Moon Griffon has hung a memorable name on the corrupt members of the political leadership class in Louisiana – the Good Ol’ Boy Network. Unfortunately, there is abundant evidence that this Network exists in many other States besides Louisiana. Andy Roth, who is leading a counter-network, the State Freedom Caucus Network, gives some illustrations:
It has been less than a month since we helped launch our latest Freedom Caucus in the great state of Missouri and they’ve already upset the Swamp in Jefferson City so much that their RINO leaders retaliated against them.
Last week, the Missouri Freedom Caucus (MOFC) attempted to pressure the legislature to finally pass Initiative Petition (IP) reform, in order to stop left-wing dark money from being able to influence ballot measures in Missouri. This is an issue that the entire Republican apparatus in the state - including the RINOs - have professed is incredibly important.
The RINO leadership in the MO Senate was holding IP reform up, so the MOFC responded by blocking Gov. Mike Parson’s administration appointments until it was brought up for a vote.
In response, not only did the RINOs that run the Missouri legislature refuse to bring up IP reform, a key campaign promise from the state’s Republicans, but the RINO Senate Pro Tempore Caleb Rowden removed State Senators and MOFC members Rick Brattin, Bill Eigel, Andrew Koenig, and Denny Hoskins from their roles as Chairs and Vice Chairs of various committees.
All they asked was for the senate to pass IP reform. That’s all it took for them to get booted from their committees.
We’ve seen this happen so many times. Our members were removed from committees in Idaho for calling out the special interests that have control over the state government. Our entire South Carolina Freedom Caucus was booted from the GOP Cloakroom for refusing to sign a “loyalty pledge” to never criticize their fellow Republicans (most of whom are liberal). And our Georgia Vice Chair Sen. Colton Moore was booted from the Republican Caucus for calling for an investigation of corrupt Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
It only took less than a month for the delicate sensibilities of Missouri RINOs to rear their ugly heads.
And Pedro Gonzalez, over at Chronicles, shows further how Red State governments like those in Montana and Wyoming have made themselves a part of this shameful Network by undermining families:
Medical transitioning for minors is prohibited in Montana. But that is a small obstacle with myriad workarounds. The Kolstads did not realize that the fate of their family was sealed the moment they admitted Jennifer into the care of the state. But what choice did they have? It seems the Kolstads thought that if they went along, like hostages, everything would work out for them in the end. They were wrong.
Against the Kolstads’ wishes, CFS moved Jennifer into residential care for treatment and counseling in the neighboring state of Wyoming. Unlike Montana, Wyoming has not outlawed transgender treatments for kids.
Social workers simply arrived at their home with police and notified them that Jennifer was to be surrendered because the Kolstads were supposedly “unable or refusing to provide medical care.” From then on, communication with Jennifer was dramatically limited and restricted by the state.
When Jennifer returned to Montana, a judge told the Kolstads that they may never get her back. Not as a girl, anyway.
“We were told that letting Jennifer transition and live as a boy was in her ‘therapeutic best interest’ and because we aren’t willing to follow that recommendation, the court gave CFS custody of Jennifer for six months,” Krista told Reduxx. “CFS is now going to place Jennifer in the care of her birth mother in Canada, who has never really been a part of her life. The judge said to us ‘you need to expect that reunification with your family may not be what you are expecting.’”
According to the Kolstads, Jennifer’s biological mother abandoned her shortly after she was born.
This story caused such a stir—because it is indeed horrific—that Montana Governor Greg Gianforte felt compelled to comment on it. You would be forgiven for expecting the Republican governor of a reliably red state to send in the cavalry.
Gianforte said his office reviewed the case and that Lieutenant Governor Kristen Juras, “a constitutional conservative,” concluded all had occurred in accordance with “state policy.” The hospital and social workers and courts had done nothing wrong.
“To give them their best shot at reaching their full potential, children deserve to grow up in happy, healthy homes with loving families,” Gianforte wrote on social media. “Sadly, this ideal is not always realized.”
With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats? The latter abuse you while the former enable the abuse by saying it’s consistent with the laws of the land. They’re just doing their jobs—as did the guards in Stalin’s camps.
Wherever one looks these days, he meets with the same self-serving, thin-skinned, vindictive, cry-babies in political office. No one should be terribly shocked; the weakening of Christianity and recrudescence of paganism that the West is undergoing produces not only weightless buffoons like Jimmy Fallon and raunchy entertainers like Taylor Swift but also the self-centered, self-gratifying politicians that we know so well in Louisiana, as well as the Rowdens in Missouri, etc.
Our faith has grown weak because we have forgotten what the Church is. . . .
The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/02/garlington-the-good-ol-boy-network-extends-beyond-louisiana/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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