{"id":991,"date":"2025-06-15T01:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grassrootsconnect.us\/?p=991"},"modified":"2025-06-21T01:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:48:43","slug":"a-honey-badgers-call-to-arms-im-running-for-colorado-gop-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/a-honey-badgers-call-to-arms-im-running-for-colorado-gop-vice-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"A Honey Badger\u2019s Call to Arms – I\u2019m Running for \ufeffColorado GOP Vice Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Colorado State Central Committee Voting Members,<\/p>\n

Let me cut to the chase: I\u2019m throwing my hat in the ring for Colorado GOP Vice Chair at the upcoming special meeting, following the sudden exit of D. Lee Phelan. This isn\u2019t just a candidacy announcement, it\u2019s a battle cry for every true grassroots conservative in Colorado who\u2019s fed up with the RINO circus running our party into the ground. Buckle up, because I\u2019m bringing the fight, and I\u2019m asking for your vote to help me save the Colorado GOP from itself.<\/p>\n

You know me. I\u2019m the guy behind\u00a0The Honey Badger Report, that no-holds-barred newsletter that calls out Republican betrayers who\u2019d rather cozy up to donors than defend conservative principles. I\u2019m the guy who, with my incredible wife Pam, built\u00a0Parker Conservatives\u00a0from a scrappy group of 34 patriots into a powerhouse with over 2,000 members, packing 100-220 folks into our monthly meetings without charging a dime. Why? Because informing, educating, and activating conservatives isn\u2019t a side hustle, it\u2019s our civic duty. I\u2019m also the guy who launched\u00a0We The People Network, a platform amplifying the brightest grassroots minds in Colorado and beyond, because the establishment doesn\u2019t get to gatekeep conservative ideas.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a Republican since I was 18, casting my first presidential vote for Ronald Reagan after his stellar run as California\u2019s governor. I moved to Colorado in 1982 with Pam, a Colorado native, and for nearly 45 years, I\u2019ve been in the restaurant trenches, starting as a cook, climbing to executive officer for a top-seven full-service restaurant corporation with 33,000 employees, and now serving as CEO of a smaller outfit running restaurants in Colorado and Alaska. I know budgets. I know business! I know BS when you hear or see it. And I know how to run an organization without letting it implode under fantasy finances or backroom deals. Spoiler alert: that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s missing from the current Colorado GOP under Brita’s lack of leadership.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about the elephant in the room, or rather, the RINO stampede. Under Chair Brita Horn and her establishment cronies, our party is a mess. Resignations are piling up faster than excuses: first the treasurer, now the vice chair. And then there\u2019s the jaw-dropping $2.4 million budget for two years they rubber-stamped in that clown-show Zoom meeting last week with the Executive SCC members. Yes,\u00a0million. That\u2019s not a budget; it\u2019s a wish list for consultants and a party pretending it\u2019s got Elon Musk\u2019s checkbook. Meanwhile, our conservative candidates will be left twisting in the wind, begging for scraps while we bankroll overhead and pork. If we\u2019re going to preach fiscal responsibility in D.C., we\u2019d better start practicing it at the Colorado GOP. Anything less is hypocrisy, and I\u2019m done with it.<\/p>\n

This is why I\u2019m running. We need a vice chair who\u2019s a counterbalance to the RINO establishment, a grassroots warrior who\u2019ll bring transparency, fiscal discipline, and unapologetic conservative values back to the table. Someone who\u2019ll stand up to the \u201cgo along to get along\u201d crowd and their donor-driven double-dealing. Someone who\u2019s not afraid to say the quiet parts out loud and fight like a honey badger to take our party back.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my platform, plain and simple:<\/p>\n

Elect bold, unapologetic conservative Republicans\u00a0to state and federal office, not squishy moderates who check their spines at the door.<\/p>\n

Push to opt out of the open primary, because letting Unaffiliated and Democrats meddle in our primaries is about as smart as letting a fox guard the henhouse.<\/p>\n

Get our fiscal house in order, because $2.4 million budgets with no accountability are how parties go bankrupt, morally and financially.<\/p>\n

Inject real grassroots leadership\u00a0into the Colorado GOP, amplifying the voices of the people who actually show up, not the insiders who show up to vote for a handout.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not here to play nice with the establishment and RINOs. I\u2019m here to call out the betrayers, shine a light on the backroom deals, and make sure the Colorado GOP works for\u00a0you, the heart and soul of this party. Will I fix everything? Only the Good Lord knows. But I can promise you this: nothing\u2019s getting swept under the rug on my watch. I\u2019ll be the voice of transparency, the thorn in the side of the Establishment and RINOs, and the guy who fights for our conservative principles with every ounce of grit I\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

So, to every State Central Committee member reading this: I\u2019m asking for your vote. Not just for me, but for the movement we represent, the one that doesn\u2019t bow to donor dollars or fold under pressure. The one that holds up liberty, fiscal sanity, and conservative values, no matter who\u2019s in the room. Let\u2019s take this opportunity to send a message that the grassroots will not be ignored.<\/p>\n

Vote for Mark Hampton as Colorado GOP Vice Chair. Let\u2019s make the establishment sweat.<\/p>\n

God bless,<\/p>\n

Mark Hampton<\/p>\n

Candidate for Colorado GOP Vice Chair<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co-gop-news","category-state-and-local-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/restorerealcolorado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-20-at-7.45.14%E2%80%AFPM.png?fit=1288%2C1204&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorerealcolorado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}