Kim Shmina, for MIGOP Chair, a Grassroots Conservative TEAParty activist Candidate

God Bless you for helping our beloved Michigan and America as a precinct delegate (PD). Your contribution is so important (as shown below) to ensuring that the MI State GOP is a huge help in electing a great conservative president in 2016, as well as, defeating Debbie Stabenow in 2018.

Those elections are the most important in our lifetime. As our country is going through some very frightening times and in order to save her, it is absolutely vital that our approx. 7,000 precinct delegates are able to be a big help to the MI State GOP year around and not just at convention time.

Your participation will help insure those victories materialize in Michigan.We PD’S have the power to make certain the MI State GOP takes advantage of an opportunity of a lifetime. Because when the Republican candidate for president wins our state, that victory will enhance his ability to win nationally.

The only way we can accomplish that is to make certain that our new Chairman of the MI State GOP has a great background, which includes: (1) Extensive Political Experience; (2) Outstanding Political Successes; (3) Tremendous Work Ethic; (4) Able to Raise Substantial Funds; (5) Has the ability to organize our Precinct Delegates into a dynamic grass roots force.

Norm Hughes is the only candidate who has been a District Chair, and County Chair, a CEO that designed, directed and managed many million-dollar projects, as well as having an enormous amount of experience on other important political causes, which has resulted in numerous successes. He has a number of patriots who are very successful fundraisers, who are very interested in raising a ton of money for the MI State GOP under Norm’s leadership. In fact, two of them raised more money than the current MI State GOP Chairman.

The other two candidates are accomplished, however, neither of them have the experience or successes shown in items 1, 2 and 5 above. Neither has been CEO of a company or signed paychecks. The Michigan Republican Party is a serious enterprise employing many and, if done well, inspiring and directing thousands of volunteers. In these dangerous times we cannot risk electing a new Chairman that is lacking in those critical attributes.

Thus, it is absolutely crucial that we elect Norm Hughes.

Norm was chosen to be on President Reagan’s team, one of his many accomplishments: he helped slash his portion of the budget in the Department of Energy’s budget by over 50%. His recent achievements were also exceptional, as he assembled and led two huge grass root groups that were instrumental in passing Freedom to Work and the Tax Limitation Amendment Act, which limits government growth in Michigan. Both of those laws are considered to be among the most important in generations to help our state, as well as promote conservative values in Michigan.

Norm was also deeply involved in five campaigns in Michigan in which republicans sent presidential electors. That hasn’t happened in six election cycles – 26 years. We need that experience to prepare to win in 2016.

Norm is considered by many to be one of the best in the country at building effective large grass root organizations and leading them to accomplish important political objectives. Michigan Freedom to Work, under his chairmanship, developed a coalition of 218 groups with more than 70,000 members and 20,000 businesses. That is huge, and something the MI GOP would receive an enormous benefit from.

Norm is a real doer, works 6 days a week, 12 to 18 hours a day. He is genuine all-star and we are blessed to have a man of his caliber. Norm is devoted to making a herculean effort over the next 2 years to accomplish those victories in 2016 & 18.

One of the important ways he will accomplish that is by creating a strong long lasting foundation for the MI State GOP, which will have its precinct delegate’s involved year around and not just at convention time. Their involvement will enable the State GOP and local Parties and clubs, to do a much better job for our state and country. At the same time, it will provide our delegates with a real sense of satisfaction, which will build unity and purpose.

It has been an honor for me to participate in passing Freedom to Work under Norm’s leadership, as well as, other important projects with him. I have established and managed 3 businesses over 5 generations; in addition I was the National PR Director for a US Congressional candidate, a PD for some while and founded a Super PAC that supports conservative causes.I am well aware that the points made in this letter are accurate.

Thanks so much for considering my views on this enormously important matter. Please feel free in contacting me if need any additional information or have any questions.

God Bless

Gary R. Leigh

FROM: Roland Bell

You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? –Matthew 7:16 Tomorrow, Michigan Republican Delegates will elect who they want to lead

A Choice Not An Echo

You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
–Matthew 7:16

Tomorrow, Michigan Republican Delegates will elect who they want to lead their party: who they want to make the rules, who they want as the face of their organization.

It’s no coincidence that Republican Party leadership is elected less than two months after the new term begins, just as it’s no coincidence that massive tax increases are proposed in Lansing two weeks after the November election.

If the party convention was held six months from now, delegates might demand their leaders hold politicians accountable for their bad behavior, which is typically evident six months into a term.

That is nothing they want now, when the Party Establishment is, once again, pushing upon the delegation its choice for Chair, draped as always in warm words for the grassroots Republicans who labored in the precincts to elect these politicians.

Yet even held this early, we can glance over to the national stage, where our elected representatives remind us that it’s for the Establishment they work for, regardless of whether the grassroots elected them.

Ann Coulter explains how the Republican Establishment is already selling the grassroots out on amnesty for illegal immigrants:

Back when they needed our votes before the last election, Republicans were hairy-chested warriors, vowing to block Obama’s unconstitutional “executive amnesty” — if only voters gave them a Senate majority. The resulting Republican landslide suggested some opposition to amnesty.

Heading into the election, college professor Dave Brat took out the sitting House majority leader and amnesty supporter Eric Cantor in a primary, despite being outspent 40-1. It was the greatest upset in history since the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” at the Lake Placid Olympics: Never before has a House majority leader been defeated in a primary. And Brat did it by an astonishing 55.5 percent to 45.5 percent.

Again, the voters seemed to be expressing disquiet with amnesty.

After that, even amnesty-supporting Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., was denouncing Obama’s executive amnesty. “If the president were to do that,” he said, “and we have a Republican majority in the United States Senate, why, we have a number of options that we don’t now have to remind him to read Article I of the Constitution.”

Poll after poll showed Americans ranking illegal immigration as the No. 1 most important problem facing the nation. We haven’t changed our minds. Last week, an Associated Press-Gfk poll showed that Obama’s single most unpopular policy is his position on illegal immigration.

In other words, Obamacare is more popular than amnesty. That’s like losing a popularity contest to Ted Bundy.

Since at least 2006, voters have insistently told pollsters they don’t want amnesty. Seemingly bulletproof Republican congressmen have lost their seats over amnesty. President Bush lost the entire House of Representatives over amnesty. What else do we have to do to convince you we don’t want amnesty, Republicans? Make it a host on “The View”?

Before the election, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell complained that Obama’s decision to delay his executive amnesty until after the election was a ploy to prevent Americans from “hold(ing) his party accountable in the November elections.”

But voters went ahead and held Obama accountable! Now McConnell is Senate majority leader — and he claims his hands are tied.

McConnell’s spokesman at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Brad Dayspring, predicted that Obama’s amnesty threat would drive voters to “elect a new Senate (that) will stand up to the president.”

Check! Mission accomplished! Done and done! Officially off our bucket list. OK, guys, your turn. When do you start standing up to the president? Hello? Hell-oooo?

To gin up votes, “Republican insiders” told the Washington Examiner last fall that “the results of the midterm elections” would determine how “aggressive” the GOP would be in fighting Obama’s amnesty.

Voters gave you a blow-out victory, Republicans. You cleaned their clocks. (Have you seen Harry Reid lately?) Where’s that promised aggression on amnesty?

Republicans and George Will tell us they can’t stand up to Obama’s executive amnesty because the media are unfair.

Oh, well, in that case … never mind. [...]

Why don’t Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama’s amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It’s hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren’t trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they’re intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty.

If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can’t stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.

The Republican Establishment never opposed amnesty. The Republican Establishment is not even truly Republican. It’s just the Establishment.

As conservative matriarch Phyllis Schlafly explained in her recently updated 1964 classic, A Choice Not An Echo:
After Mitt Romney’s November 2012 defeat, the Republican National Committee issued a ninety-seven page report that commentators called an “Autopsy.” The Republican Party was not really dead as the title implied, but it was bleeding from the Establishment’s mistakes, namely, imposing on us a series of losers–Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, all so-called moderates. The highly paid Republican srategists instructed all candidates not to discuss social or moral issues and were so incompetent that they lost nearly all the US Senate races on which they spent three hundred million dollars in television ads (pocketing a handsome percentage of that figure in fees, of course.)

Romney and his paid staff made no effort to reach out to various subgroups such as the Tea Parties, or the Reagan Democrats (who were looking for a leader to stop the hemorrhaging of US jobs to Asia), or the social issue conservatives. Then Romney insulted the libertarians. Ron Paul claimed 177 duly elected delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, but Romney’s people refused to allow their votes to be announced during the roll call of states.

The RNC’s Autopsy included a lot of chatter about “growth” and “opportunity.” Thirty times it brought up the need to be more “inclusive,” but that inclusiveness did not extend to those who want to talk about the right to life or traditional marriage. The Autopsy pompously declared, “You have to have candidates who don’t make tragic mistakes,” but the fatal mistakes were made by the Establishment’s own candidates and their strategists. The Establishment has a worse record of picking candidates than the grassroots, who have picked winners such as Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee.

[Any of this sound familiar? Who picked Terri Lynn Land to run for US Senate last year? The Establishment, or the grassroots?]

The liberal pollster Patrick Caddell summarized the Republican problem. “The Republican Party is in the grips of what I call the CLEC–the Consultant, Lobbylist, and Establishment Complex,” which he defined as “a self-serving interconnected network of individuals interest in preserving their own power far more than in winning elections.” Caddell reminded us, “Just follow the money,” commenting on the hundreds of millions of dollars this group spent on the losing efforts of most of their so-called “moderate” candidates.

The most insufferable part of the Autopsy’s advice is the admonition to embrace comprehensive immigration “reform.” Massive evidence collected by Eagle Forum from the leading pollsters proves that endorsing or legislating any form of amnesty will produce votes for Democrats, not Republicans.
And now here we are.

The Establishment’s candidate is absolutely clear. In fact, this year it’s never been clearer: instead of two competing factions (DeVos and Yob) both factions have united behind one candidate.

Ronna Romney McDaniel is the Establishment’s candidate and everybody knows it. Nobody is so foolish as to deny it.

The past two presidential campaign cycles were engineered by the Party Establishment to benefit one candidate, Mitt Romney, who was assumed to walk away with Michigan since after all, he was born here and his father was governor. Hence, the primary was moved very early, in defiance of RNC rules, as the “Mitt-mentum” Michigan was expected to create would help him. If it meant our national delegation was stripped by half, so be it–the state party was all in for Romney, and set the rules for his benefit.

Now that Mitt is not running, the state legislature just voted to push Michigan’s primary back behind “Super Tuesday,” often the deciding date in the nomination process, removing any remaining relevance we might have had in the presidential race, since, after all, the Establishment’s chosen candidate, the pro-amnesty, pro-Common Core Jeb Bush, has no interest in Michigan.

There is no need to speculate how Ronna Romney McDaniel, member of the Republican Royal Family, would govern the Michigan Republican Party. We can see it happening now.

So instead of pretending Ronna Romney McDaniel is not the Establishment, we are told that yes, Ronna Romney McDaniel is the Establishment, but a kinder, gentler Establishment, one that will be inclusive to the grassroots.

We are told, Look! Ronna has lots of experience working with the grassroots! Really? How so?

She was an early backer of David Trott, the Establishment’s pick to knock out Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, the so-called “accidental congressman” whose only crime was being an ordinary citizen elected in extraordinary circumstances. Bentivolio was a “grassroots” politician if ever there was one, but Ronna, along with the rest of the Establishment, decided it was time to knock off a Republican incumbent. (No issue with Bentivolio’s voting record was ever cited, of course.)

Her record consists of backing campaigns (selectively, as we have seen) and holding party offices. These are easy things to do when your grandfather was our governor.

McDaniel has never held elected office, so we have no basis for separating campaign oratory from grounding principles that would be put into effect. She has never led an issue advocacy campaign.

She was not elected by a state delegation in convention assembled, but by the state central committee, to her post as National Committeewoman. She had no “grassroots vetting” process then.

We have no record of substance to demonstrate that Ronna Romney McDaniel’s overtures to the grassroots are anything more than campaign rhetoric.

We are told, Look! She has chosen Jeff Sakwa for co-chair! He’s definitely with the grassroots!

The cochair is subordinate to the chair, just as the Vice President is subordinate to the President, so it doesn’t matter; and in the same manner as a Vice President’s true purpose is as a running mate, an individual to bring otherwise lost factions out to vote for the President, that a perceived “grassroots” candidate is tapped to run for co-chair is an admission of her problems with that area.

But that aside, what qualifies Jeff Sakwa as a grassroots candidate? He has never held elected office of any kind.

His record consists of twice losing races for MSU Board of Regents. That’s it.

He too has no record to back up the rhetoric.

But Sakwa is irrelevant. If elected, Ronna Romney McDaniel calls the shots, which is to say the Establishment calls the shots.

The fact is as plain as day: The Establishment is pushing Ronna Romney McDaniel on the party.

With no record whatsoever of standing up to the Establishment, Ronna Romney McDaniel expects us to believe she is one of us.

The question is simply this: are we gullible enough too believe it?

Roland Bell is a pseudonym. In the world of politics where there are consequences for not “going along to get along,” anonymity is sometimes the only option.

Posted from Roland Bell email by @JLenardDetroit
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