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tanyev

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7. I signed up for emails from the local county GOP quite a while ago.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #5)

Tue May 13, 2025, 09:22 AM

May 13

I’d rather know what they’re up to than be surprised. For this election they sent out a list of endorsements—in a nonpartisan election. I don’t recall seeing that from them before. But it was very helpful, because that told me who not to vote for and there were only a couple races where there were more than two candidates.

Imagine my surprise when the results came in and nearly everyone they endorsed lost their race! My city council races were a complete anti-GOP sweep. Two of my ISD races have to go to a runoff, but the GOP endorsed candidates were not the leaders in the final vote count. For this area, that’s amazing.

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