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Is Bucks County GOP using by-laws to thwart MAGAs? Party chair calls 'bombshell' report lies
Yahoo News ^ | 2/23/23 | JD Mullane

Posted on 02/23/2023 5:58:19 AM PST by cotton1706

Meehan claims a key finding of his investigation is that the “country club” GOP leadership checks the power of the party’s noisy MAGA wing, in part, by keeping an estimated 100 to 200 committee seats empty, of some 600 seats available.

Without those seats filled, the required two-thirds quorum can’t be attained, and the by-laws the party has used since 1972 stay in place.

The empty positions, Meehan said, are disproportionately located in Falls and Bristol townships. That’s crucial, he said, since Lower Bucks, while heavily Democratic, is Ground Zero for the middle- and working-class men who voted for former President Donald Trump who rode “America First” into the White House in 2016.

“If Pat Poprik and the establishment up there had a hundred new committee people from down here who want to run America First candidates, it’s a threat to their power,” Meehan said.

Meehan said his analysis of the county GOP by-laws, in place since 1972, reveals a system that concentrates power in the party chair. The chair is kept there in office by friendlies on the Republican executive committee. Meanwhile, the party’s foot soldiers, the committee people elected by rank-and-file Republicans, are treated as the hired help.

“They tell the them go knock on doors, put up yard signs, work the polls, and we don’t want to hear from you after that,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: elections
Another insidious trick they use.
1 posted on 02/23/2023 5:58:19 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Pay Poprick IS the problem with Bucks County Republicans-—period!


2 posted on 02/23/2023 5:59:37 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: cotton1706

What state is this in?


3 posted on 02/23/2023 6:04:17 AM PST by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.


4 posted on 02/23/2023 6:07:30 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Pennsylvania


5 posted on 02/23/2023 6:09:20 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: cotton1706

Political parties aren’t going to solve our problems.


6 posted on 02/23/2023 6:09:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Pennsylvania


7 posted on 02/23/2023 6:14:52 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: mikelets456

“Pay Poprick IS the problem with Bucks County Republicans-—period!”

He probably LOVED Arlen Specter!


8 posted on 02/23/2023 6:15:29 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: dfwgator
Political parties aren’t going to solve our problems.
9 posted on 02/23/2023 6:16:28 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke

George Washington was certainly no fan of political parties.


10 posted on 02/23/2023 6:18:01 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

11 posted on 02/23/2023 6:35:16 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: dfwgator

That’s because political parties are like any other corporation. They operate and function for their own benefit. First and foremost of their priorities is to maintain power at any and all costs. As a party member your only benefit to the party is that you donate money and vote the way they tell you.

The only difference between political parties in the USA and the CCP is that they can’t kill you at will and harvest your organs on a whim.


12 posted on 02/23/2023 7:01:03 AM PST by Four of Six
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To: cotton1706
He probably LOVED Arlen Specter!

Oops, wrong pronoun!

13 posted on 02/23/2023 7:17:33 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

“He probably LOVED Arlen Specter!
Oops, wrong pronoun!”

You’re right. Pat’s a she.


14 posted on 02/23/2023 7:38:10 AM PST by cotton1706
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