Posted on 01/26/2019 4:41:42 PM PST by mac_truck
Failed U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward, a conservative firebrand, will lead the Arizona Republican Party through the 2020 election.
In a contentious three-way race for AZGOP chair, Ward came out on top Saturday, defeating incumbent chairman Jonathan Lines.
Meanwhile, Arizona Democrats opted to retain their party chairwoman, Felecia Rotellini to another two-year term.
Republican losses in the 2018 election were a common refrain throughout the AZGOP state committee meeting Saturday at Phoenix’s Church for the Nations.
Prior to the election, Republicans held all statewide elected offices, a majority of the congressional seats and majorities in both chambers of the Legislature.
Although Republicans kept their legislative majorities, Democrats picked up four seats in the House — bringing the chamber to a 31-29 split. Democrats also won four statewide elections and a majority of Arizona’s nine congressional seats.
Ward, a former state senator, placed the blame squarely on Lines, of Yuma.
“I was with you on Election Day and after, sharing the heartbreak with you of the crushing defeats we had across Arizona despite historic unprecedented efforts,” Ward said
The status quo isn’t good enough, she said. And echoing comments U.S. Sen. Martha McSally made earlier in the meeting, Ward said, “we need to do better.” McSally, though, was talking about Republican election performance as a whole and not specifically about Lines.
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If it was any better, Tom Leonard would be Attorney General.
Wow. There might be some light yet, at the end of the “Big Gouge” tunnel, for the MA GOP. When I left, the GOP was in shambles thanks to Mittens Romney and his train of ass-kissing RINOs, and fair-weather soldiers - like Senator Mike Knapik - who turned belly-up when Romney pushed sodomite “marriage” down our throats.
Is Senator Don Humason doing any better? Don was Knapik’s liaison when I lived there. I personally told him how pissed I was over Mike’s retreat on the same-sex marriage bill. Also told Don that the outcome of the vote was the reason I decided to leave MA. for good.
How well do you know Kelli?
Do you know her strengths & weakesses?
I learned with the Tea Party that the “right ideology” isn’t sufficient for success. We’ll see.
Exactly. Voter fraud needs to be cleaned up here. Bigly.
You left out the last steps.
* Becoming Northern Venezuela.
* Total societal collapse.
I hope so as well.
Don't know Lines at all. Probably should.
I have met Ward a couple of time.
I think she is smart and motivated.
How good she is at motivating and organizing... I do not know.
We will find out.
They start by controlling the local news with leftist messages.
Next, they ram thru radicals within the local DNC.
By the time the GOP figures out what is going on, the damage has been done.
This is how they flipped Western Portland and Orange Co.
Right-—and it[’s not even so much motivating as it is convincing the RINOs to join the party.
Yes, exactly.
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