Last week I wrote a somewhat cryptic post about a threat to the RNC National Convention posed by 8 states that are allegedly conspiring to suspend the rules, presumably to favor nominating Mike Flynn. Flynn’s supporters say they want Flynn to be the nominee “in the event that Trump cannot run.”
They also say the “establishment” is planning to suspend the rules to nominate Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis. In my conversations with several members of the RNC and delegates in multiple states, I am unable to find any evidence at all that such a plan is underway or that they would have anywhere near the numbers to succeed with it.
The hundreds of millions of dollars that Trump’s campaign has received since his conviction - much from “establishment” sources - further shows that President Trump has a strong position within the party - including the established, or moneyed and experienced, within the party. If the big money within the party is now jumping in to support Trump after his conviction, that shows that the establishment is not a threat to Trump. They do not have the numbers of delegates nor the financial resources to pose a threat to Trump at convention and throw away the big money sent to his campaign.
The Flynn-linked “America First” anti-GOP delegate cult appears to have a majority of delegates in a minimum of 8 states. I believe there are at least 12 states that are dominated by the anti-GOP collectivists. They’re not hard to identify - they claim they are the only ones in the Republican Party who are “America First,” care about election integrity, are Christians and support Trump. Everyone they oppose are “establishment” “uniparty” “RINOs” who are obviously tied to the “deep state globalists.”
All are complete lies. I’ve spoken with hundreds of their targets within the party from all over the country and they all believe that Americans’ interests should come before those who are citizens of other countries. They all believe we should secure our border and protect our children. They all care about election integrity. All but a tiny handful support Trump and most profess to be Christians. None of them have ties to the deep state, all reject collectivism.
The biggest single difference between the two camps, aside from the mind-numbing language in the Flynn-led cult, is that those persecuted by the cult within the party are the only ones who legitimately work to elect Republicans. They are the only ones who talk about the importance of early voting in states where it is legal. They are the only ones who understand the importance of appealing to moderates and independents in order to win general elections - especially in states where there are more independents than Democrats or Republicans. They are the only ones who recognize the demoralizing impact of droning on about election fraud when we have to work within the laws we have in order to win elections.
And they are the only ones who respect and follow party rules.
Busch’s plans for the RNC Convention
Last week, Shelby Busch and Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) Parliamentarian Joe Neglia held a training session for delegates and alternates to the national convention. I have confirmation from multiple delegates and alternates who were at the meeting that Busch discussed conspiring with 7 other states to suspend the rules for convention.
This is a direct attack against Trump. If the rules are followed, Trump is the nominee.
Even more outrageous, she allegedly discussed working with those other states to develop a blank rule change template that would be signed by delegates in advance and filled in at the convention once they got the coordinated order from above as to how to change the rules.
That’s right - Busch and Neglia were advocating to delegates that they use their signature to cast their vote not knowing what that vote would be for.
After the following slide was published by Laura Loomer, whose source is not me nor my sources, I decided to take the gloves off and share more specifics of what I was told about the meeting.
Busch claims she is “Trump bound for every round” but her words and actions do not line up. Any of the motions in the above slide would cause chaos and confusion at the convention and would constitute a direct threat to Trump’s nomination.
After the meeting, but before details about the meeting became public, Busch sent out the following email to all the delegates and alternates, where she admits that she is “building some relationships with other states.”
Then in the fallout from my and Loomer’s reporting on the meeting, Busch put out the following statement, a pro-Trump diatribe headed by her mantra, “TRUMP BOUND EVERY ROUND,” which she repeats three times in all-caps:
All she had to do for me and, I assume, others to let this go would be to include in her statement an admission that she made a mistake in talking about suspending the rules and that the delegation she was elected to chair over has no intention at all of disrupting the convention or suspending the rules.
Instead, “TRUMP BOUND - EVERY ROUND.” What she doesn’t seem to recognize is that her mantra further demonstrates her commitment to suspending the rules. The only way there could be “every round” is if the rules are suspended.
Collectivists, not individualists
It’s also interesting that Busch emphasizes Joe Neglia’s training. Neglia has never been to a national convention. As I have previously covered, he was actively involved in MCRC efforts to overthrow duly elected legislative district (LD) chairs in LDs 3, 4, 11, 26. He recently said in a Yavapai County GOP meeting, “The MEMBERS rule! Not the chair, not the board, and especially not the parliamentarian. The Yavapai membership has the power to disregard any rule and do things the way they see fit. Breaking rules like that may bring repercussions, but it is the membership’s right to accept that risk.”
Sounds a lot more like socialism than conservatism to me.
Ultimately, that’s what this is all about - collectivism versus individualism. Whether you want to call it Marxism, leftism, communism, socialism, or globalism - what we have witnessed in Arizona and in states across the country is a collectivist takeover of state republican parties, led by Obama’s DIA Director, Mike Flynn.
They talk about “We the People” and “grassroots” in the same spirit that the Chinese Communist Party talks about “The Chinese People” - that they are entitled victims of their enemies who must UNITE around their leaders. Like Neglia, they promote violating party rules and even ultimately the constitution for a greater good (“to save the country”). They invoke God and the Bible to justify their actions and to encourage their followers to avoid anyone who might argue against their brainwashing - after all, “those people are demons.”
Jesus, of course, commands His followers to love even our enemies. But in all their quoting of scripture I have yet to see people in the Flynn orbit talk about self-sacrificial love directed towards those who don’t deserve it.
As I’ve reported, the leaders of this movement in every state often have financial and publicity ties to General Mike Flynn and his “independent” podcaster network, which includes Ann Vandersteel, Joe Oltmann, David Clements, Dr. Frank, Lara Logan and many more. They claim to be the only “election integrity experts” but what have they accomplished to make elections more secure? They file “election integrity” lawsuits that are so full of errors and even contrived an fake evidence that they appear to be designed to fail.
In state GOPs, once these cult leaders have brought in enough low-information precinct delegates/committeemen to take power, they make changes to the bylaws to make the party into a top-down dictatorship rather than the bottom-up structure it was intended to have. A key ingredient in these bylaws changes is the ability to remove members who might agree with them on most political issues but reject their cult. MCRC passed a resolution enabling it to hold “tribunals.” Idaho GOP passed Article XX, allowing a small committee to play judge, jury, and executioner within the party. Kristina Karamo tried to do the same thing to the Michigan Republican Party after she was successfully removed according to the bylaws and still cosplaying state chair.
Just this week, two events are unfolding that further prove that Shelby Busch and her cult that runs MCRC are not Republicans ideologically and they are working actively to help elect Democrats.
LD3 censures Republican hero legislators
Bob Gomez’s LD3 group is often referred to as LD3-B after Busch and MCRC intervened in March 2023 to try to remove Candace Czarny as chair of the state’s largest legislative district, resulting in two LD3s. Many have speculated that Busch conspired with Kari Lake to remove former AZGOP Chair Jeff DeWit because DeWit recognized Czarny as the official LD3 Chair.
On March 2, I had a two hour conversation with Jason Ickes, a fellow Michigander and attorney and former military intelligence officer who has worked for The America Project for the last few years. He admitted to me in that conversation that he was in Arizona in December 2023, I believe to help plan for DeWit’s January removal and their intended replacement of him with Jim O’Connor.
Gina Swoboda was elected state chair over O’Connor, thanks to Trump’s endorsement. She came under fire by the O’Connor/Busch crowd with immediate threats to remove her until she announced that MCRC had the authority to recognize LDs.
At last night’s LD3 meeting, under Gomez’s leadership and with Busch’s and Swoboda’s tacit approval, LD3 censured five state legislators.
These legislators arguably did more than any other Republican in recent months to help all Republicans’, including Trump’s, chances in November by striking the 1864 near-total ban on abortion that became state law after the Supreme Court struck Roe v. Wade.
Democrats were on their way to making this a lightning rod issue that would have all but ensured Democrat victories in the state legislature and beyond.
When these five purple-district legislators voted with Democrats to strike the law, they cut the legs out from under Arizona Democrats’ primary emotional tool to motivate independents and moderate Democrats to vote blue.
And now LD3 announced that they do not recognize these legislators as Republicans.
Top-secret MCRC meeting
The most effective way to ensure that Democrats can take over the state legislature in Arizona would be to nominate far-right radical candidates who have no desire or ability to appeal to moderates and independents.
That is exactly what Shelby Busch and MCRC are plotting to do.
I was forwarded an email last week that I was never supposed to see. It was carefully sent only to their faithful followers within the MCRC Executive Guidance Committee (EGC). Anyone they could not trust was excluded - except they messed up on one email, and it went to what to them was the “wrong” person. Here is the email. It’s a doozy.
The email was from EGC member Michael Schafer to about 20 of their faithful, calling for a secret zoom meeting of only the invited. In the opening paragraph it reads, “Joe Neglia believes that per County Bylaws, a 60% vote may be required to endorse any candidate in the Republican Primary and that 18 votes will be required in every case of a nominee being introduced for consideration.”
He was suggesting that they could pass this without and before their detractors would know about it.
This is the first of language throughout the email that is clearly intended to overcome the objection even within their faithful that the party is not to nominate primary candidates according to the bylaws and custom. It is especially bad practice for the party to nominate candidates who are running against incumbents unless the incumbents have acted illegally or in gross negligence, which these incumbents have not done.
Schafer wrote that these endorsements will “be a significant boost to the grass roots candidates” and that the recipients of this email are the only people who “have educated opinions on the subject.” He says of all their critics, “They routinely lie, cheat and steal. Let’s play our very strong hand, while we have it.”
Their criteria are really to select who they tell you to select, but they cite 4 criteria in the email:
“SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP” (From those who continue to support Busch after she discussed suspending the convention rules.)
“ARE REALLY MAGA” (Because they alone can dictate to the rest of us what MAGA is.)
“ARE PRO-LIFE” (As discussed, this is a losing issue among independents and even moderate Republicans this year - this is contradictory to a desire to retain the legislature.)
“ACKNOWLEDGE ELECTION MALFESANCE IN 2020 $ 2022.” (Thou shall believe in election fraud or thou beest not a Republican, apparently. Again, a complete losing issue among independents and moderates.)
Those alone are their selection criteria. Where is viability in the general election? Where is the impact of their choices on the likelihood of retaining the state house and senate? Where are the issues that most people care about like exposing kids to porn and trannies and protecting our border?
Of course they’re absent - because they want to lose.
The rest of the email is straight up emotional and spiritual manipulation, which is what this cult does best.
I spoke to an experienced PC in one LD who said that in their last meeting, there was a group of brand new, appointed PCs who did not even know what PC stood for. They of course were treated to a display of chaos, confusion, and conflict, which is what the leaders of this operation bring to every meeting they attend.
It seems that even many of those who know what a PC is do not know that the Republican Party really has one major purpose:
To Elect Republicans.
At some point, PCs in Arizona and beyond need to wake up, get out of their cult echo chambers, and stop following collectivists like Jim O’Connor, Shelby Busch and Caroline Wren in their efforts to elect Democrats before Arizona becomes a one party state.
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