Ralph King and President Trump
Ohio’s Ralph King: Establishment
Republicans
are Trying to Take over Local GOP
to Help Matt Dolan in Primary
The “Ralph King” in the Breitbart headline is Cleveland Tea
Party founder Ralph King :
Ralph King, the co-founder of
Cleveland Tea Party Patriots, told Breitbart News Saturday that
establishment Republicans with close ties to Democrats are trying to
infiltrate the Republican Party of Cuyahoga County in order to help U.S. Senate
candidate Matt Dolan early in the primary process and wrest control
away from conservatives who have taken command in recent years.
King, who has been active
in Cuyahoga County Republican politics since 2001, explained that
the establishment Republicans are trying to infiltrate the local county
party in an effort to help Dolan in the upcoming 2024 Senate race’s
Republican primary after his failed attempt in 2022 when he came in
third behind now-Sen.
J.D. Vance (R-OH) in the GOP primary.
“The activists and the
conservatives, you know, we’ve been fighting for a long time,” King
acknowledged. “We just stopped a lobbyist from taking over the Ohio Republican
Party. There’s a huge fight between the lobbyists and the conservatives in
the Ohio
House over the Ohio speaker. And in Cuyahoga County, which I’ve been
on for many, many years, you know, we continually fought against the liberals,
the establishment, the donor class, and until recently, we finally got a good
chair to put a stop to all that. And the liberals and the RINOs in the
establishment, you know, they are pushing back. And at this moment, what
they’re trying to do is they’re trying to hold illegal meetings … to try to get
rid of a new chairman that we have [who] has given voice to the members and has
stopped putting their finger on the scale, to tip it towards the establishment,
and they’re mad they no longer control the party.”
“Between [former] President [Donald]
Trump coming out [in support] for J.D. Vance and us on the Cuyahoga County
Republican Party, Matt Dolan tried to steal that endorsement,” King continued.
“Cuyahoga County Republican Party is one of the largest GOP parties in the
state of Ohio. Although we’re in the pit of the Democrat heart of Ohio, we do
have the largest party. It is Matt Dolan’s home party. That’s the importance,
so between President Trump and the Cuyahoga County Republican Party slapping
Matt Dolan down in that last election — between the two — we ultimately killed his chances to win the primaries. That’s why
Matt knows he needs control of the GOP in Cuyahoga County at this point. So
what he did, he’s vowed revenge since that time.”
King ultimately said that the
“illegal meeting” the establishment Republicans are trying to hold for
the Cuyahoga County Republican Party is to remove the current chair, Lisa
Stickan, halfway through her four-year term to put Lee Weingart in as chair
to help Dolan be better placed in the 2024 Republican primary.
“So what [Dolan’s] done is we have
a gentleman by the name of Lee Weingart,” King explained. “Lee Weingart is
a lobbyist. Lee Weingart has a history of donating to [Rep.] Marcy Kaptur
[(D-OH)], [Sen.] Sherrod Brown [(D-OH)], a long history of donating to [former
Rep.] Tim Ryan [(D-OH)] — actually made $3,000 donations to Tim Ryan in 2021
and was actually campaigning for Tim Ryan in Iowa [during his failed
presidential run] — which would be par for the course for Matt Dolan to team up
with a guy and a lobbyist like Lee Weingart. Lee Weingart tried to hold an
illegal meeting. He used Matt Dolan’s firm to give some outrageous legal
opinion supporting this illegal meeting. And what people need to realize is
there’s a key between Matt Dolan and Lee Weingart and the donations to the
Democrats and supporting Democrats. Matt Dolan was originally a Democrat before
he started calling himself a Republican. … We are in a fight for the life of
the Cuyahoga County Republican Party against the establishment likes of Lee
Weingart and Matt Dolan.” . . .
Ralph King: fighting the good fight. Full report is here.
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