MICHIGAN: GOP Party confusion and dysfunction. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnes
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Besser with Thaddeus McCotter, writing an American greatness, recovering politician, a very good Republican politician, Wayne County, Lamonia. I read from the Dispatch. It's just been over a month since a judge |
| 0:17.0 | confirmed that Michigan Republican Party's decision to oust its controversial chair, Christina Karamo and replace her with former |
| 0:25.4 | Representative Pete Hoekstra. So why do Karamo or allies of hers still control |
| 0:31.8 | some of the Michigan GOP's digital assets. |
| 0:35.8 | Committee members for the State Party voted in January to remove Karama over concerns about |
| 0:39.8 | her stewardship of party funds. The Republican National Committee later approved her removal |
| 0:46.3 | in the selection of Hoekstra, who served eight terms in the House of Representatives, later |
| 0:51.0 | as Ambassador to the Netherlands as the new chair. |
| 0:55.0 | Then came the February ruling from Judge Joseph Rossi, which ordered Karama to relinquish |
| 1:00.6 | control the State Party's bank accounts and postal boxes and deceased presenting herself |
| 1:06.4 | as chair of the party. |
| 1:08.1 | I'll stop there if that is because I'm catching up to this story. |
| 1:12.0 | Pete Hoekster is very well thought of. I remember you speaking |
| 1:16.3 | well of him when you were in Congress together. I don't know anything about Christina |
| 1:21.1 | Karamo except for the fact this looks like an |
| 1:23.9 | unfortunate turn does this have an effect on the ability of the party to |
| 1:29.0 | function for the general election John, it's not helpful. |
| 1:35.0 | I think we can establish that. |
| 1:39.1 | But when you look at it, Pete Hoekstra's very conservative individually comes out of West Michigan in the Holland area. |
| 1:46.2 | He was elected, he defeated, and he was a businessman who defeated an incumbent on a Republican |
| 1:51.8 | member of Congress by working in the district. He served his time. He was |
| 1:56.8 | eventually appointed by Donald, served as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. |
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