‘A Terrible Decision’: Newly Elected County Delegates in Arkansas Disqualified by Established Republicans

Delegates at the Pulaski County Committee on July 21. Courtesy of Kenneth Wallis

A grassroots movement to get involved in the Republican party in an Arkansas county has been met with resistance from established seat holders who have argued that the process by which the new members won their seats wasn’t valid.

After 71 people voted out the current chair and delegate seats of the Pulaski County Republican Committee (PCRC) last month in Little Rock, Arkansas, state delegates at the Republican Party of Arkansas’ (RPA) state convention on July 23 voted in favor of the Republicans’ Credentials Committee’s decision to disqualify the new delegates for reasons those new delegates say are untrue.

The Complaint

Members of the PCRC alleged in their complaint (pdf) to the credentials committee that the election of delegates for the state convention held during the Pulaski County Convention on June 30 was fraught with irregularities.