Mark McCloskey pitches St. Louis GOP on a plan to catch RINOs
He came in from Franklin County pitching a plan to make candidates take a test on the Republican platform.
Mark McCloskey pitches St. Louis GOP on a plan to catch RINOs
ST. LOUIS — Mark McCloskey, the gun-waving lawyer turned conservative firebrand, came to the city Republican Party meeting Thursday night to urge members to purge imposters from their ranks.
And he pitched them a controversial new vetting protocol as the way to do it. He called on the city’s GOP central committee to make prospective candidates take a test measuring their knowledge of the party platform, to pore through their tax records, legal records and voting history — and then to prohibit anyone who doesn’t score high enough from running as a Republican.
McCloskey cast it as a straightforward way to ensure a candidate is a “true Republican.”
The small party tent trying to be even smaller.
