Longtime NCGOP leader / activist scolds Simmons on handling of Berger-Tillis party disloyalty issue
Some sleight-of-hand helped US senator Thom Tillis and state senate president pro tem Phil 
Berger escape the wrath of attendees at the recently concluded NCGOP state convention. Beaufort County attorney and longtime party fixture Steven Rader took time to put his frustration over those developments in writing to the party’s statewide leader:
Appreciate his effort but he might as well scold the idiot delegates that elected this vapid RNC puppet.
Thanks Steve Rader, for your shot of light into the darkness. Good people have endured the years of corrupt electronic voting, and we are back to paper ballots. Now we’re back to the previous barriers of weighted voting and the imbecile faction that signed up to be a delegate instead of joining the la tee da club. With these barriers still firmly in place a credible party in North Carolina is just an illusion on the desert horizon.
Despite the efforts of some good people in the party, the party will be no help in dealing with disloyalty or any other thing of importance. It’s up to the voters. In order to handle the situation, they will have to wake up. Don’t stop dreaming, but in the meantime we better hunker down.
I don’t think the people who are towing the Party line — that is, those who refuse at the leadership’s insistence and threats to take any action against disloyal Party members — are necessarily imbeciles. The are simply members of an ever narrowing clique of insiders, cowards and hacks (a lot of them being former Democrats) who are systematically driving away many loyal, sincere, honest and hard-working activists. Then they blame the people who want the rules of the Party to be respected for “divisiveness.” Just like Democrats.
You’re right. We have that “clique of insiders” in our county, and they have driven many of our respectable activists away. I should have been more specific about the imbeciles. In my locale they are brought in whenever they are needed especially in crucial county conventions to follow the “insider” script that will produce enough votes to make things hard for conservatives. These strangers blindly follow their directives then we never see them again or until needed again. When we attempt to align with rules, decorum, or just basic ethics, they accuse us of being mean and divisive. All this seems to be commonplace these days.
Just last night in an exec. committee meeting a well-known state rep. moved to adjourn the meeting rather than address relevant business he did not want brought up.