Posted on 10/15/2016 1:14:25 PM PDT by orchestra
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign is denouncing and severing ties with Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges. It’s the latest crack in GOP unity in a critical battleground state where Republican Gov. John Kasich isn’t supporting the party’s presidential nominee. Borges has been openly critical of Trump on several occasions and has told some Ohio news outlets he wasn’t sure if he’d vote for Trump. Trump Ohio chairman Bob Paduchik is accusing Borges of undermining Trump as part of a bid to be the next Republican National Committee chair. Borges has been mentioned as a possible successor to the current chair, Reince Priebus. Paduchik says in a letter to state committee members that Trump is “very disappointed in Matt’s duplicity.” Borges did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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GOPee Rat!
another ba$tard
Borges can be the next Chair of the RNC; a political party without a base after this election. Should be light work for him.
You’re fired!
Good, we don’t need little sniveling two faced rats.
It would be a show of strength if he could carry Ohio without the Governor and the State Chair.
The Governor and the State Chair haven’t had their jobs threatened by trade deals and legal and illegal immigrants.
We get it—they don’t.
.@Reince, why is the Ohio @GOP office closed today? Election is in three weeks! No Trump signs either. @DonaldJTrumpJr pic.twitter.com/j8syoJxvAe— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 15, 2016
Kasich and Borges. A pair of traitors.
Maybe Borges can go back to his position as a lobbyist for LGBT groups.
The OH GOP is and has been a worthless joke. The only person I’m voting for in OH is Trump.
Until two days ago, there were no TV ads to nullify the affect of hillary's bile.
Summary....it's about time.
I just got this in an email about the same thing. Note the tidbit in the 2nd paragraph about Sharon Ray, a State Central Committeewoman, preventing Trump lit from being distributed in door to door canvassing recently.
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, October 15, 2016
CONTACT: Tom Zawistowski, TomZ@WethePeopleConvention.org
OHIO TEA PARTY BACKS TRUMP CAMPAIGN
IN SEVERING TIES WITH ORP CHAIRMAN BORGES
Akron, OH - Ohio TEA Party leaders today supported the move announced today by the Trump-Pence Campaign to sever ties with Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges in a letter deliver by Trump State Director Robert Paduchick to Republican State Central Committee members. In his letter Paduchick said “It’s no great secret that Chairman Borges was never fully on board, but his actions over the last week demonstrate that his loyalties to Governor John Kasich’s failed presidential campaign eclipse his responsibilities as Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. The Chairman is also driven by an apparent insatiable need for publicity.” Paduchick continued, “I spoke with Mr. Trump on Thursday and he is very disappointed in Matt’s duplicity. Mr. Trump told me, “this is why people have lost faith in the establishment and party leaders.” I have to agree with him.”
Tom Zawistowski, President of the We the People Convention and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party said, “We can attest that the actions today by the Trump-Pence campaign, to sever ties with ORP Chairman Borges, are justified by what we have seen on the ground in Ohio. As an example, on October 5th we were notified that Republican State Central Committeewoman Sharon Ray, a Borges loyalist, was preventing volunteers in Medina, Brunswick and Wadsworth, Ohio from taking Trump literature with them when going door-to-door. We have documented numerous similar examples of members of the Ohio Republican Party attempting to sabotage the Trump campaign all over the state. Like Kasich, Borges clearly want’s Hillary Clinton to win. Borges is betraying the wishes of the vast majority of Republican Party members and voters in Ohio who are working their hearts out to elected Donald Trump as the next president and he has no right to do that given his position as ORP Chairman. We could not agree more with Mr. Trump’s statement that this is why people lose faith in the establishment and party leaders. Republican’s in Ohio lost faith in Borges and the “Ohio Republican Party” years ago when we learned that there really was no Ohio Republican Party, just the Kasich “machine”, led by Mr. Borges, and this if further proof of that fact.”
Zawistowski concluded, “I am joined by my fellow TEA Party leaders, John McAvoy President of the Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition and the Toledo TEA Party, and Glenn Newman, President of the Ohio Liberty Coalition and the Marietta 912-Project, and others throughout Ohio, in calling for the Ohio Republican State Central Committee to vote immediately to remove Mr. Borges as Chairman. If Mr. Borges only wants to work for Mr. Kasich, then he has no business retaining the position of running the Ohio Republican Party, which is bound by it’s by-laws to support the party nominee for President. Like Kasich, Mr. Borges has failed to live up to his word to support the party nominee and his responsibilities as a Republican Party Leader. Mr. Borges is clearly not willing to do the job he is paid to do and therefore should be removed as Chairman. We urge all Ohio Republican’s to read Mr. Paduchick’s letter and then contact their Republican State Central Committee members and demand that they take action against Mr. Borges. Then go out and work as hard as you can to get others to vote for Donald Trump for President!”
Let’s see...LGBT Lobbyist to OH GOP Chairman...to National GOP Chairman.
That seems about right.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Republican Party!
Wonder if this explains the lack of Trump ads in Ohio. Shaking more cockroaches out of the rug...
Aha!
Whoever Trump denounces is a traitor, now don’t forget that!
Whoever Trump denounces is a traitor, now don’t forget that!
Wow! Thanks for this. Have been seeing the same shenanigans in Virginia with disloyal GOP committee members.
Borges can be the next Chair of the RNC; a political party without a base after this election. Should be light work for him.
I think Trump will win but if the Dems steal this assisted by the GOPe it will be time to monkey wrench the GOP. Big time. Imagine David Duke on the stage next to Yeb and Marco Amnestio. LOL. GOPe hates Trump but we can give them A LOT worse. They best be careful what they wish for.
We get it—they don’t.
Lots of US Chamber of Commerce/Saudi/Soros/foundation money can insulate a feller from the consequences of trade deals and legal and illegal immigrants.
Mr. niteowl77
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