As a long-standing NHGOP volunteer who has held multiple positions in the state party and knows a great deal about the party’s history with the multitude of its stakeholders, I am providing the insight I KNOW concerning the NHGOP election on January 28th.
State Committee
NHGOP Says to Vote For State Committee Members via Virtual Meetings – But That Violates the ByLaws
The NHGOP has notified several county committees that they need to vote for State Committee members via zoom meetings. No in-person voting (presumably) because the high inquisitors of covidism will come calling in the press. Okay, Karen, but that violates the Party Bylaws.
New Hampshire Republicans, Your Next RNC Committeeman is…Chris Ager
The NHGOP annual meeting is mostly boring blah-blah-blah with a few moments of intrigue. Last year we had the vote for State Party Chair. This year it was for the next term for one of our two RNC State Committeemen. The votes have been tallied. The winner is? Chris Ager.
A Modest Proposal: Equal Treatment Under the (NHGOP’s) Law
Shortly after last year’s NHGOP Annual Meeting, I wrote a post entitled Identity Politics on the NHGOP eBoard. The accompanying photo cited George Orwell: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
A Quick Stroll Through the NHGOP…
We had our share of technical challenges today. So, streaming the NHGOP Republican State Committee Meeting did not happen. Instead, we did some “live” blogging and Facebook updates. We reported the winners of the elections the moment they were announced. And Skip recorded some interviews and captured the speechifying of the new party leadership. Those … Read more
Tom Brady (Not that one) Can’t Be On The NH-GOP State Committee
Actually, the other Tom Brady can’t be an NH-GOP voting Committee member either but let us not get distracted.
NH-GOP Bylaws, Article 1, section 4A:
A. Any registered Republican who, at the same time joins or allows his or her name to be used in support of a political committee or a defined group of individuals, that in title or effect is intended to be understood by the public to be a committee or group comprised in whole or in part of members of the Republican Party endorsing a candidate for elected office from another political party, when there is a candidate nominated by the Republican Party for that office, shall be disqualified during the then present and the next biennium from holding an office of the State Committee or any County or City Committee, from being a member of the Executive Committee and from being a member of the State Committee.
So why can’t Republican County Commissioner Tom Brady be a voting member of the Republican State Committee?