I have seen a primary opponent of Jon Hardister running attack ads against him, calling him a RINO. These attacks are so far from the truth they are not dishonest; they are flat-out lies.
In 2023, someone in Guilford County, a true RINO, stole a Guilford County School Board seat from a legally and legitimately appointed replacement for a Republican who resigned to take his seat on the county commissioners.
Jon Hardister, who represents part of Guilford County, wrote and helped pass legislation that, for the first time in over 100 years, exercised the state’s authority to kick someone on a local board out of office to remove the RINO from office and replace him with the duly elected Republican.
After removal from office, the RINO switched his party affiliation to unaffiliated, then to Democrat. He has now switched back to being unaffiliated again and is attempting to run against the duly elected Republican officeholder.
Jon Hardister is the furthest thing from RINO; he has actively fought RINOs in government, even going so far as to invoke 100-year-old precedent to remove a true RINO from office.
The bill in question is Senate Bill 9, and you can find out more about the backstory and the bill itself in a writeup on the historical precedent I wrote on Conservative Clearinghouse after it passed.
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