Wake GOP, struggling to win elections, invites U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to gala
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scheduled to be the Wake County Republican Party's keynote speaker at a 1920s-style party next week.
Posted — UpdatedGeorgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a known Republican conspiracy theorist in Congress, will be the Wake County Republican Party’s keynote speaker next week at a Roaring Twenties-themed gala.
Wake party chair Donna Williams said the party didn't invite Greene to be controversial.
"I'm very excited about having her come," Williams said. "As you know she is a strong female Republican ... she just won her primary, and she won it mightily.
Greene’s visit may prove awkward for GOP candidates in Wake County trying to regain a foothold for the party, which has struggled to elect candidates in the left-leaning county.
Only one Republican represents Wake County in the General Assembly, which has 13 seats in the body. That’s state Rep. Erin Paré, who said Thursday that she won’t attend the gala.
“I’m not going to be a part of that that night,” said Paré, adding that she plans to attend a Holly Springs High School football game with her family.
“I’m a Republican, but I’m also my own person,” Paré said. “I guess I don’t have any comment beyond that.”
Some Republicans were starkly critical of the decision to invite Greene.
Greene’s office didn’t respond Thursday to a request for comment.
Williams said that "throughout our history we always have people who are questioning things."
"I'm not afraid of that," she said.
Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, who is hoping Republicans pick up seats in the November elections so GOP lawmakers can overturn Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes next year, said he didn’t know Greene was coming to North Carolina until WRAL News asked him about it at an event Thursday.
“She wins elections in her district,” Berger said. “There are people in both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party that win elections in their district that don’t sell so well in other parts of the country.”
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