Ex-RNC Chair Rips ‘Reckless’ Montana GOP After His ‘Excommunication’

Marc Racicot, a former chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee and ex-governor of Montana, has responded to his “excommunication” from his state’s GOP with a blistering open letter.

In an essay printed by the Every day Montanan on Tuesday, Racicot warned of the state occasion’s “absolutist ideology, its unsparing calls for of allegiance, its relentless pursuit of energy and its reckless compulsion to disassemble the Structure with the intent of controlling all three branches of presidency.”

Racicot famous the resignation of 1 “promising younger Republican legislator due to the Celebration’s coercive efforts to affect the train of her discretion and to do what she thought was proper,” its censure of two others “for not voting the way in which you deemed acceptable” and the “defection of a rising variety of Republicans in your caucus, and throughout the state, who really feel sure to their conscience and their structure greater than their occasion.”

Racicot served as governor from 1993 to 2001 earlier than changing into RNC chair from 2002 to 2003. He ran President George W. Bush’s 2004 marketing campaign however drew criticism from Montana Republicans along with his anti-Donald Trump commentary and his crossing of the aisle to vote for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.