I've dragged out the dead horse so I could continue beating it. And we have another example from the clown show running the Colorado GOP State Party joining me. Now, I would not put those words in his mouth. I'll let Hunter Rivera explain exactly what just happened at a Weld County reorganization meeting.
Now, Hunter, I've got to tell you welcome to the show.
First of all, But I got to tell you I don't think I ever thought in my lifetime I would be covering a reorg meeting from a political party in a county. It's just not something that really ever makes a ripple, you know. It's one of those things that happens and it's great, but we don't ever really talk about this stuff. So what happened at the Weld County Oh, jeez, Hunter, unmute the computer there, Grant.
I muted it because it was looping. So we're just going to.
Get that now, Hunter, I just laid out everything that you could not hear.
So what just happened? Wait? Is that I think you're still muted?
Grant?
Hang out.
I can hear it.
Now, you can hear us. Great, don't do anything else. We're all good.
We can all be heard right now now, Hundre, I just laid out that the state party and I never thought I would be covering the state party or the county reorg meeting of a political party, but here we are. So what should have been a pretty pedestrian event where you guys came in the Weld County Republicans came in and you what do you elect at these county reorg meetings?
Who gets elected into what positions?
Yeah? So it's everything from your county chairman to your county vice chair or in our case, vice chairman. We have multiple secretary of treasurer. And then additionally, if your county got enough votes for president in the preceding general election, then you also get a bunch of bonus members. In Weald County, we have twenty two bonus members to our state Central Committee.
That is a lot of bonus members. I mean, that's a lot of bonus members.
So what happened when you guys were just there going about your business electing the people from your county that you.
Know and all of that?
What has gone sideways that the party is now saying, nah, that didn't count Well.
My goodness, I mean it all started back at the beginning of January. We were gaming ready for our County Reork meeting. We announced the date. About a week after we announced the date, we ended up getting a list of individuals that Dave Williams, the state Party Chair, ended up recommending to fill precinct committee vacancies precting committee people are voting members of our Central Committee. We checked the authority on that. We found out he had the authority
to do that under state law. All it said is it had to be those individuals had to be ratified therefore become members of our Central Committee, but those are subject to ratification by our county Central Committee. We ended up putting it on our agenda at our County Central
Committee and we satisfied the requirements of the law. There was an individual who did like that ended up filing a complaint with the state GOP, and the state GOP inserted themselves made a ruling which I believe was improperly given, which said we had to put that at the top
of our agenda. Asked our County Central Committee meeting at the eighth we asked the body, would you like to consider the ratification of these new voting members from Dave Williams and the State GOP at the beginning of our agenda, like they've asked, our Central Committee overwhelmingly said no. And then the state GOP came back on the conclusion of our meeting and invalidated all of our election results.
So let me just put this into simple terms. Dave Williams, the chairman of the Colorado GOP, sent you a list of people that he chose from Weld County to just be part of the bonus voters that you have in the Central Committee. So he just wanted them ratified, even if you guys in the Weld County Party did not want them. And I'm assuming that all of them were Williams loyalist that he thought would make it easier for him to do things like change by laws or win
another election to be Colorado's chairman of the GOP. So that's pretty much what happened, right, And he tried to stack the deck and you guys rejected it.
Yep, that is exactly it. We we went before the state Central Committee or excuse me, the State Executive Committee, he was asked point blank, who helped you put together these lists? One of those individuals is now running for State Party chair. You know, we told our County Central Committee this, and you know, I don't think they liked the optics of that. They told the state no when they told us to put it at the top of our agenda.
So, well, now what happens next because they invalidated the elections.
What happens next?
Well, you know the unfortunate thing is when they invalidated the elections, the normals process is that you have the ability to appeal those types of decisions from the Executive Committee to the State Central Committee. On the email set by Chairman Williams, he put on there that regardless of if I appeal the decision, he will come in and rerun our reort meeting. He would execute the authority of
whatever decision the State Executive Committee came up with. So basically it put us into the position of we could appeal the decision and be at the mercy of the State Central Committee and I have no idea how they would rule on this case, which I felt it was a bit of an unknown, or I could strike a deal with the Chairman, and we ended up directing a deal to where I felt like my county would still have some be somewhat respected in a process of redoing
our rear meeting, because honestly, I believe my county is still going to hold firm and I believe the results are going to end up being the exact same as they were a month ago.
I like that confidence. I like it a lot. I've was lucky enough to.
Attend the Weld County Women's rumbles this year, and they are just really strong organization, full of great people, and I think probably one of the best Republican organizations in the state. That's my opinion about the Weld County GOP. I just want to talk about one more thing before I let you go, Hunter, because I'm just doing this to bludge in the leadership of the Republican Party here in the state.
Further because I've.
Beaten them to a bloody pulp as often as possible, because they're terrible and divisive and awful and need to be completely out.
But how old are you Hunter? Oh, I'm only twenty two years old.
And you were just what is your position going to be? What are you?
Are you the chairman of the Colorado Weld County GOP right now or is that in limbo?
Well, according to my County Central Committee. I am according to Dave Williams and the State GOP, I am not the chairman, but yes, I am the county chairman in Weald County.
I think that's amazing and I'm incredibly happy to see that there are young people who are not just in the party for parties. They're in the party to make sure that things get executed properly. So good on you and the rest of the team they're in Weld County because, as you said, you fully expect this to hold steady and hold fast and not have this nonsense shoved down your throat by the state Committee. What made you want to be active on the committee?
First of all, yeah, Well, I actually was a RNC staffer about two years ago RNC slash plorouse GOP. I worked for Bark Kirkfier's campaign, helped her out in the HCD, and as you know, we came up a fifteen hundred votes short or so in that race, and I kind of got fed up as an individual and was like, well man, and I think the county Party could do more. So I started looking around seeing what positions I could
run for. I initially ran for versus Vice chairman. So that's the position I was in for the last two years, and then got involved with a bunch of different candidates. I helped run Yasmin Navara's campaign and Ryan Gonzalez's campaigns, and I also ran the cure effort for Dan Woog's race.
So just you know, I've just been activated for a while, been involved at the state capitol as a legislative aid and just see the stuff that's coming down from Democrats at the state level, and you know, just got fed up with it and decided to get involved and talk to my neighbors and talk to my community, get involved in my county, and just get good conservative leaders elected here.
Wellndre, I'm glad to have you and I'll be following along what happens on Saturday.
But I hope you're right.
I hope everything goes as you as you think, and Weld will have their bonus members that they choose instead of members that are shoved down their throat. And I look forward to coming back to Weld County again at some point for another event, because, like I said, I think you guys are doing an amazing job.
Well, I certainly appreciate that, and you're certainly always welcome up at a Well County GPE event.
All right, thank you, Hunter Rivera. He is the chairman of the Weld County GOP. As far as I'm concerned, we'll talk against you man.
Yes, sounds good.
Thank you.