As the battle over who is the actual leader of the MIGOP continues to play out in dueling press releases and alternate websites from Chair Kristina Karamo [migop.org] and Co-Chair Malinda Pego [mi-gop.org], the core function of the party — raising money to get Republicans elected to office and keeping them there — has been derailed by a fundraising drought and leadership selection process that seemingly caters to an ever more extreme faction within the party.
migop.org and mi-gop.org…?! Really?
But it’s not just recounts that have left the Arizona Republican Party to fall on lean economic times. While it is true that former chair, Kelli Ward, spent more than $300,000 on “legal consulting” fees in 2022, mostly related to lawsuits contesting Trump’s defeat there in 2020, she also authorized spending more than $530,000 on an election night party and bus tour for Trump-backed candidates, all of whom lost.
Dennis Darnoi, a GOP strategist with Farmington Hills-based Densar Consulting LLC tells the Advance that it really isn’t a mystery why the various state parties are having such trouble.
“They can’t raise money because they’re all following pretty much the same playbook, which is to deny the results of the 2020 election and to demand sort of an ideological purity test that if you are not 100% fully behind Donald Trump, then you are not considered a Republican,” said Darnoi. “It’s very hard to either maintain your donor base, attract new donors or even keep a cohesive party structure if that’s going to be your modus operandi.”
And in spite of all this GOP subnormality, there’s a good number of you misinformed simpler folk in Michigan who still support and will gladly hand this country over to an admitted racist and potential dictator-for-a-day come the second Tuesday in November.
Thoughts?
When you cultivate people who won’t support the results of elections…
And this is the so-called party of fiscal responsibility.
Ignoring the very snidley superior simpler folk remark; What has been up with Michigan over the last couple years? I feel like everytime I hear about Michigan in the news, it’s pretty good news.
Over the past couple years: Legalized pot, Dem government trifecta, the Michigan Republican party falling apart in objectively hilarious fashion, victorious Auto strikes lead by an Eat The Rich shirt wearing man, HUGE sports dubs, and the natural glorious natural beauty, especially in the Upper Peninsula; How is Michigan not everyone’s new favorite state?
I’m decently drunk and not trying to bait folks who crave arguement, but someone explain a superior state going harder than Michigan
We successfully eliminated gerrymandering for the most part. As soon as that was done, we had better elections which led to better outcomes.
How could I forget, that’s a HUGE step the rest of the nation needs to take!
Unfortunately, other efforts to do this in the Midwest have slowed, because the GOP has definitive proof this works, but not for them.
I can’t slight any of the positive things you said about The Great Lakes State. It is all that and more.
Misinformed simpler folk was the kindest description I could muster. Believe me, before my lawyer saw it, it read like that scene in Do The Right Thing.
At least we’re not Ohio. <-- Now, that’s baiting!
Biden should debate trump and ask him why he is running to be elected the president, if he didn’t lose in 2020.
As exposed by the Hershel Walker fraud is that candidates bypass GOP state parties & mostly just work between their funds & Super PACs. Super PACs use to limit coordinating activities from red-boxing but now they pretty much have little to no barrier between them.
I like the local political party structure but most people don’t. Their heydays were before the increases in political primaries before 1968. States like Iowa as well as Florida & Tennessee retain some control between slating candidates & state/local parties but voters tend to dislike it when they see Florida only nominate one candidate(the only one to reach out to them & have people at convention).
They might be the remedy some situations such as precinct worker recruitment & absentee ballot awareness but with how GOP & RW groups hijack the system it might be going the way of the dino. We see both Democrats & GOP mostly operate from a candidate focused style instead of democratic federalized local/state based consensus building.
Kind of odd since we have better tools of communicating with each other & operating things asynchronously yet pre-revolutionary war era Americans could easily stand up local chapters & report back to larger district assemblies.
Hershel Walker?! Wow.
since we have better tools of
communicatingpropagandizingFTFY.
I pointed out Hershel Walker as documented evidence of gross campaign violations that are bypassing traditional party structures.
On communicating, we are both using Lemmy? There are opensource tools to network & collobrate. Its shocking how we fail to organize at even a fraction pf what previous generations did.
