How the GOP Platform was Towed Away
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste--How two Fake Conservative Reps destroyed the Grassroots Platform to hold Reps accountable for their votes
Dude, Where’s My Car?
Representatives Ben Baker and Dan Stacy were able to use a crisis; people were told that the Hotel where the Convention was held had called tow trucks and was towing away cars. When they saw there were no longer enough people after their filibustering, they used parliamentary procedures to kill the resolutions added to the platform and all the hard work of the Grassroots over the last several months.
Why? Because they are cowards who don’t want to be held accountable for their voting record.
Gretchen Garrity and I went to the University Plaza Hotel and the Jordan Valley Car Park to speak with the managers of both locations and learn the truth. She wrote a great article about here.
Alex Scott of Springfield Parking Company (SPC) shared that the Convention Center had been reserved for a prom. Brent Parker, General Manager of University Plaza Hotel (UPH), shared that the prom was for Billings, a relatively small High School.
Mr. Scott relayed the barricades had been put in place for the Convention Center so the students could park there without any issues. However, the GOP members who attended the event moved around the barricade or sometimes pushed the barricades out of the way in the parking lot.
Why? According to Mr. Parker, the UPH had reserved its parking space with monitors, and guests had to pay to enter. The Parking garage also costs money. However, you could park for free if you pushed the barricades over.
Mr. Scott relayed that they realized this early in the day. They had planned on charging for parking that day because there was also an Art Fest, but they decided against it because the parking lot had filled.
It seems our GOP attendees cost a private company revenue. Mr. Scott relayed that no tow trucks were called, and parking was open for everyone to use. Later in the day, around 12:35 pm, according to Mr. Scott, who wrote it down in his log, a call was made to him about a possible car being towed by a member of the GOP convention. The woman said she couldn’t find her car. Mr. Scott is unsure how long it took for the woman to find her car. He thinks it might have been under an hour, but he couldn’t confirm.
Mr. Scott’s employees helped her look because there was no police report. Every time a tow truck tows a car, a police report must be faxed within 15 minutes. Eventually, the person whose car was “towed” discovered she had just misplaced her car in the Convention Center parking lot.
Mr. Parker from UPH shared that he and Mr. Scott didn’t speak about the event until Sunday; it was only on Sunday that he was made aware of the alleged towing event. Mr. Parker shared that the UPH has 6-700 parking spots in his parking lot
Mr. Scott shared that the parking garage can hold up to 971 cars. In the streets around the hotel, even with Walnut Street being closed for the Art Fest, there are other parking spots on the street.
We asked Mr. Parker when the GOP event ended on Saturday since there had been conflicting reports, and he said he wasn’t sure. However, he confirmed they would not run people off from an event unless there were another event after the first. Since the prom for Billings High School was in the Convention Center, another building, it wouldn’t have affected the State GOP Convention.
Overall, it appears Disrpreseantives Ben Baker and Dan Stacy took advantage of the crisis. A woman lost her car and started telling everyone it was towed, and people panicked. The crisis appears to have been extended past the original time of 12:35 pm and used by people to create a crisis. Baker and Stacy used this emergency well to get people to leave the Convention early.
We need to know who decided that there was still a towing issue. The prom students didn’t arrive until later in the evening, and the false flag towing event happened at 12:35. The report is that Ron Sanders took to the mic and interrupted Ben Baker's speaking around 6:00 p.m. to warn the convention goers that their cars were going to be towed. However, when we spoke to Mr. Parker, the General Manager, the hotel had no knowledge of cars being towed. The SPC also reported there were no tow trucks there because they couldn’t tell who was there for the Art Fest, Prom, or GOP at that point. It would have been an impossible game to pull cars out of the parking lot by 6 pm with all the events occurring during that time period.
People are trying to throw the hotel under the bus or attempting to throw Ron Sanders under the bus because he spoke at the mic. Show us photos of Tow Trucks towing cars. Show us receipts. Show us text messages from the hotel.
In speaking to the Springfield Police Department, they confirmed there were no towed vehicles, but there was a 911 call to report a stolen vehicle.
The person who made that call either implicitly or explicitly assisted Disrepresenatives Ben Baker and Dan Stacy in their desire to filibuster the Convention until there weren’t enough people left to hold a quorum for a vote. The Grassroots deserve answers.
For more details about what happened at the Convention, watch this podcast.
These two men acted tyrannically—acting against the voice of the people who were seeking an end to representatives like them serving without accountability, along with protecting women's sports, the unborn, and issues.
Don’t listen to the lies these two men are telling right now. We can get to the truth and find what their real goals are.
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Senator Bill Eigel has called for a recall of the State Convention. I think we should do so. Do not let the tyrannical actions of two men determine the fate of the MO GOP. Do not let them take advantage of the Grassroots.
For the grassroots, people like Democratic Representatives Ben Baker and Dan Stacy will take advantage of your forced errors. You have to avoid every error. The GOP should not have parked in the Convention Center, which was blocked off.