Email Insights: ‘Dump Trump’ anger sparks Becky Gerritson write-in campaign

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There may be a case of buyer’s remorse going on in Alabama’s 2nd District, where earlier this year voters overwhelmingly voted for U.S. Rep. Martha Roby over primary challenger, Wetumpka Tea Party co-founder and President Becky Gerritson.

Now it appears constituents of the 2nd District are a bit uneasy with Roby’s recent withdraw of support from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Roby made the decision to “dump Trump” following the release of the bombshell hot mic recording in which Trump brags about groping women without their consent to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush.

For Gerritson, that’s not a good reason to throw in the towel and abandon the GOP nominee.

She says the 2nd District agrees, which is why, according to Gerritson, a write-in campaign has been mounted to oust Roby and elect herself on Nov. 8.

Gerritson addressed the situation in the 2nd District in an email:

The sudden “Dump Trump” movement last week has many people up in arms. Voters where I live, in Alabama’s 2nd district, are FURIOUS that Rep. Martha Roby was one of the first to “Dump Trump.” They are so mad, in fact, that they’ve burned up her phone lines and they have mounted a write-in campaign for her primary challenger. Yes, that would be me, Becky Gerritson. I challenged her in the 2016 Republican primary.

I understand the frustration of voters who are fed up with politics as usual. Donald Trump represents hope for those individuals, and they are not about to give up that hope. Candidates like Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson were welcomed by disenfranchised Republicans because they pledged to break the cycle of the political elites and big-money lobbyists from controlling our politics.

I do respect, yet disagree with, those who have been consistent in their opposition to Trump, such as Sens. Ben Sasse and Mike Lee, and even commentator Erick Erickson. But in the recent “Dump Trump” movement, a correlation is apparent … follow the money! The list of prominent names recently dumping Trump could be titled “The Chamber’s Bought-and-Paid-for RINOs.”

In this campaign cycle, the pseudo-conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one of our nation’s biggest supporters and financial backers of amnesty. I personally went up against the U.S. Chamber in my own primary in which they spent nearly $2 million promoting liberal Martha Roby. As you can imagine, such an amount allowed them to utterly control the airwaves for their establishment candidate — particularly in our rural Alabama district. No other conservative faced such a massive obstacle in their primaries — although the more limited spend by the Chamber is partially to blame for the toppling of conservative Tim Huelskamp.

Many on the list of GOPers who have disavowed Trump reads eerily similar to the list of candidates the U.S. Chamber supports. Here are a few examples:

  • Joe Heck:  NV (beneficiary of $3,550,374 as of latest reports)
  • Rob Portman: OH ($4,606,324)
  • Kelly Ayotte: NH ($1,910,300)
  • Mark Kirk: IL ($550,150)
  • John McCain: AZ ($1,550,450)
  • Martha Roby: AL (my primary opponent – $1,750,000)
  • Pat Toomey: PA ($5,106,000 — has refused to say whether he will vote for Trump)
  • Ron Johnson: WI ($750,300 — has been tepid in his support)

It seems clear that the Chamber is using its massive war chest to compel opposition to Trump from within the party. And over the last week we have seen that it’s working. Martha Roby and other “Dump Trump”ers are listening to their biggest campaign contributors rather than their constituents.

President Barack Obama has taken our country down a path toward socialism, unsustainable debt, and unprecedented threats to our national security. A vote for Hillary is a vote to continue Obama’s fundamental transformation of America.

In this crucial election cycle, we must defeat Hillary Clinton. We must support the Republican nominee and the party platform that upholds conservative values. Despite calls for presidential write-in candidates, like Rep. Roby proposes, the reality of state election laws make a presidential write-in an impossible scenario for a Republican win. So conservatives, keep your eyes on the prize. Take a deep breath, pray, and vote.

21 COMMENTS

  1. I may be mistaken, but I believe Alabama law prohibits someone who was defeated in a primary from running as an.imdependent or as a write-in candidate. You might want to check that before you waste everyone’s time and embarrass yourself further.

    • The write in campaign was started by individuals and there is nothing illegal about writing in anybody I want. As a voter, I could write in Mickey Mouse (who would be better than Roby) if I want to.

  2. Poor Ms Garritson seems to be running shy on common sense. It was common sense that prevailed upon Rep Roby to stop backing a man completely unfit for the office of President.
    Seems Ms Garritson would rather be in office than stand up against sexual assault, and that’s a sad thing, and probably proves that she’s unfit to be an representative of Alabama in the US House of Representatives.

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