Timothy Schwartz’s and Tyler Bowyer’s LD30 Shame
When thinking of the purpose of party organization, the intent is clear. Our
ONLY mission is to elect more Republicans, and to defeat Democrats. Period.
Sadly, there are those who sacrifice the mission in order to achieve their vain
ambitions or political battles.
On December 6, 2014 Gary Hirsch soundly defeated Timothy Schwartz as the new
Legislative District 30 Republican Chairman. In fact, Mr. Hirsch won with over
68% of the district vote.
During Hirsch’s tenure, the District was successful at fundraising and
drawing in record meeting attendance. In every measurable way, Legislative
District 30 was a success under Chairman Hirsch. The future looked bright.
Unfortunately, Mr. Schwartz did not handle his defeat graciously and began to
organize in a possibly deceptive manner.
Although Mr. Schwartz would lose fairly in his election to Mr. Hirsch, it
appears he signed appointment forms for 99 new precinct committeemen and
committeewoman
prior to his election. How is this even
possible?
According to the
MCRC
by-laws, recruiting PCs prior to his election would mean it would be
impossible for them to be appointed at all. Under the by-laws, the appointment
forms need to be signed within 15-days of him receiving the actual appointment
forms. At this stage, the Maricopa County Chairman would be required to appoint
them within the next 15-days. In our case, the date of appointment would have
been December 29
th, clearly before the January 31
st
statutory meeting. The recruitment of the PCs during that 30-day period would be
a violation of the MCRC by-laws.
Additionally,
MCRC
by-laws require the use of a standard
PC
appointment form. It appears that Chairman AJ Lafaro allowed Mr. Schwartz to
edit the form. As if by coincidence, the
new
form does not require the applicant to date his signature. If you understood
the above, by not requiring a date it is impossible to actually know “when”
these PCs were appointed and if that appointment was a violation of the
by-laws.
In our above example, it could be that all 99 PCs were actually recruited
after Mr. Schwartz’s loss but the actual forms were backdated to cure an obvious
violation of the by-laws.
We will never know because Chairman Lafaro
allowed Mr. Schwartz to change the form.
Regardless, it appears that County Chairman Mr. Lafaro violated the MCRC
by-laws by appointing PCs during the forbidden period by submitting them to the
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Although the County Board of Supervisors
was notified of this violation, they directed duly elected Chairman Gary Hirsch
to resolve the issue with the new Maricopa County Chairman Tyler Bowyer.
Chairman Bowyer was elected on January 6, 2015 and he
quickly acknowledged that the PCs were actually appointed in violation of the
by-laws. Chairman Bowyer actually had Chairman Hirsch draft a removal
packed for those appointment PCs. The removal list was originally posted her however I have received a corrected statement. You might want to block out the voter IDs in the phony document you posted on
your website.
Here's the pertinent reason:http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.aspinDoc=/ars/16/00168.htm&Title=16&DocType=ARSF.
Any person in possession of a precinct register or list, in whole or part, or
any reproduction of a precinct register or list, shall not permit the register
or list to be used, bought, sold or otherwise transferred for any purpose except
for uses otherwise authorized by this section. A person in possession of
information derived from voter registration forms or precinct registers shall not distribute, post or otherwise provide access to any
portion of that information through the internet except as authorized by
subsection I of this section.
When Bowyer received the removal packet, he took no action until April 1. At
that time, he
signed
a letter attesting to the improperly appointment PCs and that they were in
fact appointed in direct violation of the by-laws. The directed that these newly
appointed PCs would need to go back through the proper process. Although
Chairman Hirsch was promised that this letter would go out in April, the letter
was not mailed until the end of May.
Although the letter specifically instructed that these new PCs had to be
reappointed, the PCs did not respond
the
letter.
During the summer, Bowyer met with Chairman Hirsch and asked him to ignore
the by-law violations and allow these new PCs to participate. Chairman Hirsch
agreed because he felt that Chairman Bowyer would not have the courage to make a
decision
and he believed that these newly appointed PCs were for the
good the party. Bowyer promised that their appointment would not be used against
him in a recall.
Unfortunately, on September 17
th Bowyer had Executive Director
April Riggins call Chairman Hirsch to notify him that Chairman Bowyer was
issuing a recall against him. Although a recall petition was sent that night and
the signatures were not verified, Chairman Bowyer
decided to move forward with the recall meeting.
Chairman Hirsch asked Bowyer why he went against his word on the matter, and
he was informed that his legal counsel Karyl Krug told him he had no choice but
to move forward with the recall election (which is not true according to the
MCRC
by-laws). As you recall
,
Ms. Krug was recently outed as a super liberal lawyer working for the Maricopa
County Republican Party.
While Chairman Hirsch is confident that he would have successfully beaten
back this illegal recall attempt, he honorably chose to
resign
on Sunday afternoon. He would not allow his district and the Republican Party to
be dragged down in petty, personal and unproductive disputes. Especially when
the County Chairman isn’t a man of his word.
The First Vice Chair will act as interim chairman and, in accordance with LD
30 bylaws, will schedule a new election at a time of his choosing.
Chairman Hirsch is owed an apology and investigation into these activities.
He not only made Legislative District 30 a better District than he found it but
he made decisions that were in the best interest of the Republican Party as a
whole. He was dealt with dishonestly by
Chairman Tyler
Bowyer and Timothy Schwartz and his recall attempt was made possible by PCs
appointed in violation of District and County bylaws.—
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