The 2011 ousting of state Republican Party chair Jack Kimball still rankles Tea Party activists, who see themselves in a battle for the soul of the GOP. Just listen to former state Rep. Susan DeLemus (R-Rochester), who is running to regain her old House seat, as she exhorts members of the Rochester 9/12 Project to run to be party delegates:
The delegates actually choose the chair of the New Hampshire GOP. Jack Kimball got his — I don’t even want to say the words because they’re rude coming out of my mouth — but I want to tell you, he got knifed in the back. There was a monstrous setup. It was totally, totally — and I can’t even say it — it was BS is what it was, completely, totally BS.
We need to do it again. We need to, you guys need to be delegates. We need to get in there. We need to change the face of the Republican Party to be our faces and then we need to put people like Jack in. He was doing a fine job. He just got… they scuttled him… knifed in the back and it was twisted too, the sons of… And I know a lot about it. And I know the background of it. And I know Jennifer Horn was in on it. Jennifer Horn was in on it. And that woman is a liar! A liar!