Last week, I sued the Republican establishment, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee, the Republican Party of Florida and party and election officers, including the Florida secretary of state, for conspiring to defraud Florida Republican voters of their vote in the Florida Republican primary held on March 15, 2016.
While the winner of that vote was presidential candidate Donald Trump, as alleged in the complaint, which can be found at www.freedomwatchusa.org, it was not filed to support his or any other candidacy. Rather, the complaint, which asked for declaratory relief prior to the Republican National Convention in July, is intended to validate the vote of Republican voters and not allow the Republican establishment to pervert the nomination process and thus democracy by not having their vote count. It has been widely reported and in fact admitted by the defendants and others that the Republican elites want to take away the right of the people to decide who should be the Republican Party nominee and insert one of their own establishment hacks, someone like widely discredited House Speaker Paul Ryan, who just caved into President Obama during the budget process.
It has even been reported by the Washington Post, in an article titled, "How Far Can Campaigns Go to Win Support from a Republican Delegate?" that the Republican establishment is busy attempting to in effect bribe delegates so they can nominate one of their own like Ryan or someone else who will further their power and money gravy train in Washington, D.C. This complaint, the first of its kind, will set a precedent for Republican voters in other states to take similar actions to preserve the sanctity of their primary vote. While I am a Florida citizen and voted in the Florida Republican primary, the complaint and the predicted declaratory judgment in my favor and for all Florida Republican voters will set a precedent nationwide. We cannot allow Republican establishment party hacks to take away our constitutional right.
Friday, Reince Priebus, RNC chairman, the Republican Party itself, the Republican Party of Florida, the secretary of state of Florida and the other defendants were served with the complaint. We have asked the Florida court in Tallahassee for expedited review, because there needs to be clarity and thus a declaratory judgment before the convention in Cleveland.
It is clear that the Republican establishment will not roll over lightly to the will of the people, however it turns out at the end of the primary voting process. The likes of Priebus, Karl Rove and other party hacks and consultants fear losing power and thus the gravy train they have been feeding at for decades. This corrupt Republican establishment, supported by even sycophants in the so-called conservative community like Glenn Beck, Rich Lowery as editor of the National Review and Bill Kristol as editor of The Weekly Standard, notwithstanding a variety of so-called conservative public interests groups, cannot stand to have their incestuous Washington, D.C., club broken apart by the likes of Donald Trump. God forbid that the soirees of Georgetown and Northern Virginia be taken over by this "barbarian." Even were Trump a barbarian, the country is in need of strong leadership. To be frank, many politically active so-called conservatives (myself excluded), have just rolled over to the Obamas and Clintons in the last decades, preferring instead to count their shekels. For this reason, the Republican Party has become little more than a bad joke. It is time that someone, whether it's Trump or someone else, relegated it to the proverbial ash heap of history.
Like I have said before, I am not publicly endorsing any presidential candidate in this election cycle, but like most registered Republicans, I am sickened and repulsed by the sleazy backroom corruption of my own party elites. It's time for them to go, just as it is time for President Barack Hussein Obama and the Clintons to go! The country is in a revolutionary state, and now it's time to clean house of the virus-carrying cockroaches that infest the nation's body politic on both sides of the aisle. And its not just politicians, but corrupt and compromised judges, including even Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who have done real damage and continue to do the bidding of the corrupt politicians who put them in power.
My lawsuit is one legal means in my quiver to wage a peaceful revolution. But as I have said in virtually every column, if this and other legal measures don't work to clean house, we are back to 1776. Readers can see this complaint at freedomwatchusa.org.
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