Posted on 06/06/2022 12:39:58 PM PDT by cotton1706
American businessman and politician from Virginia Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) says he quit the Republican Party because the GOP has veered away from conservative principles and toward conspiracy theories and a cult of personality devoted to former President Donald Trump.
“I think the party left me some time ago,” Riggleman told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, adding that he quit due to the GOP’s “belief systems.”
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If you’re going on CNN to whine to Fake Tapper then you’re not much of a conservative to begin with.
Did nothing but real his true political self.
I am sure his constituents are pleased as well.
I love “Conspiracy Theories” when the conspiracy is 1+1=2.
Generally speaking, if there is a conspiracy theory about the US government its true. Its been proven repeatedly to me since Snowden did his deed.
Another one bites the dust. Thank goodness.
These Liz Cheney/Kinzinger type RINOs crack me up.
Coordinated campaign using same talking points by GOPe dopes.
There’s been a barrage of “cult of personality” and “strongman” talking points.
They actually plan these propaganda campaigns.
And it’s nonsense in that it is Trump’s policies and their proven effectiveness that makes him popular, not some sort of psychological defect on the part of his supporters, as they try to imply.
There are many like them and there are even more that will vote for them, sadly.
This dope was a swamp creature from top to bottom. It was kind of remarkable that he lost in a GOP primary.
GOOD! Cuba is waiting for you
In December 2016, Riggleman filed papers to seek the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia in the 2017 gubernatorial election. His opponents in the Republican primary were former President George W. Bush counselor and Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie, Prince William County Board of Supervisors chairman Corey Stewart, and state Senator Frank Wagner of Virginia Beach. Riggleman suspended his campaign on March 16, 2017.
Riggleman had expressed interest in running for Governor in 2021 as an independent or third-party candidate, citing his belief that the Republican Party of Virginia is broken.
In the 2018 elections, Riggleman was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives election for Virginia’s 5th congressional district. He defeated Cynthia Dunbar, who had lost the Republican nomination in the 6th district just weeks before, in the final round of voting to win the nomination. The Republican incumbent, Tom Garrett, did not run for reelection.
In the November 2018 general election, Riggleman defeated Democratic nominee Leslie Cockburn with 53% of the vote to Cockburn’s 47%
The Rappahannock County Republican Party criticized Riggleman after he officiated a same-sex wedding between two of his friends, and in September he was censured by party officials who claimed that he had “abandoned party principles” over fiscal and immigration policy.
On September 26, 2019, Campbell County Supervisor Bob Good—who also worked as an athletics official at Liberty University—announced his intention to challenge Riggleman in the 2020 Republican primary. In his announcement, Good accused Riggleman of “betraying” the trust of conservative voters in the 5th district along with casting votes that were not in his constituency’s best interest. Riggleman secured key endorsements on the right, including from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr.
The local party leaders of the 5th Congressional District Republican Committee chose to determine the 2020 nominee for the fifth district by a convention instead of a primary election. On June 13, 2020, Good defeated Riggleman at the nominating convention with 58% of the vote to Riggleman’s 42%
Riggleman is the only member of the Republican party to speak on the House of Representatives floor against QAnon. He is a co-sponsor of 2020 US House resolution H. Res 1154 “Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes”. He is also one of the co-authors of the Network Contagion Research Institute (affiliated with Rutgers University) report called “THE QANON CONSPIRACY: Destroying Families, Dividing Communities, Undermining Democracy” where he wrote before the Jan 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol “When ideas or fantasy are weaponized, there is a metamorphosis from harmless, bizarre theories to a dangerous bloom of tribalism and dehumanization of others. This bloom expands digitally from person to person, absorbing and then converting a tribe that believes alternate realities based on a directed stream of algorithmically and group targeted data, ignorant analytic white papers, memes, ideas and coded language.”
Since leaving Congress in January 2021, Riggleman has been working with experts and academics at the Network Contagion Research Institute to study disinformation and how to combat it
Disgruntled loser with TDS. The NCRI is Soros funded.
Here’s my conspiracy theory regarding Riggleman; They’ve got dirt on him, and he was coerced into doing this. We’re likely to see an avalanche of this kind of thing. Look what Liz Cheney said over the weekend about Trump supporters being cultists. They’re going to increase attacks on the truth.
Bye.
Exactly! It’s all about policies. I appreciate the fact that unlike other Politicians, (yeah, GWB, I’m talking about you). Trump danced with who brung ‘em.
I wish others would leave, starting with paul Ryan.
Where the heck are these idiots getting their information?
This week marks the first time I have ever seen the name “Denver Riggleman.” He’s a really big deal or something.
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