Posted on 02/19/2022 12:20:53 PM PST by cotton1706
The divide within the Massachusetts Republican Party is growing wider.
Republican State Committeewoman Janet Leombruno is concerned about what's been happening with the state party.
"It is incredibly hard to operate in the party today as a pragmatic centrist," she said.
Leombruno described the tension at the January state committee meeting, when member John Miller tried to get Chair Jim Lyons to seat duly elected state committeewoman Nicaela Chinnaswamy.
In video provided by a committee member, Lyons can be seen at the podium yelling at Miller, who is trying to raise a point of order. Lyons tells Miller he's out of order, saying, "There's the door, there's the door, John."
"We realized then that he has no intention of working within the rules," Leombruno said.
The video goes on to show Lyons saying, "I will remove you, John." When the crowd gasps, Lyons calls for security.
"And then he started to walk out to go get security, and then everybody just got up and left," Leombruno said.
She says it's just one example of the party fracture — with hard-right conservatives who favor former President Donald Trump versus Gov. Charlie Baker's more centrist faction.
"This is Massachusetts. These are people who want a moderate lifestyle, they don't want extremes," said former Massachusetts GOP Executive Director Gene Hartigan.
He says the party always had divisions, but he explains that things are different now.
"They always understood the basic rules of the party and how to deal with that, and when it came time for elections, they united and got together," Hartigan said. "I don't see that happening now."
"I feel like if I leave, then we leave it to kind of the fringe of the party," Leombruno said.
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Conservative Republicans? Not since Joseph Martin.
Ok. If you heard it I’ll take your word for it.
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Half of nothing is still nothing.
More like Laurence Curtis.
It takes 2 sides to fracture, only stand on printable if nonthing can be gained by compromise.
“Moderate lifestyle” Ha ha ha ha
Near the end of Baby Bush's first term, he reneged on privatizing social security, took us to endless war (said it could go on for 50 years), funded many millions to pharmaceutical companies for happy pills for teenage boys to pacify teachers, and many millions to Africa for AID's drugs. Domestically he sucked. His international globalism sucked. I took my name off the Republican Registry. In hindsight, early twentieth century republicans were progressives. Now they are coat holders to the democrats, the new progressives.
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