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!