Critics say the QAnon conspiracy theorist, in the position less than a year, failed to deliver on funding promises

A group of Michigan Republicans voted on Saturday to remove Kristina Karamo as state party chair after months of infighting and slow fundraising raised concerns her leadership would hurt the party’s chances in the key swing state in 2024.

Karamo, a former community college instructor and election-denying activist who was elevated to her post in February, has indicated she would not respect Saturday’s vote, setting the stage for a potentially messy court battle over party leadership.

At a special meeting called by critics of Karamo, nearly all of the state committee members present voted to remove her from her post, according to Bree Moeggenberg, a state committee member who helped organize the meeting in Commerce Charter Township.

She has failed to deliver on that promise while angering many of her supporters with what they have called a lack of transparency from her administration. Contributions from the party’s largest donors have dried up, leading to a cash crunch.

A report released last month by Warren Carpenter, a former congressional district chair and one-time Karamo supporter, said the state party was mired in debt, on the “brink of bankruptcy” and “essentially non-functional” under her leadership.

  • @Habahnow
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    65 months ago

    Anybody know what kind of real impact this has on the election? Is it just raising money to use on candidates?

    • snipgan
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      145 months ago

      Well, it sounds like they were at least half a million dollars in debt.

      Drove off a bunch of big donors.

      Lost their original headquarters.

      Burned valuable time.

      Thrown the party into civil war.

      And that is just the stuff we know about.

    • Rimu
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      35 months ago

      There are a lot of states that don’t really matter because they always end up being won by the same party or because the number of electoral college votes earned by winning the state is low.

      Michigan is a moderately important state to win (worth 16 electoral college votes/points) and could go either way. Trump won it in 2016 and Biden won it in 2020.