We the People of Johnson County Missouri, Sunday, October 22, 2023 - Wrap up of Tuesday Night Meeting
Hi Folks!
Great meeting Tuesday night! Excellent information provided by Melissa Thomas, Chair of the Cass County Republican Committee. Terrific interaction from meeting attendees, and it seemed to me people learned about the duties of RCCs.
A big shout out to many of the RCC members for joining us! Brandon Phelps, RCC Chair; and several RCC members: Stormy Taylor, Dennis & Lisa Boling, Tommy & Sarah Wiley, Mike Compton and Rachel Gifford were there to help answer questions.
We also had an excellent group of legislators and candidates! Thanks to Senators Rick Brattin and Denny Hoskins (candidate for Secretary of State) and their families, candidates Matt Sergent and Brandon Phelps (candidates for Representative) and Representative Mike Haffner (candidate for Senate) for joining us. We were glad to see our friend Bill Irwin, who is running for the seat Mike Haffner has left as Representative, and Barbara, his wife! It was a star-studded evening! 😃
I’ll give a short synopsis, but more importantly, this link gives you what Melissa presented and SO MUCH MORE about RCCs!! I’ll put the screenshot below so you’ll know for sure when you get there!
Repaccmo.com (link)
l’ll do some bullet points about what she said:
VETTING - COMING TO A COUNTY NEAR YOU! (This section actually came from the website, so I can’t take credit for writing it; just agreeing with it.)
How Do We Eliminate FAKE REPUBLICANS Who Vote with Democrats, Break Their Promises to Voters, & Get Nothing Done that We Elected Them to Do?
By VETTING them and saying "NO" to those who don't actually support our Party's Platform!
Republican voters in RED Missouri are fed up with our PURPLE legislature. We are rightfully angry with our Republican Party for not doing something about the posers who pretend to be Republicans to get elected and then vote with Democrats over 50% of the time!
The Republican Party could stop this by one simple practice: VETTING!
County Central Committees are vetting county candidates. However, we need the help of our state GOP to vet members of the state legislature and statewide candidates. Why are they dragging their feet?
VETTING means
1. The Party determines whether a candidate is an actual Republican through a very specific, objective process based on our Party's stated values.
2. We simply say NO to filing under our party name if the candidate's values do not align with the Party's values.
If you agree our party needs to stop FAKE REPUBLICANS who deceive voters from filing with our party, then click HERE and sign our petition demanding the Party VET CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE!
If you agree, I encourage you to take action and SIGN THE PETITION BY CLICKING THE PINK LINK ABOVE!!!
How Many Ways Can Our State Legislature Fail Us?
This is what happens when RINOs & Dems outnumber actual Republicans....
Legislative Sessions - most recent results are below: (I also took this from the website…it says it better than I do!!)
Note: Rowden is Pro Tem of the Senate - The President Pro Tem is elected by the entire Senate to manage procedural functions and rule on parliamentary matters3.
Plocher is Speaker of the House and currently being investigated for trying to pass legislation for a new data storage system that would have taken all Missouri’s data (yours and mine) from Jefferson City and put it with an off-site commercial data storage company that mines and distributes data…AND…getting a huge financial kick-back from doing that! Despite the fact that Jeff City already has a well-working data collection and storage system. NO.
Look at the games they played with our lives and our values! But they call themselves....Republicans! Hm.
This is a quote from a Missouri Democrats regarding our 2023 legislative session:
“With less than a third of legislative seats and no statewide office, Missouri Democrats couldn’t have asked for a better legislative session.
The budget pumped money into a host of programs Democrats championed - expanded pre-kindergarten programs, raises for direct care workers, increases in child care subsidies and more. On the policy side, a years-long effort to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to one year finally came to fruition.
In the senate, Democrats got to sit back for the third year in a row as Republican infighting killed a host of bills they hated. Changes to the Initiative Petition Process, a corporate tax cut, state control of the St. Louis police department, education bills targeting “critical race theory” and a host of others fizzled out despite being priorities for the GOP supermajority.”
The 2 bullets and the statement above say to me we need to get a number of RINOs out and put some actual conservative Republicans in. How do we know who to keep and who to vote out? I’m glad you asked that!!
Take a look at what our current group of legislators have done to Missouri.
- Where do we rank among all 50 states in terms of being Conservative? Answer: Click here to see
- What color is designated to our state? (Red/Blue/Purple)? Answer: Click here to see
Are you shocked? Appalled? Disgusted? Me, too. I feel a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.
ARE YOU AWAKE NOW???? If so, WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO?????
Run for Missouri Representative?
Run for City Council?
Run for Republican Central Committee?
Find someone to run for one of these offices?
Help candidates you know and trust run for these offices?
WHAT?!!?!?!
We simply canNOT sit around and hope things get better anymore!! Ask God what HE wants you to do. He will for sure tell you!!!
How do we know which INDIVIDUAL LAWMAKERS to keep, and which to pitch?
In terms of Senators, who has the best Ranking? Answer: click the pink link to see a comparison of Rick Brattin, Mike Haffner and Dan Houx.
In terms of candidates for Governor of Missouri who has the better Ranking? Answer: Click the pink link to see a comparison of of Bill Eigel and Mike Kehoe.
Get familiar with ratings.conservative.org. It’s a go-to site for seeing how well our legislators are doing. SHARE that information with friends so they know and can get involved as well!!
Also, get familiar with https://www.repaccmo.com/ You’ll be astounded at what you can learn about our county Republican Central Committees! Maybe you and a friend want to run for Johnson County RCC. If so, talk to one of the members listed in the 2nd paragraph of this post to learn more. We’d love to encourage you and help you learn!
For example, did you know the Republican Party is NOT government? We are a private group. That means we, as RCC members can vet candidates who run on the Republican ballot. If we do not agree that they are Republicans, we can refuse to cash their registration funding. They can still run on any ballot/ticket who will approve them, but we can and MUST vet and restrict who runs on the Republican ticket. How do you think we got SO MANY REPUBLICANS in our Missouri offices, BUT THEIR LEGISLATION HAS TURNED US PURPLE??
By getting involved, we can CHANGE what is happening to our government. What does God want you to do?
Matt. 7:7-8 ASK, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks, RECEIVES; he who seeks, FINDS; and for him who knocks, the DOOR WILL BE OPENED.
ASK.
And SHARE.