Montezuma County Republican Party Chair Lenetta Shull chastised Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams over the “transphobic email” the state party sent out last week during a Sunday evening “grassroots town hall meeting” held via Zoom. According to a recording of the event obtained by the Colorado Times Recorder, Shull raised concerns about the impact the email is having on the Senate District 6 race.
Last Friday Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans publicly called on his own state party chair to resign, and for the party’s central committee to vote him out if he refused to step down. GOP calls for Williams to step down boiled over last month when Williams sent a vicious anti-gay missive via the party’s email account attacking anyone who supports Pride month.
If Dave Williams is booted from his position as leader of the Colorado Republican Party this weekend, it will be no surprise, given the fate of the six Colorado Republican chairs over the past 13 years. All six were run out of office, the last four after just one term each. Will Eli Bremer, who today announced his intention to replace Williams, be the leader to end the nearly decade-long streak of one-and-done chairmen?
In the days following the first public call by another party leader for a vote on his removal, Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams took two actions: he announced the censure of that leader by her fellow executive committee members, and paid himself his next month’s consulting fee in advance.
“Dr. James Dobson has joined President Donald J. Trump in supporting Chairman Dave Williams.”
On June 14, Conservative Daily podcaster Joe Oltmann vented about treasonous Republicans In Name Only (RINOs), a federal Department of Justice that is acting above the law, and all the January 6 patriots who are being abused by the legal system. Oltmann praised the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that dropped the ban on bumpstocks, which convert semi-automatics into a close approximation of a machine gun. Whether he was joking or not, he said he’d like to buy 5,000 bumpstocks and give them away.
Williams' fearmongering follows the legacy of the Colorado Ku Klux Klan before him.
Northwest Colorado, the Republican parts of it anyway, remains solidly Trump country despite his felony convictions last month on 34 counts in New York. Trump’s Colorado golden boy, however — state Republican Party Chair Dave Williams — may be on a bit shakier ground.
As if there wasn’t sufficient unrest amongst Colorado Republicans at the moment, the Trump campaign has pulled its state director after just four months. Justin Everett is going to work on the upcoming convention for the Republican National Committee, leaving the state director post empty. Meanwhile state GOP chair Dave Williams must survive a resignation demand from many of his county party chairs, one of whom faces “undetermined consequences” for her actions calling out Williams. Buckle up.
