Conservative Candidates Make Clean Sweep In Williamson County GOP Reorganization

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1. Pleased to see the true grassroots conservative Elevate 2025 slate win the Williamson County Republican Party reorganization convention.

   Certainly, because I was so happy the Ward Baker slash-and-burn, throw-every-possible-lie-at-the-opposition style of campaigning that the establishment, Brian Clifford-led Williamson County “Conservatives” ran failed miserably. God was honored tonight as truth, honor and decency in political campaigning won out. And now the party can continue its upward trajectory.

   But I was surprised to hear that the Clifford crew demanded a hand recount. I thought all establishment politicians and players felt the voting machines were infallible. They can’t be wrong! And I hear that the Elevate team even gained a couple of votes and that Brian Clifford lost a vote in the recount. Impossible!

   No, just another excellent reason why we need to ditch the election machines, go to hand-marked paper ballots, go back to precinct voting versus vote center voting and move to a hand recount in every election. Despite what the Williamson County Election Commission says, this all CAN be done and not cost millions of dollars!

2. Our opponents launched their campaign by calling anyone who didn’t vote for them “idiots,” and it went downhill from there. Their plan was to sow confusion and fear. They tried to redefine words, and even copied our “keep democrats out of our primaries” mantra after they saw the popularity of our stickers at our Reagan Day Gala. As Courtney Laginess pointed out… “The same people who accused us of being too conservative these past two years have suddenly declared themselves the real conservatives.” They tried to out-Trump us. They even tried to blame us for one of our candidates losing a school board race in which some of THEIR LEADERS endorsed her opponent and worked with the Dems to defeat her. They tried to paint us into a corner…and they out-spent us 10:1…but the PEOPLE simply said “no.” It wasn’t a landslide…and we have a lot of work to do…with miles of fence to mend…but the cause of Liberty is worth the effort.

3. GOOD!!

4. The Williamson County Conservatives ran a profoundly negative campaign. They accused the current board and Elevate 2025 of being an unethical and corrupt regime, of voter suppression, of rigging the election, of creating confusion, of employing Stalin type tactics, etc. etc. They spent a lot of money, sending out numerous mailers and texts which cost thousands of dollars each time. Some have estimated that they spent upwards of $100,000.00 on their campaign. They even got a positive article written for them from The Tennessee Star of all places. Interestingly, mine and several others comments on the Star article were censored.

   I want to be perfectly clear. When they, The WCC, accused the Contest and Credentials Committee (CCC) of unethically changing the venue for the convention from Liberty Hall to the Cool Springs Marriott, that did it for me. How dare they impugn the reputation of these selfless servants of Williamson County. I know these people; they are friends of mine. I know their hearts and I know their commitment to truth. They ran an extraordinary convention. When they saw that the number of registrations had surpassed the occupation limit of Liberty Hall, they did the right thing and found a location that could hold the expected crowd. As it turned out, over 1,500 people voted last night. There was standing room only and the current board accommodated everyone who came to make sure that every single qualified participant who showed up was allowed to vote.

   I don’t know who funded their campaign, but I know that a PAC was formed for them back in December 2024. That PAC will have to file a report in April then we will know how much money ran through it and where it went. In the meantime, I hope that the citizens of Williamson County pay attention to the people, including myself, who are leading this county and start asking questions about truth in campaigns so that the travesty of this election cannot happen again.

5. Whew!!! That was a close call! It seems the tepid conservative establishment is no longer amused by being beaten 2 to 1 by solid conservatives when elections take place so by-gosh they’re doing something about it and will continue to do so. Now the only question is what do the solid conservatives of Williamson County do now because I’m afraid that the days of easy victories are gone for the foreseeable future.

   Hopefully, the movers and shakers of the conservative movement in Williamson County are organizing a PAC to support solid conservative candidates in county races as I write this comment and ardent conservatives are chomping at the bit to support such a PAC. Let’s regard last night’s convention as a needed wake-up call and simply be thankful that at the end of the day no damage was done.

6. I was disgusted by the flyers that Clifford’s group sent out – full of intentional lies.
   I don’t trust anyone associated with that group, including the TN Star.
   I noticed last night at the election that many members of the Williamson County Political Machine (which includes most of the Franklin Aldermen and most of the Williamson County Commissioners and their hired help) were there to vote for Clifford’s group.

   One recommendation to all the Good Guys > call the lies what they are > “Lies”. A few of the Elevate group did. The election was very close – I think the uncontested lies might be part of the reason.

7. Agreed….excellent news and keep up the great work ELEVATE 2025 victors!! Stay BOLD for real conservative values, which is to say stand against the ‘political good ol’ boys in Williamson Co.’ !

8. Amid the teeming waves of flyers from supposed rock-ribbed conservatives featuring pictures of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, insisting that the previous, and now reaffirmed, WCRP board was going to cancel elections entirely (no debating means to an end for these frauds — just slander of good people who accomplished more in two years to expand the party, true up finances and give every candidate a voice than the establishment did in generations of wine mixers) ONE THING MUST BE FRONT AND CENTER: In Tennessee, as in Williamson County, Republicans have an UNASSAILABLE Super-Majority, holding the leadership of BOTH legislative houses AND the Governorship (now for two terms). Why, then, does this leadership not simply LEAD and close primary voting to those registered as supporters of the Democrat Party? Why is manipulation of Republican selection OF THEIR OWN CANDIDATES by corrupt “cross-over” voting allowed? Governor Lee and Senator Johnson, you were both in attendance at the Williamson County Republican Reorganization Convention the other night. Senator Johnson, I am sure you thought the election well in hand, returning power to your people — I confess that I certainly thought there was a strong chance that establishment Republicans were in the majority in that room. But, praise God, true conservatives prevailed, barely, overcoming a level of spending discrepancy, damnable lies and lack of decency that was appalling. I think we can now see why those clearly in POSITION to do the right thing and protect the integrity of elections do not do so. Close as it was, they can’t win currently unless they lie and cheat.

   We need to continue to embarrass these men, if they are capable of being embarrassed. It is within their power to solve the problem.

   And our side needs to remove the objection to caucuses by proposing, if they must be adopted in order to protect the integrity of our party elections, to distribute them in much the same manner as voting takes place currently — at a location in each significant locality, in a school, church or public building. People go now to such locations to vote — they would do the same in a caucus situation. Everyone in Iowa doesn’t go to Des Moines to cast a vote in the Presidential Caucuses in that state. But always, ALWAYS, the point needs to be made that the folks at the top could do the right thing, if only they would.