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TexasTowelie

(116,758 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 05:12 AM Apr 2022

Republican Party to charge new fees, vet volunteers, ban critics from state convention

The Minnesota Republican Party plans to vet volunteers, charge campaigns for volunteers and bar people who “publicly attack” the party or its endorsed candidates from attending its state convention next month in Rochester.

The requirements would seem to anticipate a chaotic scene, as the ongoing struggle between mainstream and more radical factions of the party continues.

The party is also asking all statewide campaigns to submit a list of their volunteers one week before the convention, and will charge campaigns up to $30 per volunteer, according to party documents first reported by former GOP operative Michael Brodkorb.

Brodkorb suspects that’s designed to dissuade people from bringing in hoards of people to “run around the convention.”

Read more: https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/04/26/republican-party-to-charge-new-fees-vet-volunteers-ban-critics-from-state-convention/

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Republican Party to charge new fees, vet volunteers, ban critics from state convention (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2022 OP
In the new Putin party, gab13by13 Apr 2022 #1
GQP are always spouting about "freedom" . . . Lovie777 Apr 2022 #2
Remind me to stay away from downtown while they are here. ProudMNDemocrat Apr 2022 #3
Time to call it what it is - Crime, Inc. Mawspam2 Apr 2022 #4

gab13by13

(25,232 posts)
1. In the new Putin party,
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 06:20 AM
Apr 2022

members only have freedom of speech if that speech conforms to the party doctrines. Even corporations like Disney are not allowed freedom of speech if it goes against the Party's dictates, dogma.

Like in Huxley's Brave New World, everyone conforms, everyone is programmed, dissenters, non-conformists are exiled, or worse.

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,058 posts)
3. Remind me to stay away from downtown while they are here.
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 06:55 AM
Apr 2022

To avoid stepping in elephant dung. Looks like serious fractures within the MNGOP. Plus, there is no such thing as a "mainstream" Republican anymore.

The DFL State Convention is here May 20th-22nd, for which I am a Delegate once again. We have much to be excited about.

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