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Two days after a hate crime left two people dead on a Portland, Ore., train, thechairman of theMultnomah County Republican Party is considering using right-wing militias to protect members of the GOP when they are in the public square.

James Buchal told The Guardian that he was sort of evolving to the point where I think that it is appropriate for Republicans to continue to go out there. And if they need to have a security force protecting them, thats an appropriate thing too.

Although Buchal cited the cancellation of Avenue of the Roses Parade, which occurred after someone anonymous threatened Trump supporters and 3 percent militia who attended, it is impossible to consider Buchals rhetoric without the context of the recent violence in the city. Jeremy Christian, 35, who held white supremacist opinions, is accused of committingracially motivated murder in that city. The victims include Rick Best, 53, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23. A third person Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, was injured in the altercation, which started when the trio tried to help womenwho were being targeted by hate speech.

As Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said, These were folks just riding the train and unfortunately got caught up in this. He was talking about a lot of different things, not just specifically anti-Muslim. We dont know if hes got mental health issues. We dont know if hes under the influence of drugs or alcohol or all of the above.

When asked if he was thinking of having Republicans arrange for private security instead of relying on municipal or state police, Buchal confirmed this before adding that there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters. Buchal said it could be necessary to use them for protection because there are now belligerent, unstable people who are convinced that Republicans are like Nazis.

The Southern Poverty Law Center classifiesthe Three Percenters as an active antigovernment groupand describes the Oath Keepers as based on a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans. One passage quoted by SPLC shows an Oath Keeper describing former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as Herr Hitlery and argued she would persecute militia movements by subjecting them to secret military detention without jury trial, enhanced interrogation techniques, and trial before a military tribunal hand-picked by the dominatrix-in-chief herself.

Although the attacks occurred on Friday, President Donald Trump did not tweet out a response to them until Sunday and not from his personal account.

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Portland Republican suggests allowing right-wing militias to protect people, days after alleged hate crime - Salon

Texas state lawmakers got into a scuffle on May 29 on the House floor in Austin amid protests over immigration. (Nar Dorrycott)

UPDATE: Texas Rep. Cesar Blanco (D) posted audio of a phone call to his Twitter account late Monday night, in which a man is heard making racist remarks and saying he stands with Rinaldi.

WARNING: This video contains foul language.

My office is now receiving these calls. @MattRinaldiTX comments incite hate and racism, Blanco said in a separate tweet.

The phone calls and Blanco's decision to post the audio online show how angry both sides are in this debate. Our original post is below.

Lawmakers scuffled on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives on Mondayafter a Dallas-area Republican told Democrats that he called Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on protesters in the House gallery.

We were just on the floor talking about the SB4 protests, and [stateRep.] Matt Rinaldi came up to us and made it a point to say, I called (ICE) on all of them, state Rep. Philip Cortez (D) said. And this is completely unacceptable. We will not be intimidated. We will not be disrespected.

The protesters were apparently chanting and waving signsagainst Senate Bill 4, the controversial Texas legislationthat Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed into law this month. Itbans sanctuary cities, allows police to question anyone they detain about their immigration status, and compels local officials to comply with federal requests to detain individuals in state and local law enforcement facilities. The law was passed amid a national conversation about immigration enforcement priorities and promises from the Trump administration to aggressively pursue and deport undocumentedimmigrants.

Signing SB4 into law was seen as a big victory for Texas Republicans, who had tried unsuccessfully to pass a ban on sanctuary cities in each legislative session since 2011. Texas Democrats reacted to the bills passage with alarm; one lawmaker went on a hunger strike.

Video of thescuffle shows lawmakers pushing one another, yelling and gesticulating. Later, Democrats said, Rinaldi repeatedly got in their faces and cursed at them.

Afterward, Democrats held a news conference, furious at what they called disrespect.

Texas Democrats held a news conference after legislators scuffled on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives on May 29 in Austin. (Todd Wiseman/The Texas Tribune)

He saw the crowd, and he saw illegals, state Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. said. He saw people that, whether he likes to accept it or not, in his heart, he has hate for those people, and he wants to see them gone. He wants to see them gone so much, to the point that he called ICE.

At one point, some of the language between the two sidesapparently turned violent.

There was a threat made from Representative Rinaldi to put a bullet in one of my colleagues heads, state Rep. Justin Rodriguez said during the news conference. That kind of threatening language, he needs to be called out and held accountable for.

But Rinaldi said the threat went the other way that state Rep. Poncho Nevrez (D) threatened my life on the House floor.

I called ICE on several illegal immigrants who held signs in the gallery that said, I am an illegal immigrant and here to stay, hesaid in a statement after the incident. Rinaldi went on to detail purported threats against him from Democratic lawmakers, saying he was assaulted and had sought the protection of law enforcement officials.

Rinaldi is reportedly under the protection of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Without audio of the exchange on the Texas House floor, its impossible to say who threatened whom. But scuffles in the legislature show how theissue of immigration enforcement can stir passions onboth sides.

Rinaldis decision to call ICE agents fits in with Texas Republicans main argument on immigration: that laws on the books should be enforced more strictly, and undocumentedimmigrants should be processed for deportation. Democrats say Rinaldi crossed a huge line, accusing him of profiling Hispanics in the House gallery.

And the fight over sanctuary cities isnt over. In April, a federal judge said President Trumps executive order on sanctuary cities is unconstitutional, and a barrage of legal challenges to the new Texas law is expected soon.

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A Texas Republican is accused of threatening to 'put a bullet in one of my colleagues' heads' - Washington Post

America has had a number of bad Presidents. James Buchanan, John Tyler and Warren Harding come to mind. These truly despicable men look like Washington and Lincoln rolled into one compared to Donald Trump.

His administration has been a tragic farce since election night. I cannot bring to mind a single thing that he has done that is remotely in the interest of the nation or the American people. His use of his high office to expand his personal and family fortune overseas while attempting to deprive millions of American citizens of health care is merely one of his mortal sins.

Yet Donald Trump is no fluke. He is the culmination of the self-degradation of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has had an up and down history. Republicans and War Democrats saved the American Republic in the Civil War. During the Robber Baron Era, Republicans aided and abetted railroad, steel, coal and oil tycoons when they plundered the nation creating monopolies, exploiting workers, native Americans and the environment on the way to making enormous fortunes.

But it was progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and W. H. Taft along with Democrat Woodrow Wilson that tamed the monopolies and curbed the super wealthy. They created the income tax, the inheritance tax and gave women the vote. They broke up the trusts and monopolies.

After World War 1, the Republicans sold their souls to the exploding oil industry and set the stage for the Great Depression. Post World War 2 moderate Republicans opted for smaller government and less spending. This created the Eisenhower recession and lost the early space race to the Russians.

Then after the go-go 60s, Nixon made a devils deal with the segregated South and opted for an ends justifies the means philosophy which gave us Watergate. Ronald Reagan, everybodys friendly dependable grandpa, gave us two recessions and sowed the seeds of the American Middle Class demise. The Bushes gave us economic disaster and endless war. Now to correct the good things developed during the Clinton and Obama eras, we have Donald Trump.

Clearly, his actions before and after the election, show that he has no self-control let alone the capacity to lead the nation. Yet he alone among the 16 candidates won the Republican nomination. He won not despite his obvious character flaws but because of them. Since Nixon the Republicans have peddled the message of race hate as sub-text. Welfare had to go because it allowed lazy black people and immigrants to sit around smoking crack and drinking grape soda.

These lazy welfare types were also the ones stealing white middle class jobs. Propaganda doesnt need to be rational to be effective. Heres another one, Wheres my government cheese? This evokes an image of fat poor people feasting on brie and camembert. Government cheese was a welfare program built for Midwest Republican dairy farmers.

Nixon didnt believe this stuff. He and the Republicans who followed him used these nefarious ploys to get votes. The new Republican conservatives have swallowed the cheese Kool Aid. They believe this nonsense. Republicans like Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Sam Brownback are absolutely giddy at the thought of tossing unworthy ethnic types and poor white trash off of health care. My point being that Trump is merely a symptom of the collective mental illness of the Republican leadership.

I make this point because soon the historic failure of the conservative Republican attempt to push America back into an imaginary whites only past will be heaped on Trump. The very people who created this monster will turn on him. Sen. John McCain is already striking a Hey it wasnt me stance on foreign policy. The anti-government ideologues will claim that Trumps inept execution of their gated City on the Hill plan was the problem.

But its not Trump. As bad as he is; it is the plan. It is the Republican Partys romance with money. No taxes on the big guys is not only unfair, it doesnt work. The money pools up and the economy slows down. Public/private partnerships have been tried; they are expensive failures. Running government like a business is a nice bumper sticker but 85 percent of businesses fail.

Governments are meant to serve. Businesses are meant to make money. Most disturbing is the Republicans almost unanimous backing of Trump when he threatens the courts, the FBI, the press and his opposition.

Back in the Fifties the Communist Party was accused of attempting to overthrow the U.S. Government. The investigators when questioning witnesses always asked; Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? Will we soon hear the phrase, Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?

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EYES LEFT: Are you now or have you ever been a Republican? - New Jersey Hills

Dennis Patrick Pat Mullins, who served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia from 2009 to 2015, was identified Monday as the victim of a single-vehicle crash a day earlier in Hanover County.

Mr. Mullins, who lived in Bumpass in Louisa County, was 79.

He took over chairmanship of the state GOP the same year that Bob McDonnell led a sweep of the states top three offices governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

Mr. Mullins announced his retirement in late 2014 and was replaced by John Whitbeck early the following year.

I cant count the number of people that have reached out, Whitbeck said Monday. This is a sad, sad day for the Virginia Republican Party.

We were so shocked to hear, Whitbeck added. Hes been fairly quiet and spent a lot of time with his family over the last few years. But he was a constant source of advice for me and really beloved by the Republicans across the commonwealth.

Whitbeck said Mr. Mullins had a wonderful family who Im sure are grieving terribly this weekend, and were all just kind of feeling close to them because we all loved Pat as much as Im sure they do.

Rep. Barbara J. Comstock, R-10th, wrote in a Facebook post that Pat was a friend and activist who helped Republicans throughout the commonwealth to build and grow the Republican Party. Pat was a natural leader who brought people together and was always in good humor.

Mr. Mullins, who also served as GOP chairman in the counties of Louisa and Fairfax, rose to become the state partys leader in May 2009 after his predecessor, then-Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick of Prince William County, was ousted.

After the McDonnell-led sweep in the election later that year, Virginia Republicans did not win a statewide race for the rest of Mr. Mullins tenure and have not to this day.

When Mr. Mullins announced that he would retire, he said in a statement that serving as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia since 2009 has been one of the greatest honors and privileges Ive had in my life. Ill be forever thankful to the Republicans across Virginia who have placed their trust and support in me.

But the time comes when retirement is at hand. Im 77 years old, and its time to turn the reins over to someone else.

A son, Steve Mullins, posted on Facebook that his father will be greatly missed by his four children and their spouses, his six grandchildren, his brother, his cousins, and the many friends and family that he has impacted over his 79 years on the Earth.

Mr. Mullins wife, Jackie Mullins, died in 2010, according to the post.

We take peace that Pat is with his Lord and Risen Savior and reunited with his wife and our mother that he married in 1963, Steve Mullins wrote.

Sundays crash occurred about 1:30 p.m. near the intersection of Mountain and Waltons Tavern roads in the northwestern part of the county, the Hanover Sheriffs Office said.

The Sheriffs Offices preliminary investigation revealed that a 2015 Buick sedan was traveling west in the 16000 block of Mountain Road when it ran off the left shoulder of the roadway and struck a tree.

Mr. Mullins, who was the vehicles only occupant, was taken a hospital, where he died.

Investigators were still collecting information Monday and consulting with the state medical examiner to determine the circumstances of the crash, the Sheriffs Office said.

Funeral arrangements for Mr. Mullins were incomplete.

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Pat Mullins, former chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, dies in Hanover car crash - Richmond.com

What I heard on Saturday night.

I spoke at an event last Saturday for Michael McNeely, who is a candidate to be chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. The election by party delegates will be held on June 3 in Augusta.

This election has national significance in that the Georgia Republican Party chairman (or chairwoman) is one of the three Georgia representatives on the Board of the Republican National Committee.

I had met with Michael before the event, and had asked him why he wanted to be chairman. He said the party has significant opportunities in messaging, party unity and grassroots involvement.

Boom! I asked him, arent those the same three opportunities for the RNC? He said absolutely yes! The conversation unfolded like a well packed blanket from that point on. He nailed it in my mind.

One of the activists who attended the event supporting Michael asked about Republican accomplishments during this session of Congress. He asked because the people in his county of Georgia couldnt articulate a few crisp accomplishments when talking to potential supporters.

I said, first, passage of 11 of 14 Congressional Review Act resolutions to roll back regulations that hurt businesses and people unnecessarily. In contrast, none were passed during the anti-business Obama Administration.

Second, the Republican-led Congress passed the American Health Care Act. Many people do not know how significant this is, nor do they understand how it works, because of the constant false criticism of the AHCA by Democrats and the liberal media. The attitude of the Republican-controlled Senate that they will write their own version of repeal and replace is also a distraction from the significance of the Houses AHCA.

Those two accomplishments alone are huge!

The bottom line is poor messaging by the Republicans in Congress and the RNC, even to its own activist supporters. Therein lies a huge opportunity for the Georgia Republican Party, the RNC and the Republican members of Congress.

The media noise from Democrats and the liberal media is drowning out our message. Our accomplishments as a party will not spread naturally. Thats why we must be more proactive with messaging, because we are not going to get any help from our enemies!

The Democrats and liberals arent just political opponents anymore, because they want to destroy Republicans and President Trump at all costs. Even if it means ignoring whats good for the nation.

Republican Party unity is another big opportunity. Too many Republicans in Congress cant resist expressing their opinions opposing the Partys leadership or another Republican before the ink is dry, or before a piece of legislation has even been hammered out.

Theres an old saying. If you dont have something good to say, shut up!

If the Republican Partys messaging gets through the liberal medias attacks, and highly visible Republican voices show some discretion when they open their mouths, party activists will have positive results to talk about, be more inspired, and feel more connected to the good things happening in our Republican-led government.

The Democrats and their liberal media allies are making the most noise, but conservatives and Republicans can continue to achieve the most results.

Herman Cains column is distributed by CainTV, which can be found at caintv.com

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Republican opportunities we can jump on right now - Canada Free Press