Trump Leaders Say Kim Powers Is Staunch Republican, Trump Supporter

I am writing this in my capacity as State Chairman for Donald Trump and Chairman of the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish. The publication Central Speaks has written some very misleading things about Kim Powers, a Republican candidate for Central City Council at-Large. Even though the owner Dave Freneaux had the correct information in hand, he chose instead to provide half truths and outright falsehoods about her. He has a habit of repeating things over and over until people begin to believe them. Unfortunately, many of his narratives are false!
Kim Powers was raised in Slidell where her stepfather was Mayor Pro-Tem and then Mayor of Slidell. He was and is an ardent conservative and a leader of the Republican Party.
Kim registered to vote when she was 18 and has been a staunch Republican for the past 27 years. During that period, she has campaigned for countless conservative Republicans and lobbied the legislature and local government for conservative causes.
She is solidly pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, and pro-traditional marriage. She is a member of the NRA and Louisiana Right to Life.
She was an early supporter of Donald Trump and volunteered to help in that campaign. In fact, during that campaign, she did something very valuable for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump, and it is that thing that Dave Freneaux has seized upon to try to discredit her and make it appear that she is a liberal Democrat and a supporter of Hillary Clinton. Nothing could be further from the truth!
In late 2015, as the Trump campaign was being organized, we knew that it would be important to know what the Democratic Party was doing in this parish. Then someone discovered an unusual opportunity. The Democratic Party in East Baton Rouge Parish is governed by the Parish Executive Committee, or PEC, a 17-member body elected by Democrats at the time of the Presidential Primary in March. As it turned out, the Democrats were having trouble finding anyone willing to serve on the committee from Central.
That presented the opportunity for a conservative to step forward and fill the vacancy on the Democratic Parish Executive Committee. That person would have the right to attend their meetings and know what they were doing.
A volunteer was needed. That’s where Kim Powers came in. She was willing to make a big sacrifice and do that job — not for money or recognition but to protect our country. As a result, she changed her party from Republican to Democrat and then qualified to run for the Democratic PEC representing Central. She was elected without opposition.
For the next 20 months, she attended meetings of the Democratic Parish Executive Committee, all of which were public meetings. She never lied about anything or stole anything. What she did do was write a story for the newspaper anytime anything of significance happened at their meetings. On some occasions, she videoed the meetings and broadcast them on Facebook Live. Many of the members of the PEC objected to her presence at their meetings, but there was really nothing they could do, because she had been elected, and she never did anything that caused her to be removed.
One of the interesting things she reported was the illegal outster of the Democratic parish chairman by the more liberal members of the PEC. Another thing was the fact that Democrats in EBR are focusing their voter registration efforts on the parish prison.
The most important takeaway from her time on the Democratic PEC was that they are a very inefficient and unproductive group. They mainly argue among themselves and get little or nothing accomplished.
Earlier this year, it was clear that her work on the PEC was no longer necessary. Furthermore, she was interested in serving in city government as her father had done. So she resigned from the PEC and switched back to the Republican Party, which she was where her loyalties were all along.
Her time of service on the DPEC coincided with the Trump campaign. During all that time, she continued to work at Republican headquarters, attend Trump rallies, organize the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon, have large Trump signs in her front yard, and wear Trump hats. There was never any doubt about her loyalties!
In any case, the truth is Kim Powers has always been a loyal Republican, has never supported liberals, much less Hillary Clinton. She is a strong conservative and loyal Republican who is willing to do what it takes to do the job!

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