'You Are Full Of Poop': A Proud Boy-Fueled Power Struggle Divides Portland-Area GOP

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MUST-READ look at how Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups are now becoming involved in efforts to control local GOP county orgs. This one in Portland. But a pattern especially across the Western US. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/you-are-full-of-poop-a-proud-boy-fueled-power-struggle-divides-portland-area-gop… via @TPM

‘You Are Full Of Poop’: A Proud Boy-Fueled Power Struggle Divides Portland-Area GOP
talkingpointsmemo.com
7:43 AM · Jun 4, 2021

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/you-are-full-of-poop-a-proud-boy-fueled-power-struggle-divides-portland-area-gop

“First of All, James Ball III, you are full of poop,” wrote one Republican Party functionary to another in a bitter, paramilitary-tinged rift over the future of the GOP in Multnomah County, Oregon.

“That is a legal term used by bible believing Christians,” the email continued, “who want to say something much much stronger but err on the side of caution.”

The author was Tim Sytsma, a precinct committee person, or PCP, for the Multnomah County Republican Party who helped arrange for an associate of the Proud Boys, the right-wing street gang, to provide security for a recent meeting in which the county chair was recalled. The target of his email, Ball, is also a PCP, though he’s stuck by ousted chair Stephen Lloyd and has led the effort to get him back in power.

The beef — aired out in a series of stories over the past month by the Portland-based Willamette Week (WW) — is part of a pattern playing out in some form around the country: Fringe and even violent movements like the Proud Boys are muscling their way into internal Republican Party politics.

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[BGBD]

1. Why can't we

Classify PB as a terrorist organization?

[Midnight Writer]

2. Fascists need their Brown Shirts.