FOX21 speaks with the new head of Colorado GOP

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — After Dave Williams was voted out as the Colorado GOP’s leader in a vote on Saturday, Aug. 24, Eli Bremer was elected to serve out Williams’s term. FOX21 sat down with Bremer to ask him about his plans for the party moving forward.

Bremer said the party is in pretty bad shape right now, calling the condition a “trainwreck” and his mission will be to get the party through the election and into the next election cycle. Bremer has pledged the full support of the state apparatus to help elect the republican candidates across the state.

“The election’s not about the party it’s about the candidates, and people do make decisions based on the candidates. We got great candidates, particularly in those two federal races [CD3 and CD8], that we are really focused on. They’re candidates that match the district, they’re very qualified candidates. So my job is not to have a message about the state party, my job is to take the state party out of the field of play publicly and really help our candidates…It’s our job to support the candidates so they can earn the vote of Republicans, unaffiliated, and even some Democrats.”

Dave Williams said the vote to remove him was illegitimate and Bremer said the party will be going through the legal process to settle the matter.

“We effectively now have a situation where we have squatters in the party and we are going to go through the legal process to get them out,” said Bremer. “In the meantime, they haven’t been doing the job, the condition of the organization is a trainwreck, so we are working on fixing that.”

Bremer also said the former chairman did not have wide support from the party.

“There’s just over 400 people on the central committee, there is maybe one-third of them who support the former chairman, it might not even be that high, from what we can tell. He held a meeting back in July, they had three people attend, we had nearly 200 attend this last weekend for the removal of the officers.”

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