Dear Pete Hoekstra,
As a Christian I will not name call (although my flesh would like to), but I will expose the evil deeds of darkness (as Eph. 5:11 calls me to). Your actions, Sir, have been nothing less than COWARDLY! First, you meet with my husband for breakfast and seem to have a good conversation. Then you meet with Kristina Karamo for breakfast, same thing. The next thing we know, you are throwing both of them, along with Ottawa Impact under the bus, telling all the HRCC that they are ruining the party! Why not say it to their face?
Then your friends try to destroy Kristina and her administration with lies, deception, bullying, and veiled threats. Very ironic how your pal Warren Carpenter sends multiple veiled threats to several members of Kristina’s team (including veiled threats against my children… “Are you sure you want to do this?…You have children, Joel!”) and how two pastors received threatening calls against their wives and children by someone to keep them from hosting our events. Now you appoint Warren as your finance chair? Wow! I won’t speculate why!
Then your “friends” hold a 40 person coup, change the bylaws to lower the requirement to remove Kristina and “elect” you as chair because they knew they didn’t have the numbers to do it the right way. When that doesn’t work, why not try corrupt law-fare to get your way? Next, jerk all the PDs around and waste thousands of dollars by changing the location of the state convention (don’t worry about the thousands of PDs who will be out $$ for hotel rooms either) because you know you can’t have thousands of delegates in one room to boo you off the stage like they did with Wieser!
Then just to be sure no one tries to reverse what you’ve done, make sure not to credential 24 counties who are against your evil schemes at the state convention and say it’s because they didn’t turn their stuff in on time (even though they DID - they sent it to the REAL duly elected MIGOP secretary as the rules state - oh but not your rules, right?)
Then decide to call a SC meeting last minute so none of those you refused to credential from D1 would make the drive down (why would they after being jerked around and wasting $$ on hotel rooms when they know you won’t credential them for the convention and are sick of your games?) That way you can enshrine the votes that excluded all the uncredentialed delegates.
Then in all time cowardly fashion have a woman run the SC meeting in your place so you don’t have to deal with any flack from upset PDs! Oh and don’t forget to reinstate all those who were properly removed by their counties for going along with the coup!
Congratulations Sir! You now control the party and made sure “We the People” won’t be able to take it back (this year)! What a clever way to get the other lawsuits dropped too that could have exposed more corruption!
Unfortunately, you’ve also lost the respect of thousands of PDs across this state who will refuse to go along with your tyrannical form of government and will make sure everyone knows what you did to them. Good day, Sir!
~Kelsea Studebaker