When I heard that Jim “Jones” Lyons, the top of the demise cult that’s the state GOP committee, was summoning his dead-enders collectively for a revival assembly at his barn in Andover Thursday evening, I had just one query.
Would Lyons be offering the standard Jonestown-cult-like refreshments to his zombie-like followers or would it not be BYOKA?
Bring Your Own Kool Aid.
“There are some people coming to my private home,” he advised me Monday. “I got some people who want to get together, but once it becomes a story they may run and hide.”
Gee, I ponder why. But then, it’s been a busy week for Lyons and his followers after the worst single election day for Republicans in Massachusetts for the reason that occasion was based within the 1850’s.
The whole desolation of the MassGOP didn’t cease Jim from fleeing to Mar-a-Lago final evening for the massive announcement, and posting about it on social media. Do you assume he advised Trump that he may do for him in 2024 what he did for the native occasion final week?
Take perennial loser Geoff “Landslide” Diehl – please!
Running for governor this time, Diehl managed to get a decrease share, to not point out 130,000 fewer precise votes, than he obtained in opposition to the pretend Indian in 2018. So Landslide immediately emailed a plea to his dozens of followers begging for but extra money.
“Will you please show your continued support for Geoff and his campaign, and help us pay for all of our last-minute efforts?”
What efforts? Diehl barely campaigned. In his fourth electoral defeat since 2015, he paid $93,750 to Corey Lewandowski, the Trump man, for… consulting.
You learn that proper — $93,750 to a man who Diehl’s marketing campaign introduced was shifting on the day after the first.
Diehl additionally doled out $46,375 to his marketing campaign supervisor Amanda Orlando and spent one other $40,000 for a fundraiser. He additionally paid $25,000 to his press spokeswoman, whose job most days was to inform reporters that the candidate had no public occasions scheduled, or to offer out the unsuitable tackle on these uncommon events when he truly appeared in public in his yellow tie.
Then there was Jay McMahon, who misplaced his third race since 2018, this (second) time for legal professional common. Jay apparently obtained a post-election e mail from the Diehl marketing campaign, and he was touched by his fellow loser’s “statesmanship.”
“Those are also my sediments,” he stated. Not sentiments, however sediments. Whatever Landslide says, these are Jay’s “sediments” too.
Next, Rayla Campbell, the failed candidate for secretary of state. She and Jim Jones Lyons was once thisclose. No extra.
As she tweeted on the 68-year-old death-cult boss: “Retire old man.”
She adopted this up with: “He is a problem. He needs to go. People are getting in position to oust him and I’m going to help. It will be my pleasure!”
Another candidate Jim Jones Lyons groomed for greatness was Donnie Palmer. First Palmer ran for Boston City Council final yr and completed 14th in a area of 17. Obviously, he had a future in Jim Lyons’ GOP.
So this yr he ran for Congress in opposition to Ayanna Pressley and obtained a whopping… 15% of the vote in opposition to the Squad lunatic.
Fifteen p.c! But now certainly one of Donnie Palmer’s stalwarts is, like everyone else, pointing the finger at Lyons and the state committee, which operates out of an workplace park in Woburn.
“Where did all the money go?” Palmer’s man requested. “Maybe in two more years we will have some balls up at the office in Woburn.”
Seriously, man, do you assume the GOP will even have that Woburn workplace in two years? The hire is $3,319.84 a month – who’s giving these clowns any extra money after this newest string of fiascoes?
Jim Jones Lyons has been busy – not a lot with, say, the recounts within the state reps’ fights in Groton and Essex County. Who cares about these guys – they’re simply Republican candidates, they’re not invited to the barn tomorrow evening!
Forget the statewide places of work, or Congress, or the Legislature. What issues is controlling the state committee, so Jim Jones can hold his phony-baloney job in January.
This is why, the day after the election catastrophe, Jim sprang into motion, and “vacated” a state committeewoman from Wales named Lindsay Valanzola. Post-election, that was job one from Jim, to eliminate somebody who desires to eliminate him.
Valanzola responded along with her personal letter, saying that no, she was not “vacated,” she was nonetheless a resident of Massachusetts.
“As the committee argues about opportunists I’d like to bring to light the biggest of them all – YOU.”
Instead of spending cash on candidates, Lyons squandered occasion cash – he says $600, Valanzola says $1,600 – on unsuccessfully making an attempt to show that she is now not a resident of Massachusetts.
“Rather than take responsibility and accountability for our massive losses Tuesday night,” she wrote, “much of which you, Jim, are responsible for, you chose to divert attention by continuing a witch hunt against me and other duly elected members of the State Committee.”
I requested Valanzola for a remark, however she stated she will be able to’t converse publicly as a result of she’s “pursuing legal options.” This dispute will in all probability find yourself in court docket. Jim Jones Lyons likes to sue his fellow Republicans. That was one other factor he was doing the day after the election – going after his committee treasurer in court docket.
Rep. Paul Frost, a member of the state committee, requested Lyons how a lot he’d spent on the personal eye (Lyons calls it a “firm”) that he despatched after Valanzola. Then Frost added:
“Can you kindly provide the committee with how much the Party has spent on legal fees and on anything else related to going after our duly elected committee treasurer for following the rules?”
When the cellphone didn’t ring, Frost knew it was Jim Jones Lyons.
And now the dead-enders shall be gathering collectively on the barn. BYOKA. I hope the Samaritans are there, with that signal I keep in mind from the Sagamore Bridge: “Suicide is not the answer.”
Lyons wouldn’t inform me on the report what sort of Kool Aid he’ll be doling out, however I attempted to get some extra data out of him. I requested him how he felt in regards to the falling out together with his erstwhile acolyte, Rayla Campbell.
“I’m done,” he stated.
You’re executed, Jim? Can we get that in writing, after which have it notarized? Because that’s all we’re asking for, so that you can be executed.
You would possibly say, these are our “sediments” precisely.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”