Conservatives in deep-red Warren County, Virginia, celebrated after the Sixth District Republican Committee upheld Scott Lloyd’s appeal on March 31, 2026, in Fishersville, voiding the February 12 WCRC mass meeting results.
David Silek’s chairmanship win, and the committee’s reduction from 251 to 102 members, were overturned 19-5 due to fraud: Democrats voting without required renunciations, voters turned away, including Sheriff Crystal Cline’s husband, ballot-control failures, and improper leadership by a RINO-allied chairwoman.
Silek defended his Democratic donations and “open doors” philosophy. Lloyd, a former Trump official, secured a new mass meeting; Silek plans a state-level appeal while conservatives and Catholics hailed the win against local “corruption.”
Adding context, Lloyd said that there was “no authorization for limiting the membership to 102,” and that the fact that people were turned away from the venue was an “unauthorized and unacceptable disenfranchisement of Republican voters.”
“So where there’s no ballot control, there’s no confidence that there is any accuracy, so we have to set aside this vote,” Lloyd added. He also quoted Silek’s Facebook post, which read, “I ask that others outside of typical Republican ranks also please consider supporting me. You do not have to be a registered Republican.”
Fighting back, Silek claimed, “Mr. Lloyd has a problem with some of my political donations. He brought it up. Two friends of mine ran as Democrats. One in southwest Virginia. She was a law school classmate. And another attorney in Manassas ran for office. I gave them a donation.”
“The first time she ran, she wasn’t a Soros person. The second time she ran, she was a Soros person,” Silek argued, “If you’re doing business with her office, as my office does, when she asked for donations from law firms — people do that. Republicans do that.”
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He claimed, “Lots of Republicans do that because you have to deal with her and her office. Those are my donations to political people of the other party, but not in our area here. Petitioners have spent a considerable amount of energy suggesting that people who voted for me should not have been there — that there were Democrats or outsiders or people who do not belong in the Republican Party,” Silek said. “I want to tell you who some of those people were.”
After the meeting was overturned, Silek freaked out on Facebook. “The events of tonight were extremely disappointing. The negative faction of the former committee and its leadership prevailed in their appeal to the 6th District Committee, which has ruled in favor of reinstating the previous unsuccessful and failed leadership of the WCRC committee and calling a new mass meeting under the auspices of the 6th District Committee,” adding, “As a result, we will need to lodge an appeal against this unfavorable ruling with the RPV State Committee.”
One local, Matthew Perdie, reacted, “Scott Lloyd has become the George Washington of Warren County. You can see how conservatives and Catholics around him are inspired by how tirelessly he fought and by the strength of his faith, which shows in how humble he is.”
He added, “This is important to note because conservatives and Catholics have repeatedly been bullied by people in Silek’s camp, causing many to mute themselves out of fear. Lloyd is inspiring the community to rise up against local corruption by showing them that Catholics and conservatives can win, even when they are vilified by elected officials.”