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Conservative icon Schlafly faces revolt over Trump support
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/conservative-icon-schlafly-faces-revolt-over-trump-support-ed-martin/article_8268e112-4f2f-560c-9e7d-f445078fc5a8.html"In the latest tremor from the ideological earthquake wracking Republicans nationally, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly says the board of the advocacy group she founded 44 years ago is trying to oust her for endorsing Donald Trump.
“It’s disloyal, and it’s terribly shocking, and I’m completely depressed about it,” she told the conservative website WND.com prior to an afternoon telephone meeting of the board of the Eagle Forum.
That meeting ended with the possible removal of the group’s president, Ed Martin, but left Schlafly in her post as chairman and CEO. One board member vehemently denied there is any movement to remove her. But Schlafly insisted otherwise in a statement and vowed to “fight for Eagle Forum.”
The board members on the other side of the divide include Schlafly’s daughter, Anne Cori. She, with at least three other board members, is on record endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who is battling Trump for the Republican presidential nomination."
