After the party smeared and attacked A4L, the grassroots delegates of CD4 just repudiated the MNGOP State Exec. Board by placing RINO Hunter and A4L Board member Dale Zoerb to be their voice on the very board that passed a bogus condemnation of our organization.

The MNGOP’s 4th Congressional District convention took place this weekend (Saturday, April 5th) in Roseville for the purposes of electing party leadership roles and completing other party business. The convention chair, former Senator Roger Chamberlain, and the convention parliamentarian, Senator Andrew Matthews (SD27), each ran the convention in a fair and objective manner. However, an attempt to hurt Dale Zoerb by the Nominations Committee was unsuccessful as he claimed a seat in the MNGOP's top Exec. Board.

Among the leadership elections at the convention included: Chair, Deputy Chair, Secretary, State Exec. Vice Chair, and CD4 board Vice Chairs. The battle between the grassroots conservatives and Establishment RINOs for these critical leadership roles is persistent throughout the state and can be found in nearly every district. 

The most competitive race came out of the State Exec. Vice Chair election, which initially had four candidates participating: Jim Carson, Sue Erickson, John Kysylyczyn, and Dale Zoerb. Unlike the other leadership elections, there was a Q&A section where delegates could submit questions to be answered by each candidate. A rules fight was offered by this article’s author to eliminate the Q&A section which was narrowly defeated via a voice vote. Subsequently, I was then invited to participate in the Q&A committee to help select questions and did so. Despite a couple of different opinions on some of the questions, the selection process was completed fairly and respectfully.

One area of corrupt preferential treatment that was exhibited was through the Nomination Committee (NomCom), which found Dale Zoerb to be “qualified with reservations” and the other three candidates as “qualified”. Zoerb is a very successful business owner who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to conservative and Republican causes/candidates and is on the Action 4 Liberty Board of Directors (which is why the NomCom found him “qualified with reservations”). Among other things, during Dale’s speaking time he laid out his vision for this position, the need to support endorsed candidates, called out former MNGOP Chair David Hann for wiping the MNGOP computer data, called out Bobby Benson for being behind the bogus A4L condemnation, and the need to hold GOP politicians accountable while slipping in a few jokes. Dale Zoerb has become known as the “RINO hunter” due to his iconic jacket and hardcore conservative beliefs. Like most of the Grassroots, Dale feels backstabbed by the RINOs who work against conservative interests! See below:

During the Q&A, RINO and Big Pharma lobbyist John Kysylyczyn angrily threw false accusations at A4L and even read through some of our article headlines! Kysylyczyn made libelous accusations against A4L, which he should publicly retract before A4L considers legal action against him. John’s angry and bitter attitude gave him a pathetic last place performance.

Following the speeches and Q&A, the first round of results were as follows:

Dale Zoerb - 31

Sue Erickson - 17

Jim Carson - 13

John Kysylyczyn- 12

After the first round of voting, Carson and Kysylyczyn went on stage and begged their supporters to back Sue Erickson to try to prevent Dale from winning. Unfortunately for them, Dale won a majority of the votes on the next ballot! See results below:

Dale Zoerb - 37

Sue Erickson - 34

As seen above, this was an extremely narrow victory and was only possible due to the grassroots conservatives who participated in Saturday’s convention. The “qualified with reservation” designation has become a weaponized tool to dissuade delegates from supporting a candidate, but that was overcame since the grassroots does not need a select few to tell them who is “qualified” for office. As delegates, they understand they can make up their own mind and don’t need to be guided by the Establishment. 

The MNGOP State Executive Board is becoming more and more grassroots each day! As we’ve previously reported, Otter Tail Patriot and leader Nathan Miller recently won the CD7 State Exec. position and Bret Bussman defeated longtime CD7 Chair and Michelle Fischbach staffer Craig Bishop. The very people who the Establishment (like unhinged Walter Hudson) want to disenfranchise and purge from the party are the ones who are getting elected to the highest echelon of the party leadership! 

In addition to the CD4 State Exec. Vice Chair race, pro-grassroots Chris Sears was elected Chair with a very large victory margin of 66-17 against John Rheinberger. Chris Sears is a strong conservative activist who worked in support for several campaigns and has plans to grow the party and laid out several goals and missions to accomplish. As a hardcore conservative, Sears was in attendance of the 2023 A4L Christmas Dinner and won a custom tie worn by Senator Nathan Wesenberg on the Senate floor to fight radical Democrat policy that sought to ban gas powered lawn mowers, chainsaws, and other equipment! See below:

The change of leadership in several Congressional Districts is indicative that the Grassroots is paying attention, fighting back, and winning. A few CD conventions still remain and the change within the MNGOP has become unavoidable. Dale Zoerb’s victory shakes up the party and completely REPUDIATES the bogus A4L condemnation passed by the Exec. Board. MNGOP Chair Alex Plechash said organizations that attack Republicans are “poison to the party” then the delegates elected an A4L leader who is known for holding RINOs accountable! Perhaps the party should now retract and apologize for the sham condemnation!

The smears don’t work! They only make us stronger! Patriots can sniff out BS and are throwing it right back at the Establishment. Action 4 Liberty looks forward to the party reconciling with the fact that their attacks against us for holding RINOs accountable have failed yet again. As we see House Republicans pushing a 2026-2027 budget (costs $66.6B) that will spend YOUR surplus dollars, would be the 2nd most expensive budget in MN history, and is more expensive than Walz’ plan, the RINOs and their big government agenda must be exposed! Action 4 Liberty will continue leading the way!