County Republican Committee members complain about chairman
At least nine Butler County Republican Committee members have sent letters to the Pennsylvania Republican Party complaining about how committee chairman Gary Vanasdale conducted a recent committee meeting.
There is no merit to the letters, which were sent by a small group of “sore losers” attempting to undo the will of the people and spread propaganda, said Vanasdale’s attorney and wife, Jen Gilliland Vanasdale.
The letters were sent to state Republican Party chairman Lawrence Tabas. No one from the state party responded to a phone call or email seeking a response.
Most of the letters criticize the way Gary Vanasdale conducted a June 15 committee meeting, and some of the letters ask for him to be removed as chairman or for a hearing to be convened to determine if he should be removed from office.
The letters say he did not open the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance because there was no flag in the room in the Holly Pointe office complex in Butler where the meeting was held, refused to conduct a roll call, refused to establish a quorum for voting purposes and denied calls to remove his wife from the meeting because she is not a member of the Republican Party.
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