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Glen Gibellina's avatar

The RPOF is as corrupt as they come. They are an embarrassment to the Republican Party as a whole. They break their own rules and policies to benefit their self-serving needs and sets a new low to their moral compass. When you give disrespect you get disrespect, so expect equal behavior to your disgusting tactics against previous and existing REC members of Manatee County..

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Glen GADFLY Gibellina

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Kurt Christensen's avatar

Trent you nailed it ! Grassroots candidates beat the corrupt establishment candidates that could not go unpunished in the eyes of corrupt political lobbyists controlled RPOF. If other counties implemented your campaign model and won the power of the RPOF would be seriously weakened. Keep up the fight my patriot brother!!

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Garrett's avatar

We've had two sexual scandals with REC chair leaders, and the same problem occurs, we can't get rid of the chair. We need to rewrite our rules to be able to vote out incompetent or corrupt leadership. We are the Republican party of Florida! I'm beginning to believe that these rules were put in place in order to maintain control.

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Trent Wayman's avatar

The rules have been consistently changed over the last 5 years to maintain control. The state party has taken local grassroots authority and moved it to the state party, in some cases to the single authoritarian Power of the state chair.

State statutes in combination with RPOF rules give them the illusory power to do absolutely anything they want and get away with it.

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Garrett's avatar

The tide is turning. The first advantage to observe is the fact we have you and Jacqueline that know this information and are sharing it with us. This is far from over.

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Garrett's avatar

Thank you for continuing the fight, that's why we hired you! You have this spirit of resistance as most Patriots do. All they are doing is exposing themselves for what they are. We will win this war.

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Doug Egger's avatar

You have alleged many things, but there's no solid proof of any of it. The only real truth you mentioned in your letter is that, yes indeed, you and Ms. Heisse were removed from your duly elected possitions, which was improper in my opinion, and I have said as much. As far as money and fundraising go, I'm told there is an $80,000 treasurey account out there in limbo somewhere which nobody seems able to get their hands on. I don't know about that for sure, just repeating what I've been told, as you have many times.

I'm personally looking forward to working with the temporary BOD assigned by the RPOF to try and get this ship righted before the mid-term elections. Until then, we don't really have a problem beyond bruised egos. The Democrats are less organised than we are.

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Trent Wayman's avatar

Care to elaborate on what there isn’t proof of?

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Deborah Marie Hagedorn's avatar

Wow, there is plenty of political discourse within the Republican party displayed in Tallahassee making headlines every week and sometimes even multiple times in one day. Felony fraud at top levels being exposed, powerful state lobbyists and operatives funding fixed elections, critical insurance study ordered and paid for but intentionally kept secret from even the legislators to ensure pro insurance reforms would be pushed thru, state park secret land grabs, DeSantis taking millions as quid per quo traced and documented tying his vetos and abusing tax payers money to illegally interfer in his personal agenda against Amendment 3 and 4, election interference essentially fighting and denyinv Florida voters to an honest election, may the majority win, whatever side that falls on, but no, not DeSantis.

So reading through the convulted multi faceted complaints about Manatee Counties infighting sounds like highschool behavior. Threats of arrests and intentional harrassment by Evan Power, etc, you addressed is craziness and embarassing to hear this about supposedly grown men within the same party tellinv on each other. I get it toba point. But if you only knew the depth of depravity and illegal felonies being preplanned and varried out, you would realize your county problems while valid. Will not result in any positive help coming your way. State scandals are suriously taking priority which they must deny and cover up.

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