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RandySF

(58,513 posts) Wed Oct 6, 2021, 04:54 PM Oct 2021

Minnesota GOP's lone secretary of state candidate leaves party

The Minnesota GOP's only candidate so far for secretary of state is no longer running as a Republican.

Phillip Parrish, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer from Kenyon, Minn., on Monday resigned from state and local Republican Party affiliation in a letter to Goodhue County GOP leadership, days after coming up short in his bid to become the new state party chair.

Parrish lost to former Senate minority leader David Hann in Saturday's election to replace Jennifer Carnahan, who resigned amid controversy in August. On Monday, Parrish insisted that his decision to leave the party was not tied to Hann's victory but rather a decision that "has been coming for several months."

"I leave the MNGOP battlefield knowing I did everything humanly possible to help," Parrish wrote in a letter to Goodhue County BPOU Chair Ernie Stone. "The 236 members out of 335 voting members of the governing body chose to continue the MNGOP organization as it stands."

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-gop-s-lone-secretary-of-state-candidate-leaves-party/600103885/?mkt_tok=NTU2LVlFRS05NjkAAAF_9U1k0DiBiOkYTvKtzyCbC7TxYBI0qbH8WN63DTUsBD2feBpNopNger9yB-md6VvG5GXKsfEn-9Yjp-OwMfXrzPPmJzmobVl4A-bZbvCAsUxr

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Minnesota GOP's lone secretary of state candidate leaves party (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2021 OP

He'll follow the new trend & start his own Party. PAC ready. Budi Oct 2021 #1

"Parrish, in a recent interview, said he does not believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected preside riversedge Oct 2021 #2

Jfc. 🙄 Budi Oct 2021 #4

Qanon Party!! yup--thats the name I was looking for! riversedge Oct 2021 #5

LOL. Of course that'll be his choice. Q PAC. $$$$ Budi Oct 2021 #6

He left the MN GOP because it wasn't fascist *enough* for him. Ocelot II Oct 2021 #3

Budi

(15,325 posts)

1. He'll follow the new trend & start his own Party. PAC ready.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Oct 6, 2021, 04:58 PM

Oct 2021

Wonder what he'll name it!

The take my ball & go home Party?

riversedge

(70,093 posts)

2. "Parrish, in a recent interview, said he does not believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected preside

Reply to Budi (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 6, 2021, 05:03 PM

Oct 2021

Is there a dangerous nutcase Party of Trump yet????

Parrish, in a recent interview, said he does not believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected president. His public social media pages includes repeated claims of sweeping voter fraud, COVID-19 conspiracy theories and a prediction that "mass civil war will break out before 2022."