³ “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7:3-5

As I have frequently talked about on my Radio Show as recently as this past Sunday and in many articles here at RedState, the Michigan GOP may not be dead, but it sure is acting like it is.

The latest example of why is right here and is another comical turn for the MI-GOP that seems like it is scripted by Democrats. 

The Michigan Republican Party's internal dissension and financial woes continued to explode publicly over the weekend, with the 2024 presidential election less than 11 months away.

A group of party dissidents released a report late Sunday denouncing Chair Kristina Karamo as a secretive autocrat who has brought the state party to the brink of bankruptcy through mismanagement and a fundraising plan that is "a complete failure." Karamo has denied the allegations.

On Friday, the state party under Karamo filed a lawsuit aimed at wresting control over the former party headquarters on Seymour Avenue in Lansing, records show. The building, which Karamo vacated early this year as a cost-cutting measure, is owned by a trust controlled by former state party chairs. The Lansing police recently found the building unsecured after the electricity was cut off for nonpayment, disabling the security system, according to the dissidents' report and as first disclosed by Michigan Information & Research Service, a Capitol newsletter.

Now, I'm not sure, but I think this is a new variance in fiscal conservatism where an organization decides to sell an asset that they do not own to try to eliminate a deficit that they have created.

Actually, that sounds similar to how the Democrats do things.

However, it sounds like some in the party have finally decided state chairperson Kristina Karamo needs to go NOW, even though she was just elected chair in February. According to the article linked above and also a podcast appearance on former gubernatorial candidate Donna Brandenburg's show, a gentleman by the name of Warren Carpenter has spearheaded an effort to remove Karamo as early as the beginning of next year.

You can view the over two-hour podcast right here, which goes into great detail on why Carpenter and others think Karamo needs to go ASAP.

Adding insult to injury and also backing up something I have been openly pondering for the past two months, Carpenter and the report he helped put together detailing the GOP chair problems point out that Karamo has been moonlighting with a group in Nevada while heading up the Michigan GOP. 

The report also criticizes Karamo for interfering in county party business in Hillsdale County and elsewhere.

And it says she is in a conflict of interest by serving as both the state party chair and as president of UnAuthorized, a Nevada-based nonprofit that describes itself as working with both Republicans and Democrats to promote constitutional principles.

"Ms. Karamo's response to anyone who questions her is to either claim they are in league with the 'deep state' or to inappropriately accuse the person of malfeasance," the report says.

When you are getting paid six figures to run the opposition party to the Democrats, and your job is to make sure that party is standing on the strongest platform possible, that is job number one. Your job is not to moonlight with a bipartisan group in Nevada to pad your pocketbook to get Republicans AND Democrats elected. 

If she were doing it for free, that would be even more insulting to Michigan Republicans.

That might be why the party is over a half million dollars in debt, as mentioned above, and is not anywhere near its fundraising goals.

The grassroots folks of the Michigan Republican Party back in February of this year voted with emotions over results, and they elected somebody who had no business running for the top job of the party in this state after the way she got her electoral butt handed to her running for Secretary of State in November 2022.

This has been a fun experiment, but the time has come to end this farce.

The party has to start rebuilding for the governor's race in 2026.