Posted on 06/28/2014 9:04:07 PM PDT by Whenifhow
The Iowa GOP central committee voted Saturday to fire the state party chairman and replace him with a fixture of the establishment. Danny Carroll, removed on a 14-2 no confidence vote, will be replaced by Jeff Kaufmann, formerly the Speaker Pro Tem of the state House.
The bloodless coup was widely expected after forces loyal to Gov. Terry Branstad officially seized control of the party’s governing body from close allies of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at a state convention earlier this month. The former chairman, A.J. Spiker, stepped down this spring and became a senior adviser to RAND PAC. Carroll is a former lobbyist for the evangelical Family Leader and supported Branstad’s primary challenger in 2010. Chad Olsen, who stepped down as the party’s executive director in May 2012 after Paul’s forces took control, will get his old job back. Cody Hoefert, from conservative northwest Iowa, replaces the co-chair, who resigned before the meeting.
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“The Republican Party under Ronald Reagan was FAR more liberal than the Republican Party today.”
What drugs are you on and where can I get some? Because I hat to think you just said something that utterly idiotic sober.
You will fail.
I agree that those involved in the Mississippi mess should be punished.
As for Iowa? The Ron Paul crowd was inherited by Rand Paul, and Rand Paul is to be admired on many points.
However Rand is wrong on immigration and Rand is wrong on a few other things.
Those who want Harry Reid to stay in power are the real enemy. The Republicans you do not like are not nearly as dangerous to our country as the Democrats who hate your guts.
My question was about a 17 member committee ousting a duly elected chair by the convention delegates.
I mean, say the ousted guy was your guy. Does that nullification of convention votes work for you?
Bob Dole hated Reagan. I know, he as much as told me so, to my face, several times.
Rita, Danny Carroll was not elected by any convention. He was elected 3 months ago by the old, Ron Paul run, state central committee. The new state central committee took office June 14 at the GOP state convention.
Your burning desire to rewrite history is impressive.
Find one Reagan era Repub that was pro gay marraige.
Fins one that supported abortion
Find one that would have pushed for a fib like Romney
Find one that wanted to ‘share power’.
Find one that wanted to give Dems power at their expense.
One. You can’t. Because the DEMOCRATS back then were more conservative than the GOP today. The GOP then actually tried following their own platform. This crew ignores it almost completely.
You either need a remedial history lesson or a different place to hang out because trying to sell that BS is anything but ‘conservative’. And as to my supposed arrogance”. You just forgot what someone that won’t cave to BS looks like. There is no ‘arrogance involved. I don’t think I’m any smarter or better than most Freepers. That’s you projecting.
Focus, please. I’m looking at tactics and can’t get an answer. I don’t give a flip about Rand Paul’s Iowa inheritance.
The chair was elected by convention delegates. He was ousted by 14 of apparently a 17 member committee. Now, is that democracy or a method of your preferred Republican totalitarian takeover from the delegates vote?
We conservatives here, not Republicans by fiat. This means we are not hostage to Liberals with an “R” on their tail who want the senate at any price.
Yes, Cody Hoefert is a 7 footer. He stands out in a crowd.
Kansas now has the most conservative delegation to Congress in the COUNTRY!
That was easy.
And the “gay marriage” canard? Good Heaven's that was not even remotely an issue under Reagan, and the Courts forced it on us today. Why pull up that canard? (Oh, yeah, you are a trouble maker. You care not one wit about defeating true leftist liberal Democrats, you just want to destroy any effective opposition to the Democrats, you are on a mission to destroy any chance at conservative unity. Admit it. You are an instigator. You are a troll. You are an agent provocateur who would love to see Harry Reid survive, right?)
Ahh, someone armed with the facts who can read. Thank you very much.
Every state is different. We get to vote on the chair and officers at convention and they campaign for those positions.
Thank you very much.
Rita
Rita, are those who left office complaining?
Did those who left office have a hand in drafting the rules by which Party offices are filled?
Were the rules followed?
Should Iowa elected officials have more say over the Party than Rand Paul, who does not live in Iowa?
Did the Central Committee Grant POWER to the 17 who made this decision?
You do not even understand Party Politics or Procedure enough to ask the right questions.
Not trying to start a fight but there were a lot of these. Even Barry Goldwater in his last few years in the Senate was pro-abortion. Chuck Percy, John Chafee, Arlen Specter, Jacob Javits, and many others.
So was counting the ENTIRE GOP that backed a pro abort, Pro gay marriage and Anti 2nd amendment candidate for president.
Gosh, that was easier. Now you show me the numbers of Reagan GOP that did likewise.
Yea and where did he end up?
I supported a series or people in the last Primary.
Herman Cain and Newt and then to Santorum, who won Kansas.
Yes it is a flawed system. I did not want Romney to win the Primary but he did.
And I supported Romney in the General Election.
Is there any doubt that Romney would have been better than Obama?
No there is NO DOUBT on that fact.
Obama wants to ruin the country, Obama hates the USA.
Mitt Romney, for all of his faults, does not hate the USA.
Your professorial tone has a place but it’s not a good replacement, even remotely, for an answer to a simple question.
Inform your presumptuous self and reference # 25.
My issue had nothing to do with personalities, complaints, Rand Paul’s say, or his residency, or your IQ on Party purses.
And for every Packwood etc there was a Helms. A Meese, another member or 5 of the admin against liberal ideas. Today they back them openly and push for more.
Sure there’s doubt. His record is what it is. A clone of Barrys. So whose to say he would not have been as bad?
He loves America my foot. Look at his record. Anti 2a for starts. Yea real patriot there.
Rita,
YES I WAS DIRECTLY ON POINT!
You were asking the WRONG questions and that was my point.
This was not a big surprise to anyone. Ron Paul took over the Iowa Party. Ron Paul did very well in Iowa. To the victor go the spoils.
However, with Ron Paul not on the ballot for 3 years now, the Paul Bots did not show up in enough force to maintain power.
This is how it works.
I suggest you might want to be a bit slower to react in an angry fashion when something perfectly normal happens.
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