Will you be the RPA's next victim?

• The RPA is on a rampage, kicking out MAGA members for fake rules violations.

• Most recently, the entire Craighead County EC + others were removed by the state for a violation of a “rule” that was never voted on by the state committee and was only promulgated two months AFTER the alleged violation.

• Regardless of your political leaning, are you willing to stand by and allow a few members of the state executive committee to exercise totalitarian control over the RPA?

• The state committee meets THIS Saturday. Will Joe Wood & Co. again break the rules and steamroll the supermajority of members who disagree with their oppressive actions?

These are the issues relating to the Craighead County complaint:

1.) The complaint was submitted by Tim Loggains, who was the boyfriend of the woman who murdered former State Senator Linda Collins-Smith and also involved in Linda’s business at the time of her death.

2.) A submitter of the affidavit, Roger Kidd,was in jail the day of the Craighead County meeting. He is not credible, and that incident was further evidence of that.

3.) Why would this committee want to go on record associating with these types of individuals? That in itself is working against the interests of the party.

4.) Lorri Justice can't be pulled into a complaint from outside her county. She was there because Sarah Dunklin asked her to be. Sarah was the district chair and they asked her to be parliamentarian but she couldn’t make it, so she found someone else with parliamentarian experience. Sarah would have made the same call Lorri did at the time.

5.) Inactives not voting was not the rule at the time of meeting and was not voted on by the state executive committee and notice sent until two months after the Craighead county meeting. The rule that they couldn't vote had been in place for nearly a decade. No chairs or district chairs were notified before the meeting.

6.) Now no one can attend meetings from outside their home counties? (That has never been a rule.) Sarah Dunklin, District Chair, asked Lorri Justice to be the parliamentarian because they asked her and she couldn't make it that night.

7.) No chairman has ever been kicked out for doing what the district chair said to do. Sarah was called by a Craighead board member from the meeting and advised that inactives could not vote as had been the rule since 2018. They also tried to call the state chairman twice, but he did not pick up.

8.) It is difficult to find people with parliamentary experience who know the rules. Everyone knows that's a tall order and most counties don't have a person in their county qualified.

9.) The parliamentarian at the convention/state meetings lately is not from Arkansas. Even the state goes outside the state for parliamentarians.

10.) Allowing someone who helped another committee to be brought up on charges is extremely serious.

11.) How did the state executive committee come to the conclusion they did with the evidence that we received? There was no evidence supporting the claimed rules violations and no evidence about social media complaints.

12.) Using their train of thought on making contributions to non-partisan candidates, then county committees (and the state committee) can no longer give to supreme court candidates.

13.) Will RPA remove the chairs of the over 70 counties who did not allow inactives to vote in recent elections?

14.) Chairman Wood appointed the rules review committee after the deadline for doing so. He appointed the investigation committee on February 21, 2025. The complaint was filed January 31, 2025. Our rules state the investigation committee must be appointed within 14 days. Chairman Wood missed the deadline.

15.) The amendment to the complaint was made past the point in our rules where it could be submitted. Article V, Section 1 states that the investigation committee has a 45 day deadline to submit evidence to the State Executive Committee. The deadline in this case would have been April 7th. Yet, the submission of the amendment signed by Drew Martin is dated April 11th, well past the 45 day deadline.

16.) The amended report was submitted after the 45 day deadline.

17.) The rules review committee chair and Distrist Rep are no longer on the district committee. The chair should have been replaced with 1st District Chair Jennifer Hopper.

18.) Under Barry Eggers' leadership, Craighead raised more money than any county committee in the state.

19.) Giving differing amounts of money based on need to candidates in a general election has nothing to do with the rule about not taking sides in a contested republican primary. Most county committees give different amounts based on the race and need, because we are republicans and believe in fiscal responsibility. Even the state party gives different amounts to state candidates based on the race.

20.) Robin Martin didn't run for re-election because she is a CPA and didn’t have the time to do the job, but she is listed in the complaint as secretary.

21.) The accusers are the ones that ran against them and lost. They look like sore losers, who filed the complaint out of spite.The complainer ran against Chair Eggers and lost, then ran again the night in question and lost. (Read the letter by the previous secretary where he put his hand on his gun and approached her.)

22.) The RPA Platform states: We seek and welcome conservative activists who we hope one day will seek elective and appointed offices so that they may fight for a future where prosperity, freedom, and liberty are our citizens’ rewards for good work.

The state executive committee would be working against the interests of the party to remove a republican JP who won with over 60% of the vote from leadership (Linda Allison).

23.) The only "republican" on the leftist Jonesboro city council that wouldn't even pass abortion free cities, is Janice Porter. Janice didn't like Vice Chair Steve Floyd, so she led the effort to spot zone the empty lot next to his house that he has lived in his whole life, to put a pizza parlor that serves liquor there when the closet other zoning is almost a mile away. Steve's property value was greatly reduced, plus he has to live next door to it. The Jonesboro city council is well known for being liberal, and even if you don't agree, Steve stating his opinion on non-partisan races was not against the rules.

24.) Barry Eggers did not hold any meetings at his house while he served as chair except one finance committee meeting. He can have anyone over to his home that he wants. That's his own property. The meeting they are claiming he had was three chairs ago when Chad Neil was still chair. If they had an issue they should have raised it at that time. Even if he did, which he didn't, we have the right to assemble guaranteed in the constitution.

25.) The removal says two years, but it's actually four, because the date is set after state county and district officer elections April 11th, 2027.

26.) The officers all resigned (citing corruption in the removal process), but they were still removed.

27.) The Advisory opinion was not issued until February 28, 2025 and not adopted by the RPA until March 31, 2025, two months AFTER the Craighead meeting to elect officers. Advisory opinions have only been used the last couple of years and cannot change a rule.

28.) Those names in the complaint were not given the evidence against them until after the recommendation had been made, thus, denying them due process to know what to address in their response.

29.) Any person, including the Chairman, may support anyone they want in a nonpartisan race, including a mayoral race.

30.) The Amendment to the complaint was not signed by the original signers. Do they even know the amendment was filed? (Two signers have asked that their names be withdrawn as they admitted they never read the complaint.)

31.) Article V, Section 1 states that the investigation committee has a 45 day deadline to submit evidence to the State Executive Committee. The deadline in this case would have been April 7th. Yet, the submission of the amendment signed by Drew Martin is dated April 11th, well past the 45 day deadline.

32.) Even if this was not retroactively punishing people, and inactives were allowed to vote, the totals would not have changed any race that night.

The bottom line: The RPA did not follow their own rules regarding this complaint. And they said obvious non-violations were violations. Without rules, why do we even have county and district committees? It appears that all power rests with the state executive committee.

Will you stand for this egregious behavior by the RPA?

Below, former Pulaski County Chair Lorri Justice gives us detailed explanations in her own words of the different facets of the Craighead complaint:

Part 1

Some of you are asking for the timeline of the Craighead complaint. Let me start at the beginning. I was asked by Chair Barry Eggers to be the parliamentarian on the night of their elections (January 28, 2025). Right before the start of the meeting, Tim Loggains and Jonelle Fulmer (also from Pulaski County, although she was not in any official capacity), came to the front of the room immediately before officer elections claiming that Bilenda Harris-Ritter, Chair of the Rules Committee at that time, sent an email to them telling them that inactive members could vote. No one saw the email. I advised Chair Eggers in my capacity as Parliamentarian, not to allow inactive members to vote, as inactive members had not been allowed to vote in a decade, and the rule had not changed. Also, NO OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM RPA CHAIR WOOD OR ANY OTHER OFFICIAL AT THE RPA INCLUDING THE RULES COMMITTEE HAD BEEN SENT TO COUNTY OR DISTRICT CHAIRMAN TELLING THEM THAT THIS RULE HAD CHANGED.

A member of their committee board placed two calls to State Party Chair Joseph Wood, to find out what was going on and both calls went unanswered. That person then called the First District Chair, Sarah Dunklin, who confirmed inactive members could not vote. Chair Eggers told his committee that the decision of the chair was not to allow inactive members to vote. Mr. Loggains appealed to the decision of the chair, so Chair Eggers properly put the question to a vote of the body. The body concurred with the Chair’s ruling and decided that inactives could not vote, just as it had been at every prior meeting.

Keep in mind that Mr. Loggains not only was the boyfriend of the woman who murdered State Senator Linda Collins-Smith at the time of her murder but had also run against Chair Eggers for county committee Chair last cycle and lost. He additionally ran for Vice Chair the night of January 28th and lost again. Additionally, that evening, there were only 6 inactive members who came to the meeting and ALL races were won by more than 6 votes. (Someone was overheard that night saying that they had been on the phone all day calling inactives, so this was pre planned and orchestrated by the RPA, Belinda Harris Ritter, Jonelle Fulmer and Tim Loggains.) Keep in mind, had inactives voted nothing would have changed. Mr. Loggains filed a complaint against the entire Craighead County Executive Committee as well as an amendment to the complaint against me. A member of one committee cannot file a complaint against a member of another committee; this procedure is covered in our rules. Our rules do not allow for amendments to the complaint. If our rules did, which they do not, this amendment was submitted days after the time to do so and the amended recommendation was submitted to the Executive Committee days after the 45-day overall deadline as well. Additionally, the Rules Review Committee was appointed by the State Chair days late. The complaint was filed on January 31, 2025, and the entire complaint is here:

Part 2

Tim Loggains complaint consisted of him being upset that some people posted derogatory statements about the RPA and the Governor, among other things. (He is apparently upset that I am only telling you certain points, but you can read his full complaint in my Dropbox. To be clear - there have been no edits). Article VII Section 1 (B) states that the State Party Chair shall appoint a Review Committee within 15 days. Chairman Wood did not appoint the Rules Review Committee until February 21st, WELL AFTER THE 15 DAY DEADLINE, as the complaint was filed on January 31st.

While we were asked to submit any documents or statements on our own behalf, none of us were given any of the "evidence" ie copy of the complaint, against us, until after our case had gone to the Executive Committee. Thus denying us all due process. How do you defend yourself against what was submitted against you, when you have no idea what the complaint even looks like?

Our responses to the complaint are also in the Dropbox. Here is mine. I'm attaching mine here. Pay attention to the part in yellow. That is from the July 2018 State Convention and it was adopted. Thus, proving that it was the intent and understanding at that time, that inactives not be allowed to vote. I am also attaching the document that shows the proposed rules change from 2018.

(Proposed revision July 2018)

Part 2 documents - ( my response to the original complaint)

Part 3

At this time, no chairmen, county or district, had received any official notification of this rules change. Rules changes must go through the state committee, of which this has not, and it is not a rules "clarification." To be fair-the complainants are arguing that since it doesn't specifically state in our rules that inactive members can vote, then they can. It DOES state that they do not count toward quorum, they cannot send proxies and cannot sign onto a complaint. But they have decided that if they show up in person, they can vote.

So we all submitted our statements (again, they are on my Dropbox), and Drew Martin, Chair of the Review Committee doing the investigation, sent over his recommendation on March 15th. I'm attaching a copy below. Mr. Loggains asked that the entire Craighead Executive Committee be removed from the party for a period of time the State Executive Committee deemed appropriate and be banned from holding leadership positions for life. The Review Committee decided to recommend that they be removed from their positions and not be allowed to be in leadership for 2 years. This recommendation went to the State Executive Committee for review and they held one meeting over it.

Two weeks later, on April 1st, Mr. Loggains submitted an amendment to his complaint. It was only signed by him, so no telling if the other complainants knew he filed this. (Since this complaint was filed, 2 of the people who signed the original complaint have asked that their names be removed as they did not read the complaint, they were simply asked to sign it.) It asked that both myself and Delton Dunn (who was in charge of the CCRC Facebook page), be added to the punishment. We were named in the first complaint, but apparently he forgot to ask that we be punished somehow. His amendment is below.

Maya Harvey, the lady in charge of Communications at RPA, sent Delton Dunn an email with notice of the amendment and gave him until April 8th to respond to Mr. Loggains amendment. Article VII Section (D) states that the Review Committee shall make a written report to the State Executive Committee within 45 days of their appointment (as there was no hearing). The 45 day deadline would have been April 7th. So once again, the RPA did not follow their own rules, and went past the deadline allowed within our rules.

Drew Martin sent an amended recommendation AFTER the deadline, and it is also below (dated April 11th-4 days late).

As a side note-the Review Committee should never have accepted this amendment as they had already sent over their recommendation to the State Executive Committee, and the State Executive Committee had already met once over this complaint. The Rules Review Committee's job was done, PLUS they went past the deadline provided in the rules. Additionally, I have since learned that when the Rules Committee reconvened, Mr. Martin conducted the meeting via email, instead of zoom, which prevented members for making motions, talking to each other and seeing the vote count first hand. Also, as stated before, I am not even a member of this county, and membership within Craighead cannot file against a member of another committee.

I am also attaching my response to Mr. Loggains amendment below.

Part 3 documents - (Rules Review Committee Report from March 15th)

(Loggains Amendment)

(My response to his amendment)

(Rules Review Committee amended report from April 11th)

Part 4

Since that day in January, Chairmen have received no confirmation of any rules change from the Republican Party of Arkansas-only rumors. FINALLY on April 7th, Chairmen received the advisory opinion below. But interestingly enough -look at the dates. Under the INTRODUCTION section, it shows that the Rules Committee did not meet to discuss this until February 28th-one month AFTER the Craighead meeting. Then it was adopted on March 31st by the RPA. Yet, we are being punished retro actively, as the Rules Committee had not even met yet on January 28th, according to their own records.

We also received word that the State Executive Committee would be meeting on Monday, May 19th to decide our fate. That was 8 days ago. I have personally sent 3 emails asking what the outcome of the hearing was-crickets. There WAS an article in the Jonesboro Sun that stated some members of the Craighead County Executive Committee were removed from the party. Which ones? What about me? Were we found guilty? If so, which rule did we violate? Why is the RPA dragging it's feet in contacting those of us involved in this complaint? This stinks to high heaven and the Republican Party has proven how corrupt it is. There are more documents in my Dropbox. PM me if you want acccess and you can see the entire thing.

Oh side note: I'm hearing through the grapevine that Drew Martin got the Executive Director job at the RPA. That's like a 90K a year job. Reward for doing their dirty work? You can't make this stuff up.

Part 5

Apparently Maya and Jonelle Fulmer (who is subsequently a member of Pulaski County), showed up at the Craighead County Committee tonight. Furthermore, Joseph Wood had the county sheriff give this letter to a couple of the defendants who came to the meeting. Why on earth did Chairman Wood send this to the Craighead County Sheriff, but not to us? What a cowardly act! Someone was kind enough to send me a picture. The letter is dated May 22nd, yet he and Maya have ignored our emails asking about the outcome of the investigation.

Part 5 documents – (our removal letter)

Part 6

Welcome to the Twilight Zone:

Earlier I stated that Maya Harvey from RPA and Jonelle Fulmer (a member of Pulaski County), showed up on Tuesday night to the Craighead County meeting where the committee was electing new officers. The document below shows what they were passing out. Apparently Brian Lester, former Chairman of Washington County, who was outsted as Chair by his committee in January, was appointed as Rules Committee Chair by Joseph Wood. Bilenda Harris-Ritter must have either been let go or resigned after this latest fiasco with Craighead County Committee. (She started the whole inactives can vote thing.)

At a meeting a couple of months ago, a member of Craighead County Republican Committee made a motion to give money to various PACS, WHICH IS ALLOWED BY STATE LAW. The body voted to approve this expenditure. Now, the State Party is telling them THEY HAVE TO GO GET THEIR OWN MONEY BACK. This is not even allowed per Robert's Rules of Order (see below), as the checks have already been written and the money is gone from their account. A motion to Amend or Rescind cannot be made once the action is done. This committee, with Barry Eggers as Chair, raised over 80K at their Trump Store last year and now the RPA wants to butt in and tell them to go get THEIR money back. The RPA is overstepping their boundaries and make no mistake-they will use it to shut down another committee. Will yours be next?

County Committees-the RPA is on a roll. Ask yourself - Why do you think they are going after large, active committees and wanting to shut them down? Why are they demanding that county committees go ask for money back that they earned and the body decided where it should go?

If this money had been given to the Sarah Huckabee Sanders PAC, would the RPA still be asking for the money back? I think not.

Part 6 documents – (letter from Brian Lester)

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