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I'm really trying to understand why the local party thinks they can take away someone's ex officio membership. I've looked at some of the rules people keep referring to and still do not see it. So, I requested some help from someone with experience as a district chairman and service on several state Republican committees.

First off, he said that according to the state plan of organization, under Administrative procedure, "When an ex officio member of a Committee ceases to hold the office that ENTITLES him to such membership, his membership terminates automatically."

So, we then looked at the county plan of organization. It stated, "Elected officials SHALL be ex officio members of the Beaufort CEC [County Executive Committee], with rights to be recognized to speak or debate but not to vote."

I then asked him about the Forfeiture of Official Privileges section of the county plan of organization where it states, "Any current or former officer or Member of a Precinct Committee or County Executive Committee who, for any reason, is removed or resigned from said position shall forfeit all rights and privileges in any way connected with that position." I asked would that apply in any way in this particular situation? On that he said, an ex officio member SHALL be there because of his elected office. He has the right to exorcise that right or not. That's his or her choice.

Putting all this together with the actual minutes of the Beaufort County Executive Committee meeting, where the Commissioner only resigned his voting at large position anyway, makes it look bad for the local committee. They are clearly abusing their power and going to extreme lengths to drive conservatives out of the party.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 1:51 pm By: Van Zant

Van Zant, the letter was never lost. There never was a letter. Hood Richardson does not get to decide his privileges with the Executive Committee. NCGOP Plan Of Organization does. Either way he has no voting rights. He is irrelevant. Time for him to go away.

Commented: Thursday, January 18th, 2024 @ 7:09 pm By: Firebrand

Big Bob: It is a knowing thing, not a telling thing.

Commented: Thursday, January 18th, 2024 @ 1:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Again Big Bob, you wouldn't know.

Like most of your comments here, this is way over you comprehension level.

Commented: Thursday, January 18th, 2024 @ 11:26 am By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: You are Leftist, and have NO idea what constitutes a Real Republican.

You parrot the words of an Idiot President, and the sum of his Non Patriot Lying Sycophants, so why would anyone of substance care what you spew.

Concurrently, I would argue, however, that you do possess a glimmer of what constitutes a true RINO.

Commented: Thursday, January 18th, 2024 @ 8:05 am By: Stan Deatherage

Firebrand: Read what Van Zant wrote on this site and lick your lying wounds.

Commented: Thursday, January 18th, 2024 @ 6:37 am By: Hood Richardson

The Plan of Organizations makes every Republican elected official an ex officio member of an executive committee.

This is about RINOs driving conservative Republicans out of the Republican Party.

THIN THE RINO HERD IN THE PRIMARY ON MARCH 5TH.

Commented: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 7:50 am By: Hood Richardson

The whole point here is Hood made an announcement about resigning and declared he was keeping his ex officio status. No letter was presented just a statement. Hood however does not decide whether he keeps his status or not. It is in the NCGOP Plan of Organization not the Plan according to Hood. Get over it Hood. You did it to yourself.

Commented: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 1:23 am By: Firebrand

Stan: I wonder why they can't remember, seeing it's in their own minutes. Hum. Agree. There has been a take-over. A very hostile take-over. Those people don't like people from around here.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 11:51 pm By: Van Zant

Van Zant: That is exactly what I remember.

The problem is that for years now, there has been a take over of the local Beaufort County GOP by people that want to remake what in means to be a Republican, and Commissioner Hood Richardson stands in their way because in "The Hood Territory," Republicans are a far different breed.

I could never be Hood Richardson, we have experienced far different pasts, but unlike these interlopers, who have no clue how Republican politics are designed to work in the age of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and many more who will abide by common Republican precepts; working together to achieve a far different governing principal than what we continue to experience here in Beaufort County.

Is Hood's now famous resignation important? Not to me; maybe not especially important to even Commissioner Richardson, but it is to these Center - Left lackeys, and therefore they render unto it abundant life, and in their infamous reality, it is the unvarnished symbol of their undeserved hubris to the point of their well deserved sophistry.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 11:20 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I guess I'll reluctantly wade into the vitriol. Is the letter everyone is talking about in connection with the said resignation from the executive committee? If so, that was addressed in a previous comment containing a link to the event in executive committee minutes.

In the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee Minutes on October 12, 2021, it is stated like this:
"Hood Richardson resigned from his position as a voting member of the Executive Committee but that he shall continue to exercise his Executive Committee members privileges as an elected Republican in BC and still desires to be notified of all Executive Committee meetings."

With all that then why is Commissioner Richardson not being extended his status as an ex-officio member?

It seems to me a lot of this argument is silly. In an instance like this, the only way to lose ex-officio status is to no longer be a public official or no longer be a precinct chairman.

Mr. Rader made a very valid point about the dire situation we are facing in our state and country. It is a real shame the Republican Party seems incapable and unwilling to rise to the challenges before us.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 9:50 pm By: Van Zant

I could have the letter and may not. The issue would be whether I would take the time to look for it.

This excoriation of Hood by these interlopers, those who have done nothing to build the local Republican party before all these elected RINOs starting switching parties to get elected, truly is petty; however, I know what I saw, and I know Hood, and that is good enough for me.

My time has to be extremely well spent right now, and partly, in a tangible sense, because of all the local GOP supported RINOs.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 2:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

MAGA - completely unfit to govern.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 1:10 pm By: Big Bob

Firebrand lies.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 10:09 am By: Hood Richardson

I would not call someone "smarter" than anyone if they are supporting do-noting seat warmers on the school board who allow themselves to be rubberstamps for a leftwing school superintendant instead of doing the jobs they were elected to in setting policy for our schools. The useless school board members we have now seem to regard Cheeseman as their boss instead of their employee, which he actually is.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 9:49 am By: Conservative Voter

In 2024, our country faces an election that is existential. If Biden or someone like him remains in power, we will not recognize the America we know and love in another four years. It will be gone forever. In that context, all conservatives and Republicans need to focus on preventing that from happening rather than rehashing what happened in the local party in an incident two years ago. That cannot be changed but the direction of our country still can be. We also have lots of other important races like getting decent governor for a change and getting a local school board with the backbone to stand up to woke policies.

That said, there is an easy way to put that dispute over what Hood Richardson did or did not resign from to bed for good, and that is for someone to produce his letter of resignation to see what it actually said.

When one holds two positions on one governing body, it is possible to resign both or to resign one and keep the other, and the specific wording of the resignation is what determines which has occured. I, myself had that situation. At the 1981 First Congressional District GOP convention, I was re-elected as a member at large of the NCGOP state executive committee for a two year term. A few months later, when Joe Beard resigned as Young Republican National Committeeman from NC to take a job in the Reagan administraion, he recommended me as his successor and I was elected by the state Young Republican Executive Committee. My new position also carried a voting seat on the NCGOP state executive committee, but I was not allowed to cast votes for both positions I now held. To give someone else from eastern North Carolina an opportunity to serve on the NCGOP state ExCom, I resigned my First District at-large seat, but retained my other seat by virtue of being YR National Committeeman.

The key is the wording of the letter of resignation. I have pointed that out to both sides since just after this dispute began, but so far I have not seen either side produce the actual letter. Please, somebody do that so we can put this issue to bed. There are so many more important things we need to be working on that have a whole lot more bearing on our future.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 9:20 am By: Steven P. Rader

The "True Republican Party" (The Beaufort County GOP); their motto enforced: 'Real Conservatives need not apply.'

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 9:00 am By: Stan Deatherage