Posted on 04/10/2016 7:33:31 PM PDT by snarkpup
Article V, Section 6—Removal of Officers
Any elected officer of the Central Committee may be removed from office at any time for whatever cause deemed sufficient by a vote of not less than three-fifths of the membership of the Central Committee present at an official meeting called for that specific purpose.
(Excerpt) Read more at mesacountygop.org ...
I'm suggesting this be done across the state. I don't mean to single out Mesa County here, but it's where I am, I have their bylaws handy, and I know their Executive Board was behind the current system at the time they took office. Hopefully, they and their counterparts across the state are changing their minds in real time if they haven't already. I am suggesting this as an attitude rearrangement project for those counties where attitudes need to be rearranged.
That’s one way.
But I really think the National GOP needs to insist on primaries in all states, allocate the delegates based on the primary vote, not the GOPe wishes, and allow candidates to pick the delegates to fill their allocation.
Are you aware the Steve House (CO State GOP Chair) and his DNC counterpart have already agreed to go back to the Presidential Primary, next time around?
Precinct people are NOT on the Ex Com and can’t remove anybody.
District Captains and the 4 Elected members make up the Ex Com.
You’ll have to wait 2 years to replace your District Captains.
According to the bylaws (at the link) they can be replaced in 15 days.
Opposition to real primaries on the part of local officials has been ferocious for years. Pressure needs to be applied and maintained.
Yo. The time to organize is before the county caucuses. You’ve had months to get organized. Surely Trump had money and advisors who coulda, shoulda helped.
If you want to blame somebody ...blame Trump for not planning.
this is beneath common dignity of Americans to steal and cheat like this. It will not stand, I assure you.
Bull, you Cruz hack. This is about the people of Colorado not even getting a vote.
This is why I refer to the D.C. elite as RepubliSCUM.
This isn’t a time to point fingers but someone is asking for help and advise. Sad when you can’t even conduct a civil conversation without hate for someone. Lighten up, we are in the same party. Advise would be appreciated but this “I told you so over and over” has got to stop. We will never be able to unite with this in every topic presented here.
“Article V, Section 6—Removal of Officers
Any elected officer of the Central Committee...”
The term “Central Committee” startled me.
From Wikipedia:
Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving states in the early 21st century. In such party organizations the committee would typically be made up of delegates elected at a party congress. In those states where it constituted the state power, the Central Committee made decisions for the party between congresses, and usually was (at least nominally) responsible for electing the Politburo.
Actually, they did get a chance to vote. March 1st
“IMPORTANT DATES:
Precinct Caucuses: March 1, 2016 at 7:00 PM
County Assemblies: Must take place between March 1, 2016 – March 26, 2016
Multi-County Assemblies: Friday, April 8, 2016 – Double Tree: 1775 E. Cheyenne Mountain Blvd., Colorado Springs, CO 80906
State Convention & Assembly: Saturday, April 9, 2016 – World Arena: 3185 Venetucci Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80906”
http://cologop.org/caucusassemblyconvention-2016/
And the papers explained the process well before the caucus.
“Will the 2016 presidential race in Colorado be a primary like New Hampshire, or a caucus like Iowa?
Well, it’s kind of a hybrid, and in Colorado it has four steps.
The first happens this year on March 1, Super Tuesday, when nearly a dozen other states hold early nominating contests. Colorado has a round of precinct-level caucuses in neighborhoods around the state. This is the first chance for a candidate to get knocked out of the running. Presidential contenders need to meet a minimum of 15 percent to send enough delegates to represent him or her at the next level. And it could happen right in the living room of one of your neighbors.
The second step is for the locally designated delegates who you’ll help select at your caucus meeting to travel to conventions in all 64 counties where another poll for president takes place.
Then at seven congressional district conventions, parties will take a poll to send delegates for each presidential candidate on to the state and national convention. Then, finally, at the state convention on April 16th in Loveland, the same thing happens: more polling.
Bottom line: March 1 is your chance to get in early and will be the first place to make your voice heard. Good news: you won’t have to travel far. Unless you yourself are selected to attend the next steps, your delegates will carry the banner for your candidate from here, all the way to the national convention, which takes place in Philadelphia.
So can someone actually win on March 1?
In a way. A straw poll for president will be taken that will show where each candidate stands. The precincts report to the counties and the counties report to the state. All along the four-step process Democratic Party officials will live-Tweet and release on social media the number of delegates each candidate has.
“We won’t declare a winner or a loser,” says Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio about the March 1 caucuses. They’ll just say Candidate X has this amount of delegates and candidate Y has that many.
Palacio likens the process to a high-school track meet: The first lap is the precinct caucus — where you know who’s ahead, the second lap is the county conventions, the third lap is the congressional district convention, and the fourth lap is the state convention, which somebody actually wins.
Then why are these March 1 precinct-level caucuses so important for presidential candidates?
The numbers each candidate garners on March 1 in these neighborhood gatherings will help show the level of support and enthusiasm each candidate has in Colorado. Also, candidates that fail to crack 15 percent of support in the precinct caucuses will have lost the state.”
You are kidding right? This system is their choice in order to control what is happening right now, Trump screwed them over by not dropping out.
(Sigh... one more time...)
Caucus attendees generally to not know anything about the delegates they elect to the county assemblies; and this is only the first level of delegates in a multilayer system. At each level, people generally do not know anything about the people they are electing as the next level's delegates. By the time you get to the delegates going to the national convention, the correlation between the intent of the caucus attendees and the national convention attendees has become pretty-much random, and subject to corruption at multiple points along the way.
D@mn straight we want professional crooks not amateurs.
Post of the whole durn election season, FRiend.
What a mess.
Dear Lord, guide our course.
Tatt
Post of the whole durn election season, FRiend.
What a mess.
Dear Lord, guide our course.
Tatt
At the caucus, the unknown people you're electing as delegates will be voting instead of you for more offices than just president—like county commissioners, sheriff, district attorney, state senator, state representative, U.S. senator, U.S. representative, secretary of state, state treasurer, and several more local offices.
At the last county assembly I attended, the delegates not only voted by secret ballot so that there would be no record of whether they voted the way they said they would, precincts that had a very small number of delegates got an extra level of secrecy to guarantee that the caucus attendees could not derive who their delegates voted for by looking at the precinct-by-precinct totals.
This was two levels worse than Congress: 1) When you vote for congressmen, you know at least something about them. 2) When they vote, their votes are recorded and become a public record.
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