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Wirt Yerger, Jr. died May 2nd at 92. He founded the current Republican Party out of whole cloth beginning in the fifties. Back in the same period, I asked a prominent Sage in Greenville why we werent Republicans? He explained that the Republican Party at that time was controlled by a black attorney from Mound Bayou who lived and practiced in Washington. Perry Howard chose the convention delegates and what patronage there was.

It was a competition between the termed black and tans and the lily whites. This is just an indication of the political climate at that time. For example, in 1948, the Deweys forces paid Perry Howard $1,500 for the Mississippi votes. The bag man on the way from New York to Washington died on the train while he was trying to deliver the money.

The bag mans widow claimed the money and they had to pay twice. This story was confirmed to me by Lynn Hall the chairman of the Republican Party and by John Osborne a prominent reporter for the New Republic. In the late 1960s, Wirts good friend and mine Charles Blum slated to become the next Mississippi chairman.

He had a family problem that caused him to withdraw. Wirt turned to me and said you would take it if we cannot find anyone and the rest is history. I became state chairman in 1966. Wirt doggedly pursued what had to be done. For example, I met Wirt at his brother Swans wedding. He soon named me county chairman without anyones permission. Election was to come later.

The process of building a party was far more complex than this. He pushed to get every county in the state organized. There were miles to go but we were on a trajectory. By 1964, the Goldwater National Convention, the south and the conservative were clearly becoming the majority. Mississippi was on its way to become a majority Republican State. Rest in peace, Wirt.

Clarke Reed lives in Greenville, Mississippi. He is a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party.

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MINOT, N.D. Jeffrey Powell is an administrator at Mayville State University and the Democratic-NPL candidate for secretary of state. He was endorsed by the partys executive committee (he made a late decision to run so didnt attend the partys state convention in Minot) and in November will be facing off against one of two potential Republican candidates.

State Rep. Michael Howe is squaring off with Bismarck mechanic Marvin Lepp in the NDGOP primary.

Powell has been watching that race, and on this episode of Plain Talk, said it frustrates him when the Republican candidates talk about election integrity, arguing thats a code word for voter suppression.

He said the primary job of a secretary of state is to protect the right of the people to vote, and he accused Republican lawmakers of enacting laws to suppress votes in past legislative sessions.

Powell also spoke about running as a Democrat in a state that has become deeply Republican over the last couple of decades. He said there is a sense of fear among Democrats who think about running for office in North Dakota. He acknowledged that both Republicans and Democrats have become more extreme in recent years, but that the alleged danger is more keenly felt by people who are more likely to be Democrats.

Powell said he hasnt personally felt any danger in running for office.

Also on this episode, Dickinson-based oil worker Riley Kuntz, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. John Hoeven for the NDGOPs primary nomination, spoke about why he decided to mount what he admits is a long-shot bid to defeat one of North Dakotas most popular political figures.

He said he was disappointed state Rep. Rick Becker, who challenged Hoeven at the NDGOPs state convention, wasnt successful and felt he had to continue the challenge to Hoeven.

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WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) discussed thefuture of the Republican party and the Biden Administrations disastrous energypolicy on Fox Business Kudlow. Excerpts and full video are below.

On Future of the RepublicanParty:

The Trump doctrine matters. Donald Trump tapped into somethingreally important that Americans care about: an America First form ofconservatism and an America First form of trade. Id lovefourmoreyears with Donald Trump as well.

I also have a lot of friends andknowa lot of peoplewho want the Donald Trump face back because they want that same fightingspirit. But whatever the field looks like, they better be prepared toarticulate an America First Trump doctrine. If they dont, they are missingwhats been going on in this country and whats been going on in the RepublicanParty for the last several years.

I submit that you and I probably felt a little bit differentlyabout international trade 5, 6, or 7 years ago than we do now or globalizingthe economy or Americas role in foreign policing efforts. Donald Trump did notjust tap into something Americans feel, he educated us on what our prioritiesought to be. I respect him for that and I appreciate that. Thats still whereAmerica is and still where our party is. If you want to be the President of theUnited States or United States Senator, Congressman, or Governor, you betterunderstand that.

On the Biden Administrations Energy Policy:

If people believed [what Secretary Granholm espoused], Joe Bidenwouldnt have a 26% approval rating today. The problem with this Administrationis they never learned from their own mistakes. Either they believe their ownrhetoric or they resign themselves to losing in November and they want to do asmuch damage as they can before we get there.

Words matter. Larry, you and Kevin [Hassett] were talking aboutmarkets. Markets respond to politics, geopolitics, consumer confidence,investor confidence, taxes, and regulations. If you have a tax increase,regulation increase Administration talking like this, markets have to respondto that. [The Biden Administration is] still in charge and they will be in theWhite House forthe nextcouple of years. So these are significantwords. Sometimes I like to think that maybe shes just ignorant. She has saidso many crazy things, quite honestly, but Im afraid they kind of believe it.

How about when you push this [environmental, social, andcorporate governance (ESG)] nonsense on the [Securities and ExchangeCommission], the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, [U.S.Department of Agriculture], and every chamber, every administrative agency andsubagency? Theyre all pushing the same narrative thathas a chilling effect on investment.

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The false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election has become gospel among most Republicans. Polls over the past year have shown that nearly 70 percent of all Republicans believe that President Joe Biden stole the election from Trump. The stolen election conspiracy theory runs so deep that, according to the New York Times, more than 350 Republican state legislators in nine critical swing states had taken steps to either discredit or overturn the 2020 election results. Election deniers represent 44 percent of GOP legislators in those states.

In light of this it seems notable that on Sunday, the man charged with helping the GOP win back the Senate, went on national television and admitted that Biden was in fact the countrys duly elected president:

Rick Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is not the only Republican senator to publicly acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election, but he doesnt have a lot of company. In December 2020, a Washington Post survey of all GOP members of Congress found only 27 who would come out and admit that the election was not, in fact, rigged, and that Trump had lost fair and square. Nearly 90 percent of the Republican members simply refused to say who they thought won the election.

In the Senate, Scott is joined only by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted to impeach Trump, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), and latecomer Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who finally admitted in January that Biden had fairly won the election. For this indiscretion, Rounds was promptly attacked by Trump, who released a statement saying, Senator Mike Rounds of the Great State of South Dakota just went woke on the Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020. He made a statement this weekend on ABC Fake News, that despite massive evidence to the contrary, including much of it pouring in from Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and other states, he found the election to be ok just fine. Is he crazy or just stupid?

What makes Scotts admission particularly noteworthy is that he was one of eight Senate Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results. Scott has hitched his wagon so closely to Trump, particularly in messaging and fundraising campaigns for the 2022 midterm elections, that he invented an award to give to the former president in April 2021. Making Trump the first recipient of the NRSC Champion of Freedom award, Scott called Trump a proven champion for all Americans. Trump has reportedly urged Scott to run against McConnell for the senate leadership post, and his PAC has defended Scotts unpopular 11-point plan to rescue America that included raising taxes on poor people and sunsetting Medicare and Social Security, two programs used by millions of voters in his home state. But now, Scott, the richest member of the Senate, seems to be gearing up to run for president himself. Last week, he launched a second national ad campaign targeting Biden, calling him incompetent and confused.

Given Scotts acknowledgment of Bidens legitimacy and his recent moves suggesting he is mulling a presidential bid, its a wonder that Trump hasnt denounced him in a press release. Though perhaps Trump, a famous devotee of TiVo, has yet to watch Scotts appearance on Face the Nation.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today warned that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has become at least the second House Republican this year to say that, if Republicans are in the majority next year, they should repeal the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which gave D.C. an elected chief executive (mayor) and legislature (Council). In February, Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) also said that a Republican House should repeal the Home Rule Act, and he said he was working on a bill to do so, which he has yet to introduce. Several other House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) and Representative James Comer (KY), the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has jurisdiction over D.C., have told the press this year that they plan to limit D.C.s authority to govern its own affairs next Congress.

The last time we heard such threats to D.C. self-government from Republicans was in the early and mid-1990s, Norton said. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde literally want the federal government to resume running D.C. as a colony. Republicans are scared that D.C. has gotten closer to statehood than ever, and their response is, predictably, to try to take away what democracy the nearly 700,000 D.C. residents, a plurality of whom are African American, have. I will defeat their efforts, and their efforts will only strengthen our case for statehood.

In his signing statement on the Home Rule Act in 1973, President Nixon wrote, One of the major goals of this Administration is to place responsibility for local functions under local control and to provide local governments with the authority and resources they need to serve their communities effectively. The measure I sign today represents a significant step in achieving this goal in the city of Washington. It will give the people of the District of Columbia the right to elect their own city officials and to govern themselves in local affairs. As the Nation approaches the 200th anniversary of its founding, it is particularly appropriate to assure those persons who live in our Capital City rights and privileges which have long been enjoyed by most of their countrymen.

But the measure I sign today does more than create machinery for the election of local officials. It also broadens and strengthens the structure of the city government to enable it to deal more effectively with its responsibilities.

D.C. is denied voting representation in Congress and full self-government, which is undemocratic. Statehood is the remedy. Congress has the constitutional authority to grant D.C. statehood. D.C. has a larger population than two states, pays more federal taxes than 23 states, pays more federal taxes per capita than any state, has a larger budget than 12 states, has a larger gross domestic product than 17 states, has a triple-A bond rating, and federal funds constitute a smaller percentage of its budget than the percentage of total state revenue.

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