Level 4 Retaliation

12 October 2019

 

Republican Chair Kelli Ward

Arizona Republican Party

3501 North 24th Street

Phoenix, AZ  85016

 

Dear Madam Chair:

 

I hope this message finds you well.  I have been told that Arizona is especially pleasant this time of year.  It is one of the twelves states I have never visited so someday I will have to fix that.

 

I normally do not write Republican Chairs in states far, far away.  Well, that was until Donald Trump showed up. He has infected some of you with some really bad habits.  Even though his speaking style lost by 3 million votes in 2016 and got you crushed in 2018, some on your side try to imitate his tough guy style.

 

There are many reasons for this.  You think it is intimidating. You think it’s funny.  You think it “owns the Libs”. Perhaps all of you should have given that more consideration.

 

For instance, back in September, you launched a shooting reference towards candidate Mark Kelly.  Even if Gabby Giffords had not been shot, this would have been wrong. However if support for Donald Trump has told us one thing, it has told us that the Republican Party no longer cares about right from wrong never mind the sanctity of the law itself.

 

Therefore, in order to get through to you, we have to provide consequence.  We are now currently doing so on 3 levels. Thanks to you, there is now a fourth, count ‘em 4, level.

 

The first level is the elected GOP type level.  Donald Trump did something we did not like and now Mayor Allan Fung is having an incident “revived” regarding a time he called ICE on somebody.  We do not even like the brown shirted ICE employees living among us never mind doing something on the streets. Until Donald Trump ticked us off, Mr. Fung thought this incident was buried.

 

At the second level, we find a Trump support in a blue state.  There is a guy in Dracut, Massachusetts who was managing in a bar and playing in a band.  Then Ambassador Sondland decided not to testify before Congress. Now, the guy is close to losing his job, the band he is connected to may not be able to play anywhere, and the bar might lose its liquor license.

 

At this point you’re probably thinking, “So what Bobby, we can do that to blue people here.  You better watch out, we carry guns.”

 

Normally I would hesitate after hearing that until we developed Level 3 which you have no response again.  Corporations headquarter themselves and build large manufacturing facilities in red states because taxes are low and regulations are few.  In today’s profit fetish world, it makes the most sense to operate in a red state and sell your wares in a blue state marketplace. Due to red state economies, there is no way for a major producer of goods to be profitable in red states alone.

 

That is where we come in.  What if we find out that you do something we do not like.  We identify the most Conservative community in your state. We locate the largest business located there or the largest employer there.  Then, by using Zoning, Planning, Codes, and the free market itself, we lock the business located in Arizona out of blue state marketplaces.

 

This is already under trial in 3 localities.  Tennessee considered an anti choice bill we did not like and Autozone is under scrutiny.  North Carolina waited for Democrats to attend a 9/11 ceremony in order to override a budget veto and one of their manufacturers has a problem.  Governor Mike DeWine wanted to be his Evangelical self signing an anti-choice bill and now one of his manufacturers has a problem. Since you are in a red state marked by low wages, low property values, and a dismal education system, usually thanks to Evangelical values, you have no response.

 

That was pretty cool already.  However, now we can introduce Level 4.  We call it the “Our Streets” program. Blue areas produce blue juries.  Imagine a world where your Congressional Delegation is allowed to travel from their residence to their office without consequence, but that’s all.  Anywhere else they try to go: to the movies, out for a coffee, picking up the dry cleaning, stopping for a pizza, results in “interaction”.

 

Of course they can have their interactors arrested.  However, the interactors know that they should comply with the police, wait to get bailed out, show up for all appearances, plead not guilty, and then have a jury nullify on their behalf.  What jury is ever going to convict an “interactor” if the incident involves a white nationalist committing treason by supporting Donald Trump??

 

Therefore, the next time you want to get all rough and tough with your language hoping to make the Trump supporters happy, I want you to think about a few things.  I want you to think about the GOP office holder here who will be legally affected. I want you to think about the everyday GOP supporter who will be affected here. I want you to think about the local business concern that could have profit taken away.  I want you to think about the member of your delegation who can no longer count on quiet enjoyment. Then you go forward and decide if you want to emulate a man who has committed treason by asking foreign governments to investigate American citizens. I bet you think twice as you should.

 

Of course if any of this bothers, you could call the President and tell him that his inability to behave is causing you problems.  You could mention that honoring subpoenas would be a good idea. You could suggest that having Attorney General Barr blame secularists for drug addiction when the hardest places hit by the disease are in the rural south, was not appropriate.  You could dissuade him from engaging the “End Times” fantasies of his Vice President and Secretary of State. Lastly, you could tell him that abandoning the Kurds was a lousy gift to give Mr. Putin.

 

If you have any questions, give me a call.  Thank you for your time and consideration.

 

Sincerely,

 

Robert T. Oliveira

315-864-1229