NCGOPe gives Traitorous Thom an AWARD!
He’s been censured by more than half of the state’s county-level Republican organizations. He’s racked up one of the more consistently liberal voting records in the North Carolina congressional delegation AND the US Senate Republican caucus. A PAC he controls loaded up on stolen money to finance a primary challenge from the left against a conservative Republican US House member. He sabotaged Donald Trump’s border wall efforts at every turn. He’s sold out conservatives on gay marriage, illegal immigration, and the 2nd Amendment. Yet, beleaguered state 
GOP chairman Michael Whatley and his tight-knit cabal of RINOs felt senator Thom Tillis was worthy of an award at the NCGOP’s recent Hall of Fame festivities.
One can understand why Whatley and his crew would work so hard to prop up Tillis. The senator and his dear sweet Susie are responsible for Whatley being where he is today. While Tillis and his crew continue with their leftist coup attempt within the NCGOP, Whatley is working hard to build a wall of falsehoods and exaggerations to protect himself from a growing grassroots groundswell.
The Republican National Committee awarded Whatley a no-show, do-nothing job within its ranks. (Kinda like his post in Raleigh.) Chairman Ronna Romney — Traitorous Mitt’s favorite niece — is regularly praising Whatley. Never mind that party fundraising has cratered during the Whatley era. Never mind that the state party seriously underperformed in a year (2022) that everyone expected to be a runaway Republican romp. Never mind that the state party paid a whole lot of lip service, but did very little, about election integrity. Complaints about election irregularities from outside the Raleigh beltline often fell on deaf ears at the Hillsborough Street HQ. To thank sweet Ronna for her “help,” Whatley has allowed the NCGOP to basically become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RNC.
Anyone closely watching the Timmy & Phil show on Jones Street, and the NCGOPe antics over on Hillsborough Street, can plainly see that conservatism and conservatives are held in utter contempt by the powers-that-be in the party. They want your cash and your votes. But they don’t want to hear anything you may have to say in between elections.
Whatley & co. are doing cartwheels — bending a rule here, and one there — to run interference and protect Tillis from grassroots outrage. The same is being done to try and save Whatley’s job from an aggressive challenge being mounted by activist and businessman John Kane.
This year we have a tremendous opportunity to express our displeasure with how things have been going. Conservatism put the GOP on top in Raleigh, and now the ingrates there are trying hard to kick it to the curb. Sending Michael Whatley packing in June is a good first step.
Look at what Whatley did to protect Tillis from a resolution of censure by the State Executive Committee. They diddled around and deliberately crashed the quorum at the December State ExCom meeting so that resolution could not be brought up. Then, even though they have no authorized budget and they are spending money illegally, they never call another ExCom meeting to pass the budget because that would also open up the Tillis censure resolution, too.
Now they are using that orchestrated lack of a quorum to try to amend the Plan of Organization to reduce the number of grassroots members on the State ExCom.
Whatley is trying to maximize control of the party to pave the way for Tillis to run for governor, and Tillis would probably put Whatley in his cabinet. Supporters of other gubenatorial candidates need to get their troops out to the convention to send Whately packing so he cannot use that party position to push Tillis for governor.
Whatley is a control freak and he is hollowing out the NCGOP in order to maintain that control. Look at the exhorbitant registration fee just to vote at the convention, a party record high. That is all about grassroots suppression.
The basic registration fee has stayed at $75 since 2014. It was briefly raised in 2017 to $90 under Robin Hayes but there was so much push back from people that it went back down to $75 the following year.
I am not a fan of Whatley, but Claude Pope was the one who jacked up the fee from $35 to $75 in 2014.
Personally, I would lower it to back to $35, or just put it at a price point where the NCGOP breaks even and then make all your money on the meals.
You pay a registration fee every year, not just the voting years.
We have an opportunity to make an impact at this convention next month and I urge you to vote in favor of our proposed amendments to the state plan of organization. Click here to see what will be on the agenda. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1twX-Lxwdh4rXsZeBTVnGChI-fs_zCcB8/view?usp=drivesdk
I’d be very grateful if you would complete our survey. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3i0KqkJMuBIGBSr7ZdQZgVBxPk2pCf22SyJAvKEAAveeLew/viewform
This is our chance to close our primaries and make a real impact.
Part of our problem is county’s have not submitted their censure resolutions to the resolutions committee. Thus far only 7 counties of the alleged 60 plus have submitted their censure resolutions to the resolutions committee. I really hope that they submit them.
I brought up a censure at our county meeting (Johnston) last February before the convention. But our chair is a party groupie and wouldn’t go against another republican. The lady supposedly in charge of resolutions for the county exec committee was brought into the meeting by Zoom and spoke of the Tillis approved “marriage act” for 15 minutes or more; yet spoke nothing of the egregious behavior of Tillis prior to that. Then, because of member apathy and lack of transparency within the party, most in attendance were of the opinion that a censure for Tillis was not needed. I am disgusted with this whole process. I will vote for Kane at the state convention but deep down wonder if that will help my county to be rid of its corruption. Daily Haymaker challenge: have you ever sent anyone to Johnston county to do deep dives on what’s going on here?
Michael Whatley is the epitome of evil cloaked in fake conservatism.
Agreed
I’ve witnessed in person 2/3 of my life the antics of Thee Republican Party. From Michigan to NC it doesn’t matter THE Party Is orchestrated to default to the power of the money, the Political Consultants (who cater to the moderate candidates with money) and the RNC. No where in history have we witnessed THE Party marketing with messaging about our great platform of principles or focus on interacting with registered Republicans in their own communities. The Daily Haymaker says it best in one phrase “Whatley & Co.”
During the half century I have been involved in North Carolina Republican Party politics, I have witnessed some outstanding principled conservative state GOP chairmen who ran effective party organizations, like Frank Rouse, Dave Flahery, Jack Hawke, and Jane Rouse. I have also witnessed some that were just “fair to middling” and some that were nearly worthless. It is up to the grassroots to choose candidates for party leadership who will stay true to principle while running an efficient and effective party. We get that opportunity every two years, and we need to exercise our votes wisely.
I supported Whatley but I’ve been disappointed to say the least. Stuff like this is one big reason.
Hiring leftists like Ian Hines to send out these vapid fundraising appeals is another.
Saw Kane at Third District, however, and I’m not sure what his message is other than he’s running against Whatley.
In other words, he’s just the “other guy.”
Eliminate Paul Shumaker and Dee Stewart from NC political campaigns and payrolls, and we’ll have real change in NC and DC, and outstanding principled conservatives in office
Whatley has hired both of these left wing scoundrels for NCGOP work.
But the most important message to send in this chairman’s race is that we do NOT want Thom Tillis, and the way to do that is to remove Tillis’ frontman Whatley.
SEND TILLIS A MESSAGE BY DUMPING WHATLEY.
I voted for Whatley. My mistake. I will not make that mistake again.
I voted for Tillis because he was the least evil. Was He? At least you know what you are getting with a DemoncRAT. Sadly, Whatley and Tillis have slapped the Conservative folks in NC in the face.
#NeverAgain
Things like that happen with Whatley. Few people remember that he was first elected with 500+ delegate votes to his opponent’s 600+ delegate votes. That shows how easily the NCGOP POO and convention rules are manipulated to produce the outcome the RNC, not the assembled delegates, want.
Same thing happened with 2021 Vice-Chair Race, Sherry-Lynn Womack won the delegate votes but Mills prevailed in the weighted vote totals. Miriam Chu almost lost her VC race in 2019 because of weighted voted too, fortunately for Chu she did really well in Guilford and Wake Counties over Sarah Reidy-Jones and that was the difference.
Weighted Voting must be eliminated!
Sadly, the Moore County GOP will be there in full support of Whatley and crew.
Not 100% of Moore County GOP – I will be there – not supporting Whatley and crew.
That’s encouraging!
I incorrectly assumed that the voting members were the executive committee, almost all of whom voted NOT to censure Tillis.
Glad to see some true principled conservatives representing Moore County.
Hopefully, the rest of the exec committee will come to their senses and start holding people accountable and delivering consequences for wholesale abandonment of the party platform.
The Hall of Fame committee selects nominees for these awards. Representatives from each District and several at-large members comprise the nominating committee. This takes place every two years. Names are submitted for various awards and committee meets to rank and vote on who wins. A lot of districts don’t even bother to submit outstanding Republicans for awards. Often nominees will win by default because they’re the only entry. Chairman Whatley had his picture made with each winner of the Hall of Fame awards in 2021.
Is Chairman Whatley supposed to ignore a sitting US Senator?
The selection of the winners is done by a secret committee set up by the chairman.
Whatley has long had close ties to Tillis. It was Tillis who asked him to run for chairman in the first place, and Susan Tillis was very involved in Whatley’s first campaign. Tillis also came down from Washington, DC to endorse Whatley when Whatley announced this time he was running for chairman. Tillis is about the only significant endorsement Whatley has this time. Whatley is Tillis’ boy and always has been.
The best way to send Tillis a message is to dump his boy Whatley from the state chairmanship NEVER TILLIS, NEVER WHATLEY
If we don’t dump Whatley, we are going to see Tillis run for the GOP nomination for governor against a divided conservative field, with an absurd 30% threshold to avoid a runoff. That will guarantee the Democrats keep the governorship because Tillis is radioactive with a lot of the GOP base.