Yesterday, the Loudoun GOP held an election for chair — and it was as crazy and nasty as you’d expect (according to former Trump official Nick Minock, who now works as a “journalist” at right-wing-propaganda Sinclair’s WJLATV7, tweeted, “A few folks described the race to me as “bare knuckle” “off the rails” and filled with ‘personal attacks'” – such as the incumbent Chair, Scott Pio, accusing his opponent, Paul Lott, of “abusing his wife and Children in 2024”). In the end, incumbent Chair Pio (see below for more about him) barely held off a challenge from Lott (who Del. Rip Sullivan, in his “Flip-and-Defend-a-District-Friday,” described as “focused on Critical Race Theory, banning books, attacking transgender students…taking away a woman’s right to choose…a right-wing extremist”; Lott also claims that transgender “ideology” is “contrary to human history, biology, and commonsense”) – by 37 votes out of 1,159 cast, in a highly divided party (note: the former VA GOP Chair hates Pio, as you can see from his tweets, below).
For more on Pio – including his bizarre question, “Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water?”, see below. And remember, this isn’t an aberration; sad to say, but THIS is the Trumpified, MAGA, extremist, off-the-deep-end, definitely-not-your-parents’-or-grandparents’-Republican-Party.
- Loudoun Chair Phyllis Randall Rips County GOP(Q) Chair For “defending a man who replied ‘no comment’ when asked ‘are you pro or anti slavery?’” (This is the same guy who falsely claimed that historically African American sorority Delta Sigma Theta is “taking control of our country at all levels of govt”)
- Video: Loudoun Chair Phyllis Randall Says Loudoun GOP Chair “in some ways…a joke,” but “can become very dangerous,” Just Like Trump (“Loudoun has been the epicenter for harassment, for lies, for violence”; “there is a strategy to what [Republicans are] doing”)
- VA GOP House of Delegates Candidate Asks, “Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water?” (He also claims that anyone who calls him on this is engaging in “hate” and asks, “Curious when you stopped believing in pure physics?”)
- Video: Roland Martin Schools Loudoun GOP Chair Who Falsely Claimed Historically African American Sorority Delta Sigma Theta Is “taking control of our country at all levels of govt” (“So is the real issue that you’re bothered that Phyllis Randall, who is the supervisor the head of Loudoun County, that she’s a Delta and she’s a proud Delta?”)
- After Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Loudoun GOP Chair Claims Historically African American Sorority Delta Sigma Theta Is “taking control of our country at all levels of govt”
- New Loudoun GOP Chair Mocks Women’s History Month, Wonders if There Should be a “MensHistoryMonth” Where “the men wear all white”
- VA GOP House of Delegates Candidate Asks, “Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water?”
John Whitbeck, from Loudoun County, is the former chair (from 2015 to 2018) of the Virginia GOP.
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