Open Letter to Ronna McDaniel
Please take your Progressive non-profit with you and vacate the premises!
Dear Ronna;
On April 6, 2022, you notarized the Articles of Incorporation of the Republican National Committee, Inc.
On April 7, 2022, your registered agent Cogency Global, Inc., filed a “Plan of Conversion” with the Corporations Division of the District of Columbia on Form GN-11 provided by the Corporations Division. Included with the filing were Articles of Incorporation that you signed.
Form GN-11 provides, in part, “This form will allow for a domestic entity to become a domestic entity of a different type…”.
The form continues: “Under the provisions of the Title 29 of D.C. Code (Business Organizations Act) the domestic…entity listed below hereby applies for a Certificate of Conversion and for that purpose submits the statement below.”
The name, jurisdiction of organization, and type of converting entity.
To which you stated: Republican National Committee, a District of Columbia unincorporated nonprofit association.
The name, jurisdiction or organization, and type of the converted entity.
To which you stated: Republican National Committee, a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation.
Effective date.
You stated “Upon Filing”.
From the Articles of Incorporation:
“The undersigned (Ronna McDaniel), acting as the Incorporator of a nonprofit corporation…adopts the following Articles of Incorporation:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is the Republican National Committee (the “Corporation”)
SECOND: The Corporation is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under D.C. Code Title 29, Chapter 4.
THIRD: The period of the Corporation’s duration is perpetual.
The articles continue with additional boiler plate language on corporate governance.
Above the signature line on Form GN-11 it states:
If you sign this form you agree that anyone who makes a false statement can be punished by criminal penalties of a fine up to $1000. imprisonment up to 180 days, or both, under DCCC Section 22-2405.
Ronna, you signed the form.
On April 8, 2022, Josef G. Gasimov, D.C. Superintendent of Corporations, issued a Certificate of Conversion to the Republican National Committee.
According to your registered agent, Cogency Global, the documents which they filed for you on April 7 were provided by the law firm Wiley Rein.
Attempts to contact the law firm to gather further information regarding this matter resulted in the following email:
Mr. Haugland –
You are hereby directed to cease and desist effective immediately from contacting anyone at our law firm concerning the Republican National Committee. If you continue contacting our firm in the future, we will regard your behavior as harassing and abusive and we will reserve the right to contact the appropriate authorities accordingly.
I hope you have a good day.
Michael Toner
Michael E. Toner
Attorney at Law
mtoner@wiley.law
Wiley Rein LLP • 2050 M Street NW • Washington, DC 20036
o: 202.719.7545 •
The Republican Party is not a D.C. NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Ronna, the Republican National Committee is a creation of the Republican National Convention.
From the Preamble to the Rules of the Republican Party adopted at the most recent Republican National Convention in 2016:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the following be and hereby are adopted as The Rules of the Republican Party, composed of the rules for the election and government of the Republican National Committee until the next national convention,…
The Republican National Committee has never been “a District of Columbia unincorporated nonprofit association” as you state on the conversion form you signed.
Your Chief Counsel, Mathew Raymer, wrote this in a letter to the North Dakota Republican Party after I wrote the “Republican Party Has Died” on my Substack last year:
Previously, the RNC operated as an "unincorporated association" under the District of Columbia's Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act. Now, the RNC is incorporated as a "member-governed corporation," another type of legal entity under D.C. law which provides for greater legal protection while maintaining the RNC's character and structure.
He lied, and stated further:
The vote to incorporate did not take place at a "training only session" on April 13. It took place at the RNC's February 2022 Winter Meeting in Salt Lake City, where the full RNC Membership voted unanimously to authorize the Executive Committee to take the steps necessary to incorporate. The Executive Committee then met on April 6, when it approved the draft governing documents for incorporation. The full RNC Membership then met again at the RNC Spring Meeting on April 14, where it approved an amendment to Rule 8(b) to add the additional mechanism for RNC members to call a special meeting as required by the incorporation process. A training session occurred in connection with the Spring Meeting, as is routine and in accordance with RNC Rules,* but votes simply do not take place during such training sessions.
It appears, Ronna, that only the RNC Executive Committee has approved the Articles of Incorporation for your Republican National Committee, Inc.
Cease and Desist impersonating the Republican National Committee
Ronna, your creation, the Republican National Committee, Inc., is nothing more than a Progressive alternative to the real Republican Party.
You have publicly advocated for Critical Primary Theory with your insistence that primary voters choose the Republican nominee for president, not the delegates to the Republican National Convention.
This morning, on Fox and Friends News, as you announced the first Republican Circular Firing Squad to be held in Milwaukee in August, you also indicated that candidates must pledge “to support whoever the VOTERS CHOOSE to be the Republican nominee in 2024”.
Ronna, it is time for you to vacate the Republican National Committee headquarters and find accommodations for your nonprofit corporation elsewhere.
Curly Haugland
REPUBLICAN SUBSTACK READERS:
Due to the fact that the Republican National Committee failed to convene a Republican National Convention in 2020, a lapse of the convention authorization of the Republican National Committee may be the reason McDaniel chose to improperly incorporate the RNC. (To have a form of a legal entity)
Only a Republican National Convention can properly authorize the creation of a Republican National Committee.
A deliberative assembly of dedicated Republican leaders, past and present, has been formed to consider plans for a Republican National Convention in 2023 to fill the void.
Stay tuned!