they hope you forget

a speech given at mngop convention may 2024 about otter tail which got this man elected as alternate to milwaukee

it has been said that humanity right now has a sort of collective amnesia about a number of topics… how can that be argued when so much we think we know turns out to be false?

since mngop is about to have their december 14 election for new chair, new deputy chair, and secretary, what follows is a speech the current chair wouldn’t like you to remember (part of why didn’t allow recording at this may 2024 convention in first place)

basically the party ‘leaders’ excluded (illegally) delegates from otter tail county which led to there being no endorsement in cd7 (boyd v fischbach) as well as many delays in the 2-day state convention itself, where david hann (current chair running for re-election, lol) i don’t think said anything about it even though his decisions directly contributed to the issue

can read more at rebuildthemngop.com which Susan Smith and others contributed to… arguably this whole situation actually got Royce White elected 67% on first ballot for state senate because people were annoyed that those on stage were overtly trying to stop this conversation from being addressed—thank you Royce for missing your son’s basketball game to come back on day 2!

but bigger thanks to Susan Smith, Wendy Phillips (from CD1 but stood up for otter tail to run a convention the chair said they shouldn’t have), all the otter tail group, even with the disagreements, and those delegates who came back to talk to the excluded delegates who drove 3+ hours from otter tail to attend the convention to get the truth to other delegates from around the state, who were eventually invited onstage when Royce got the W.

thank you Richard for a great speech and i hope you don’t mind i share it around here now again… it was a public speech after all and i wish we had recorded it (if someone has it, please send!)

refuse to be duped again

Good afternoon Minnesota,

I am Richard Klabechek of Oak Grove MN, SD31. (Also part of ACEIT)

Yesterday we witnessed a sleight of hand by party leadership. We were duped into accepting the credentials report before discussing teh OTC situation. Not the integrity I expect.

Certainly nat as the membership envisioned. Again the party operates from the top down, not from the bottom up and we the people as it should be.

The lack of transparency and inability to deal with the situation directly is disgusting.

Thank you