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Jan 17 27 tweets 8 min read
The Kool-Aid Kronicles Part 14:

This is @JimLyonsMA, a/k/a Jim “Jones” Lyons, crackpot chairman of @massgop. He has almost single-handedly destroyed MA GOP in 4 short years & now wants another term to finish off the party once & for all.
He’s up for reelection Jan. 31. Despite not having won a single big race in 4 years, he’s still supported by a band of zombies who want him to continue running GOP as a suicide cult, a la Jonestown.
If you’re on @massgop & don’t guzzle the Kool-Aid, you might soon have a P.I. snooping into your background. Even though @massgop is broke there’s still $$$ for P.I.’s, one way or another.
Today, let’s consider more lost souls who refuse to abandon the sinking Jim Jones Lyons. Like Lyons, almost none could get elected dog catcher, only to @massgop.

These are the serial losers of Jim Jones Lyons’ Kool-Aid Cult.
Meet Rich Baker, age 63, of West Newbury. He has the usual electoral record, losing every time he runs for almost anything except state committee.

2008 Congress, lost, 29.5% of vote.

2016 Governor’s Council, lost, 42.8% of vote.

2018 Governor’s Council, lost, 36.3% of vote.
When you’re in Losers Club, you hang out with other losers, like millionaire John Kasich fanboy Rick Green of Pepperell, another failed Congressional candidate, 2018.
Like DoorDash Diehl, Greene also failed at getting elected @Massgop chairman. He lost to a Quincy lounge torch singer.
Rick Green likes to have his photo taken with other losers from the Kult. Here he is with Kathy Lynch, age 60, of Westford, failed state rep candidate.
On election day, bands of losers sometimes gather together to hold campaign signs for themselves & other bust-outs like Lyons.
Or they go to other losers’ campaign events. Does Rich Baker ever think to himself, “I really know how to pick ‘em, don’t I?”
When Baker was with Charlie Baker, he could even get elected to town office – assessor.
Now he has to rely on divine intervention, but if you’re with Jim Jones Lyons, not even going to church to pray will save you. (God told him, sorry Rich, you’re still a loser.)
This is Baker’s female counterpart on the committee, Amanda “I’m losing just as fast as I can!” Orlando, campaign manager of hapless loser Geoff “DoorDash” Diehl.
Here’s Amanda with a friend named Russell Morris. Morris is due back in state court in Salem Jan. 26 on charges of forcible rape & indecent assault & battery of a child under 14.

(P.S. We didn’t have to hire a p.i. to find this out. We called the Essex DA. It’s public record.)
With Baker & Orlando working the grass roots, MA GOP in 2022 lost 2 House seats in their district (formerly held by Lenny Mirra & Brad Hill), as well as 1 next door (Jim Kelcourse’s).
“All three gone?!?! Great work, Amanda! Mr. Lyons will be so proud of us! His plan to reduce the party to zero is working to perfection!”
Meanwhile, in the run-up to Jan. 31 election, Rich Baker continues to try to ID & reach out to potential new recruits for the GOP’s Kool-Aid Kult.
Meet Todd Taylor, age 55, of Chelsea. He’s not just in the Kool-Aid Kult, he’s on Jim Jones Lyons’ payroll like he’s a private eye or something. ($18,000 for “outreach,” as the party has shed 30,000 statewide members under Lyons’ lunatic leadership.)
Here’s Taylor’s record of losses:

2014 state rep, lost 31.9%.

2015 Chelsea City Council, lost.

2017 Chelsea City Council, lost.

2022 state rep, lost, 27.3% lost.
Here Taylor is with Donnie Palmer, a new recruit who’s off to a splendid start as a Lyons loser, getting crushed for Boston City Council at large in 2021 & then running up a whopping 15.2% of the vote in losing ’22 Congressional fight to Squad leftist Ayanna Pressley.
Somehow Taylor got elected to Chelsea City Council, then was destroyed running for state rep last fall. At left is his campaign manager, Paul Ronukaitus, age 67, another Kool-Aid Kultist, from Winthrop.
Wrinkly Ronukaitus loves Jim Jones Lyons because he’s the first person who ever bothered to return Paul’s phone calls.
Todd’s wife Regina is also in Kool-Aid Cult, so M/M Taylor represents 2 votes Jim Jones desperately needs in his failing campaign.
That’s Regina Taylor on left as 7 members of Losers Club get together for another photo op.

Wonder how much “outreach” Lyons will pay for Taylor if he’s reelected. More or less than Jones’ P.I.’s get for probing not-insane members of @massgop?

“Stop Us Before We Lose Again!”
Do you know the worst thing about being in Jim Jones Lyons’ Kool-Aid Kult?

You never win a single election. Not one.

The best thing? You don’t have to worry about having P.I.’s sniffing for dirt in your private life, like what’s happened to members of party’s not-insane caucus.
Meet James Dixon, age 68, of Waltham.

2010 state rep, lost, 26.2% of vote.

2011 state rep (special election), lost, 32.2% of vote.

Jim has a way with dogs. With voters, not so much.
Coming Thursday in the Kool-Aid Kronicles... here’s a hint.

#Mapoli #dumpjimjones

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Jan 18
BREAKING:

@massgop Treasurer Patrick Crowley just emailed entire membership of @massgop a package of documents re: the disputed $53,000 bill from a private investigator who was hired by @JimLyonsMA to conduct pre-election investigation into sex life of now-Gov. Maura Healey.
After receiving voluminous records of emails & correspondence between the p.i. & Lyons, Crowley has amended committee’s financial filings with state OCPF to indicate that party is on hook for the oppo-research probe. Image
Lyons has denied that he approved deal to probe Maura Healey’s sex life, but emails indicate otherwise. Emails also show that Lyons also had much correspondence with head of local Independent Expenditure PAC. This is the PAC that Lyons told the p.i. would pick up the tab.
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This is @Massgop committee member Deb Dugan, age 73, a loyal member of the Kool Aid Kult run by @JimLyonsMA. The crackpot chairman of state party is counting on Deb to vote for him Jan. 31 for a new term to complete his ongoing destruction of the MA GOP.
One potential problem for Deb: To be on the committee, you have to actually live in the district you represent. State Rep. Paul Frost, another member, is questioning her residency in Watertown.
This week Frost, who is in the committee’s not-insane caucus, has sent Dugan two letters inquiring about her current legal domicile, and now he seems to have come up with some new evidence.
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Jan 13
BREAKING:

In the wake of this week’s revelations that @Massgop is on the hook for a secret $53,000 investigation by private detectives into Gov. Maura Healey’s sex life, a majority of @Massgop members (38 of 74) last night sent a letter to crackpot chairman @JimLyonsMA...
...demanding that he release a list of the party’s unpaid bills within 48 hours.
Several other members who are not insane declined to sign prior to the vote for chairman Jan. 31. Lyons is running for another term, to finish the job – of finally destroying the MA GOP.
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Jan 12
BREAKING:

Treasurer of @MassGOP Patrick Crowley just emailed all members of the state committee that he has reported apparent multiple violations of campaign finance laws by the current party leadership to the state agency, Office of Campaign & Political Finance (OCPF).
All involve a surreptitious $53,000 p.i. investigation into the sex life of Gov. Maura Healey that was authorized by @JimJonesMA in Oct. when Geoff Diehl was already hopelessly trailing the Democrat, by 30+ pts.
Evidence Crowley turned over to cops includes emails from Jim Jones Lyons telling p.i. to deal w/special PAC set up by Lyons' pro-life pals that got huge $$$ from Republican Governors Assn.
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Jan 12
The Kool-Aid Kronicles Part 13...
Welcome back to the Losers Club – an examination of supporters @JimLyonsMA, crackpot chairman of @Massgop and his aide de camp, or should I say clown de camp, Geoff “DoorDash” Diehl, both shown here at the State House in the Great Hall of Losers, or something…
Despite Lyons’ utter destruction of the party, these elderly cranks plan to vote for Jim Jones Lyons on Jan. 31 in his bid to get reelected to finish off MA GOP once & for all.
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Jan 11
BREAKING:

Rep. Paul Frost, member of @Massgop's not-insane caucus, asks one of Jim Jones Lyons' Kool Aid Kultists, Deb Dugan, if she still resides in district she represents...
...because if she doesn't, she may not be able to vote to reelect @jimlyonsMA as chairman Jan. 31 so that he can finish destroying MA GOP once & for all.

Letter went out to entire state committee, including the Kool-Aid Kult.
Surely you're jumping to conclusions here, @reppaulfrost. Just because Deb sold her house in Watertown & owns property in Plymouth does not mean that she is not still an "inhabitant" of the district, as bylaws require.
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