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   Hello Aaron,   
      
   >LL> >How can a person complain about a local Republican Committee Chairman   
   > and   
   >>get results?   
   >LL> LL>Refuse to donate to his/her cause.   
   >   
   >I appreciate that advice, but this isn't that easy. It's the chairman of the   
   > local Republican Committees (around New York State.) These guys are   
   > supposed to find us candidates, and they are doing a bad job - they are NOT   
   > finding us candidates, and they're basically handing control to any   
   > Democrat who wants the job.   
      
   Back in the 1970s well over 90% of all elected officials in Louisiana   
   were Democrats. Only perhaps two or three Republicans in the state   
   legislature. And no Republican had ever been elected to statewide   
   office. Today, the state Senate is two-thirds Republican, and the   
   state House of Representatives is two votes short of a two-thirds   
   majority, with the governor being the sole statewide elected Democrat.   
      
   How did this happen? Republicans did it by starting from the ground   
   up. They elected individuals to serve on the most basic level, that   
   of committees, and from there grew their party to what it is today.   
      
   What Trump is doing is what Republicans in Louisiana did some forty   
   odd years ago. Elect a handful of people on committees, and grow things   
   from there. Today, the Republican Party is no longer what it used to   
   be, and never will return to what it once was.   
      
   >There probably was legitimate science to this at some point in the past, but   
   > now these chairmen are destroying democracy. I'll assume they're being paid   
   > by Democrats, but I'm wondering how to stop the madness?   
      
   It is not Democrats who are destroying the Republican Party.   
   It is Donald Trump and his minions who are doing that. Get a   
   small number of his own elected to local committees, and grow   
   his "movement" into a new kind of political force.   
      
   >I write to my local chairman, he gives me a load of garbage about how he   
   > "did all I could" and then he thinks I'm going to just forget about it and   
   > embrace Democrat culture. I don't know where to turn because he is the   
   > chairman - is there anyone higher?   
      
   You have to remove the rug from under his feet. But to do that,   
   you also have to remove the rug from under those who are already   
   in the process of doing that. IOW, you have to figure out how to   
   out-Republican those who are trying to out-Republican Republicans   
   in order to have a majority Republican committee that serves   
   Republicans.   
      
   Good luck with that.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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