Harris Botches Choice for State Board of Elections
MDGOP Chair's Attempt to Place an Election Denier on the State Board of Elections has been rejected by Moore; says choice is "not an appropriate selection"
Thanks to a boneheaded and idiotic decision by Maryland Republican Party Chair Nicole Beus Harris, Governor Wes Moore has rejected Harris’s selection of William Newton for the Maryland State Board of Elections.
The two major parties are offered the opportunity to submit names to the Governor of Maryland to serve on the State Board of Elections. In an idiotic unforced error in an attempt to appease the unreasonable lunatic wing of the party, Harris selected Republican Central Committee member, frequent candidate, and election conspiracist William Newton.
Newton’s entry into the election denial world came in 2016, when Newton began to claim that the 2016 Republican Congressional Primary in the 7th Congressional district was “stolen” from him.
In an email letter from Moore to Harris obtained by The Duckpin, Moore rejected Newton’s appointment as “not an appropriate selection for this important position of public trust” based on his constant and repeated challenging of the legitimacy of the elections.
Newton has often produced “evidence” of election fraud that tends to be anything but.
Newton claims his rejection as a “great victory”
NOW THIS UPDATE (see attached letter)
Just received confirmation that Governor Moore REJECTED my nomination to fill the vacancy on the STATE BOARD of Elections.....
GET this:
because I have "publicly supported challenging the legitimacy of Maryland's free and fair elections"......
DOESNT that make you say: huh?
I guess they want rubber stamps to never question any evidence of fraud....
PERSONALLY, I'd like to say that I appreciate his acknowledgement and for recognizing the legitimacy of my work.... {chuckle} 😎
Meanwhile, this is the latest in a series of major mistakes made by Nicole Harris. After botching her first hire and skipping the RNC meeting, now Harris has made sure that the Maryland Republican Party is fully associated with the asinine election denial movement. Not only that, but thanks to her incompetence Harris has now established a precedent that the Governor of Maryland can reject an appointment to the State Board of Elections; something that to date has never happened before.
You’d think that despite her being Maryland Republican Party Chairman that Nicole Harris had no interest in Republicans being competitive here anymore.
Things are not going to improve for Maryland Republicans unless Harris finally decides to get her act together.