Posted on 04/09/2016 4:32:53 PM PDT by McGruff
The St. Louis County Republican Caucus was held today at the Missouri River Township Caucus at the Westminster Christian Academy near highways 40 and 270 this afternoon.
Lloyd Sloan was at the conference today.
Here is his firsthand account:
There were two slates that were voted on today at the convention. One was called Cruz and the other Trump. So there was no confusion there. The vote took place by a public count. Its when there is a standing vote and everybody is counted off. It is pretty above board. The vote was tied, 27-27. But a few people in the center of the room did not vote. One guy got up and voted for Trump. So Trump won the standing vote.
I proposed a motion to combine the two slates. The chair chose to ignore my motion. It was seconded but the chair, Mark Dunn, decided to ignore the motion.
At that point the chair entertained a motion to do a secret ballot because he was a Cruzer and the wrong guy won. The motion was presented by the head of the Cruz delegation who put together and submitted the Cruz slate. It was seconded and voted on.
And, surprise! Cruz won the secret ballot!
At that point I led a small group of Trump people from the room, saying, You wanted a divided party. You got one.
The delegates plan to contest the results. We are collecting evidence to show what exactly happened.
I saw what I saw. I walked out. It was highly irregular.
Ted Cruz lost Missouri to Donald Trump.
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Cruz has trained them well
Yawn. Politics is a blood sport. If Trump cannot deal with this, how will he deal with the Clinton machine? Bitch bitch bitch, whine whine whine.
Just fight fire with fire and prove that your campaign can withstand this political onslaught. Time to get to work Mr. Trump. The nomination has to be won, it isn’t going to be handed to you.
Trump and Kasich will team up.
And Cruz will be back in the senate shutting down the govt every 6 months.
Cruzbots can cheer him on, while Trump is building the wall.
Cruz’s supporters are like Muslims, in that they believe, lying or cheating for Teddy is acceptable, after all, Jesus wants teddy to win.
If that’s not cheating, I don’t know what is...
How can any candidate deal with a fixed election?
Agreed. Ignorance is not a virtue.
If you can’t negotiate a winner in the nomination process how the hell you going to do it when dealing with the world powers.
Yawn, forget the people, forget votes. I think it was Hitler who said politics is a blood sport. Yeah, that’s probably right. Let’s cite totalitarians about how to conduct democratic elections.
Typical cruzer.
And to hell with the people.
“United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.”
Says a man who’s candidate has in the pocket of the Establishment.
It’s a very small cult that wants to decided for the many. Detestable lot.
You’ve got a lot to learn.
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Secret ballots are the American way; what is the man’s complaint?
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I guess Trump is still learning.
To all Cruz supporters: Is this really how you want your person to win? Delegate wrangling is one thing, but in this case even the delegates voted for Trump, and the leader who is a Cruz supporter didn’t like the outcome, so he ran a secret ballot to make sure Cruz got it...
This is pure corruption and evil. It’s stealing the will of the people, and it’s basically a monarchy, not a republic anymore. Because if the elite don’t like the delegates the people chose to represent them, they just replace them.
How can anyone not see the corruption that is embedded in the Cruz campaign now? A vote for Cruz is a vote for power over the people and against everything our forefathers stood for.
putin and the mullahs will play dirtier. and they won’t find trump’s army of lawyers very intimidating, either.
That is close to what they did in Nashville on April 2nd by appointing anti Trump delegates in place of those we voted for who backed Trump. The ballot had the candidates plus the delegates listed by who they supported. The RNC apparently does not need us.
CHEATIN’ TED.
Trump is right about LYIN’, CHEATIN’ TED.
Political parties are one of the few things G. Washington warned us about.
If you think political dirty tricks are good or fine, that says a lot about you.
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