Commission disrespects Republican voters

By John Labriola - Citrus County is one of the most Republican counties in Florida. According to the Citrus County Supervisor of Elections website, registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the county by a nearly 3-1 margin. That makes it essentially impossible to get elected as a Democrat here, which is why virtually all Citrus County candidates – including far-left LGBT activists like County Commissioner Holly Davis – run as Republicans, even if they don’t govern that way.

Ken Walters, president of the Crystal Oaks Republican Club and a member of the Citrus County Republican Executive Committee (REC), says the party has a "Rodney Dangerfield" problem because it doesn’t get any respect from Citrus County politicians who use the “Republican” label to get elected and then abandon their voters.  

At the REC’s monthly meeting in February, Walters sponsored a resolution condemning the multiple politically motivated prosecutions and civil trials against Donald Trump orchestrated by the Biden regime and its Democrat Party allies in their blatant and unprecedented efforts to rig the 2024 election. The REC voted to adopt Walters' resolution and to urge the all-Republican County Commission to pass a similar resolution of its own. Walters followed up with emails to each of the five commissioners, but most ignored him and none took up the REC’s request, which he says symbolizes the commission’s lack of respect for the party and its voters.

Jesse Rumson of Lecanto, who's running for County Commission against Holly Davis this year (visit his website here), was among a handful of residents who brought up the issue at last week’s commission meeting and asked commissioners to place the resolution on their next agenda, but his and other residents' remarks were met with silence from most commissioners.  

“I think it’s important, even as a symbolic gesture, that we all stand up and we give a voice to the people of Citrus County to stand up for the Constitution and [against] the unlawful prosecution of people based on political opinions,” Rumson said. 

The issue is personal for Rumson because he’s among the hundreds of Americans caught up in the Biden Justice Department’s dragnet for participating in the Jan. 6, 2001 “Stop the Steal” rally at the U.S. Capitol. He’s awaiting federal trial on multiple counts including disorderly conduct, obstruction and assault. He denies the charges, saying he was beaten by Capitol police without provocation before being carried away to safety by outraged onlookers. 

Before last week’s public comment period, Rumson and other residents who were waiting to speak had to sit through two and a half hours of seemingly endless commission discussion on boat ramp fees and the budget development process. Kathy Bryn of Homosassa said those issues pale in comparison with the weaponization of the U.S. justice system by the left.    

“We’re losing our country, and a big part of that is we do not have equal justice under the law anymore,” she told commissioners. “If we don’t stand up and do something, we're going to end up as a banana republic and none of this work you’re doing is going to matter for much of anything, truthfully.”

Commissioners can be reached at the emails below.

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