To the Editor:

I am a 59-year-old disabled veteran and lifelong Christian conservative. And I am appalled at what I see happening in the leadership of the Republican Party. 

Even here in sleepy little Haywood County the attacks on grassroots conservatism by the establishment GOP leaders is unsettling to say the least. Over the course of the last few years, these grassroots conservatives in Haywood have spent over $10,000 in legal fees to fight false allegations by GOP leadership.

Charges range from cyberstalking (case dismissed), assault charges (acquitted), and more cease and desist letters than I can count.  Numerous Haywood citizens were served “no trespass orders” without trial or jury by North Carolina Republican Party Chief Legal Counsel Thomas H. Stark, preventing these Republicans from attending GOP events in our own county. 

Then, in a kangaroo court held down east at the NCGOP State Convention, a group of at least five Haywood Republicans were charged with party disloyalty! This resulted in several being banned from the Republican Party for five years. The vice chair of the North Carolina Republican Party in a very public Facebook post even called the Haywood Republican Alliance (a group of Christian conservatives made up mostly of veterans and our families) “terrorists.” 

Now a civil suit asking for more than $75,000 has been brought by a Haywood GOP official against the conservative Political Action Committee “Haywood Republican Alliance” and several of its members, including six John Does. Grassroots conservatives in Haywood County have had to resort to a “Go Fund Me” page just to fight off the vicious attacks of the progressive establishment GOP. These are the kind of attacks one would expect from far left radicals, not the Republican Party.

The establishment NCGOP bureaucrats down in Raleigh have had their nose in Haywood County politics trying to control us for far too long. It’s high time the NCGOP learns to stay out of our lives and let the people of Haywood County run our own county.

My question, is when are these attacks going to end? Why does the NCGOP not follow the Republican Party platform? Why does the NCGOP leadership not value their hard-working grassroots conservative volunteers? 

My suggestion is get back to your Christian values, support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and do the job you were elected to do: support our president, our veterans and stand up for America. Long live the Republic. 

Eddie Cabe 

Canton