Another Berry Picker at the local GOP CC meeting last night offers this: "After Starr's presentation, which he emphasized a number of times the suit is to contest the handling of the election, a committee member made a motion to donate $2,500 to the legal fund (again emphasized not a campaign fund) on the basis that the proper handling of the election process affects all citizens and all candidates in future elections.  After much discussion, including a few members who pointed out that the committee would be beat up on the blogs because it would have the appearance of partisanship, the point was made that the role of a central committee (for both parties) is to work for the election of their party's candidates in county and state elections. The central committee is not a PAC and that's why the motion failed, not because of fear."

Question: If local Republicans had contributed to Brannon's legal fund, what would have been the fallout among regular R's and the rest of the community?