Otter Tail County (OTC) has been a hotbed for corruption within their local Republican party for years that has targeted, attacked, and disenfranchised their own conservative delegates. Fortunately, grassroots conservatives stayed active in the fight against Establishment RINOS and refused to give up their duly-elected delegate roles. After three long years of Establishment control that refused to hold an open, in person BPOU meeting, things finally changed on Monday (4/28/25).

Action 4 Liberty has always stood with the OTC grassroots and refuses to concede an inch. Our partnership with OTC grassroots Patriots has included training and mobilization so they can overcome the deep state of CD7. Lots of the main leaders within OTC has attended several of our training events and have successfully implemented a new way forward for the local GOP. While two previous meetings took place with the BPOU, one was over zoom and both did not give proper notice to all OTC delegates.

Earlier this year, A4L reported on RINO CD7 Deputy Chair Tiffany Lesmeister-Knott attempted to control the OTC convention by emailing duly-elected delegates and deciding who would be allowed to attend their own convention and who would be banned. This interference was done in part to protect RINO Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach, who couldn’t even win the CD7 endorsement last year despite being the incumbent. The attempted disenfranchisement was properly confronted at the OTC convention and the grassroots elected new individuals to lead the BPOU.

A4L would like to congratulate the hard work conservative residents and activists in OTC which has brought them to a new era of transparency within their BPOU. Each and every BPOU in our state should be under the control and direction of the delegate body, not crony leaders hiding from their delegate body! An incredible amount of effort has been put in by OTC locals and they are finally reaping the rewards of their work. Unfortunately, the ousted RINO leaders have seemingly refused to give up the website and facebook page to new leadership.

The battle between liberty lovers and Establishment RINOs will be forever on-going, especially in OTC, but the BPOU holding their first open meeting in three years is a great sign for things to come! A4L will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the grassroots conservative base and will never tolerate corrupt measures to disenfranchise them. A4L encourages the Patriots of OTC to stay active and continue holding power to account!