[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. they're looking for people who have demonstrated loyalty by investing time and money helping to elect Republican candidates ..

So Goldman Sachs only?

[iontheball]

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?

[iowamark]

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.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

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

[zerosix]

Oh how "unAmerican," how "unconservative," and un-Trump! At least according to his sycophants!

We who have worked in our communities for decades or just years, who have helped out by walking our neighborhoods to encourage our neighbors to vote for the most conservative pro/life candidate we can help get elected, say in the dog days of summer (high 90s, humidity 69%) before the August primaries.

Yeah, we knew some distant day, decades later, some guy from NY would decide he wanted to be President and if we don't quite love him like others do, we're "sellouts," "scum," "slimebags," dupes & "stooges for Goldman Sachs!"

I gotta love it and am laughing so hard it hurts.

Where are all these people when I'm looking for help trying to get my fellow Americans registered to vote, or when we're delivering and installing yard signs for widows in the rain, heat, swatting mosquitos to help elect someone we desire elected to our State House!

Am I unimpressed by Trumpsters here on FR tossing their weight and surly mouths around - you betcha! ,

[zerosix]

Oh how "unAmerican," how "unconservative," and un-Trump! At least according to his sycophants!

We who have worked in our communities for decades or just years, who have helped out by walking our neighborhoods to encourage our neighbors to vote for the most conservative pro/life candidate we can help get elected, say in the dog days of summer (high 90s, humidity 69%) before the August primaries.

Yeah, we knew some distant day, decades later, some guy from NY would decide he wanted to be President and if we don't quite love him like others do, we're "sellouts," "scum," "slimebags," dupes & "stooges for Goldman Sachs!"

I gotta love it and am laughing so hard it hurts.

Where are all these people when I'm looking for help trying to get my fellow Americans registered to vote, or when we're delivering and installing yard signs for widows in the rain, heat, swatting mosquitos to help elect someone we desire elected to our State House!

Am I unimpressed by Trumpsters here on FR tossing their weight and surly mouths around - you betcha! ,

[goodnesswins]

If one was going to be a Delegate...should have been planning and organizing (and running) for it 2+ years ago...

[MinuteGal]

Never mentioned in all the "delegates" discussions is the personal co$t to be a delegate.

You pay your own expenses, travel to and fro the convention city, plus hotel, meals, transportation, etc. for the duration of the event.

Many, many years ago I toyed with the idea of running for delegate on the Republican ballot in my district, but at that younger stage of my life the cost was prohibitive to do so.

That's why so many delegates to national party conventions are long-entrenched, moneyed party nabobs plus countless state/local elected officeholders...most of whom, when voting at the convention itself, are loyal to the party-e that (in the words of the late Mayor Daley) brung 'em there.

Leni