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Former AZ GOP chair Jeff DeWit has some spare time because Kari Lake chased him off. Maybe he can offer the Michigan GOP’s not-going-without-a-fight chair a job.

Kristina Karamo, a failed secretary of state candidate who was elected as the Michigan Republican Party’s chair last February, was “properly removed” from the position earlier this month by party members, according to an initial review done by the Republican National Committee.

The Republican National Committee, or RNC, said their determination was not final and could change depending on additional information. It came in a letter sent Wednesday by RNC attorneys to both Karamo and former Congressman Pete Hoekstra, who was elected as the new chair by a group of Michigan GOP members.

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Earlier this month, close to half of the Michigan GOP’s voting members came together to vote Karamo out as chair, citing fundraising woes and months of infighting. Eight of the state party’s 13 congressional district chairs had called on Karamo to resign and her own co-chair, Malinda Pego, aided the effort to remove her.

The group then voted to elect Hoekstra as the party’s new chair. Hoekstra served as a U.S. representative from 1993 until 2011 and acted as the United States ambassador to the Netherlands under former President Donald Trump.

Also, she’s mean to RINOs and the establishment, two groups that the current GOP cherishes.

“She’s disenfranchised us,” Moeggenberg said. “She has pushed the RINO’s per se away. She has pushed all sides of establishment away. She has pushed grassroots away.”

Whenever anyone tosses a random per se into their comments I think of a kid trying to talk while wearing fake vampire fangs. This, by the way, is Moeggenberg. Apparently when she isn’t whining about the face-eating leopards she wants to protect kids from pediatricians. Which is exactly what I expect from Republicans.

To the surprise of no one who has a better grasp on reality than the average Republican, the person who received Dump’s endorsement for SoS after she caught his attention by peddling lies about the election, and insists she didn’t lose her election is refusing to go quietly.

Karamo, an election conspiracist who refused to accept the results of her 14 percentage point loss in the 2022 secretary of state race, has claimed the Jan. 6 vote to remove her as chair was “illegitimate” and “illegal.” She sent cease and desist letters last week to Hoekstra and other opponents alleging defamation of character and trademark infringement.

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Karamo’s general counsel, Dan Hartman, responded to the RNC’s letter in a statement Thursday, calling their opinion “irrelevant.”

This looks like a great place for a famous meme from The Onion. Not that one, this one. I look forward to the Michigan GOP spending money it doesn’t have fending off lawsuits from its own chair. I’d also like to see multiple fatal injuries.

Here’s some more on background on Karno, which makes it obvious why she is popular with the GOP. In addition to being viciously homo- and transphobic, calling everything she doesn’t like satanic, and having connections to extremist groups, there isn’t a single racist in the U.S. who can resist a Black person who says abortion is worse than slavery.

But Republicans wondering why their party is packed full of mean, nasty people who can’t do anything except be mean and nasty and also what happened to all the cash? was an inevitable outcome of Republicans deciding to be the party of mean nasty people. It is not the nazi bar problem. If you don’t want to call it the Republican party problem, call it the chaotic evil problem. When everyone in the group wants to be a disastrous dickhole, you get this. Here’s hoping for more of it in the coming months.

If you can think of ways to inflame Republican in-fighting at the state and local level, share them in the comments. My idea is to throw a handful of loose change into their meetings. Think of the carnage.

And of course, remember to support your friendly neighborhood Democrats.

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