MoveOn.org Goes Full Groomer, Defends Pornography for Kids Under Guise of "Stopping Book Bans"

Dear MoveOn member,

When we introduced these "Warning: May Contain Banned Books" tote bags earlier this year, we ran out in hours. We're excited to announce that we have brought them back in stock just in time for the holidays!

Click here to get yours now, or give one as a gift to your family and friends!

Arthur, we created these tote bags as a form of protest against the ongoing efforts by Republicans to control the minds of our children, silence voices of dissent, and stop school teachers from providing accurate, fact-based information about American history to their students.

We first offered these tote bags in March, when data was released showing that book bans reached an all-time high across the country in 2021.¹

New reporting now shows that 2022 has exceeded 2021 in book bans, with thousands of books being banned in cities, towns, and schools across America.²

Which books are Republicans focused on banning?

40% of banned books featured main characters that are LGBTQ+.³

40% had main characters that were people of color.⁴

And 20% directly addressed race and racism.⁵

Republicans are using these bans to push a hateful, homophobic, white supremacist agenda, but they will not succeed.

MoveOn and our allies will continue to fight at every turn to stop these book bans and defeat the politicians who are pushing them forward—and you can join in by getting your very own "Warning: May Contain Banned Books" tote bag and using it proudly at the library, grocery store, and anywhere else where you can spread the message.

The best part is: By getting this tote bag from MoveOn, every dollar you spend will go directly toward the work to defeat the GOP. Not a single cent will go toward lining the pockets of billionaires.

Click here to get yours now, while supplies last!

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelly, Elizabeth, Bekir, Rahna, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "As Book Bans Escalate, Here’s What You Need to Know," Education Week, September 30, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/169725?t=5&akid=338864%2E54027705%2Ey-Vly0

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

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More Winning: Hate Parody Tweet Lists Me with MTG, Lauren Boebert, and Charlie Kirk

Hate Twitter feed targets me.
As if!

Can you say "WINNING"?

I am so honored that there are hatemongers out there whose head I live in RENT FREE!

While so many people complain that the rent is too damn high, I can say freely that there is plenty of free rent for me to enjoy.

I live in so many leftists heads RENT FREE!

Check out this latest tweet attempting to shame and defame me:

Our friend @RandyVoepel musta radicalized his grandson. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Plus the inspiration from homophobes like me, Pastor Joe, @RepMTG, @RepBoebert Arthur Schaper & @CharlieKirk11 https://t.co/2GJf1LGi81 pic.twitter.com/cfENHanApQ

— MicheIIe Steel. CA. GOP. ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ (@MicheIIeSteelCA) November 20, 2022

Regardless of whatever backstory prompted this tweet, I am so glad that people are noticing that I am taking a stand against the LGBT agenda and all of its hateful, militant adherents.

And it's a high honor to listed with Congresswomen Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Protesting is Nice, Canvassing Makes the Difference

 

Conservatives campaign like liberals, and liberals campaign like conservatives.

When liberals campaign, they focus on which races are winnable. They think about how much money they have, where to spend their money, and which seats to target so that they can win.

When conservatives campaign, we do things that feel good, without thinking about a larger strategy. We go for the headline, for the feeling, for the pizzazz.

Who wins elections, who changes the culture, and who doesn’t?

Conservatives, it’s time for some tough love, and let me start with an example.

I received a number of texts and posts that Hanoi Jane Fonda was going to rally supporters to help Katie Porter at her Huntington Beach campaign office today. Sure, it would feel good for conservatives and patriots to show up and make noise, protest, and heckle Jane Fonda.

But it’s more effective for us to canvass, walk precincts, get votes for Scott Baugh. He’s the guy running against Katie Porter, and he has a really good shot at winning the seat!

What happened this morning? Jane Fonda didn’t even show up! Guess what, MAGA patriots? Katie Porter took played you. While 20 to 30 people were protesting outside of Porter’s campaign office, she had 100 people cavnassing in the district to get her votes!

If you really want to scare a politician, you need to get people to vote them out. The better use of everyone’s time would have been canvassing for Scott Baugh, whom I support 100% for Congress. Is he perfect? Of course not, but Katie Porter is evil. She wants to defund the police, open up our borders forever, tax us into never-ending inflation, kill babies up to the day of birth, and push the LGBT agenda on our kids forever. She needs to be stopped.

But you are not going to stop her just protesting outside of her campaign office.

Conservatives, it’s time to get real. If you really want to make a difference, you need to support politicians to remove the bad politicians. You need to push good policies at the local and state level. IT’s not as exciting at first, but it’s more meaningful and effects greater change for the good.

I can’t think of anything more exciting than to see on Election Day, Scott Baugh polling 5 points ahead of Katie Porter. She needs to be fired from Congress.

While conservatives want to have protesting on street corners or trolling liberals and progressive activitists, those some actiivsts are busy writing postcards, registering voters, walking precincts, making phone calls.

Look, I am not saying “Don’t hold rallies. Don’t protest bad politicians.” What I am saying is that these public events should not be an end in the themselves.

AOC came to UC Irvine two weeks ago. I was there to record the event and protest her. I admit that. But you know what the left-wing activists were doing? They were registering voters! They were signing up volunteers! They were promoting their candidates!

We need to see everyone of our public events in the same light. Stop acting like liberals, folks. Campaign like the conservatives that you are, and let’s get good people to replace the bad people.

Please help Scott Baugh for Congress. Email Timothy Tizon at timothy@baughforcongress.com

MoveOn.org Panicking about MAGA Primary Victories

 

MoveOn.org cannot move on from President Trump or Steve Bannon.

They have hit peak Trump Derangement Syndrome. Funny Stuff!

Check out their latest appeal for money, money, money!

Dear MoveOn member,

Alerts on too many of our phones on Wednesday morning looked like this:

"Mark Finchem, an adamant election denier and conspiracy theory promoter, won the GOP primary for Arizona's top election post."¹

"Trump backed Blake Masters is projected to win the Arizona GOP primary to face Sen. Mark Kelly."²

"Trump backed Tudor Dixon is projected to win the Republican primary to face Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in November."³

"Rep Peter Meijer, a Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump, conceded to John Gibbs, a Trump-endorsed far-right challenger."⁴

"Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, won the GOP race. He's made a career out of promoting false election claims."⁵

Slowly but surely, state by state, Donald Trump is lining up his lackeys across the country to ensure he has the pawns to rig the presidential election in 2024.

That's why MoveOn made the unprecedented decision to invest $30 million into the midterms this fall. We knew early on that this year was going to be like no other, and we have been preparing for months to confront it head-on. To turn out exactly the voters who will turn the tide on the primary results of a MAGA Republican Party.

The general elections are next, and we can defeat Trump, just as we did in 2020—but only if we come together.

That's why we need your help. In order to execute our unprecedented plan (see below) we must have the sustained resources to stop Trump and his acolytes. As his hand-picked marionettes win Republican primary after Republican primary, MoveOn has the plan to stop him. Will you chip in $3 a week to make it all possible? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.) 

Count me in.

No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.

Let's be clear: There's reason for hope, even amid this litany of dark updates from Republican primaries. More and more polls are giving Democrats hope of holding off a red wave.⁶ Republican obstruction and overreach is backfiring: In Kansas, a state Trump won by 15 points, voters roundly defeated an amendment to the state constitution to deny people bodily autonomy and self-determination and ban abortion, showing the power of abortion access as a motivating issue for voters.

Democrats in key races are showing strong grassroots fundraising. And Trump's "MAGA" mentality is alienating swing voters.

Our job is to seize these opportunities, make the most of those glimmers of hope, and execute a plan that can mobilize voters to elect progressive champions who will fight for our democracy and defeat Trump's cult-like adherents.

Our plan, the largest investment in our 23-year history, is being executed in four phases:

1. Organize on the ground to build our activist base (ongoing since the beginning of 2022).
2. Use innovative digital strategies to define our opponents early and rally Democrats and progressives (started months ago).
3. Blanket carefully targeted states and districts with ads with strategic messaging (testing has begun).
4. Get our target voters to the polls to defeat Trump's election deniers, insurrectionists, and fake electors (October 1-November 8).

Every facet of MoveOn is focused on executing this plan—from our staff members to our state-by-state activists to our millions of members—because we know we need to go all-out to stop Steve Bannon and his dark-money PACs.

But we also know that our shared vision of America, where progressive values—that hold up Black and brown voices, that celebrate the humanity of LGBTQ+ youth and people of all ages, that see trans families and disabled people as our strength—will always prevail.

All we need to make sure our plan is executed, and Trump is stopped, are the resources. And that's where you, Arthur, come in. Please, can you start a $3 weekly donation today to show that you support stopping this Trump momentum?

Count me in.

No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.

Thanks for all you do.

–Chris, Seth, Kelly, Emily, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. Breaking News, The New York Times, August 3, 2022

2. Political News Alerts, The Washington Post, August 3, 2022

3. Ibid.

4. Breaking News, The New York Times, August 3, 2022

5. Ibid.

6. "Democrats are slightly favored to win the Senate," FiveThirtyEight, accessed August 4, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/165387?t=6&akid=329623%2E29788095%2Ep0G2Hc

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Things are not looking good for MoveOn.org. Who is paying for these people, anyway?

They have completely lost their way, completely driven by Trump and Bannon Derangement Syndrome. This is such an irony, when one considers that MoveOn.org started because the Republican Congressional majorities wanted to impeach Bill Clinton for lying under oath to a grand jury. Their response was "Move On!"

Well, they need to move on from Trump, but they just can't get over the fact that he is building up strengh, stem, and standing in the country, and not just with Republicans and Independent voters. Even some Democrats are starting to peel over to the GOP just because of Trump!

March for Our Rights to March for Our Lives

First and Second Amendments focus of March for Our Lives in Hermosa Beach (Easy Reader News)

Only two hundred gun-control activists protested in the South Bay two weeks ago? That’s a victory for the Second Amendment, since thousands in Los Angeles County purchased firearms during the George Floyd riots in May, 2020. There are thousands more lawfully arming themselves to thwart rising violent crime rates across the county, due to pro-criminal District Attorney George Gascon’s lax enforcement policies. 

It is shameful how gun-control fanatics politicize tragedy to disarm law-abiding citizens. They ignore the true causes of mass shootings: the breakdown of the family, the lack of law and order in urban areas, the dismantling of mental health interventions, plus the increased reticence of local law enforcement agencies to subdue assailants. 

All of the proposed gun control measures from our distanced political class—bans on ghost guns, red flag laws, extended waiting periods—would not have stopped the mass shootings in Parkland, Florida; Uvalde, Texas; Aurora, Colorado; or Newtown, Connecticut. US Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban did not stop mass casualties or mass shootings across the country, either. 

For the record, California is NOT one of the safest states when it comes to mass shootings, as they occur on average once every 8 days. (Source: Public Policy Institute of California) 

To end mass shootings, the federal government must repeal gun-free zone mandates. Furthermore, California should enhance Second Amendment rights by repealing onerous and useless gun-control measures while extending right-to-carry provisions in public and private locations. It's time to march for our rights if we want to march for our lives.

AUWE! Hawaii RINOs and Their Deep State Corruption

** DEEP STATE PARTY CORRUPTION:  Kauai GOP Ousts Cheating County Chair and Fake Delegates ** THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:  Shirlene Ostrov Responds with Even More Lying & Cheating to Save Crooked Steve Yoder (and his illegitimate pro-Ostrov delegates) Aloha Republicans: Many of you have witnessed the dramatic fighting back and forth over the election fraud and delegate disenfranchisement (a.k.a. cheating) inside Kauai's GOP; pitting Crooked 2015-2019 county chair Steve Yoder against conservative challenger Honest Dave Hamman for the 2019-2021 county chairmanship on the Garden Isle, a place where ZERO elected Republicans have held office during Yoder's entire sad tenure in office. BREAKING NEWS:  Here is the very latest in the shocking cheating scandal which casts considerable doubt on the legitimacy of this weekend's state GOP convention on Maui, where widespread cheating has produced illegitimate delegates who are now on their way to Maui to choose new state party leaders. An overwhelming vote of the Kauai GOP's rules committee and executive committee have reviewed the fraud perpetrated by Steve Yoder in order to facilitate his reelection back in March.  Their verdict?  Yoder is out, the county convention results have been tossed out, a new convention has been called for June, and Dave Hamman has been named the interim county chair. Well, that was enough to cause Shirlene Ostrov to reveal her inner cheater, since she's done a lousy job of disguising her desire for Yoder to remain in that position -- a position which holds a crucial vote on the state party's executive committee -- and she's done an even lousier job containing her intention of letting Yoder's phony convention delegates travel to Maui this weekend and vote for her re-election. And so, this past Monday, desperate Ostrov sent Dave Hamman the most ridiculous 'cease and desist' letter you'll ever read.  In summary, Ostrov ordered Hamman to ignore the cheating, accept defeat, let Yoder be county chair, and get excited about helping these cheating leaders by enthusiastically licking their stamps and stuffing their envelopes despite having been robbed of certain victory. But the most noteworthy aspect of Ostrov's letter to Hamman is her willingness as the current leader of the Hawaii Republican Party to completely invent some facts and completely ignore other facts to reach her phony conclusion. Check out Ostrov's phony reasoning and false timeline upon which she relies for her fraudulent conclusions.  Though the letter was actually authored by Elvie Leming (legal secretary at the Carlsmith Ball law firm) and then modified by Ann Correa Kemp (HRP state rules chair) for Shirlene Ostrov's signature, here's what Ostrov 'wrote' in her letter to Hamman to protect her boy Yoder . . . "On the County level, to have challenged the election of Chair Yoder, you should have submitted your challenge in writing to the Kauai Rules Committee within 10 days so that the Kauai Rules Committee could make a recommendation to Kauai County Executive Committee, who would decide the election challenge." What Ostrov pretends never happened is precisely what did happen.  Within days of the March 23rd county convention at which Yoder squeaked by with just enough votes (thanks to his replacing two dozen or more legitimate delegates with illegitimate ones), a dozen or more official complaints were filed in a timely fashion by Kauai Republicans with that island’s county rules committee headed by Dave Hamman -- the same committee which Ostrov refers to.  These same timely complaints (like this one which the KRP rules committee entitled "Exhibit 27" and was filed just 48 hours after the fraudulent county convention) led directly to rulings by the Kauai rules committee and then the Kauai GOP executive committee that the county convention was bogus, that cheating was rampant, that a new convention would be scheduled in June, and that Steve Yoder was out. As if Ostrov didn't think she had lied enough, she doubled down on her lies . . . "The key point to remember is that the Kauai County Convention elected officers for 2019-2021 and no challenge to their election has been timely filed with the Kauai County Committee." Again, Ostrov is lying because a challenge to that rigged election of Yoder and his fellow KRP officers is EXACTLY what happened.  The Kauai Rules Committee acted on these timely complaints by voting to overturn Yoder's phony and rigged county convention and the legitimate members of the Kauai GOP Committee (the ones who didn't cheat) voted overwhelmingly to toss out the election results because Steve Yoder and his cronies had flagrantly broken party rules to retain power and disenfranchise legitimate delegates. In fact, for weeks prior to the ill-fated March 2019 county convention on Kauai, Dave Hamman dutifully challenged the cheating by Yoder, Ostrov, Correa, and other top party officers who were trying to manipulate the outcome by crossing off the names of pro-Hamman delegates who were legitimately credentialed by the three district chairman on Kauai and REPLACING legitimate delegates with Yoder's cronies based on encouragement to cheat by Ostrov and Correa. Anyone following the antics of HRP's Ostrov and Kauai's Steve Yoder over the past two months knows that these two crooked RINO's have been desperately trying to squelch the conservative uprising by Kauai Republicans disgusted with sorry leadership from both Yoder and Ostrov. Ostrov simply wants rule-abiding conservative Republicans to accept her lies as the final word on the subject as if it's too late to do the right thing. Interim KRP Chair, Dave Hamman, replied to Ostrov's insane 'cease and desist' rantings this way:  "Shirlene, it is sad that you continue to persist in misrepresenting the facts.  As well, what is even more egregious is that you disrespect the KRP Rules Committee and the KRP Executive Committee." Yes indeed, Ostrov just pulls 'shibai' out of her okole and presents them as facts. It's even sadder that neither the HRP state committee nor the HRP executive committee has intervened about Ostrov's and Yoder's conspiracy to defraud Kauai Republicans of a fair and free election of party officers.  But many of them are complicit in this scheme because they are aligned with the progressive, RINO Tupola-Ward-Ostrov faction that now holds power.  These corrupt party leaders SIMPLY DO NOT CARE that Ostrov invents facts to serve her purposes of saving Yoder (and his illegitimate pro-Ostrov delegates) and effectively flushes the remainder of her own integrity down the toilet in a desperate attempt to win at all costs . . . with zero regard for the damage Ostrov is doing to party unity. It’s time for Shirlene Ostrov and Steve Yoder to cease and desist.  The masquerade is over.  Yoder is yesterday’s news.  And it’s time for Ostrov to step aside.  In fact, HIRA believes that the time has come for her 2019-2021 slate of party officer wannabes to step up and dump that lying sleaze while they still have a shred of integrity.  Every single person running for party office this coming Saturday KNOWS what has transpired.  And the silence from 99% of them is what will be remembered after this weekend's state convention. They KNOW that far more delegates got elected and appointed who supported Yoder’s challenger Dave Hamman than support Yoder for another two years.  They KNOW that Yoder openly admitted that his days as county chair were numbered.  They KNOW that instead of losing gracefully, Yoder worked with Ostrov and her zero integrity rules chair Ann Correa Kemp to cook the books; with Yoder and his cronies improperly DELETING the names of eligible delegates for the contested Kauai GOP county convention while improperly ADDING pro-Yoder sycophants to the delegate roster.  They also KNOW that Yoder even admitted to more than a dozen witnesses before the State Rules Committee that he improperly changed the delegate lists from all three house districts on Kauai -- a clear violation of very clear rules.  Cheating, in other words. But that's not the outcome Ostrov and her Tupola-Ward RINO cabal wanted.  Ostrov and her RINO Cabal slate know the score.  But, thus far, they think she'll get away with even more cheating on Maui this weekend. Without question, Kauai Republicans led by Dave Hamman followed the rules and dealt with Steve Yoder’s (and Shirlene Ostrov’s) systematic cheating in a timely fashion by acting on many quickly submitted complaints about the fraudulent Kauai GOP county convention.  They did the right things.  Now, Ostrov continues to do the wrong things. As anyone can plainly see, Shirlene Ostrov's willingness to steal an election and cover up outright fraud makes her the biggest liar in Hawaii politics today.  Her entire regime at HRP is corrupt.  And the new slate which backs Ostrov appears to be as morally bankrupt as they come.*   (* more about this tomorrow). BE WARNED:   As you’ll hear tomorrow, those Ostrov-aligned wannabes have rallied around a likely criminal who is under investigation by the FBI, the FEC, the U.S. Attorney’s office, and several state agencies.  Ms. Ostrov hasn’t told you this because, well, she’s trying to cling to power and doesn't want you to worry about pesky things like big fines or prosecutions.  The further implosion of the Hawaii GOP in 2019 will be caused by the Ostrov-Tupola-Ward Gang.  THIS KIND OF SERIOUS LEGAL TROUBLE IS WHAT SHIRLENE OSTROV BRINGS TO THE HAWAII REPUBLICAN PARTY. IT'S THE KIND OF TROUBLE WHICH MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CONVINCE VOTERS TO EVER REPLACE DEMOCRATS WITH GOP CANDIDATES. Anyway folks, the entire state convention on Maui is a fraud.  Manipulated delegate lists are already in play thanks to the cheating on Kauai.  And such rulebreaking manipulations are just as likely from Maui and the Big Island, since each of these counties have been working in cahoots with Crooked Ostrov and Corrupt state rules chair Ann Correa to help secure Ostrov's unwarranted re-election. So now you know the real facts about the lying and cheating by the Democrat Party’s favorite GOP chair of all time -- the one whose corrupt actions and proud incompetence helps Democrats to sleep soundly every night.  That's our very own Cheatin' Shirlene Ostrov-Blackburn, the pride of Mililani's RINO's.  Auwe! Finally, don't pin any hopes on current party leaders to stop all this cheating.  They've been turning a blind eye for two months.  In addition to the many financial crimes of Ostrov and fellow officers, every member of the party's top leadership knows that the Ostrov-Tupola-Ward gang actively utilized cheating sanctioned by Ostrov and Ann Correa at the March 2019 Honolulu GOP convention by authorizing neighbor islanders to fly to Oahu and improperly vote for Henry Vincent.  That tactic was specifically requested by Maui GOP chair Greg Lussier for the benefit of Henry Vincent, while the cheating orchestrated by Yoder on Kauai in March 2019 was openly supported by the Ostrov-Tupola-Ward sycophants who were installed as county chairs in West Hawaii and East Hawaii. Folks, that's the dismal state of our party.  Even more disturbing information is coming from HIRA tomorrow.  Stay tuned and brace yourselves.   Stay tuned for more shocking information about what these RINO’s have been doing to destroy the Hawaii Republican Party from the inside, year after year after year.  They’ll say (e.g. lie) and do (e.g. steal) anything to retain that ability to sabotage the conservative agenda and keep the Democrat agenda moving forward with the help of the Hawaii GOP and the Republican caucus at the legislature.  ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. Auwe!! -------------------------------------------------   Donate to HIRA Action SuperPAC

Hawaii RINO's MIA in State Legislature -- Don't Go Rank-Choice!

***** MAJOR EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO HAWAII GOP ***** Hawaii GOP Party Leaders Led by Tupola, Ostrov and Ward REFUSE TO FIGHT DANGEROUS HAWAII DEMOCRAT BILL Designed to Keep Republican Candidates off 2020 Ballots   Aloha, Republicans: As you read this, Hawaii's Democrats at the State Capitol are orchestrating the political assassination of GOP candidates statewide starting with the 2020 Election.  And the leaders of the Hawaii Republican Party (Gene "Obamacare" Ward, Andria "Ocasio-Cortez" Tupola, Shirlene "Blackburn" Ostrov andBob "Mufi" McDermott) have responded to this existential threat by forming a 'suicide pact' at the party's Kapiolani Blvd. headquarters allowing Democrats to succeed in their mission.  To date, the party's executive committee and state committee have signed off on this suicide pact through refusing to meet and refusing to take any action at all about the killer legislation in question now under fast-track consideration at the State Capitol (or about any other bad legislation at all). This is no joke. Right now, there is ZERO OPPOSITION by the State GOP to amainland-inspired bill being pushed by Democrats at the Hawaii State Capitolto eliminate the guarantee that a Republican candidate can appear on the General Election ballot.  YES, ELIMINATE.  Introduced and supported by Democrats, House Bill 210 provides 'ranked choice' method of voting for all partisan primary elections, special elections, and nonpartisan general elections held in Hawaii starting next year. So if two Democrats running for a particular seat receive more votes than the Republican in the August Primary Election, the Republican has to throw in the towel and get reduced to watching the two Democrats face off in the General Election.  Democrats will get to turn the General into a Primary Election between two well-funded Donkey Party candidates while rank-and-file Republicans get to wonder how the hell this happened with no action by their party. And HOW is this bill faring at the State Capitol? Well there's ZERO ORGANIZED OPPOSITION BY THE HAWAII GOP. As for the RINO incumbents, fake Republican Cynthia Thielen was a no show for the Judiciary Committee (of which she's a member) when her colleagues excitedly PASSED the bill. And fake Republican Lauren Cheape voted "AYE" for the bill. And fake Republicans Gene Ward and Bob McDermott couldn't even be bothered to show up to vote at all. On top of this, the RINO-controlled Hawaii GOP is doing absolutely NOTHING to fight this measure. Under current law in Hawaii, all candidates who run as Republicans for state house, state senate, governor, LG, or a seat in Congress and win their Primary Election are guaranteed to appear on the General Election ballot. That's pretty important in Hawaii, since it's already difficult enough to convince people to become GOP candidates for any office. Most seats are held by Democrats (114 out of 120) and most races go unopposed by Republicans. Plus, there's already a belief that many Democrats in office (and running for office) in Hawaii are closet Republicans because they have little hope of getting elected as Republicans (these are the Dems with a short life-expectancy who get targeted in Primaries by fellow Dems). So, with most Democrat seats already going UNCHALLENGED for decades, prepare for things to get worse for the Hawaii GOP. Democrats at the big square building on Punchbowl Street see an opening right now to change election law so that only the top two vote-getters from ANY party will be the ones competing in on the General Election. NOT the Democrat versus the Republican, but more likely TWO DEMOCRATS on the General Election ballot. With Hawaii Republicans averaging little more than 20% of the vote against Democrats in past elections, and with Hawaii cursed with the WEAKEST REPUBLICAN PARTY in all 50 States (one which is run by closet Democrats like Gene Ward and Andria Tupola), this legislation is now poised to eliminate any guarantee that Republican candidates will appear on the General Election ballot. Let's be brutally honest. GOP leaders in Hawaii are actively killing the Republican Party in the islands, since this legislation is simultaneously a DEATH SENTENCE passed by Democrats and a SUICIDE NOTE by the silent Hawaii GOP. Yes, the do-nothing Hawaii GOP is killing itself by sitting back and letting ranked choice (combined with all-mail-in voting) provide Democrats with guaranteed victories in the General Election for DECADES to come. Until now, Republicans in Hawaii could rely on being able to appear on the ballot in the General Election because our partisan elections always pitted a Democrat against a Republican. That's all about to change. If Hawaii's ruling Democrats get their way, there could be no Republicans on the General Election ballot (except for self-dealing incumbent RINO's like Gene Ward and his ilk) and hence no new elected Republicans in Hawaii. PARTY SUICIDE BY SILENCE AND INACTION is the order of the day from Shirlene Ostrov, Gene Ward, Miriam Hellreich, Andria Tupola and the rest of the RINO's who control the dying, left-leaning Republican Party in Hawaii. So, if you don't see any GOP candidates for state office on the ballot in 2020, you can remember to thank these God-awful RINO infiltrators for standing down the GOP and letting its candidates go down in flames.   Finally, this existential threat to the Hawaii GOP has been met with a yawn by party leaders.  State Chair Ostrov and Andria Tupola's henchmen like executive committee members Steve Yoder, Greg Lussier, David Ross and and Lorraine Shin, have prevented the party from getting involved in fighting bad legislation, even though the state party's mission and rules clearly call for political action at the county, state, and federal levels of government.  Dozens of major issues at the State Capitol are being yawned at by Corrupt, Liberal Hawaii GOP Leaders Led by Tupola and Ostrov and Ward. If, after reading this, you STILL don't believe that the Hawaii GOP is being destroyed from the inside, you'll probably never believe it.  For the rest of you, now's your chance to JOIN HIRA and help save the Republican Party in Hawaii while there's still time. Auwe, RINO's!! -------------------------------------------------

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