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The national GOP convention could be very interesting.
Can you imagine that?! How dare those Paulites insist on the law being followed?!
A friend (Huckabee supporter) who has been active in his R precinct for many years attended his TX county convention. He was not and is not a RP supporter, but he had never seen such rule-breaking by the party establishment.
The old guard are a bunch of Tories who definitely put party over principle.
The State law is broad and does not lay out the rules and organization for the convention. That is why we have a “rules committee” and an “organization committee.”
From what I understand, the demand is that the Convention immediately elect a State Party Chairman rather than hold the traditional First General Session, with ceremonial proceedings, followed by Caucases, etc., with the current State Chair acting as temporary chair for the pledges, some guest speakers, party news and cheers.
http://www.texasgop.org/site/PageServer?pagename=2008_Convention
The Chairman is elected later, but before the final elections of delegates and passage of the Platform and Rules.
The difference will be that our Party Chairman will be re-elected on day one, rather than on day 2.
Again, having an extra day to debate who will be the State Chairman and who will be the National delegates — just how does this stifle grass roots activists?
If I recall, it took me days to figure out
The temporary credentials/platform/organization and rules committees meet on Wednesday and Thursday, before the opening session. Any delegate or alternate can attend as a guest. The permanent committee members are elected in that first Senate District Caucus, but the actual reports are not adopted until after we elect the Party Chairman on Thursday and the Permanent Committees meet on Thursday night (again, the grass roots members may attend these as guests).
Ping!
2008 Texas Republican Primary
Candidate Votes Percentage Delegates
John McCain 697,767 51.21% 80
Mike Huckabee 518,002 38.02% 16
Ron Paul 66,360 4.87% 0
Mitt Romney 27,264 2.00% 0
Fred Thompson 11,503 0.84% 0
Alan Keyes 8,260 0.60% 0
Duncan Hunter 8,222 0.60% 0
Rudy Giuliani 6,038 0.44% 0
Hugh Cort 728 0.05% 0
Hoa Tran 604 0.04% 0
Uncommitted 17,574 1.29% 0
Total 1,362,322 100% 96
Houston Comical is so gleeful about the Paulbots’ legal trick that they posted the same story on-line under 3 different headlines. Only 2 got posted on FR.
Ron Paul and Gary Polland are going to reap a whirlwind of Republican anger over trying to disrupt the convention. They won’t be able to run for dog catcher after this.