Thanks,

Mark Petzold
President, Tea Party of Grand Rapids / River City Patriots

Gary L. Munson
President/Founder, Barry County TEA Party Patriots

Rick Butkowski
We The People

Jim Chiodo
President, Ottawa County Patriots
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From: "Debbie Joslin"
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:51
Subject: Saul Anuzis for national popular vote
January 7, 2011
Dear Fellow RNC members:

We have all been inundated with spurious emails from questionable sources but I know you will want to hear from a fellow RNC member who has pertinent information regarding a candidate for RNC chair. I have not endorsed any candidate but because of my recent experience with Saul Anuzis, I will not consider him for any position of leadership at the RNC. I feel it is my duty as an RNC member to share with you all an experience I had with candidate for RNC chair, Saul Anuzis.

Last spring one of our Democrat state senators introduced a bill (SB92) to require our electors to vote for the winner of the national popular vote in the presidential race. This scheme would have formed an interstate compact. In so doing, the makers of the bill avoided the necessity of a constitutional change. This bill kept electors but required them to rubberstamp the outcome of the national popular vote rather than cast their votes based on the outcome of the presidential race in our state.

We all know trashing the Electoral College is a favorite theme of liberal Democrats. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Saul Anuzis had sent a letter in support of SB92 to Republican state Senator Charlie Huggins in late March. Senator Huggins was given the impression from Mr. Anuzis that the RNC supported the concept of a national popular vote.

After viewing the letter Saul Anuzis had sent to Senator Huggins, I called RNC headquarters. I was directed to the office of Legal Counsel where I spoke with Reince Priebus. Mr. Priebus told me Saul had requested official RNC stationery very recently but his request was denied. As you can see, the letterhead on the letter attached is an RNC elephant logo but it is not "official" RNC letterhead. To my state senator it appeared that Saul was using RNC letterhead and had RNC approval for sending out this letter. Subsequently, I had a rather heated telephone conversation with Saul Anuzis where he defended his support for this awful bill and his use of the RNC logo on his letterhead. As Mr. Anuzis said, "Anyone can get the elephant off the internet." While this is very true, as a former member (at the time) of the RNC Mr. Anuzis knew full well that his use of that logo would create a false impression that the RNC supported this bill. Mr. Anuzis sent an email this morning where he stated that he has always communicated directly with members of the RNC. I want to make clear that until I complained last spring, no Alaskan member of the RNC had been contacted by Mr. Anuzis regarding this legislation.

I consider Saul Anuzis' activity in support of undermining our Electoral College system, in cooperation with leaders of the Alaska Democrat party, to be solid proof that Mr. Anuzis is unfit to be the standard bearer of the Republican National Committee.

Respectfully,