Whatley: ‘We ain’t a Republican state. Deal with it.’
Those are the words delivered by NCGOP chairman Michael Whatley to a sparsely-attended state executive committee meeting in Charlotte over the weekend. The semi-annual meeting was so poorly-attended it could not produce the bare minimum of 140 attendees necessary for quorum. (Perhaps it had something do with holding it in a location no one wants to go to, and holding it on a weekend so close to Christmas.)
I had a few moles in the room. One of the more surprising occurrences, my moles tell me, was Whatley’s admission about the state of affairs in North Carolina. Said one mole:
“He said we are a purple state. Not a red one. He said he’s come to grips with it and we need to as well. “
That sounds like someone trying to justify complete abandonment of conservatism. If we’re ‘purple’, then we have to pull a ‘Tillis’ and “reach across the aisle.” “Moderates” will surely be turned off by all this “harsh” conservative talk.
If THAT is where we’re headed, WHY bother with a party platform? Make our elections all about personalities — the R team vs. the D team. *None of that freedom vs. statism foolishness.*
Another mole mentioned that Whatley also nixed the idea of closing primaries to only registered Republicans:
“He said we need those moderates and unaffiliateds to survive as a party. In reality, it’s all about letting people like Tillis thrive while conservatives get watered down and flushed out.”
The moles said Whatley painted 2022 as a huge success. Never mind the total disappearance of a ‘red wave.’ Never mind that we have more Democrats in our congressional delegation. Never mind that Republican registration is DOWN since he took office. Never mind that 2022 saw the party fall $300K behind 2021 in total fundraising.
Hmmm. Info like that helped topple Hasan Harnett. Though, the real reason Harnett got run off was because he was not part of the crime families that run both major political parties.
I’m told that the lack of a quorum killed any chance of dealing with Tillis. At least FIVE different motions dealing with Tillis were brought to the meeting. Some interesting remarks were delivered by an official from Davie County, the home of senator-elect Ted Budd, according to one mole:
“This person said something really needs to be done about Tillis right now. They said they have a whole bunch of people back home ready to leave the party if he isn’t dealt with. People are worn out with him. He’s killing the Republican Party at the grass roots.”
These people in Raleigh DO NOT CARE. They’d be fine if every conservative left. They spend all their time lining their pockets and promoting themselves and their friends. They want to be the guy or gal to see the next time a GOP governor or president gets elected. *Stuff like ideology is for ‘crazy’ people.*
Like Barry Goldwater once said, during his battle with The Rockefeller Republicans: ‘It’s a time for choosing.’
You can hang your head, and allow these people to keep leading you around on a leash. Or you can go on offense. There are more of us than them.
They are in power because people like us made voting Republican cool. Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and Democrat presidential nominee George McGovern tore down the Democrat firewall in eastern North Carolina and made the GOP competitive here. People were moved by the genuine, heart-felt conservatism.
Way too many people are now climbing the GOP career ladder repeating the word ‘conservative’ over and over, but embracing big spending, bigger taxes, and social decay. Either drop the platform altogether and tell people you were “just kidding,” or adhere to every syllable. It’s not a Sunday buffet at Golden Corral.
There is actually a criminal charge out there called “obtaining property by false pretenses.’ So many of our so-called leaders could be charged with that. They’ve taken our trust, and jobs funded by our tax dollars, by lying to us about being conservative.
Time to choose. Hang your head, and keep submitting. Or go on offense.
Among those who were AWOL for the meeting were the National Committeeman and National Committeewoman. The National Committeewoman LIVES in Mecklenburg County, so she did not have any distance to travel. I do not recall the National Committeeman lowering himself to put in an appearance at a state executive committee meeting since he has been elected.
WHY were they absent? Maybe it is because they are supporting the establishment candidate for RNC chairman, Mitt Romney’s neice, Ronna Romney McDaniel, during whose leadership, the party has underperformed in three state elections. They realize the grassroots want one of the conservatives either Harmeet Dhillon, who grew up in Wake County, North Carolina, or Mike Lindell., who are challenging her.
It is well known that Whatley has ambitions for RNC office. At one time it was for chairman, but now it is as McDaniel’s vice chairman.
Any North Carolina representative on RNC who rewards failure by voting for McDaniel needs to be challenged the next time their office comes up for election. The grassroots is furious with the McLeadership.
Who do you suggest run to replace them?
Yeah, but the grassroots never acts upon their fury, and the ncgop regime and their legislative masters know it. I say to one and all, you don’t like it? Then join me in taking over the NC Constitution Party and wage a REAL fight for your values and beliefs. The only way to force the ncgop rightward is to force them to bargain with, and to coalition with a REAL Conservative party, not unlike the GOP-Conservative Party alliance in New York State. A former ncgop vice chair from Lenoir County famously said in a moment of utter honesty, “we’re a Republican Party, not a Conservative party.” Reform of the ncgop has to come from the outside, it will never succeed from the inside.
You can’t fix this from the outside, that’s just not gonna happen. We have to take control from the inside and effect the changes that are sorely needed.
Oops! That should be “three STRAIGHT elections” NOT three ‘state’ elections.
Unfortunately, the national committee members do not come up again until 2024, so we have some time to find candidates. Whatley is up again next May.
Our GOP committeewoman *was* there because she posted pictures of the meeting on Facebook.
Kyshia Brassington was present at the Central Committee Meeting, the Chairman’s luncheon and the Executive Committee Meeting.
Why did she not give a report, then? With the RNC meeting to elect a new chairman coming up soon, that would have been timely.
You should ask Kyshia why she didn’t give a report.
Maybe she should come on here and explain why after being on the agenda for a report, and being spotted in attendance, she failed to give that report and failed to call anyone’s attention to her being “overlooked”. Her silence is deafening.
And wanna bet she is already committed to vote for the failed establishment incumbent RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel instead of one of her two conservative challengers that include conservative NC native Harmeet Dhillon, who grew up in Wake County, NC and was inspired to get involved in politics by Senator Jesse Helms? Dhillon is now Republican National Committeewoman from California, and a far better choice for RNC chairwoman.
Yes, she was. She sat right behind me, and we talked a good bit.
Reganite, the national committeewoman was in attendance, Kyshia Brassington, and has picture proof if you visit her Facebook page. I know because I WAS there and there was a lot of support for a Tillis censure amongst those in attendance. We lacked 6 executive members to conduct business, which most of us in attendance looked forward to. If you are upset, find the executive members from your county and district and hold them to account. I was as disappointed it did not go to a vote as any. 6 people is all we needed!
She was on the agenda to give a report and did not. I did not see her, but when she was not called upon to give that report, my conclusion was that she was not there. It is even more weird if she was there and was not called on to give her report and did not come forward to say she had been overlooked. Given the critical RNC meeting to elect a new RNC chairman is only weeks away, her report was much more critical and timely than most of those who were called upon to give reports. Did she and Whatley want to avoid questions about whether she and Broyhill would vote for the failed incumbent McDaniel????
The last couple of ExCom meetings, Whatley has fillibustered by putting a long list of unnecessary reports on the agenda instead of actually putting up votes on decisions about real party business, but the National Committee reports, given the contest for RNC chairman, were the ones we needed to hear if we heard any of them.
The NCGOP does not need a “King Chairman” making all the decisions. The ExCom is supposed to be the governing body of the party but it has been neutering by overreaching state chairmen in recent years. That needs to be changed.
Perhaps you should ask Kyshia these questions. I imagine she would answer them. In my opinion, it seemed intentional that she was left off.
The national committee woman knows about this Website right ? I am like 99% sure she does. She should be keeping up with this place cause this is a place important Republican news has been broken and discussed for years. This is a very free and open platform and past RNC state leadership has posted here many times so the national committee women should not need to be asked these questions she should have already been here in the comments without needing to be asked
Excellent points.
Had she remained she would/should have done a report.
Again I suggest some may have left to prevent business.
I have asked my Excom to express their sentiments as well.
Email:
ed@broyhill.net
kyshial@gmail.com
michael.whatley@ncgop.org
I don’t know why Kyshia was not asked to make a report, but she was definitely there, sitting right behind me.
The National Committee reps were on the agenda to give a report. Anyone inadvertantly overlooked would have stood up and mentioned that . . . . unless the plan all along was not put them up to be subject to questions about the RNC chairman’s race. Both Kyshia and Whatley would have had to have been in on that. I am sure that these comments have been reported to her, yet her silence on them is deafening.
It is also weird that if Whatley is running for RNC vice chairman, why did he try to keep that a secret from the ExCom at that meeting?
Ronna Romney McDaniel has underperformed in three straight elections. We badly need a change, We do not need to reward failure. Any NC rep who votes to reelect her needs a strong challenge the next time their own position comes up. The fact that she did nothing to try to stop McConnell’s treacherous betrayal of our new House majority and their power of the purse is another very good reason to send McDaniel packing. Collusion with the Democrats like McConnell did should simply not be tolerated by the party.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” – Marcus Cicero, 1st Century BC
Our traitorous creep leaders are sabotaging our world. – A 21st Century AD Republican
On December 15th, the Granville County Republican Party voted to censure Senator Tillis, and Senator Burr. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrVynIUW-STnlNgw3QK0x1ojMrmqMo5J/view?usp=sharing Any questions please contact info@granvillegop.org
Dare’s Jan GOP meeting will be its BOOM day.
State wide county by county I would like to see a constant demand for Tillis’$ resignation.
Unfortunately, we have to wait until 2026 to get rid of Tillis. Thank you President Trump for endorsing Tillis in the primary and clearing the field.
Another failure this washed-up loser wants everyone to forget about.
Meanwhile it’s time to think of who’s going to take over for Whatley once he moves up the ladder to a position where he can kiss more ass and take more silly photos.
I supported him for chairman. To say he’s been a disappointment is an understatement.
The only time I hear from the state party are those horrible emails (usually for some out-of-state candidate) written by the “moderate” consultant he brought in, who few people know was “Evan McMullin’s Digital Guru” in his “independent” campaign against Trump in 2016.
I did not care for Jeff Hauser’s political views, but his emails were informative and I wanted to read them. I can’t remember the last email from the state party that had anything worth reading. It’s time for a serious change in our state party leadership and I want to see what plans people have besides “returning control to the grass roots” and other bullshit throwaway lines like that.
Trump had his arm twisted by that worthless anti-conservative, egotistical, China lackey Mitch McConnell at a time Trump had to be on very good terms with the GOP Senate, and this was not the only state where that happened. The loser we really need to get rid of is Mitch McConnell.
As to state party consultants, we really get more oversight on that. Those contracts need to be reviewed and approved by the Central Committee. Whatley has been hiring duds. For example they hired mediocre estabslishment consultant Paul Shumaker to run the Judicial Victory Fund advertising. This is the same Shumaker who stupid advise cost us the Supreme Court majority in the first place, losing two races we should have won.
Two much power is concentrated in the hands of the chairman, and his has been an ongoing and ever increasing problem for quite a few years. The NCGOP used to pride itself as being run from the bottom up, but now we have a virtual dictator as chairman. One example of that is the state ExCom, which is supposed to be the governing body of the party having its agenda filled by the chairman with incessant reports and never asked to make decisions on the party’s business except as to the budget, which the PoO requires. Even there, what is presented is a very bare bone budget that Whatley disregards at will. The lower state party officers, who used to run independently before the executive committee on their own merits are now rammed through as a chairman-nominated “slate”.. That disgusting power play means that on the Central Committee, these officers are rubber stamps for the chairman instead of voices for the ExCom as they used to be. That is part of the concentration of power in the hands of the chairman.
I hope we will elect someone as chairman next Spring who will restore a grassroots party operation. In recent years, successive chairmen have made the ExCom a rubber stamp instead of the governing body of the party that it used to be. I remember the state chairman would bring his proposed programs to the ExCom for approval, but now he just does what he wants and “reports” that to the ExCom.
I can tell you that I have for 2 years now brought the budget issues to the forefront. I argued and questioned quite extensively last year at the state ex com. Noone stands with me. I am usually the lone vote against it. We need less talk on the internet and more actionsbat the meetings.
The fact that hardly anyone across the party had ever heard of Whatley until the RNC parachuted him in from DC, should have been a screaming red flag to every delegate that didn’t know his background. Shame on the Gaston county GOP for promoting this poseur to the rest of us. We had a reasonably well-known total conservative in Jim Womack who actually got a higher delegate vote count than Whatley four years ago.
We had a chance to fix the state party but the people that voted for Whatley and not Womack are the people that caused the best chance in 20 years to fix the party to go up in flames. The time was right then when Grandpa got in trouble with the FBI it was the moment the one chance we had to fix the party
And as one can see now the party is done,,,, cooked,,,, over if you cannot get Quorum to censure Thom The Terrible then there is no hope left for this party in NC
I saw nothing that could not have been delivered in an Email.
I did not hear the closed primary comments… that must have been in close confidence or at the CCom meeting prior to…
We need not be a party, have a party…. if we REQUIRE UNA (and the press that steers them) to help us choose a conservative champion for November (that word again conservative)
We are a body of morals and principles that seek the counsel of the unwashed to help choose a champion, We allow agonstics to choose the minister….
WTF
Before Excom was informed of lack of Quorum, or Vice Chair (whom I don’t even know her NAME (Chu called once a week)) ended her “report” of NC Education…with a decidedly Kumbaya turn… “we all have principles and morals and we are going to need to find a way to get along…”
This channeling of Rodney King was shot across the bow and an clear signal to me there would be no whipping of Tillis… The double voting member (aintdatneat); College Republicans Chair was soft pedaling the same thing.
I was there at the convention when Jim ran against (who dat?) and the doors to the convention were left open for hours after the call went out for (cough) “additional voters” … Mech and the surrounding counties… and we are where we are today.
I’d love Jim to Run again.
As to losing the base, Im hearing it all over now locally.
UNAs are on the up tic via voter stats this am.
NC GOP appears to moving the overton window as hard as the media to make the feckless appear Normal and the Conservative appear outlandish.
We will pass a Censure on Tillis soon to try to save face with our base inlight of the State failing to make any semblance of reprimand.
70% of voters think there is some fraud in voting (and we use ERIC..) and then Tillis threatens the base with millions of new voters… Think we have voter apathy now?
Just wait.
Chris Weaver
PC GOP Ch
We are truly at a crossroads within the party, in my opinion. The grassroots has little to no voice within the NCGOP. There does not seem to be a plan of attack at all! No strategies – no tactics! This is not a social club & if leadership keeps treating it that way we are setting ourselves up to lose. We need the NCGA to stop with Medicaid expansion and medical marijuana and take up the transgender sports bill & a born alive bill! NC is now considered an “abortion designation” state by the left! We need NCGOP leadership that will demand this!!
We need leadership that will stand firm on the platform and hold those who don’t accountable!
We need leaders that know we can’t win if we keep bringing a knife to the liberals gun fight!
And those leaders are us! It’s time for each of us to step up and step in! It’s the ONLY way to implement the necessary change!
It’s time for these failed leaders, and I use that term lightly, to step aside and let real Republicans lead. They aren’t interested in building the party, they are interested in position and who can they climb over to get it. That’s from the state level down to the county level. Just look at the uselessness of Thom Tillis. Whatley refused to put him in his place. I guess he agrees with what Tillis is doing, since he said this isn’t a red state and we need to accept that. I will not accept it. We need a leader who will knocked the blue out thats making it a purple state. I voted for the right one for the job when Whatley got elected, and that is Jim Womack. We wouldn’t be in this mess under his leadership.
I think Michelle Woodhouse should step up and run for NCGOP chair now. It’s time to let the women lead, since the men suck at it.
NORTH CAROLINA MEN truly do suck at running this party, governing this state (Bishop, Folwell being the only exceptions). Penis-less and weak, all chatter, zero action. Conservers of nothing. Conceders of everything. Terrified of being called ‘racist’ as the futures of their White sons are destroyed.
I second Michelle and any other firebrand who is prepared to (metaphorically) “burn this state down.”
When? Where?
I believe Causey is ok. And so is Mark Robinson, but I get your comment fully. Folwell is the deal for sure. NC is managed very much .like DC. Get along, cross the aisle, uniparty-style. GOP always finds itself compromising, bending, breaking while the dems hold fast. McConnell’s comment yesterday, Ukraine most important issue to GOP…..says all we need to know about the GOP nationally and likewise in NC as well.
Leadership is important BUT remember to look before we leap. We need someone with a proven track record and one who is not angling for political benefit. With Ms. Woodhouse, her record is sparse, at best. She came out of the woodwork and ran for District Chair…she was able to get people excited to vote for her but what did she do after she was elected???!!!! Run for Congress and resign. She used her position to try to help herself…then quit when she should’ve been leading. In my opinion, if she ran for State Party. Chair, it would only be to help her in her political ambitions. We need a leader that isn’t using the position as a ladder
Michele Woodhouse was an incredible District Chair accomplishing much during her tenure! She United our huge congressional district by opening up meetings 3 days after our team won election with over 100 people attending! Those continued on a monthly basis with phenomenal attendance, dynamic speakers, and the feeling of grassroots inclusion in the GOP. Under her leadership, unprecedented fundraising numbers were smashed, and funds were distributed to ALL 17 counties in the 11th Congressional District GOP!
I was there during the decision process for her run for Congress. It was not a light decision & she was asked to run by then Congressman Cawthorn and others.
Michele Woodhouse would make an INCREDIBLE State Chairman, as she has the smarts, personality, ability to engage large numbers of people into action and the leadership skills! We would be incredibly blessed to have someone of her caliber!
I want to clarify that the RNC Committeewomen was at the meeting the entire day. She got there for the Central Committee meeting by 10 am and did not leave until the meeting was adjourned. Some of the confusion in her attendance may be because she was not given an opportunity to give a report but she was there!!!!
She was on the agenda to give a report. The fact that she was not called on is glaring, and she had to go along with that because normally someone overlooked by others stands up and points out they are being overlooked. Did she not want questions about who she was supporting for RNC chairman? This was probably the most critical time in her term as Committeewoman to connect with party activists and she ducked it. Shame on her. That is even worse than ducking the entire meeting as the National Committeeman did. We certainly got dealt a bill of goods when the delegates swallowed that “slate”.
And House has a 4,155 pg Omnibus worth $1.7B TO SPEND MORE!
We , avg citz, tank from fuel, inflation, util food, interest rate (prime almost 8%).
ANYONE in DC give one rat’s behind? J6 games, Hunter laptop frenzy, bitcoin scandal, etc…It’s always about we/them on Capitol Hill , Dems vs Republicans, a war, when in reality they are best buds & care less how back home folks are, fare or their woes & struggles!
I’m DONE with watching, listening to so-called cons radio, tv. Simply fueling the fire, frenzy just like CNN, MSNBC. NO diff!
It’s all games to them & NC has bought into this same model & strategy. Sen/House Chairs are mirrors of McConnell & McCarthy. Power, money & control. Follow the $$, make me rich.
2920 & 2022 have shown USA is incapable of turning the country around. Votes not there. Ga (blue). Az, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pa & Michigan are blue. Can’t count on Va. And NO, NC is NOT purple (yet). Look at Supr Ct & Senate race. But, Charlotte, Ral, Durham, Greensboro won’t be contained much longer!
I’ve watched, been active & a political zealot many, many yrs. Fire out in me. It’s disgusting not only nationally but in NC. No Jesse’s here, unless Robinson can get a coalition built.
WHEN DC approves 4k pg Bill in 1-2 days, spends $1.7B ….it’s over thinking there is a chance at surviving & winning. And more Ukraine $$, suppose the Missus needs another Paris spree….what a travesty &
how corrupt we are as a nation.
actual is TRILLION…the Zelinsky Missus can really spend well in Paris….and the pols pet projects that bounce back $$$ their way.
The worst part of this is that Democrat collaborator Mitch McConnell did a rotten deal with the Democrats to neuter the incoming House GOP majority for their first year. Mitch McConnell is the second coming of Benedict Arnold and he is a Biden Republican.
If we had real leadership at the RNC, he or she would have put maximum pressure on McConnell in private to cease and desist with this, and if he did not, then the chairman should have gone public against McConnell and his followers. There should have been a demand to Republican senators to remove McConnell from leadership. That useless Rona Romney McDaniel did not engage. We simply MUST get rid of her at RNC and install some real leadership there. Either of the two challengers would be a huge improvement, but NC native Harmeet Dhillon seems the best.
Any North Carolina rep on the RNC who votes for worthless McDaniel needs to have opposition the next time their office comes up for election at an NCGOP convention.
Every Senator who votes for the omnibus boondoggle needs to be censured by his or her state GOP and they all need primaries next election.
Here is some good commentary on just how bad the McConnell sellout omnibus really is:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/20/republicans-prepare-to-betray-their-voters-with-omnibus-monstrosity-and-the-details-are-much-worse-than-imagined-n676175
We the people lost control of our financial destiny in 1913. That is when the Federal Reserve (not a govt entity) AND the IRS were voodooed into existence by Congress. It had taken the creature from Jekyll Island only 3 years to mature. IOW the central bankers are in control of the printing press. They can’t lose.