Posted on 06/08/2015 1:18:03 PM PDT by cotton1706
In a broad and deep rejection of the sort of top-down leadership the Republican National Committee and congressional leaders are trying to impose on grassroots Republican activists at the national level, delegates to the North Carolina Republican State Republican Convention elected their first African – American state chairman – outsider Hasan Harnett.
In electing Harnett, the delegates to the NC GOP Convention rejected Craig Collins, the candidate backed by Governor Pat McCrory, U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis and the top leaders at the General Assembly: Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore.
Writing for the Associated Press, Gary D. Robertson, observed that some delegates were unhappy with what they considered to be top leaders trying to predetermine the race's outcome. Endorsements for Collins, a regional party leader, came within hours of departing Chairman Claude Pope announcing his decision not to seek a second term.
"The whole idea of this massive intervention in the leadership by the powers that be was a mistake," said Vernon Robinson, a Forsyth County delegate and former candidate for statewide office. "It shows (there are) much more activists and conservative delegates than there have been in the past."
Harnett, a campaign manager for a 2014 congressional candidate and minority outreach director for the state GOP, said he made 4,000 personal phone calls with delegates to the convention since mid-April.
"We need a bold, reinvigorated Republican Party who listens to grassroots," Harnett said during his nomination speech according to Robertson’s reporting, in which he arrived in the delegate hall in Raleigh with a small marching band drum line banging out a beat to rev up the crowd. "Together, we will win in 2016 because teamwork makes the dream work."
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Good for the grass roots guys. It’s way past time to put an end to the “Establishment” that is deaf to We The People! Take our country back!
This is the way it must be done.
From the ground up starting with the policy making wing of the party.
Hasan????
I’ll take it anyway I can get it.
The media ignore Cruz hoping he will go away. The huge crowds he draws should be news. Why is this not news?
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