Posted on 07/11/2016 2:06:28 PM PDT by WayneDupreeShow
Virginian Carroll Correll Jr promised to support the candidate who the voters of Virginia have chosen and when it turned out to be Donald Trump, he wanted to get out of it. Please remember, he asked for and was granted the privilege of representing the voters at the GOP convention, understanding that obligation and that, only in the event no candidate were to achieve the necessary majority and the convention became contested could he exercise his free will.
He even said he would risk being arrested than vote for Trump.
But what he did will speak volumes and not in a right way. Hopefully, he's removed as a delegate as he has chosen not to support the will of the voters he promised to uphold.
From TheBullElephant:
A federal judge today found that the law establishing Virginia’s presidential primary, which took effect for the first time in 2000, impermissibly conflicts with the Rules of the Republican Party, and thus has enjoined its application to the 2016 Virginia delegation to the Republican National Convention.Judge Robert Payne, sitting in the Eastern District of Virginia (Richmond), held that the statute cannot be used to block efforts by Beau Correll, an RNC delegate from Virginia’s 10th Congressional District), and others who wish to vote for someone other than presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
Ruling provides a victory for groups seeking to allow delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote "unbound" and for a candidate other than Donald Trump.
Here is the entire argument if you want to scroll through it.
Correll Opinion by Steve Albertson on Scribd
Donald Trump was against the war in Iraq, he is against Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Trump is against bringing in refugees who can't be screened, he wants to close the border to terrorists and OTM's as well as drug cartel and human smugglers. He wants corporations to stay in America, keeping jobs here for college graduates and people working 2 and 3 jobs. Trump is working to keep America safe. What more could all of us in America want. Maybe we can become a united America once again when people are working and happy. Hillary is a fraud and a liar. What more is there to say. She could be very dangerous as president. Ask the FBI about that.
This Correll guy said no to all of this. What do you think should happen to this guy?
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He does look like one.
Sorry, I pounced and clicked on the wrong post.
1991 George H. W. Bush appointee
With a man named Carroll, is anyone surprised?
Unfaithful electors must understand they destroy any future support by the party. That is how it must be.
They will be held accountable.
The delegates have been unbound since 1880. The only time the delegates passed a rule binding themselves was in 1976 to keep out Ronald Reagan.
Freepers now want state and federal laws to interfere with party decisions?
Wow.
What are you all afraid of? Surely Donald Trump is so awesomely awesome that the delegates are going to vote for him.
But when they decide to do a secret ballot, you won’t know who to hang. So sorry.
To the gopE. Your days have been numbered, your kingdom has been weighed, and found to be lacking. You will join the Wigs in the dustbin of history. Amen.
5.56mm
Should Donald Trump be accountable for ...
promising to SELF FUND, excoriating all the other candidates for being “puppets,” and then,
have his campaign be so ridiculously broke, running NO ads, that he’s going to lose in a landslide to Hillary?
Why should the delegates vote for the doom of the Republican party?
He has no money. He’s put up nothing so far.
Isn’t he an unfaithful candidate? He promised us to shower us with his riches.
The most voters in this election were Republicans who voted against Trump.
Why do you want to lose to Hillary? Any other Republican could beat her. Trump is going to lose in a landslide.
The GOP establishment wanted Trump over any conservative. His best buddy John Boehner said so.
It’s the conservatives who are heading up the push to remind everyone that since 1880, Republican delegates have always been free to vote their conscience.
Trump is the very definition of a Democrat.
Just because conservatives oppose him doesn’t make them more liberal than Trump.
He was donating to our enemies in Congress, including to the GOPe against the Tea Party, when we were out working to defeat the GOPe.
"I wish those troublemakers would castrate themselves." Galatians 5:12 (God's Word Translation) - (link)(This Bible text should also be applied to all Muslim terrorists and their helpers and sympathizers, the BLM-ers, the New Black Panthers, the main stream media, Hillary Rotten Criminal and her husband (if necessary), the demonicrats, all republicans who reneged on their pledges (including the bush-whackers), etc.)
Troublemakers that don’t want Hillary to win, like apparently you do.
You really don’t see things very clearly do you?
RINOs are really just democrat lite.
Trump just posted a link to an article that stated that the judge ruled the delegates were bound by RNC rules.
For political reasons, the court is tampering with the Republican primary process in a way that invites chaos instead of remedy; it's not the delegate who was harmed when they knew in advance what their obligation was, it's the primary voter who is harmed by the faithless delegate who wishes to nullify the results of the primary.
So I say that the delegate, in the case of a candidate achieving the majority, is an anachronism no longer serving a purpose in the nominating process. The court is forcing the wishes of the delegate onto the voter, when properly the wishes of the voters should be forced onto the delegate (which was the current state).
Our government is entirely corrupted. The court is just trying to disrupt and mess with the Republicans, because it can.
-PJ
Our paths don’t often cross. You have been on FR quite a bit longer than I have.
I refuse to argue about Trump. I did not vote for him in the primary, but will vote for him in the general election. The option is unthinkable.
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