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The Jan. 16-17 issue of the
Herald-Zeitung quotes Sue Gafford Piner, Comal County Republican chair, asserting that Joe Biden was elected president as a result of massive voter fraud. She also claims that the Jan. 6 âCapitol riot was âstagedâ by liberals trying to make Trump and his supporters look bad.â She added that âIt couldnât have been anything the Trump supporters did. Anytime weâve had any kind of event at the Capitol we never left any trash.âÂ
I wonder if Piner spends much time time trying to determine what is true and what is not true.Â
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There may be a split brewing in the local Republican party, which has endured one controversy after another over the past year.
âA lot of Republicans are very disappointed â Iâm very disappointed,â Sue Gafford Piner, Comal County party chair, said Friday of what many believe is becoming a deepening rift between far-right and middle-of-the-road party conservatives.
Firestorms this summer involving national events with Black Lives Matter, the social media actions of Piner and a few other Texas GOP county chairs and controversial Trump Train incidents led into a November presidential election that many county Republicans call a fraud.Â
Some of those, including District 73 state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, engaged in a Jan. 6 protest in Washington D.C. that led to the storming of the US Capitol building. Investigators are still sorting out the details behind the attack that left five dead, sparked an impeachment of Donald Trump and have turned the city into a fortress