Posted on 04/20/2022 8:30:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Tennessee GOP voted on Tuesday to dismiss Trump-backed Morgan Ortagus, who previously served as a spokesperson at the State Department, Baxter Lee and Robby Starbuck from the primary ballot for the state’s 5th Congressional District, state GOP Chairman Scott Golden confirmed to The Hill.
The Tennessee Republican Party’s bylaws require, among other conditions, that candidates have voted in three of the last four GOP statewide primaries in the county of residence, and are actively involved in Tennessee or county Republican parties.
Ortagus, who received a preemptive endorsement from Trump, said she was “deeply disappointed” by the party’s decision. Her campaign is evaluating its options. “I’m a bonafide Republican by their standards, and frankly, by any metric. I’m further disappointed that the party insiders at the Tennessee Republican Party do not seem to share my commitment to President Trump’s America First policies,” Ortagus said in a statement.
“As I have said all along, I believe that voters in Middle Tennessee should pick their representative – not establishment party insiders. Our team is evaluating the options before us,” she added.
SOURCE:
https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3274002-tennessee-republicans-remove-trump-backed-candidate-others-from-ballot/amp/
She looks naughty.
This looks like establishment GOP politics over MAGA populism.
Woe to the GOPe if they start pulling this bullsh*t to try to maintain their grip on the party.
But nice...................
This is what Corrupt-o-crats do..............
I didn’t mean in a bad way.
I agree this reeks of NeoCon BS.
Rules. It looks like the Republican Party establishment have rules to keep carpetbaggers out.
If it was the Democrat Party, I would suspect the rules were put in during or just after Reconstruction, since they would have put in such rules to keep Republican DINO Carpetbaggers off the ballot.
I can’t see how this is legal. I’m guessing that both Lee and Starbuck got the required Republican voter signatures to get on the primary ballot. That should settle the matter.
Having some committee somewhere decide who is in the party, and who is not...that’s exactly the way the Bolsheviks operated.
Disappointed she won’t be on the ballot.
Mixed feelings about the rules. May be good that they require Republicans running in the state of TN to actually be a TN Republican with a history of voting and living in TN.
“As I have said all along, I believe that voters in Middle Tennessee should pick their representative ...”
When she says “all along”, does that refer to her time as an actual Tennessee resident — since 2021? “All along” means forever. I doubt that when she was a college student she was saying “voters in Middle Tennessee should pick their representative”, or had even one strong opinion about anything relating to Tennessee.
She’s a frickin’ opportunist carpetbagger like Hillary Clinton and Bobby Kennedy in New York.
“...she didn’t move to the district she’s running to represent.
“Nor ... does she seem to know basic facts about the area, like which interstate highways cut through the district.
“They also have highlighted her years-old criticism of Trump and her support for Jeb Bush in the 2016 GOP primaries
” the fact that her wedding was officiated by the liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.”
They talked about this on the radio today. The rules are put there because Tennessee has open primaries and, if it weren’t for these rules, a Democrat could run as a Republican and Democrats could switch over and vote for him or her.
You’re disappointed?
she didn’t move to the district she’s running to represent. Nor, they say, does she seem to know basic facts about the area, like which interstate highways cut through the district. They also have highlighted her years-old criticism of Trump and her support for Jeb Bush in the 2016 GOP primaries, as well as the fact that her wedding was officiated by the liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
New bylaws enacted to target particular candidates, or are these bylaws already in place prior to this election?
The Republicans in Tennessee require a 3 (I think) year residency before being placed on a ballot.
If those were the bylaws and not recent modifications to them, then I’m fine with it.
I don’t really like the idea of people moving into the area and instantly running to represent us, regardless of their track record.
Starbucks was a hollywood liberal until a few years ago. I don’t trust him.
I trust Ortegus, only because Trump has worked with her and trusts her. But she ain’t from around here.
So who is left? What’s are options?
And we all know what happened to the Bolsheviks...................
I would say, rules are rules.
They seem to be sensible rules against carpetbagging.
If they are there as a long used policies, they look OK to me.
I did.........................😉
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