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Jose Garcia

(2,552 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:22 PM Jan 2017

Trump calls Ohio Republicans in effort to oust state GOP chairman

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Source: Politico

Donald Trump called roughly a dozen Ohio Republicans Thursday in an attempt to oust the state GOP chairman, a highly unusual exercise in political score-settling against a party leader who’s been accused of being disloyal to the president-elect.

According to multiple sources familiar with the calls, Trump urged Ohio Republican Party Central Committee members to unseat Matt Borges, the state’s current GOP leader, in Friday’s election for the party post and conveyed his support for Jane Timken, a prominent Ohio Republican who raised money for his campaign.

The president’s personal intervention — which came on a day in which Trump spent several hours sitting for a sworn, videotaped deposition in Trump Tower — has roiled the low-profile party contest, will be decided by Ohio’s 66 central committee members.

A Trump transition aide said the president-elect had phoned around a dozen committee members.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-ohio-republicans-233261

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Trump calls Ohio Republicans in effort to oust state GOP chairman (Original Post) Jose Garcia Jan 2017 OP
What a combination. mobeau69 Jan 2017 #1
mafia rule. Javaman Jan 2017 #2
It'll be very interesting to see who wins here. herding cats Jan 2017 #3
trump will take it as a slight and someone will pay...bigly.. monmouth4 Jan 2017 #5
Matt Borges' wife said ... Botany Jan 2017 #4
If he was smart he would look past the personal issue Bradical79 Jan 2017 #6
The Purge Achilleaze Jan 2017 #7
Anyone know what time this election is? leftynyc Jan 2017 #8
"The presidents personal intervention" BumRushDaShow Jan 2017 #9
Ohio GOP chairmen want Matt Borges out as state party chairman Grey Lemercier Jan 2017 #10
Locking... DonViejo Jan 2017 #11

mobeau69

(11,079 posts)
1. What a combination.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:26 PM
Jan 2017

A vindictive asshole with power.

Javaman

(62,442 posts)
2. mafia rule.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:29 PM
Jan 2017

since he can't put people in the morgue, as far as we know, he starts a campaign of public shaming followed by character assassination.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
3. It'll be very interesting to see who wins here.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:36 PM
Jan 2017

If it's Borges, and not Timken, how will Trump react?

monmouth4

(9,664 posts)
5. trump will take it as a slight and someone will pay...bigly..
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:45 PM
Jan 2017

Botany

(70,291 posts)
4. Matt Borges' wife said ...
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:43 PM
Jan 2017

"Trump made my dog throw up."

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
6. If he was smart he would look past the personal issue
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:52 PM
Jan 2017

and realize how their work basically handed him Ohio. Ohio Republicans have done a pretty good job dominating state politics cultivating an irrational racist base here. Their leadership may not like Trump, but they've set up a great enviroment for his electoral success.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
7. The Purge
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:18 PM
Jan 2017

We are going to see more and more and more PURGING in all aspects of life where Comrade Casino and the Republicans have opportunity impose their fascist will.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
8. Anyone know what time this election is?
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:25 PM
Jan 2017

Article says today.

BumRushDaShow

(127,320 posts)
9. "The presidents personal intervention"
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:27 PM
Jan 2017

He's not the damn President yet Politico.

 

Grey Lemercier

(1,429 posts)
10. Ohio GOP chairmen want Matt Borges out as state party chairman
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:30 PM
Jan 2017
http://www.vindy.com/news/2017/jan/04/ohio-gop-chairmen-want-matt-borges-out-state-party/

Published: Wed, January 4, 2017 @ 1:50 p.m.
YOUNGSTOWN — Thirty-six county Republican Party chairmen – including the three in the Mahoning Valley – are urging the GOP state central committee to replace Matt Borges as Ohio Republican chairman.

In a letter sent today to the 66 members of the state central committee asked them to back Jane Timken of Stark County because she “has impeccable personal qualifications and unquestioned standing among the political, financial and elective leadership of our party at the state and national level.”

Timken, favored by Trump, is challenging Borges in Friday’s secret ballot for state chairman. Borges is criticized in the letter by the chairman for not giving Donald Trump “unwavering” support in his presidential bid.

Among the 36 of the state’s 88 county Republican Party chairmen signing the letter are Mark Munroe of Mahoning County, Randy Law of Trumbull County, and Dave Johnson of Columbiana County. Johnson is a state central committee member.

“We are now in jeopardy of having the state party be completely at odds with the new Trump administration as well as with the RNC [Republican National Committee] itself,” the letter reads.

DonViejo

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11. Locking...
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:37 PM
Jan 2017

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