Missouri county GOP pulls invitation to Blunt to protest emergency declaration vote, report says

[Sherman A1]

A county Republican Party in Missouri has disinvited Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., from its annual dinner to protest his vote in favor of a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.

The Kansas City Star reported Monday that the Christian County Republican Central Committee rescinded its invitation to Blunt to attend next month's Lincoln/Trump Day Dinner in Ozark, Missouri.

The county party's website lists Missouri State House Speaker Elijah Haahr, R, as a special guest for the event.

Blunt was one of 12 Republicans in the Senate to defy Trump and vote in favor of a resolution overturning his declaration of a national emergency at the border. In an email to Blunt's office quoted by the Kansas City Star, Christian County Republican Central Committee member Wanda Martens wrote that she was "so disappointed in [Blunt] now that I can hardly speak."

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-county-gop-pulls-invitation-to-blunt-to-protest-emergency/article_85629054-e9d8-551c-9140-b325155ee42c.html#tracking-source=home-trending

[Kurt V.]

1. Jeez. the cult is going to take years to deprogram

[Sherman A1]

2. Not sure that it would be possible

Given eternity.

[The Genealogist]

3. I live in Greene County just north of Christian County

Greene County is pretty red. Christian County makes it look like San Franciso. Perhaps an exageration, but Christian is REALLY conservative and trumpy.

[riversedge]

5. so very Christian of them

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Yes, I laughed when I saw Blunt's vote on this...I couldn't believe it. Of course Josh Hawley ...

didn't vote to stop the emergency declaration, but he's not concerned about rump stepping taking on too much power that don't belong to him. Hawley is a joke and has no guts, and is a momma's boy when it comes to rump.

I love the Greene County / Christian County comparisons (Christian C. makes Greene county looks like San F), an apt description but one that does describe a lot of the repub counties in MO, especially in the SW portion of the state (I grew up in Joplin MO, went to high school and college there).

At least I can say that rump is literally hated in my part of MO (I'm in the most urban of urban places you can get, Tower Grove Neighborhood in STLMO), and friends of mine in IL are also reporting that the rump signs that they used to see around them in rural IL (across the river) are disappearing and mostly gone.

I think people are discovering what a fraud rump truly is. Could be a lot of reasons, after all, rump given us a lot of reasons to hate him and his administration.