NEW YORK – Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly confirmed to WND that six board members of her group Eagle Forum have called a special meeting Monday that she believes is an attempt to remove her as CEO and board chairman because of her support for Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House.
“The six board members calling today’s telephone meeting won’t tell me what the meeting is about, but I think it’s an attempt to vote me out,” Schlafly said. “It’s disloyal and it’s terribly shocking, and I’m completely depressed about it.
“I may be one vote short to win today,” she conceded.
The meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. Central Time.
Asked for reaction to the development, Trump gave a brief statement to WND through his campaign staff.
“Phyllis is one of the most respected conservative leaders in the country, who helped form the conservative movement, and I am incredibly grateful for her continued support,” Trump said.
Along with her support of Trump, her six opponents on the board have cited her opposition to the so-called “Con-Con Movement,” a push to get 34 states to vote for an Article V constitutional convention with the aim of adding a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“I think the Con-Con issue is really diversionary,” she said. “I’ve always been against Con-Con, from the very first the time the idea was raised. Everybody knows that.”
Schlafly said the board meeting was called by only three members, and Eagle Forum lawyers are arguing that three members are not enough, according to the by-laws, to call a meeting of the board.
“This is a complete takeover attempt,” she said.
“I think the leader of the coup is my daughter Anne Cori and her husband at Eagle Forum of Missouri,” Schlafly said. “I think she and her husband want to take over the organization.”
Her son John Schlafly, the treasurer of Eagle Forum and a board member, explained to WND that among the six board members calling the meeting are several “who feel Donald Trump is unacceptable as the GOP presidential candidate in 2016.”
Phyllis Schlafly endorsed Trump March 11.
The fact that it is her own daughter makes it even worse. I can tell you this; Phyllis Schlafly is the Eagle Forum. If these people, including her daughter do this, the Eagle Forum will fold and collapse like wet cardboard. Because what will happen, Phyllis Schlafly will get the word out about this, as she already has and donations to the non-profit will dry up like a small creek bed in the desert. I do believe that these board members have gotten a bit to drunk with the power that they have and they should resign and start another organization.
It is a awful shame that something as simple as a Presidential endorsement would be allowed to destroy a great institution of Conservative Christian principles as Eagle Forum. These 6 people ought to rot in the Devil’s hell for this little stunt. 😡
Phyllis Schlafly is a true christian conservative American who has educated millions to the corrupt cultural Marxism being practiced and facilitated by both so-called political parties that has led to the overall multicultural theft, supplanting, and destruction of white christian America. I’m leery about Trump myself but at least he is a true native born white protestant American in spite of all his faults. All whites in America today are under attack by the leftist subversives who are transforming our nation through white genocide.
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I agree, she is a National Treasure and her daughter is an awful person. 😡
Phyllis Schlafly is a true christian conservative American who has educated millions to the corrupt cultural Marxism being practiced and facilitated by both so-called political parties that has led to the overall multicultural theft, supplanting, and destruction of white christian America. I’m leery about Trump myself but at least he is a true native born white protestant American in spite of all his faults. All whites in America today are under attack by the leftist subversives who are transforming our nation through white genocide.
I agree, she is a National Treasure and her daughter is an awful person. 😡