Let the censuring begin!
Indiana Republicans have already smacked down their RINO, senator Todd Young, for going along with Thommy Tilli$$$’s hot mess on marriage. Perhaps it’s time for North Carolinians to get going on Tillis himself?
The state GOP bureaucracy is unrepresentative of Republican voters as a whole. You will never get them to crack down on Traitorous Thom. Perhaps the answer is county-by-county local action.
Take a look at Lee County over in the Sandhills. Here is the resolution Lee’s GOP executive committee will debate Monday night. (Here is a Microsoft Word copy for anyone who wants to “borrow” the text and localize it to their community.) Dereliction of duty is what they’re saying Thommy T is guilty of.
Granted, censure resolutions don’t have a whole lot of power. But they do speak volumes. If we can’t get the bought-and-paid-for crowd in Raleigh to budge, how about taking this county-to-county? If a majority of counties votes to condemn Tillis, how could the state not take action? If they refused, it would make the NCGOP look even more feckless than it already does. Thommy T could be banned from official gatherings in a majority of counties.
Give it a whirl. Let’s try it in all 100 counties. Report in to The Haymaker if your local team approves it. We’ll keep a statewide tally. It would be great to see 70-80 (or more) counties condemning Tillis.
I have one question about the censure. Does Tillis go to any Republican things to start with.? Never seen him at anything I was ever at.
My exact thoughts, Brant, county by county by county by county.
Also, the Alaska Republican Party has censured Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Beyond that, Senator John Cornyn at the Texas GOP convention and Senator Mitt Romney at the Utah GOP convention were loudly booed throughout their speechs at recent conventions for their bad votes in Washington.
Tillis likes to put up a video on the screen at conventions, probably so he would have to face a Cornyn or Romney treatment to his face.
While we can expect little from the Mecklenberg RINO party or their Whatley sycophant colleagues over in the Gaston gop, rural counties should overwhelmingly pursue this, and simultaneously remind the world that statewide GOP candidates are DOA at election time without rural county Republican parties.
If the NC GOP does not censor Tillis, there is no reason to even have a NC GOP! The man has spit in our face and betrayed our values. Censoring him is really too mild a punishment.
In the old days, a rail, some feathers, and some hot tar would have been the order of the day. Too bad you really can’t do those things any more.
Tillis may not be accountable as he’s obviously seeking no further election, but his malicious allies like the guy that ousted Madison Cawthorne can and should be run out out of office.
100% call to all 100 counties to censure Tillis! The more that can arrive at the 12.17 NCGOP Executive Committee meeting with their county votes in hand, the better! I love what Jim Womack and Lee County have put forth and Graham County has already censured Tillis this past week!
While a censure doesn’t do much for someone like Tillis today, as the ONLY GOP events he attends are his own fundraisers, this will block him from attending future events, which makes it very hard to run for Governor! It gives counties the authority to keep his campaign materials out of their offices and his name off of any voter guides.
Let’s just review Tillis in the last 18 months – voted with Dems & Biden on infrastructure (lest we forget there was no infrastructure in that bill), voted for ALL of Biden’s judicial nominees, voted with the Dems on gun control, has been working on amnesty with Dick Durbin and now Sinema, and was showered with accolades from Biden and Shumer for his work on the (Dis) Respect for Marriage Act (NO NC members of the House voted for this bill). Tillis’s PAC took over $700k from FTX CEO (the MOST of any NC politician, including the Dems!) and openly worked against a sitting Republican member of Congress who called him a RINO in public.
A vote to censure/reprimand TIllis protects all of us from ever hearing the words “Governor Tillis!”
I know I am glad I voted for Garland Tucker in that primary!
100% and if Watley and the state cabal are not with us they have to go!