If You Have a Bad Hand, Fold, Don't Double Down
If You Have a Bad Hand, Fold, Don't Double Down
The Saga Continues at The LeeREC
The Witch Hunts Continue - Who’s next?
I was planning on writing an article about Malicious Obedience. A form of passive aggressiveness. It is generally used to describe the behavior of following bad orders, knowing that they will cause unintended consequences. But, after what I have learned since the LeeREC Witch Trials on Saturday, I’m going to have to put that article on hold. I can see things are far worse than simply, and blindly, following bad orders from a few at the RPOF. It turns out this board is working very hard to create them. Just when we all thought we could now put this all behind us, the board is doubling down.
There are three different problematic things happening simultaneously, to be used as tools to silence any questions regarding the behavior and actions of the Lee REC’s Executive Board.
“Mandatory” NDA’s,
Filing grievances against members who have already endured a witch hunt, and in case those don’t work… yet another
Rules change at the RPOF, changing the loyalty oath… disqualifying PCs, for belonging to any organizations that do not fall under the REC’s control.
In the interest of brevity, I will be writing a much more in depth article on each of the following three sections in the next few weeks, including full citations of all rules and laws. This is just a primer.
Just imagine how fast the Deep State would run, if our board spent half of the time on stopping the Great Reset, as they do on their shenanigans, which ultimately ends up protecting the Deep State? Ask yourself why they expended an hour and twenty minutes stopping the Election Integrity Resolution from being added to the March Agenda, instead of 5 minutes to amend it?! Or, why did they refuse to put it on, in the first place? Was it really due to semi colons, as the Vice Chair tried to claim? Or, was it because backroom deals were made, as Ted Reese and others have divulged? Is it because they are cowards, corrupt, or out of touch? Actually, to be fair, the Treasurer did vote to add it to the agenda, when it came before the board, but then voted against amending the agenda, at the REC Meeting.
NDA’s
Non-disclosure agreements are generally used in corporate America, to protect corporate-owned intellectual property, assets, designs, or procedures. I doubt I have to explain them in much detail. They are legal documents, which carry heavily-punitive damages, should the signer run afoul of the agreements.
Why would any unpaid volunteer of the REC, whether they are PC Members, or non-member volunteers, ever subject themselves to such financially punitive agreements, when we all already take a party loyalty oath? And, why would any board member expect to be within their delegated authority to demand this of volunteers? Control and punishment by an overbearing, authoritative band of egomaniacal tyrants.
Well, buckle up, because members are being forced to sign an NDA, or be disqualified by the board from holding any leadership role, such as sitting on committees, club boards, Precinct/District Captains, or even remaining as a Precinct Committee Person, which is a violation of State Statute.
The results of removal trial vote for Bob Valenta, Kim Reese, and Rachael Humes:
Grievance Committee, Weaponized.
I’m sure everyone is still coming down from the high and the positive excitement of our last meeting, where so much positive action was passed, right? No? No, you didn’t miss that meeting. It never happened. What did happen was a Special Meeting was called for 9am on a Saturday, where three hard-working, America-First members were brought up on removal charges, and subjected to trials, whereby they were afforded a full 3 minutes for defense witnesses.
But, these attempts failed, and now we can put all of the pettiness behind us, and get on with the important business of stopping the Great Reset, right? Wrong.
It would be bad to report that, even after such a clear message was sent to the board, that they were now seeking to remove these three members through the grievance process… an end-round against the will of the body.
Unfortunately, it’s worse than bad… it’s sad. It has now been revealed, and independently corroborated, that the board knew ahead of time that the trials would fail, but they put us all through Saturday’s events, anyway. Reportedly, someone at the RPOF told them that they had to try, and fail, at the local level, before the Grievance Committee would step in, and override the will of the body.
This has been the plan all along, including the tactic of having deputies at the September meeting, then causing a ruckus, thinking that some members would react aggressively, so they could be thrown out, thereby creating grounds for a grievance.
Only, none of that happened, and when we refused to react the way they had predicted, they became triggered, and engaged in creating a false narrative, explaining one board member’s very aggressive attack on at least 2 or 3 members. This took them a week to concoct the narrative, after the September meeting, before calling the Sheriffs Dept.
So, now, the RPOF is supposed to throw out your vote. Relax. According to one senior member of the RPOF Grievance Committee, there is no pending agenda item, involving anyone from Lee County, at the RPOF Quarterly Meeting, November 3rd.
That doesn’t mean that they haven’t filed these false grievances, only that they haven’t been accepted, investigated, vetted, and run through the due process afforded to every member. I have no doubt that these grievances will be looked at, and thrown out on their lack of merit. I’m told the process can take 3-6 months.
This is not the purpose of the Grievance Committee. They are supposed to look at rules violations, like the long list of actual rules violated repeatedly by all 4 board members at nearly every meeting we have had this year. Keep in mind, grievances can only be filed within 120 days of occurrence.
Due to the pending criminal charges I will no doubt have to defend against, I am unable to file any grievances, because you have to sign an affidavit that none of the offenses are pending in state or federal court. However, nearly every decision and action of the board, on Saturday, qualifies. So, I understand that many members have had enough of the continued behavior, enough to file grievances.
As long as I’ve been in the REC, I have never seen a grievance actually go through, however if you don’t file them, you are saying it never happened, or that you’re ok with it. Silence is consent.
But, wait… there’s a contingency plan to the contingency plan…
Rules Change - Loyalty Oath
Let me start by saying that the 3 sets of rules from the RPOF; the State RPOF Constitution, the Rules of Procedure (ROP), and the County Model Constitution (CMC), are amended every 6-8 years, on average. We are now on our 4th or 5th set since the December Board Elections, and we’re facing yet another change, if a small group of conspirators get their way.
In case the grievance process fails to remove those who just won their trials, the Party Loyalty Oath is facing a proposed change, such that any REC members who belong to any ‘club’ not under the controlling thumb of the REC, will no longer be allowed to be REC Members. Can you imagine a county chair arguing that you have no freedom of association, without his permission?
Examples would be FRA, RLC, and any of the several “Federated” Republican political organizations, like Lee County Women’s Federated. They all have the right to use the Republican name, and every REC board member has always honored that… until now.
But wait, isn’t this defined in State Statute, you might ask? Yes, it is, but so was the last rules change on requiring members to attend 2 meetings before they can be sworn in. Click here to read the article that I wrote about that improper rules change, which is why Christian Ziegler kept referencing me, and my articles, during our September meeting, instead of fully and truthfully answering questions by our members.
Perhaps a rule that automatically removes tyrannical board members who have forgotten that they were elected to serve, not be served. To be servants, not masters.
What’s Next?
Your guess is as good as mine. But, I bet there won’t be a dull moment. Actually, based on everything we now know about their backroom attempts, perhaps the best solution to move forward, is for the board to resign, or be removed from their positions on the board. Let me be very clear, they should not be removed from the REC, as members, only from their board positions.
Removal from the REC is a very serious action, and should only ever be used for very serious crimes against the REC. And, it should certainly never be used on members who have not even been dealt with with lesser means. This is why Ted Reese’s September motion, regarding the Chair’s removal from the board, was stated that way. Although, due to the Vice Chair’s two-step through the rules, the members never got to hear that motion, and may have misconstrued it as a motion to remove from the REC, when it was only to remove him as chair. You remember that, right, where she ruled that the Certified Letter to the Chair didn’t count, because he was out of town. Then, at Saturday’s meeting, they ruled that they didn’t even have to send us Certified mail, they just had to claim it. No signature card, no receipts produced when asked for, the secretary didn’t even have receipts.
The good news is that the members at the RPOF are not likely to fall for this attempt to codify weapons against members. They would look bad, and if it somehow is done, it will be overturned by the courts. All of this is hard work, but not impossible work. We are preparing as if it has already passed, so we can move right to the lawsuits, should it somehow fool enough at RPOF. But, I have spoken with some RPOF members, and they aren’t even aware of it. They have said that this would be a huge black eye to the Republican name, and they think this sounds like the work of a few, specifically from SWFL, not the many. DOA, one source told me. A few more discounted my questioning as to whether Christian Ziegler would be a party to something this embarrassing. We’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, for now.
May God Bless you and your loved ones, and if I don’t see you before, have a Happy Thanksgiving Day. Please remember to turn off the flame, when dropping those turkeys in the fryer.
Well done…. Thank you for all your hard work..