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Avoiding an Oregon Republican nightmare

In avoiding an Oregon Republican political nightmare on November 3rd, understand three key realities:

  1. We don’t have a voter-apathy problem. We have a lack-of-candidate problem, the result of horrid State ORP leadership. Our voters don’t need to be “energized!” (What are we 704,000 Oregon Republicans, drained batteries?) Because of Donald Trump, and this impending Oregon political debacle, we Republicans are already energized.
  2. Kate Brown is not the ultimate problem. It’s the massive Oregon progressiver swamp she inhabits that is the problem. We don’t need another recall-Kate-Brown effort under the ORP theory that our voters must be energized (see #1 above).
  3. We’ll never get Republican control of our Oregon government without Republican candidates in our primary elections.

https://www.makeoregongreatagain.com/newsroom/orp-leadership-must-change-now/

Lazy and uninformed?

Myth: that Oregon Republican voters have given up (and by inference, are lazy and uninformed.)

That’s insulting of course, but worse, it’s a deliberate smokescreen and a purposeful distraction by our so-called Republican leaders.

Oregon Republican voters like you and me have NEVER been “the problem.” The real problem is this: so many of our Republican political candidates – if there are any candidates at all – don’t represent us. They lean Left, and they equivocate on our president, buying into the B.S. argument that “Oregon is a blue state and obviously we must adapt!” and, “Trump tweets too much!”

How stupid? Who wants to vote for THOSE people?

And who propagates this myth that we must blame our voters for our powerlessness in Salem? That’s simple. It comes from our very top state-level Oregon Republican Party leadership. (And WHY do they propagate this myth? It’s truly diabolical, and I’ll get to the details in upcoming 2020 posts.)

In any case, as a bullet-proof general rule, one can always trace the reasons for a failed enterprise back to leadership. Always.

Democrat progressives, representing a distinct minority of Oregon voters, lead our state. In contrast, regular Oregonians, of all parties, people just like you and me, add up to a majority that supports our president without reservation and don’t want the state or federal government dictating our lives; taxing and regulating us to death, telling us how to think and feel…

Oregon has over 704,000 registered Republican voters and right now, over 90% of us support our courageous president.

We 90% don’t equivocate.

But our own Republican leadership sees things differently. Never mind what they say. Pay close attention what they do…and what they don’t do (More detail on all that soon too, a recap of the ORP’s utterly failed 2019 leadership, a leadership that must be removed. Stay tuned.)

Today? You and me, and the majority of those around us? We think red, but we have no power.

Am I being a “bad Republican?” Current state ORP chairman Bill Currier says I am, but he’s wrong for this reason alone: his leadership has zero impact on literally 99.9% of Oregon Republican voters. That means the state-level Oregon Republican Party organization has no credibility/legitimacy beyond their official title.

No one is listening to the ORP except the tiny remaining hard-core cadre of establishment loyalists, maybe a few hundred total. Yes, hard to believe, but it’s really true.

It’s the President Trump-supporting Oregon Republicans and their county Republican leadership that we at MOGA2020 care about.

We challenge the small cadre of establishment loyalists to stop buying into the smokescreen and the distraction of believing we the voters are at fault.

It’s a leadership problem! it’s ALWAYS a leadership problem! I know 90% of you get this!

Stay tuned, and so you don’t miss anything, be sure to join our mailing list at www.makeoregongreatagain.com.

For far more detailed info, start here with Chapter One of my book: https://www.makeoregongreatagain.com/book/myth1/

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The below quote is in reference to our 110% effort over the next six weeks, to…

  1. assist in installing as many Republican candidates as possible in primary election contests across the state. Deadline March 10th, the end of candidate filings per the Secretary of State, and…
  2. assist in dramatically changing leadership within the Oregon Republican Party. The first step in this process is on March 21st at the ORP Central Committee elections for RNC Committeeman and Committeewoman.

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” —Winston S. Churchill

“It wasn’t Close.” Longtime RNC Committee Member in New Hampshire Ousted by Grassroots

The same dramatic political-reversal is about to hit Oregon, the removal of a decades-long establishment RNC National Committeeman…by the Oregon Republican grassroots.

It’s happening here on Saturday in an Oregon Republican Party  Central Committeeman election. You don’t think it’s possible? We’ve been working on this project for months and if you read about what happened in New Hampshire in late January, below, you can visualize a repeat performance here in Oregon. It all goes down on Saturday, March 21st! This is GREAT news and it’s been a LONG TIME coming!

Here’s the report:

Breaking News, Manchester New Hampshire, January 16, 2020
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News

“File this as another sign of the changing nature of the Republican Party.”

“Steve Duprey — the longtime Republican National Committee (RNC) member from New Hampshire — was defeated Saturday as he attempted to win a fifth four-year term representing his home state on the national committee.

“Duprey — the former longtime state Republican Party chair who was a close friend to John McCain and a trusted N.H. and national adviser on the senator from Arizona’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns (McCain won the N.H. primary in both of his White House bids) — was defeated by grassroots activist and Hillsborough County Republican chair Chris Ager of Amherst, N.H.

“The vote took place today at a meeting of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. The secret ballot vote totals were kept private by state party officials, but sources told Fox News it wasn’t a close vote.

“Duprey had the backing of much of the state’s GOP establishment, including popular Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. And Duprey — who had served on the RNC’s all-important Rules Committee for much of his 16-year tenure on the national committee — was known for his tireless efforts to make sure the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary stayed first in the GOP presidential nominating calendar. That’s a crucial part of his job as an RNC committee member. And the fight to keep the state’s primary status as the first-in-the-nation may be tougher than ever moving forward.

“But none of that was obviously enough, as grassroots conservatives in the state didn’t trust Duprey. They questioned whether he was sufficiently faithful to President Trump and questioned his conservative values. (Duprey supports abortion rights.)

“After the vote, Duprey stepped down immediately from his post rather than waiting until his four-year term ends following the Republican National Convention in August.”

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