Emails to OCREC regarding a cup cake “hobnob” to members are drawing negativity to the Republican Party!!!
Lew Oliver is battling it out via email with AxTheTax founder, Doug Guetzloe!
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Banished
Sep 8
Chairman Greer decisively squashed dissent within the Republican Party of Florida when he banished 6 party leaders for up to four years. Most had been Republicans all their adult life with some being members of RPOF for over 20 years.
Will Pitts was Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida. His group had brought in 1000’s of new younger members to RPOF. A well-known builder in the Jacksonville area and owner WG Pitts Company was suspended for 2 years.
Doug Guetzloe, a successful political consultant in the Orlando area, and lifelong Republican was suspended for 13 months and given 1 year probation.
Jason Steele, Chairman of the Brevard County Republican Executive Committee was given a 12 month probation period. Reached by phone he said, “that if the state party hoped to “stifle” his activity with the official punishment, “that’s just not going to happen.”
These and many other suspensions, probations, say loudly that the Republican Party of Florida is not a big tent, but rather a small clique of narrow-minded tyrants. Dissent is not to be tolerated.
State Party Chairman Jim Greer is unfit to lead and fears the party rank and file. Recent revelations that he lives the high life paid for by RPOF credit cards is causing quite a stir among members.
The bottom line is that if we want the Republican Party of Florida to reflect our common sense values, we are going to have to demand full accountability from our leaders. Their tactics of intimidation and expulsion will need to be fought every step of the way.
We will need to be kept informed of all the misdeeds by Greer and company. To this end I would like to invite everyone that seeks change to join Restore The Republican Party of Florida at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114057504448&ref=ts
The Orlando Sentinel wrote this http://j.mp/3CCRrI Be sure to comment!
The Republican Liberty Caucus wrote this http://j.mp/5M2dQ Good list of where to send your complaints.
Please Forward this!
Sincerely,
Nick Egoroff
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Central Florida Republican leaders expect to receive formal word today or tomorrow on what sanctions the Republican Party of Florida is going to hand out to a handful of party dissidents, a move critics are calling a “purge.”
“Basically, I hear that we’re toast,” said Nick Egoroff, an Orange County GOP executive committee member who faced a closed-door internal grievance panel hearing in July.
After considering the recommendations that emerged out of that grievance process in recent days, state party Chairman Jim Greer decided if he agreed with them or not, and then sent out his own roster of sanctions on Tuesday. As of this afternoon, none had arrived to Central Florida Republicans.
But in most cases, party spokeswoman Katie Gordon said Wednesday, Greer “was less severe than what was recommended by the grievance committee.”
Gordon declined to discuss details of what she estimated were five grievance cases, each of which may have involved multiple party members or complaints.
Orange County GOP Chairman Lew Oliver — who filed two of the complaints against a pair of long-time party enemies — said in an e-mail that during a conference call with Greer on Tuesday, the state party chief “suggested that the [Orange County] individuals ‘would not be bothering us again for a long time.’”
Oliver wrote that Greer did not explicitly say that they had been removed from leadership posts, and that Greer’s comments could just mean some lesser form of punishment, such as a suspension, was coming.
But in separate conversations with two members of the party’s grievance committee, Oliver said neither one would say what the final recommendation was, since the rules say the process is confidential. However, he added, “I concluded from their tone and demeanor that they almost certainly did recommend removal.”
The two Orange Republicans facing sanctions — Egoroff and Doug Guetzloe — said the July grievance hearings were tilted against them, and Guetzloe said he plans to appeal any sanction. Both men have been at odds with Oliver over a host of issues that center on control of the local party.
“I fully expect to be removed from the party,” said Guetzloe. “But we think it’s patently unconstitutional.”
Guetzloe said that if his neighbors elect him to a precinct position with the local GOP, the party should have no power to subvert that.
“They picked a fight with the wrong guy on this one,” Guetzloe said. “This is just round one.”
Brevard County GOP Chairman Jason Steele was another of the party members singled out in that July grievance hearings, for what he said was a local party resolution critical of any primary endorsements of certain Republican candidates.
Steele, too, was told to expect word by mail today on what trouble he was in. But he was more positive.
“If they do anything, I would be surprised,” Steele said.
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The real “disloyalty” of which Guetzloe stands convicted, and Egoroff by association, is that Guetzloe advised Precinct Committeeman Keith Racine in the complaints that Racine made against Orange County Republican Party Chairman Lew Oliver.
Lew Oliver is now the subject of a reported five different criminal investigations, as well a investigations by two television channels and the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. The latest accusation to turn up is that Mister Oliver is alleged to have diverted $14,000 in funds donated for the election of Republican candidates at the national level, to his own use as county chairman. At least part of that money is reported, within the Republican Party, to have been used by Mister Oliver to shore up his own position and stifle criticism.
If the state party does remove Mister Guetzloe from his position on the county committee, they are setting the Republican Party up for a federal lawsuit which may ultimately affect the Republican Party state organizations in all fifty states. And, the issue involved goes to the very structure of political parties in this county.
Guetzloe and Egoroff were elected to office by the Republican voters of the precinct they represent. They were certified to those seats by the Florida Secretary of State. If the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) “removes” Guetzloe and Egoroff from office, the RPOF will have negated the lawful vote of the Republican electorate. If the RPOF is allowed to do this as to these elected office holders, may the RPOF do the same for other elected candidates, i.e. state legislature, mayoral, gubernatorial, etc.?
The RPOF may grant itself such powers in its bylaws, but do the bylaws of a political party over-ride the Secretary of State-confirmed vote of the electorate? This case may be a bellwether for the future of the political party system in this country. It would also suggest the need for judicial and legislative review of the internal rules by which the political parties operate.
A problem which arose during the recent Presidential election when the actions of Sarah Palin, and her family, exposed light on the conflict between some Republican National Committee (RNC) policies and federal election laws. This will be all the more interesting since the RPOF actions against Guetzloe and Egoroff will be happening against the backdrop of the criminal investigations of Lew Oliver, who has been the party czar in Orange County, Florida since G.W. Bush began his presidential campaign and that faction of the party installed Lew Oliver as county chairman.
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By John Hamilton
People Power Hour
GOP LEADER KEITH RECINE DISCLOSES WIDENING INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE FINANCIAL MISDEEDS BY ORANGE COUNTY CHAIRMAN LEWIS B. OLIVER, III
Orange County Republican Executive Committee member Keith Recine just disclosed in an exclusive interview on The People Power Hour (www.peoplepowerhour.com) that he had been contacted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement concerning the investigation by several government law enforcement agencies into the activities of Oliver as Chairman of the Orange County GOP.
The Orange/Osceola State Attorney’s office has assigned the investigation to the Orange County Sheriff’s office to thoroughly investigate the allegations that could amount to “money laundering” by the GOP leader by “co-mingling” state and federal funds from a previously undisclosed account controlled by Oliver.
According to the Miami Herald, who originally broke the story the same day the People Power Hour did (Thursday, July 23, 2009), Oliver has written over $14,000 in checks to himself from an account that was ostensibly set up to funnel money to federal candidates. None of the checks written were accompanied by receipts and members of the local party were kept totally in the dark about the account and the disbursement of funds.
Recine, also Vice Chairman of the citizen grassroots watchdog committee, Ax the Tax, confirmed that the complaints have also received the attention of the US Attorney’s office; the Federal Elections Commission and the Florida Elections Commission as well as the Orange County Sheriff and the FDLE.
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