ROB NOBLE FOR CHAIRMAN 11TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

We cannot continue on the same path and expect different results. Our State Leadership and 11th congressional leadership has failed the party, the candidates, the delegates and what is worse….. it has failed the people in Michigan, Oakland County and the 11th Congressional district. 

The reality is the State GOP leadership and the house and senate members FAILED and remained in 1965 instead of the year 2022. They underestimated Proposal 3 and the abortion issue. They thought that the party was strong enough and smart enough to change 50 years of federally mandated women’s rights and to tell women that you are wrong and to take a far-right religious zealot stance. 

How insanely foolish regardless of what their personal opinion is on the issue. They cost the Republicans the first loss of the house and senate in FOUR DECADES.

The House and Senate should have put a ‘Roe’ proposal out as soon as the leak from the supreme court was confirmed. When they did not, the State GOP Leadership should have injected their power to make it happen. They were to narcissistic in their far-right beliefs. 

Alas, there was no vision, and more importantly no courage and no strength. This is why there is a demand for change that is needed in our party. 

This would have helped children and parents and protected the rights of parental interaction in their children’s lives. 

Their failures have taken parental rights away and actually hurt women’s rights in Michigan.

It would have gotten bi-partisan support and the Governor could not VETO it without committing political suicide. 

The abortion issue would have been off of the table and the candidates could have focused on the real issues destroying this state. But their far-right focus made the G.O.P. DOA. 

Dixon, DePerno and Karamo could not fight back since the money didn’t show up from the state and the RNC. 

In the military and in law enforcement we are trained one very simple rule; ‘When you are on the defense you cannot advance.

The next failure at the state level and in the 11th was a lack of funding, a lack of vision, definitely a lack courage and common sense. There should have been and should be a class action lawsuit by all congressional districts, the state Republican Party, the RNC and the community officials in Detroit.  The Detroit officials did file a lawsuit in January to alter the redistricting. (Detroit Free Press Jan 3 2022) ‘The maps adopted by Michigan's citizen-led, independent redistricting commission eliminate majority-Black congressional and state Senate districts that currently run through Detroit and reduce the number of Detroit majority-Black districts in the new state House map.’ 

The redistricting committee was completely biased and the evidence is overwhelming. First; they are in direct violation of the redistricting criteria. These districts are not compact. The average is they run 20 miles north to south. Next; they DO give the Democrats a disproportionate advantage to their political party. Next;  Districts shall reflect consideration of county, city, and township boundaries. Now the coup de grace; of the 13 committee members, the only two African Americans on the panel, were both Democrats and here is the nail in the coffin; they are both from DETROIT. How did the committee ALLOW TWO PEOPLE FROM THE SAME CITY AND PARTY on the Commission? The optics and the reality show complete gerrymandering by the committee in favor of the democrats. 

The 11th had $12,000 to give to candidates. Only 3 state house candidates of 20 house and senate races were given funds and the leadership of the 11th Cherry Picked their candidates of choice and left all of the other candidates go unsupported. 

THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ON MY WATCH. ALL OF OUR CANDIDATES HAVE VALUE. 

The Reality and the Facts……….. There are 4 House Districts in Oakland and 4 in Macomb Counties that now cross into Detroit proper. Here are the facts of the mid-terms.

Of 8 districts in Oakland and Macomb that cross into Detroit, 1 district under MI-11 (district 7) was unopposed and had no GOP representation. WHY?  

1 State Senate race (dist. 3) did not have any GOP representation. WHY? 

Of the remaining 7 districts, (5,6,8,11,12,13,14) between Oakland County and Macomb County; the GOP candidates in these Detroit areas only received a total of 2,345 votes out of 78,093 total votes cast. 

Further evidence: Detroit had a voter turn-out of 33.75% (due to Proposal 3)

A total of 171,635 people voted.

Straight Party Voting -  

Democrats   129,613

Republicans     4,448

Other Parties  1,803

In the 4 state house districts in Oakland County of the 171,613 total votes, 55,665 votes in Detroit were in our 4 districts.

How can any republican candidate win in any race when the bias is so far left democratic? We must fight and get a fair and balanced redistricting or the next ten years will be erode the republican party in house district 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Oakland County.

My top priority is too organize the legal action necessary to fight this complete bias toward the democratic party!

We are organizing a slate of leaders that each have unique skill sets, who can work together and who are on the same page and the same direction for the 11th Congressional District. 

Electing individuals wastes time on working through their own individual personal opinions. 

With the short timeframe of election cycles, we need a team to hit the ground running.

We will be facing a state house, U.S. Congressional, and Presidential election in 2024. We cannot waste time discussing directions while the time passes us by. 

Now is the time for a serious change of direction, placing the same type of people in leadership positions over and over and expecting different results in the wrong path.