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Posted By: Maryhrt
Date: Friday, 25-May-2012 12:20:33
Chairman Dave Gibbs, Vice Chairman Woody Stroupe, Precinct Organization Administrator Matthew Yarbrough, Communications Director Bobbie Haseley and Media Relations Director Michael Chamberlain announced their resignations at a special Wednesday night meeting of the county GOP executive board.
The resignations were confirmed by Cindy Lake, the former county party secretary who has been tapped to serve as acting chairwoman. The departure of the five officials follows the resignation several weeks ago of Coalition Director Mitch Cain, according to Lake.
That leaves only two of the county GOP’s seven executive board officers — Treasurer Linda Bronstein and Political Director Frank Ricotta — remaining in their positions.
Gibbs and state party chairman Michael McDonald did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In an interview with the Associated Press, which first reported the news of the resignations, Stroupe said that Paul supporters had been “picking fights” with the Republican National Committee.
The departures come weeks after Paul supporters swept the state GOP convention in Sparks; the meeting ended with 22 of the elected national convention delegates in Paul’s column and only three in Romney’s.
Three others — RNC National Committeewoman Heidi Smith, National Committeeman Bob List and McDonald — are expected to attend the national convention as Romney delegates, although List and Smith were ousted from their RNC perches and will be replaced by Paul supporters James Smack and Diana Orrock effective after the national convention.
In addition, at the March county convention, Paul supporters came to dominate the Clark County GOP, winning 13 of 14 new elected executive board spots.
The tensions between Paul supporters and the GOP establishment have been simmering all year and escalated earlier this month, when RNC chief counsel John Philippe Jr. Penned a letter to McDonald threatening not to seat the state delegation this summer if it were dominated by Paul supporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/ron-paul-supporters-roil-clark-county-nevada-gop/2012/05/24/gJQAuPbknU_blog.html
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Ron Paul is of the people, by the people and for the people.
Save the REPUBLIC!
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