<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>A reason to be . . .</div><div><br></div><div>“Happy”</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Happy.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Happy.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>Business Insider</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-threaten-leave-gop-if-doesnt-split-trump-2021-5">https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-threaten-leave-gop-if-doesnt-split-trump-2021-5</a></div><div><br></div><div>—————————————————</div><div><h1 class="post-headline " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.21; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); padding-bottom: 17px; font-size: 2.6875rem; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">More than 100 Republicans, including former governors and lawmakers, are threatening to form a third party if the GOP doesn't split from Trump</h1><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">More than 100 Republicans say they will<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-trump-republicans-threathen-spinoff-gop-party-liz-cheney-vote-2021-5" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-uri="4a2fe181cd81797d24b3916d7f26a88c" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: rgb(9, 111, 250) 0px 1px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none;">leave their party and form a new one</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>if it doesn't split from former President Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 2.15rem 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">The group, which includes former governors and lawmakers, plans to release a letter outlining the threat on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 2.15rem 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">The preamble to the statement, published by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/us/politics/republicans-third-party-trump.html" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-uri="ed2da6f86c61287fb8d35acc37c96c33" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: rgb(9, 111, 250) 0px 1px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none;">The New York Times</span></a>, says: "When in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division, and despotism arise, it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively in defense of liberty and justice."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Those due to sign include former officials, members of Congress, ambassadors, Cabinet secretaries, and party chairmen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 2.15rem 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">They include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, and former Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who served under President George W. Bush, The Times and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rationals-vs-radicals-anti-trump-republicans-threaten-third-party-2021-05-11/" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="80" data-uri="9e3db5bebbe7a415ad0285b70f0a0459" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: rgb(9, 111, 250) 0px 1px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none;">Reuters</span></a>reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 2.15rem 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Miles Taylor, the former Homeland Security chief of staff who anonymously wrote a 2018 Times op-ed about "resistance" in the Trump administration, is one of the group's organizers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 2.15rem 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">"If the GOP can't break free of the nauseating cult of personality around Donald Trump, then they'll not only get an intra-party civil war, they'll see a breakaway movement running against them in key races around the country," Taylor told Insider.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">The Republican Party has been split over Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 2.15rem 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">On Wednesday,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-vote-to-oust-rep-liz-cheney-from-leadership-2021-5" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="100" data-uri="4416de2f5cc518a68d33bd0f82a8bbc3" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: rgb(9, 111, 250) 0px 1px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none;">House Republicans voted to remove</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Rep. Liz Cheney from her powerful position as chair of the House Republican Conference after she pushed back against Trump and the Republican Party's false claims about the 2020 presidential election.</span></p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>