State GOP Brouhaha or What's

State GOP Brouhaha or What's a Republican, Part IV - The Strib is reporting a big brouhaha among the state GOP, regarding its threat not to give state GOP funds to the Senate Republican Caucus. The SRC wants to support two of its moderate members, Senators Kiscaiden and Martha Robertson. Both are, on many key conservative issues, "moderate" - ie, might as well be Democrats.

The question for the SRC is: who decides what a "Republican" is?

And for the Strib: if it were the DFL withholding funds from unendorsed candidates who contravened the DFL's core beliefs, would this even be a story?