Posted on 06/04/2022 4:21:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
On April 11, 2022, a Tenn. GOP Executive Committee removed Congressional Candidate Robby Starbuck from the ballot, along with Morgan Ortagus and Baxter Lee.
Starbuck chose to fight back, contracting civil rights and constitutional attorney Harmeet Dhillon’s Liberty Law Center firm to challenge this decision. Our Managing Editor Jen Van Laar reported exclusively that Dhillon had filed evidence preservation notices to the 17 Tenn. RNC Executive Board Members who were responsible for making the decision to remove him and his opponents from the primary ballot. Starbuck also chose to use the vouching letters method to prove his “bona fide Republican” status according to the requirements of the Tennessee GOP bylaws:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
But as I pointed out at the time, I'm quite sure all the Bushes, who voted for Hillary, haven't lost their "bona fide" status in the eyes of the TN GOP!
What is up with the GOP and RNC? DO they want the Dems to win?
I’ve come to the conclusion that Republican leadership at virtually every level is more concerned with their own position than anything else. In other words, they would like to win elections, but only with “their” people.
Can’t say I disagree with the state GOP on this one. The whole purpose of that restriction was to keep Beltway globalist interlopers like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney from hijacking your political process.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
Too many of our pols, and bureaucrats, are Deep State.
“...I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty...”
From Pres. George Washington’s Farewell Address.
“The best way to control the opposition is to infiltrate them.”
The Communist’s long March through the institutions include the Republican Party. Rhinos are Dems in sheeps clothing.
You haven’t lost control, you’ve lost the illusion of control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXi38hV9zvQ
They were CARPET BAGGERS TOO.Moved to Tennessee to weaken the GOP.
No standing by this judge. The TN state parties have authority as to which individuals are qualified to run under their banner and which aren’t. Robbie “Starbuck” Newsom is unqualified. He’s only running to assure a RINO (Harwell) gets the nomination instead of Conservative Andy Ogles.
"The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty...”
Many fail to see yet alone acknowledge Pres. Washington’s insight into political parties. His warning brings to mind Samuel's warning to Israel when Israel demanded to have a King like the nations around them.
Samuel's Warning Against Kings
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him. He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” - 1 Samuel 8:10-18
In the end, there will be one government on this earth and it will not be ours.
Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying,“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” - Revelation 11:15
Can’t say I know anything about this guy, but the fact that the courts were in favor of him makes me wonder if he is a Lib.
The Tennessee GOP used an arcane rule that said he had to "prove" his Republicanism by showing he voted in at least four prior elections. His problem was that he didn't live in Tennessee through four prior election cycles, and that was the technicality the local GOP used to boot him and the others off the ballot.
He fought back using the "vouching" method, getting others to vouch for him being a Republican, and he showed his California voting history in Republican primaries and general elections to prove he was a Republican in California.
I wonder if this ruling will put the others back on the ballot too? Morgan Ortegas was a part of the Trump administration as a spokeswoman for the State Department and a national security correspondent for Fox News. Would that be sufficient vouching for her?
-PJ
Morgan Ortegas is pretty but weak
If state body can’t determine who’s Republican or not
Who does?
The voters?
I think the argument here was that the state body acted in secret to reach their decision, in violation of Tennessee election law.
The Constitution says that the qualification to be a Senator is that one has to be at least 30 years old, been a citizen of the United States for at least 9 years, and be a resident of the state when elected.
It seems to me that the Tennessee requirement that one must have been a party voter for several election cycles is more stringent than the Constitutional requirement of simply being a resident when winning the election. Whether this is constitutional or not comes down to whether party "loyalty" is or isn't being arbitrarily or capriciously applied.
Ortega is a Trumpist. It's likely that the party GOP maliciously used their voting history rules to keep her off the ballot as a flanking move against President Trump.
-PJ
Not to give you a short answer, but, yes. They would very much prefer a Liberal Democrat over a Conservative. Or another Republican for that matter.
You need to research the comely lady a bit more...her positions and utterances
She’s thin
She glommed Trump way later for expediency
Married by Ruth Ginsburg
We can do better
I have no truck GOPe deciding who’s a member
More important would be to stop open primaries
At least thru Chris McAveney we wrested power away from the Belle Meade Lookout Mountain cabal that run it since Baker
The Corker Alexander folks
I know McAveney personally
He lost power by breaking with the former party chieftains in TN when he was early Trump person
Trumpist is not a word we use amongst ourselves btw
That means nothing to me. It was the word that popped into my mind at the moment. I don't know who "we" is.
-PJ
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