WRECKONING
Foreman & Reguli’s Beer-Hall Coup: The Declaration of Independence They Don’t Want You to See
💥 DATELINE NASHVILLE TN — Foreman & Reguli’s Beer-Hall Coup: The Declaration of Independence They Don’t Want You to See
Pull up a chair, friends. We’ve got a story that’s going to knock your socks off. It’s got everything: power grabs, cops at a brewery, and fellow Republicans so disgusted they literally drafted a Declaration of Independence just to escape Michelle Foreman and her partner-in-chaos, Connie Reguli.
In June 2021, the Tennessee Republican Assembly (TRA) — which bills itself as the “Republican wing of the Republican Party” — held its state convention at Bold Patriot Brewing Company in Nashville. Presiding was Michelle Foreman, a perennial Republican candidate with a string of failures at the polls, serving as TRA president. At her side: Connie Reguli, a family-law attorney turned activist and the group’s “general counsel,” already notorious for legal defeats and political baggage.
The Coup at Bold Patriot
What happened next is not rumor — it’s written down. The TRA Declaration of Independence (dated June 13, 2021) describes that night as an:
“egregious organizational coup.”
According to the document, Reguli announced from the mic that members from chapters like Sumner County were being dissolved and members would be shoved into a brand-new at-large “state chapter.” She waved a threat at the room:
“…should TRA not abide by their directive the TRA Charter would be cancelled and shut down.”
When members objected, the declaration states:
“Connie Reguli, with no convention authority and refusing to turn the gavel over to the appointed Convention Chair, immediately made and seconded motions herself.”
Chaos. The chair ordered a literal “Division of the House” — people forced to opposite sides of the room. The tally came back 48–46, and then:
“It was observed that seven proxy votes were counted with the ‘Ayes’ — yet another NFRA & TRA Bylaw infraction.”
Translation: seven invisible friends showed up just in time to save Foreman’s presidency. (Now, doesn't that sound familiar?)
That was the breaking point, and police were eventually called in to restore order.
“At that point, most members walked out in protest, nearly emptying the room… TRA has effectively become an irrelevant organization, led by people with no intention of ever being voted out of their positions of leadership.”
Translation: when your own Republicans leave mid-beer, you’ve really nailed party unity.
But this story continues. A few months later the Sumner County Republican Assembly sent Foreman a formal letter (Sept. 17, 2021) that ends:
“Because of your actions, Ms. Foreman… the leadership of SCRA has unanimously cast a vote of ‘no confidence’… we have unanimously voted to sever all ties, formal and informal, with the Tennessee Republican Assembly as of today.”
Translation: that’s politics-speak for “lose our number.”
That’s not Democrats talking. That’s her own Republicans locking the door.
From Kryptonite to Committee Seat
We’re talking about a person with multiple failed campaigns, multiple lawsuits (including a SLAPP suit that blew up with a six-figure penalty), and a documented loss of confidence from her own Republican peers. Instead of exile — Foreman ran again, this time in Williamson County. And even after all of the lawsuits, the losses, the TRA fiasco, Rep. Gino Bulso still thought it wise to endorse her. If that’s not bad political discernment, what is?
Her paid consultant in that race? Gary Humble — signed up through Run Hard LLC. The receipts are real, the result humiliating: bottom of the pack, third out of three. Tennessee Stands? Only long enough to fall flat.
Then came March 2025 and the Williamson County GOP convention — a caucus in shambles that left half the room furious. And what happened next? Not a cooling-off period. Not accountability. The newly elected WCRP chair Steve Hickey tapped Foreman to sit on the bylaws committee. Political kryptonite? Nah. Hand her the rulebook, which brings us to our final point...
The Company They Keep
It didn’t stop there. Right now, Erinn Watkins — running for alderman in Franklin — has Foreman as her campaign treasurer. Because in this crowd, losing isn’t disqualifying — it’s practically a résumé builder.
Meanwhile, Reguli hasn’t gone away either. She’s still on the circuit, serving up conspiracy canapés in Motel-6 conference rooms — dark money this, DCS that — while the real darkness she enabled is sitting in black-and-white in the TRA’s own files.
Add it all up and you see the pattern: Hickey rewards Foreman with a bylaws seat, Humble cashes checks as her consultant, Reguli keeps the traveling circus alive, and when the spotlight shifts to Congress, their clapping section is right there with Jody Barrett.
That’s the circle. That’s the syndicate. If you couldn’t stomach what went down at the TRA in 2021, and you hated what you saw at the March county convention, don’t kid yourself about District 7. The faces change, but the playbook doesn’t: shut doors, stack decks, pad counts.
And those weren’t our words. They were theirs: “an egregious coup… most members walked out in protest.”
Without our legislators who had the foresight to slam the door on caucuses, this crew would already be replaying their Nashville stunt in every county convention.
District 7, consider yourselves warned. This isn’t just about Jody Barrett. It’s the company they all keep. From Barrett to Bulso, from Humble to Foreman, from Reguli to Hickey — the same bad actors, the same closed circle, the same wreckage every single time.