This is your modern day GOP with MAGA. The circus just keeps getting more amusing - akin to a Monty Python movie. The Michigan GOPean People's Front takes aim at the People's Front of the GOP, sacks those responsible for sacking their MAGA chairwoman. Separate Michigan GOP group votes to keep Kristina Karamo as chairwoman https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...to-keep-kristina-karamo-as-chair/72216510007/ Supporters of Kristina Karamo struck back Saturday, voting overwhelmingly to keep her as the Michigan Republican Party's leader and to ban some of her most vocal critics from being affiliated with the party for five years. The votes, which took place at a banquet center in Houghton Lake amid snowy weather outside, marked a win for Karamo, a former secretary of state nominee whose term as party chairwoman has been rocked by financial struggles and internal divisions. Seven days earlier, at a meeting organized in Commerce Township by opponents of Karamo, a different group of Republican state committee members voted 40-5 in favor of unseating her. Those Republicans have argued that Malinda Pego, who has been Karamo's co-chairwoman, is now the party's acting chairwoman. But more state committee members appeared to vote Saturday in support of Karamo. Yet, there were questions about whether either faction complied with party bylaws in conducting their competing special meetings. And the Republicans in favor of removing Karamo have already been planning to file a lawsuit. (More at above url)
It's an open question if this faction of GOP in Michigan even has the right to sell off its assets. Debt-ridden Michigan GOP seeks to sell headquarters to pay $500K loan currently in default https://www.rawstory.com/debt-ridde...arters-to-pay-500k-loan-currently-in-default/
The GOP circus continues... Lawsuit seeks to have Karamo officially declared removed as Michigan GOP chairwoman https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...-declared-removed-as-michigan-gop-chairwoman/
Let's take a look at the latest from Missouri... Years of Missouri Senate Republican infighting comes to a breaking point, loss of parking https://krcgtv.com/news/local/years...ident-pro-tem-caleb-rowden-secretary-of-state
The Missouri GOP circus escalates... Missouri Republican leader suggests expulsion of GOP lawmaker as tensions mount in state Senate https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...as-tensions-mount-in-state-senate/ar-BB1hgK0U
The tempo at the GOP circus in Michigan goes up a notch. So in the GOP -- what does it take to force someone who was voted out to leave office? Michigan’s GOP Chair Drama Takes Another Nasty Turn Kristina Karamo, the election denier who has carried on as party chair despite her ouster this month, accused the RNC of “colluding” against her in a fiery letter. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ouste...s-the-rnc-is-colluding-against-her?ref=scroll Less than a month before it’s set to host a key presidential primary, Michigan’s GOP leadership remains in disarray, with the party’s contested chairwoman, Kristina Karamo, slamming the Republican National Committee in a letter to its members on Tuesday. Karamo, who was ousted by her fellow state party members this month but claims her removal was illegal, accused the RNC of “colluding” against her after it ruled last week that she was indeed “properly removed” from her position. Both Karamo and Pete Hoekstra now say they’re the current party chair in Michigan, with both Republicans recently issuing statements through official Michigan GOP channels—adding to the confusion of who’s actually in charge. With Michigan being a key battleground state in the 2024 election, the RNC stepped in last week to make a ruling that’d possibly put an end to the mess, writing that its lawyers determined the process that led to Karamo’s ouster was legitimate. That decision has only raised tensions in the party, however, with Karamo asserting in Tuesday’s letter that the RNC and Hoekstra, a former House member and ambassador to the Netherlands, colluded to have her removed. She also issued a warning to other GOP chairs across the country, writing, “Your state could be next.” “RNC legal told me they stay out of these matters and that it is up to the state to send their chair. However, their actions contradict what they told me,” wrote Karamo. “Hoekstra was on a radio show last week bragging that he expected the RNC to weigh in a day or two. And that is precisely what happened.” Karamo, an election denier, has made spouting conspiracy theories—especially those regarding the 2020 presidential race—part of her M.O., including a bizarre claim that Democrats drink the blood of children and “sell baby body parts” after abortions. Michigan’s GOP had been in financial turmoil under Karamo’s leadership, with court filings alleging the party has been in default on loan payments for the last three months, Raw Story reported. These money issues and general dysfunction were cited by state GOP members as reason they voted to oust Karamo. While the RNC called Karamo’s removal legitimate, against her claims that a proper process wasn’t followed during voting, the national committee has stopped short of outright saying that Hoekstra is the state party’s leader. Instead, the RNC said in its own letter last week that if Karamo or Hoekstra showed up at the RNC’s winter meetings in Las Vegas, they would not be credentialed as committee members but could attend as guests. The letter added that the RNC has limited power to settle state party leadership disputes, and essentially urged the Michigan GOP to figure out this mess on their own—and fast. That wasn’t enough for Karamo, however, and she’s now asking the RNC’s 168 members to push back against their own lawyers’ advice and urge her full reinstatement as Michigan’s lone GOP chair. “I’m requesting that all 168 RNC members demand full transparency regarding the Michigan chair dispute and the RNC’s involvement,” she said. “This impacts all of us. If the will of the Michigan precinct delegates and state central committee can be unilaterally usurped by the RNC leadership, understand that your state could be next.”
Let's catch up with the latest in Missouri... On the first day of Missouri's new legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden (R) asked Freedom Caucus members a rhetorical question: "Will we focus on principled progress or political pandemonium?" Pandemonium ensued. Statehouses are figuring out it tis time to give the MAGA election-denying Freedom Caucus clowns the heave-ho. Some Republican leaders are pushing back against the conservative Freedom Caucus in statehouses https://apnews.com/article/freedom-...conservative-59561a5fe67c52f2a47f0106172d9b5b
Let's catch up with Cuckoo Karamo... Kristina Karamo refuses to step aside as Michigan GOP chair after RNC declares new leader https://www.rawstory.com/kristina-karamo-michigan-2667289065/ Kristina Karamo is still refusing to step aside as Michigan Republican Party chair, even after she was ousted and a replacement has been declared for the role. A special committee convened by the Republican National Committee found former ambassador Pete Hoekstra was the rightful chair of the state GOP, but Karamo and her allies have vowed not to recognize their decision following months of internal dispute, reported MLive. “It’s business as usual for the Michigan Republican Party," Karamo's faction said in a statement. “Today’s biased ruling further solidifies our position that the RNC has no authority to override the will of the MIGOP precinct delegates and state committee members. Their blatant disregard for the MIGOP bylaws and procedures is a travesty.” Karamo was removed from her post at a Jan. 6 meeting where about 37 percent of the party's senior body voted against her, but in a second vote held a week later at a better-attended meeting she secured 55 percent of the state committee's support as leader. The RNC convened an eight-person panel Monday to hear arguments from lawyers representing each side and issued a nine-page report Wednesday evening ruling that the breakaway faction had followed party bylaws by appointing proxies to conduct the Jan. 6 meeting, but the panel did recommend the state party clarify their bylaws to resolve future matters. Karamo still controls the party's bank accounts and assets, and she is being sued by Hoekstra's faction to have a judge declare the former ambassador the rightful GOP leader. “It is time for the former Chair who was properly removed in accordance with the MIGOP bylaws to end her misinformation campaign,” Hoekstra said in a statement. “She should join the fight to re-elect Donald Trump rather than dividing this Party.”
So the MAGA election-denier Cuckoo Karamo is still spending the state GOP money. Noting that most of the money is gone and the Michigan state GOP is effectively bankrupt. 'I’m still legally the chair': Ousted MI GOP leader refuses to stop spending party’s money https://www.rawstory.com/im-still-l...ing-to-stop-spending-partys-money-2667326475/ Even though the Republican National Committee has recognized former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) as the rightful head of the Michigan Republican Party, former chair Kristina Karamo is continuing to function as if she is in charge — including spendng its money. In addition to the RNC, former President Donald Trump has also recognized Hoekstra as the head of the MIGOP, and Hoekstra has been conducting meetings as party chairman. However, the Detroit News reported Tuesday that Karamo is still swiping the Mitten State GOP's credit card despite disgruntled Republicans' 40-5 vote on January 6 of this year to remove her from her position. Karamo — who called her own meeting of 60 Republican officials who voted 59-1 to keep her as chair, has said the January 6 vote was illegal, and has disregarded its results. Now, Hoekstra's organization is asking the court to intervene and officially recognize him as the chairman of the MIGOP. "I'm still legally the chair," Karamo said last week. "The majority of the [Michigan Republican Party's state] committee stands with me." READ MORE: 'Put an end to the chaos': GOP leaders in swing state say party is 'on the verge of imploding' Karamo — an election denier who ran a failed campaign for secretary of state in 2022 — was elected to lead the MIGOP in February of 2023 after Republicans lost all statewide offices the previous November, and after Michigan flipped from Republican to Democrat in the 2020 presidential election. Karamo maintained she inherited a bleak financial situation from her predecessor and has been unable to dig the party out of its hole due to decisions made before she was elected. However, the party's finances have continued to worsen, with Karamo now looking to sell the party's headquarters in Lansing to help bring the financially destitute organization back from the brink of ruin. An attorney for Comerica Bank has already served the MIGOP with a default notice after making no payments on a loan in excess of half a million dollars, and the party is in a desperate cash crunch as it gears up for what may be the most expensive presidential election in history in a must-win swing state. Donald Campbell — an attorney representing Karamo — dismissed Hoekstra's attempt to have the courts recognize their client's ouster by calling it an "intra-party political dispute" that should be resolved privately between the feuding parties. "Families sometimes don't get along," Campbell told the Detroit News. "But they're still family. And that's what we look at this dispute as."
Now they are going to hold dueling GOP presidential nominating conventions. I expect next that Karamo will claim that Trump won no matter what the votes actually show. Michigan Republicans plan dueling presidential nominating conventions as turmoil over state party continues https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/new...presidential-nomination-as-turmoil-continues/