Oregon GOP Chair Quits Over 'Evil' In His Party

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/10/oregon-gop-chair-quits-over-evil-in-his-party/

Oregon GOP Chair Quits Over ‘Evil’ In His Party
March 10, 2022 at 6:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Oregon Republican Party chair Dallas Heard has resigned, citing “evil” inside the party he leads, the Oregonian reports.

Said Heard: “My physical and spiritual health can no longer survive exposure to the toxicity that can be found in this community. We truly have an equal if not greater evil than the Democrats walking among us.”

He added: “The endless slander, gossip, conspiracies, sabotage, lies, hatred, pointless criticism, blocking of ideas, and mutiny brought against my administration has done what I once never thought possible, They have broken my spirit. I can face the Democrats with courage and conviction, but I can’t fight my own people too.”

[DanieRains]

1. Dude Just Figured Out Republicans Were Evil

Took a little time I guess.

I knew it long ago.

Pure evil.

[Botany]

2. Evil lives in the Republican Party ... no doubt about it.

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

3. They should just try to accept the fact that Democrats are good people, not evil

[MissMillie]

4. thank you for sharing

even though I hate the "we're as bad as they are" sentiments he expresses, this is a good story.

As an aside, since POLITICALWIRE usually links to another story (much like HuffPost) why not give us the link to the full story from the original source?


I feel like the short blurb POLITICALWIRE gives often leaves out a lot of stuff.

[babylonsister]

5. Politicalwire did not provide a source to the

story other than the rnc and Heard's words. You could probably google him and get a link to the direct quote.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Dumbass. Republicans have been gossipy racist backstabbing evildoers for decades

[gratuitous]

7. My guess is that Dallas Heard is about to go through some things

I think his resignation is an attempt to get out ahead of something really bad.

[JHB]

8. Suggestion for this guy and every other "ex-Republican"...

...who quit because what their party became (and did so much earlier than they like to think):

Take the advice of the sainted Ronald Reagan and "speak no ill" of the only people who can prevent your extremist ex-comrades from taking over completely.

Speak no ill of Democrats and liberals. Remove the phrase "extreme left" from your working vocabulary.

You don't have to like the policies we advocate, but for the next few years, just zip it. I know you're all very accustomed to laying scorn with a trowel the size of an airplane wing, but just zip it.

We're trying to shove the hellbeast you guys rode to victory for years back under its rock. If you can't help with that, get out of the way.

Zip it.

[Achilleaze]

9. Good on him

Republicanism has become a vile moral disease.

[barbaraann]

10. Perhaps he's worried about the Oregon trucker protest set for March 18 in the state capitol.

https://www.occupyoregon.com/

[barbaraann]

11. He's involved with a group that seeks to expose/dox people who make OSHA complaints!!!

https://www.nrtoday.com/news/health/coronavirus/citizens-against-tyranny-movement-backed-by-sen-heard-seeks-to-expose-people-who-make-osha/article_5c119e0f-c6b4-5039-8905-070f0aa212b3.html

And Herman Baertschiger Jr, who will replace in the Oregon GOP, is involved with that group, too.

From the article:
Two women, both senior citizens and Douglas County residents, were recently fingered by this organization. Their names were published on a website called citizensagainsttyranny.net as part of “The LIST,” and they were labeled “Filthy Traitors.” The words were spattered in red, as if to indicate blood.

Wow.