Censured, Thom. Cen-sured. (Now, walk across the aisle and ask them to help you spell it.)
The chief goon of the NCGOPe, our senior US senator, found himself reprimanded today overwhelmingly at the NCGOP convention. (Folks who voted YES on then censure motion: Be careful. He and Susie are very likely to call your boss and try to get you fired. THAT is the way those two meanies roll.)
No one elected Traitorous Thom or his mean Hillary-wannabe wife to cross the aisle and hug liberals. But they do it. Thom worked hard to stick a knife in Donald Trump’s back on the border wall. He has carried water for The Chamber on illegal aliens. The gays loaded him up with cash, so he helped them get married. He voted to bury our kids and grandkids under even more unmanageable debt. He’s voted to undermine our 2nd amendment rights. He’s voted for all kinds of welfare to Ukraine. Traitorous Thom has given the middle finger to just about every plank in the national and state GOP platforms. Yet, the state party establishment has done cartwheels and all other kinds of gymnastics to protect him from criticism or censure.
The aging, decrepit RINOs who run our local party actually offered to write him a “stern memo” about his frequent collaboration with liberals.
In a nearly 3-1 vote today, the delegates to the state convention said NO THANKS to any and all current, past or future Tillis skullduggery or betrayal. His RINO pals have been shrugging the censure off as “meaningless.” If that is the case though, WHY have they been fighting censure attempts for so many years. now?
(Thom went down 3-1. Whatley’s pals are claiming Whatley won a sketchy election 2-1. Who believes Whatley really outperformed his mentor and “rabbi” by that much?)
The next time GOPe types try to defend Tillis as “better than a Democrat,” tell them: “Hell, no he’s not. We made that clear in the motion we passed.”
Traitorous Thom has been using his elected offices for years to fatten his bank account. He has no principles whatsoever, and could give a crap about what we think. He’s not much different than a lot of the rot that sits atop the NC Republican Party org chart right now.
Everything the party has right now can be attributed to the passion and hard work of the grassroots activists Thom and his RINO pals snidely deride as “fringe.” Voters bought the “conservative” message. They asked for limited government, lower taxes, and toughness on crime, but are getting none of that from their veto-proof “conservative revolution.”
When the tea was deciding the error factor in the Chair race I ask for the easily counted numbers for the Tillis censure 799 to 361.
The 700 that showed up for the Chair race at 2pm had no idea there would be a motion to amend the watered down resolution a Tillis staffer diluted and actually stick his name (and the word censure) back on the document.
I would have loved to have hung around for excom this morning….
That chair race was a crap show. The numbers were never hardened. The “election integrity charman” was re-installed .
There is no way to wash the stink off of that.
really wish I could edit… coffee and 2 eyes work better for English
To me, party platforms are an important communicative element for voters! I read our platform! Somebody needs to ask Tillis if he has even read his party platform! Then, let’s assess how he has adhered to it— NOW, THAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW!!!
What campaign promises did Tillis make? Is he a man of his word? These are facts to fuel a campaign to oust him!!
Start a new party? Let us be resolved to take over the structure that’s already in place!! Support for the American Revolution started at a county level! We know the answer; it’s time for a fight! I’m in– a lowly grassroots Republican and not going to sit this out. Thank you,all, for your leadership!!!!
The proposal that our friend Kent has made in another post, is extremely dangerous, so I agree with you about a new party……..in part. Yes, I’ve advocated that conservatives must realize the futility of trying to reform the ncgop and create their own organization, but it has to be a Party within the Party like the NY Conservative Party except without ballot access. It’s the only way unite conservatives to dominate primaries and advance a conservative agenda without regard for POO rules, and NOT create division in the face of the Democrats. But as Kent pointed out, the Libertarian Party has morphed into something much more attractive to conservatives, which means NC Republicans better do whatever it takes to bring their house in order in 2023 because next year, a Libertarian vote margin which has increased even a percentage point or two above the usual 2.5%, will bring disaster.
We cannot dominate primaires when they are open.
I urge all the people who have faded over time due to antics of the party cliques return… and bear up for four days a year… County, District, and the usual polite mess that the State Covo becomes to carry the day when reforms are offered.
We never got to the POO. It needs hosting on an editable site like Wiki used, Excom members have access to clean up and produce the product for submission .
The censure of Tillis was tacked onto a resolution that the Resolutions Committee had drafted, calling for holding elected officials feet to the fire in sticking with the GOP platforms. I decided to test whether this was just all talk and no intension to do, or if the current leadership may have finally decided to do what the party should have been doing all along to keep our elected officials accountable. I raised that issue and also tested if they had learned their lesson on electronic voting by presenting both issues at this mornings state Executive Committee meeting.
Since Chairman Whatley always has someone from his home county move to adjourn the ExCom before new business is ever reached on the agenda, I offered these as amendments to the budget so they could not be dodged by adjournment. Looking around the ExCom meeting, the party establishment element was out in full force but the conservative grassroots much less so. I knew that if either or both got pushback they were dead, given who had turned out for the meeting, so unless the powers that be went along, there was no point in pushing but so hard. I did get pushback on both from the establishment, and then Billy Miller ruled both out of order on questionable grounds.
So I got my answer, and it was the one I feared. The establishment has not learned its lesson on electronic voting, and they have no intention, in spite of their resolution, of doing anything to hold GOP elected officials to account when they go against the platform.
One motion was to prohibit funding for any electronic convention voting system from party funds, and the other to appropriate a modest amount of funds to pay for someone to track which legislation was consistent with the platform and our elected officials votes thereon. Heck, they will probably be opening the checkbook soon to pay to try to put some bandaids on that disaster of a system used yesterday.
I disagree Mr Rader. The Chair and party leaders did learn a lesson. They learned that deceit works. Dishonest manipulation of a party election results in their side winning. Having convention drag on for hours works. Jason Simmons got exactly what he wanted.
They have ZERO respect for us. ZERO.
Now Whatley has free rein and will do nothing to address party disloyalty and counties going rogue.
And think about this. How could someone as close to the Tillises as he is be an actual fan of Trump? Trump is everything Tillis is not.
Whatley pretends to be someone he’s not.
Keep that in mind the next two years.
But, depending on the wording 53 counties have done something to address disloyalty… the bulk of us passed a county Res to bar Tillis from any county support in any future elections. Sans an upheaval at ground level ( res withdrawn), that is huge imo.
In essence more than half of NC told Tillis “You are own your own in any future endeavours”. Primary challengers should lining up, and Tillis donors should gauging their resources if they have to “fund their own army” in 53 counties.
I learned while serving under him in the NC House that Thom is an extremely self-seeking, egotistical jerk. Too bad he has gotten as far as he has. I have been concerned that he might yet jump into next year’s race for Governor. He did manage to get our election laws changed before he left Raleigh so that he would no longer have to get 40% to win a primary. So I have been concerned about what he might do with that ever since. Hopefully, in the face of this strong rebuke by a fired up and fed up bunch of conservatives, he will abandon any idea of running for Governor, if he was considering it. Hopefully, he won’t run for any office going forward. He has proven himself to be a snake in the grass. I have gone from calling him a RINO to calling him a DID (Democrat in Disguise). The sooner he is out of office, the better. Thank you to everyone who stood up to Whatley and crew and made this censure happen, in spite of all their efforts to stop us. I hope Tillis sees it as the writing on the wall saying, “You’re done, buster!” I think Whatley saw it as not very promising for him, either. So he got desperately busy trying to make sure the corrupt electronic voting system caused enough chaos to get the convention shut down before he lost his job, too. Before next year’s convention, there needs to be a concerted effort across the State to eliminate electronic voting and to censure Whatley, too. The one good thing about how all that election business turned out is that they at least didn’t get Addul Ali elected as vice chair. That would have been a disaster.