Posted on 05/18/2016 11:59:57 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Curly Haugland loves the rules..... North Dakota’s top Republican gadfly, its rule-mongering crank, its official state pain in the ass. On the national GOP’s standing rules committee, he’s been the pedantic curmudgeon, the stubborn speed bump who for years has raised points of order only to watch establishment Republicans stampede over him.
... Haugland has become one of the most dangerous men in politics: He’s the mainstream GOP’s last hope to deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination in Cleveland. It would take a miracle—and almost certainly lead to a historic split in the party—but there is still a way, buried in the labyrinthine rulebook, that the party could free delegates from their obligation to vote for Trump. To get there, the convention’s rules committee would need to travel a perilous road. But nobody knows the terrain better than Haugland, a self-taught maverick expert on the Republican convention rules, who has spent a decade pushing schemes to take power away from Republican primary voters and give it back to party insiders.
There is one article of faith in the Republican Party: On the convention’s first ballot, bound delegates are required to vote for the candidate to whom they’re bound. What you need to know about Haugland’s radical vision is this: He insists that’s not the case. Haugland has been trumpeting this nuclear option for months. In March, he blasted out a letter to fellow RNC members with the subject line:
“NEWS FLASH: All Republican Delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention are Unbound!” He’s on a mission to let all the delegates at the convention in Cleveland to vote however they’d like on the first ballot, no matter whom their state’s voters chose
This has long seemed like a crazy cause—who doesn’t want voters to decide?
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
From GreenPapers:
Trump Soft total 1168.
There are 347 left!
My guess is 1411 or 1414.
Ted = 666
Glen will slit his own throat.
The one man who can stop Donald Trump? Does he think he is Paul Ryan?
Curly lives in a town that’s 98% white. He is a comfy, cozy naive North Dakota ignoramus with no concept of the issues driving Trump’s popularity.
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