https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-reports-adultery-claims-inside-tumult-ripping-michigan-republicans-apart-2024-03-01/ MOUNT PLEASANT, Michigan, March 1 (Reuters) - A threat of dueling party conventions to choose a presidential nominee this weekend. Accusations of adultery, corruption and incompetence. A barrage of social media attacks and a police investigation.
The Michigan Republican Party is in turmoil, raising fears among some Republicans that support for former President Donald Trump's re-election bid could suffer in a battleground state that Democratic President Joe Biden won by 2.8 percentage points in 2020.
The fight to oust Kristina Karamo, elected as Republican party chair in Michigan last year, has become increasingly bitter and personal, leaving deep divisions in the local party, according to three dozen party members who spoke to Reuters.
At the center of that battle is Bree Moeggenberg. The 44-year-old member of the Republican state committee – a governing board for the party in Michigan - helped organize a Jan. 6 vote by some committee members to remove Karamo.
Moeggenberg and others blame Karamo – a fiery grassroots activist who backs Trump's false claims of election fraud - for stifling dissent within the party, a lack of transparency in decision making, and driving away wealthy donors.
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The Republican National Committee – which helps to coordinate the party's fundraising and election strategy across America - ruled in February that Karamo's removal was legitimate and recognized Pete Hoekstra, ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump's presidency, as the new chair. Trump has thrown his support behind Hoekstra.
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A number of the three dozen party members in Michigan who spoke to Reuters expressed concern that the acrimony risked leaving Republican activists disillusioned and less likely to volunteer or vote. Among the disenchanted are many grass-roots donors Karamo courted with promises of breaking the party's reliance on the moneyed elite.
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The members backing Hoekstra are also conservative but told Reuters they are willing to work with wealthy donors. They accuse Karamo of incompetence.
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When Sebolt's wife Jennifer first messaged her privately on Facebook last June accusing her of sleeping with her husband, a tense exchange ensued.
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JJ Jameson, masturbator in chief
>>1272967 I read every word of your post OP!.
The adulterous sex life of minor unknown republican politicians is fascinating to me, as i'm sure it is to the many readers of /news/.
Now be a good lad, and take this mop and clean the jism under my desk that I deposited there after looking at your pix of that whore.
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>>1272990 >minor unknown politicians >head of the GOP in Michigan Pick one and only one.
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>>1272997 >head of the GOP in Michigan who is that?....squirt(get mopping)
