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marmar

(78,064 posts)
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 12:00 PM Feb 2021

The local Republican parties are even crazier than the state and national ones....

(Detroit Metro Times) The Hillsdale County Republican Party voted Monday to censure Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey for condemning the armed protesters who stormed the state Capitol, surrendering to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and other alleged “actions and inactions.”

At a tense, video-recorded meeting at a diner last week, county party members hurled insults at Shirkey for not taking a more hardline position in Lansing.

“You’re a liar,” one of the members told Shirkey.

Another said, “We’re not going to go along to get along. We’re done with it, Mike.”

Shirkey responded, “If you want to bully, go ahead and bully.”

One of the members fired back, “I call you a pussy if you call me a bully." ........(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2021/02/09/michigan-state-sen-shirkey-censured-by-hillsdale-county-gop-says-he-doesnt-give-a-shit?



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The local Republican parties are even crazier than the state and national ones.... (Original Post) marmar Feb 2021 OP
We are going to see more Q-anon's elected to congress in 2022, I'd bet on it. CrispyQ Feb 2021 #1
They really should stop electing 14-year-olds. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #2

CrispyQ

(38,445 posts)
1. We are going to see more Q-anon's elected to congress in 2022, I'd bet on it.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 12:11 PM
Feb 2021

Electing them to the House will be easier, but it will happen in the Senate, too, eventually. Unless we figure out a way to de-program the cult.

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