Donald Trump supporter and viral video personality Larry Wayne Lindsey will be a star attraction Friday at a state Capitol rally to protest the Colorado Republican Party.
At the same time, 3 p.m., state party supporters will rally at the Colorado GOP headquarters in Greenwood Village.
The competing rallies demonstrate a deep Colorado divide over Donald Trump.
State GOP leaders are trying to stay above the fray.
“The Colorado Republican Party will be conducting business as usual tomorrow, which includes registering voters and meeting with key constituencies to continue expanding our base and win in November,” chairman Steve House said.
Lindsey, a Castle Rock resident, shot a series of videos after last weekend’s GOP state convention that fed the backlash by Trump supporters against the state party. Trump alleges the state party is “crooked” because of Ted Cruz’s
In one video, the grandfatherly that the state party wouldn’t let him be a delegate because he backs Trump.
In one Twitter post, Trump includes another video Lindsey shot in which he . Wednesday night, Trump tweeted. “Big protest march in Colorado on Friday afternoon! Don’t let the bosses take your vote!”
Lindsey is president and CEO of , a high-definition video company, and has on TV shows such as “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “JAG.” As an actor he has played a Confederate cavalry officer in the 1985 movie “Rebel Love” and Gerald Ford in the 1993 Charlie Sheen vehicle “Hot Shots! Part Deux.”
“The caucus system is too easily manipulated,” Lindsey said in an interview Thursday. “They (the state party) get the outcome they want versus the outcome the voters want.”
Tanne Blackburn, chairwoman of the Douglas County Republican Party, , pointing out in a statement that he was not a state delegate because he didn’t attend the district convention where state delegates were elected.
Talk-radio and cited Lindsey in announcing his “Stand with COGOP Rally” Friday in Greenwood Village.
He said Thursday the rally was not about whether or not the state caucus system works, but to “stand united behind the men and women of the Colorado Republican who are doing their job.”
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174, jbunch@denverpost.com or @joeybunch
