LD15 Leadership Exodus Indicative Of AZGOP Growing Pains (Establishment buh bye!)

americandailyindependent.com ^ | 6/2/21 | C. Kramer

[cotton1706]

As with all political parties after the loss of the Oval Office, Arizona’s GOP is no different. The GOP is growing, according to the numbers recently released by the Secretary of State’s Office, and that growth has unsettled some of the more established members.

A recent exodus by the heads of Legislative District 15, is one such example of how the new blood is shaking out the old.

Legislative District 15, a primarily upper-middle-class area which includes parts of Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, has long been a bastion of what the grassroots refer as “the establishment.” President Donald Trump changed the old dynamic, and while many members of “the establishment,” welcomed the change, the hardcore neocon faction of the GOP, sometimes referred to as the “McCain Machine,” did not.

On June 1, the following email went to all precinct committeemen of legislative district 15 in North Phoenix.

Dear Member,

Regrettably we must inform you that all members of the LD15 Board are resigning their positions effective June 1, 2021. This Board has successfully worked to provide quality meetings in an appropriate facility with content usable for our fellow precinct committeemen and precinct committeewomen to engage their neighbors. Each Board member faces personal circumstances that make carrying out their volunteer duties on the Board difficult. It is true that part of that difficulty is the increasingly antagonistic environment which has been created by new membership that prevents us from fully serving ALL members of the Republican Party within LD15. We remain dedicated to the traditional ideals of the Party and appreciate the opportunity to serve.

Derrik Rochwalik Brian Hummell Cori Bower Chris Smith Jack Clark

Two aspects of this mass resignation create fertile ground for speculation as to why this happened now, and why it happened in the fashion it did.

[McGavin999]

The McCain machine helped elect Biden.

[Pollard]

It works; https://precinctstrategy.com/

[Libloather]

Each Board member faces personal circumstances that make carrying out their volunteer duties on the Board difficult.

The dog needs walking. Bring a pooper scooper.

[Openurmind]

Too much “go along to get along”. And we are about to become Ca because of it. They did not do their job.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Even the most casual of observers must have noticed that, possibly as a result of recent Republican losses at the polls, there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest among conservative Republicans regarding becoming precinct committeemen and engaging in the process of regaining some of the ground that Republicans have recently lost. It is curious that this board would consider this movement as antagonistic.

One thing that was not mentioned in the resignation message is that over the last 3 cycles, since the 2016 election of officers, there has been a high degree of apathy among precinct committeemen in this district. Except for minor changes, the same group of officers has been elected in 2016, 2018, and 2020. Throughout this period, there have been only a handful of meetings in which there was a quorum, and even then, quorum was achieved by the thinnest of margins.

[Zathras]

First thing...investigate the hotel sale at Scottsdale Rd and Shea which was converted into a private “homeless” shelter.
We really don’t know what is going on there but its clear in the last three months that there are new people in town who can’t afford to live here.

[mewzilla]

Getting out one step ahead of the posse...?