Party created in the state of North Carolina<\/a>. Today The Daily Haymaker<\/a> has the update. The bill to move the North Carolina Primary Elections to March 15th passed. That is the good news. It consolidates local and state office primary elections<\/a> and will save the state money. The bad news is that there was a last-minute amendment to the bill that essentially sets up a shadow Republican fund raising party in the state.<\/p>\n

The Daily Haymaker article explains one of the reasons\u00a0this is a problem:<\/p>\n

Right now, the rules bar state parties<\/a> and caucus groups from overt involvement in primaries. \u00a0Some politicos may see the changes as a good thing (protecting incumbents.) But this legislation allows for the money raised by these committees to be used anyway the leaders want in primary races.<\/strong> \u00a0Cross your party leaders, and you may find yourself with a primary challenger loaded with cash provided by one of these new \u201caffiliated committees.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

(\u201cTroublemakers\u201d like, oh, Mike Speciale, John Blust, Larry Pittman, Chris Millis and Justin Burr should pay especially close attention to THAT<\/strong> part.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be A LOT harder for some \u201cMr. Smith Goes To Raleigh\u201d-style amateur to compete with an incumbent now that this legislation has passed. \u00a0(On the Democrat side AND Republican side.)<\/p>\n

Transparency. <\/strong>This lifts donation limits for individuals and groups. \u00a0<\/strong>It MAY allow for the skirting of the rules about donations from lobbyists during session. <\/em>\u00a0It will now be a lot easier for these \u201caffiliated committees\u201d to get involved in primaries and hide\u00a0from donors what exactly the money will be used for. \u00a0The reporting requirements are a lot more lax than current standards. \u00a0It will be much easier to fire off checks to these ambiguously-named Independent Expenditure<\/a> groups to run attack ads and promotional efforts for select incumbents.<\/p>\n

This move takes power away from the grass roots (which happened to seize power at the State Republican Convention in June) and allows the establishment to use Republican money to attack non-establishment Republicans.<\/p>\n

The Craven County<\/a> Republicans have responded to this move.<\/p>\n

The Craven County Republican Party posted the following on its website<\/a>\u00a0yesterday:<\/p>\n

The Craven County GOP Executive Committee unanimously adopted the following resolution Thursday night:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Resolution to Remove David Lewis<\/a> from National Committee Chairmanship Immediately for Failure to Comply with NCGOP Plan of Organization<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Whereas David Lewis introduced language into H373 in the \u201c11th hour,\u201d establishing shadow parties in direct competition<\/a> with the Republican and Democratic Parties<\/a>, in direct and overt retaliation to the newly-elected GOP leadership; and<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whereas the \u201caffiliated party committees\u201d created under \u00a7 163-278.8B are permitted to use the identical names of the parties represented by their leaders but are established to operate with their own bylaws and bank accounts, not subject to the same campaign finance restrictions of the state parties, thus bypassing accountability to the state parties\u2019 own authority and respective Plans of Organization; and<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whereas the NCGOP Plan of Organization in 7.a.1 (correction: VII.A.7.a.1) allows for any member of a committee organized under the plan to be removed for \u201cfailure to comply with the State Party Plan of Organization,\u201d and the establishment of a competing \u201caffiliate party committee\u201d using the same trademarks as the State Party is obvious noncompliance;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Resolved, that Craven County GOP encourages all delegates to the NCGOP Executive Committee to move, second, or vote in support of any motion made to remove David Lewis from his position as Republican National Committeeman<\/a> for the cause of Party Noncompliance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this is going to get ugly. The establishment Republicans are working hard to make sure Jeb Bush<\/a> is the Presidential nominee. Unfortunately, they are not necessary being transparent, fair, or honest about it. The establishment Republicans have also become as addicted to big government and big spending as the Democrats. Unless we want to continue to take money from our children and our grandchildren, it is time to remove the establishment Republicans and the Democrats from power. That is the only way our states and our nation will survive economically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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