Posted on 04/09/2016 2:01:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So, you want to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention?
You could have a rare opportunity to help make history, if none of the Republican presidential candidates reaches the target 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. And maybe — just maybe — billionaire businessman Donald Trump will take you for a spin on Trump Force One.
Now, if you're looking to jump on the bandwagon today, the bad news is it's probably too late. Most state parties haven't picked their delegates yet, but in general, they're looking for people who have demonstrated loyalty by investing time and money helping to elect Republican candidates....
(Excerpt) Read more at sandiegouniontribune.com ...
So Goldman Sachs only?
There are people here at Free Republic who will be delegates. Do you think that they’re “Goldman Sachs” operatives?
This is one of the reasons that trump says delegates are being stolen from him
I guess it’s considered good politics of you know how to stack the deck. It is one of the reasons I have grown to hate the DC political class and its manipulations.
We in Iowa are electing some of our convention delegates at the District Conventions today and some at the state convention in May. It is perhaps a popularity contest, but anyone can be elected national delegate.
Gimme some names and I'll tell you.
Cruz people called me to weed me out as a delegate. They are planning to fill Trump slots with Cruz people to thwart the will of the people. I wouldn’t be surprised if they change the first vote rule, since there will only be Cruz people. I’m beginning to wonder why the GOP even held primaries. Looks like it was for show only.
The Cruz people are so happy with their candidate’s blatant steal. If this is GOP politics, I’m leaving. I thought my vote counted.
I was a poll official this year. Spent over 13 hours at the poll on election day. All those people waited in line, some for hours and now the GOP plans to tell us who they will vote for. What a joke on the American people.
I pinged one, didn’t you see?
A big WOW from Cali! Dude, the presidential candidate chooses his/her own delegates!!!
LOYALTY matters. Whether it be in business, politics, or friendships, we all desire and respect loyalty. Let’s consider the 172 member California Republican Delegation that will be seated in Cleveland for the RNC:
“The selection of Presidential Nominating Convention Delegates to the Republican National Convention ... shall be chosen by the Presidential candidate who obtained the plurality of Republican votes within each Congressional district, and, for ... at large ... by the Presidential candidate who obtained the plurality of Republican votes statewide.” [Standing Rules and Bylaws of the California Republican Party As Amended 20 September 2015 Article VI Section 6.01 (A)]
“Each delegate to the Republican National Convention shall use his or her best efforts at the convention for the party’s presidential nominee candidate from California to whom the delegate has pledged support until the person is nominated for the office of President of the United States by the convention, receives less than 10 percent of the votes for nomination by the convention, releases the delegate from his or her obligation, or until two convention nominating ballots have been taken. Thereafter, each delegate shall be free to vote as he or she chooses....” [California Elections Code Section 6461.(c)]
The Green Papers 2016 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions - CA
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/CA-R
I have never said anything about delegates negatively.
In fact, regardless of which candidate one supports, I would have only one word for any FR delegate......
Congratulations
He's bested the cream of the business world, so how hard could it be to out manoeuvre the like of Rove and Reince?
“The state delegate process is ridiculous. Delegates should remain bound to the will of the people in their state. How individual delegates can usurp the will of their own people dumbfounds me. A delegate is a representative of the will of the people in his/her state. Look up the word delegate in the dictionary. There is a fiduciary duty to vote the will of the people that no party rule can ignore or take away from the people. Furthermore, how candidates can deliberately participate in this corrupt process to usurp the will of state voters and call it acceptable beats the hell out of me. It can only be described as seriously arrogant and deliberately rule-based corrupt. On one hand the party insists on having 1237 delegates to show that the candidate represents a majority will of the voters from the various states and then proceeds to disregard all semblance of voter will when the magic 1237 is not met. Now, explain to me how this doublespeak hypocray is rational?”
Suppose you have a three-way race with no candidate has a majority. Unless delegates become unbound, how do you get to a nominee?
Obviously I assumed you would nominate a selection of high profile Freepers with sufficient posting profiles for us spear carriers to be able to assess their motivation and direction.
Just because he’s good at real estate doesn’t mean he’ll be good at everything. This just shows that. And I believe the same applies to him navigating Washington and running a country.
.. and what have the other candidates - both Republican and Dem - ever run successfully?
This why I sometimes get snarky here, Durbin. I romanticise - even, mythologise - the United States. In particular, your can-do attitude, where everyone has the chance to reach as high as his talents allow. And then I come on FR and see that Trump - the embodiment and personification of the American Way - is being hysterically slandered and vilified by so-called conservatives.
That's not the American Way I know.
Am I your uncle or father? Why do so many Trumpets expect me to do all their research for them and then spit it back in my face? I gave you one. If you want to find more FReepers running for the delegate position, start a thread and ask them to raise their hands.
Oh please. The majority of “conservatives” on here are pro-Trump and have been villifying the likes of Ted Cruz and Mark Levin nonstop. So don’t start crying about poor Trump now.
If posting the name of one Freeper no one's ever heard of is your idea of 'research', I'm feeling much more comfortable about your influence levels here.
Ya mean like the 1992 Presidential race with slick willy, Bush 41 and Perot where no one got a majority of the votes?
There are other ways to win besides a majority.
If Trump has 1196, Cruz has 700+, and the rest are distributed among the other 15 candidates, can anyone explain why K-sick, ryan, or yeb? should be the nominee?
Logic would dictate Trump, and I could even live with Cruz, but if it's someone else, the 2nd revolution will be activated.
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