Over the weekend, Colorado state Republicans voted to remove controversial party chair Dave Williams, who immediately denied the legitimacy of the vote.
Roughly 160 our of nearly 180 Republicans voted to remove Williams as their party chair during the Saturday gathering, according to local news reports.
Williams earned the ire of fellow Republicans in the state for using state party resources to promote his congressional candidacy in the 5th Congressional District
However, there’s been discrepancy regarding how to interpret the state party rules for ousting an officer – and whether it can be interpreted to mean that at least three-fifths of GOP central committee members present are enough to vote out an official or if at least three-fifths of all GOP central committee members total must be needed, according to The Hill.
The state party, in a release, claimed that the Republicans were “illegally re-interpreting our bylaws to improperly attempt to remove all of your duly elected officers.” Meanwhile, Republicans at the event voted in favor of interpreting the rules to mean Republicans in attendance and not total members, according to the Colorado Sun.
“77 people of a fringe party faction don’t get to decide for 400 plus members at a fake meeting, and to even suggest that less than half of the total membership can meet without authorization and remove duly elected officers below the 3/5th requirement and then have even less than a quarter of total membership elect a new chair is beyond absurd,” Williams said in a text message to The Hill.
“The Republican National Committee Parliamentarian has already deemed their meeting to have been invalid and our meeting on August 31st the only legitimate meeting,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Republicans present during the Saturday meeting elected Eli Bremer, a former El Paso County GOP chair, former Senate candidate and former Olympian, as their next state party chair.
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