Posted on 04/12/2016 5:05:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What a bunch of whiners.
He is so involved in the process he doesn’t even know who his precinct captain is. lol
That is sad if Mr. Lindsey’s story is true of being told the wrong information, or that he was lied to.
However, State Rep. Patrick Neville (HD-45), who represents Castle Rock, the county seat of Douglas County, did give Mr. Lindsey a phone call prior to the County Assembly to remind him to go :
Excerpt: “In the weeks leading up to the county assembly on March 19, Neville called delegates to ask for their support at the county assembly. According to phone records, he had an eight-minute phone call with Lindsey on March 15. Neville says that they talked about his positions and areas of shared concern, as well as the importance of showing up at the assembly. Indeed, that was the main purpose of the phone call — to ensure delegates showed up at the county assembly and voted on the HD-45 race. Neville was surprised when Lindsey didn’t show up. (Neville ended up winning the nomination by acclamation.)”
“I have supported 2ndDivisionVet for many years on this forum.”
For many years? That would be since Feb. 14, 2016, right?
Delegates in Colorado are selected through a process that starts with the March 1st caucuses and culminates at the state convention on April 9th. Colorado Delegates can go to the national convention as unbound or bound to a candidate.
Long story.
:D
Want the truth? Slick Teddie and the GOPe thugs in Colorado used lawyerly fine print - the kind lawyers use to cheat people) to steal the delegates Cruz got. Look at the picture of the ballot sheet with no box for a Trump delegate.
This is the same carp lawyers always pull; then get together and laugh at us when they are finish screwing us.
Each state is different as they make up their own rules. The state sets some legislation and the parties make their own rules under the guidelines. You have to be registered with a party to vote for that party delegate in the primary. This keeps people form trying to mess with the other parties.
You can not vote unless you are a registered demoRat or rePUBlican.
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Same here in Maryland, if registered as an indy, no primary vote.
Been that way since I was a rookie voter back in 1976.
Colorado is not a grass roots state, you must kiss the party ring to vote. Chris Christie brought in $175,000 for an attack an attack against Tom Tancredo for Governor of Colorado which got john Chickenpooper elected. Thank you rePUBlicans. Yes, I have voted for Mickey Mouse AKA Dole and Romney but no more. Why does Colorado preselect the delegates and not let the people of Colorado choose?
I would have to register as a republican or demoRat to vote as there were no independent candidates.
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And you knew that going into the process, I presume.
I would have registered independent here in MD, but did not for the express reason that I would not be able to vote in the primary.
I knew that in 1976 when I registered to vote. I was 18.
Apparently you missed the election that brought Hitler as President. Then once Hindenburg was coerced to make Hitler also Chancellor, Hitler dissolved the Reichstag.
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Von Papen dissolved the reichstag in july of 1932.
Hitler was named Chancellor in January 1933.
The reichstag was burned down in february 1933.
Hitler became president in august 1934.
If you are going to use history as a hammer against another poster, it’s a good idea to get your dates straight.
the internet makes that really easy to do.
Republicans have been having problems for quite a while here in Colorado. I used to support them until Christie came to Colorado with $175,000 for an attack add against conservative Tom Tancredo and disenfranchised many republicans form voting and insured the election of demorat John Chickenpooper. The republicans rewroet their rules this year to keep people like christie out of the race and Cruz came in and took over. The process sucks.
It was his own fault. He didn’t show up. It had nothing to do with the fact that he was a Trump supporter.
http://www.publicnow.com/view/3BBC13FBE48CC547189E35EA5249E82989C4ABDF?2016-04-12-18:00:43+01:00-xxx3856
I will assume that your sequence of events is accurate.
How does that in any way change the point that I was making, that when a political apparatus takes control rather than the people, bad things happen?
I will assume that your sequence of events is accurate.
How does that in any way change the point that I was making, that when a political apparatus takes control rather than the people, bad things happen?
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I believe that if you are going to make historical arguments, your facts (which are easily verifiable) should be beyond reproach.
Yours were not. And when part of one’s argument is less than accurate, it calls the conclusions into question.
/ history nerd mode
There were 400+ candidates that Colorado voted on to be National delegate.
Yes, they voted for their delegates.
The delegates told them, or not, who their prefered candidate was.
Just like they did in 2012.
The previous votes were non-binding straw polls
Which is how it should. Anybody not in the party should not be able to vote on who represents the party in the general. I say this as a person who left the party largely because I’m tired of the bozos they keep coming up with. I decided to switch from always picking “none of the above” to “stop bothering me”.
Ah yes, the “baby with the bath water” approach..
I am well familiar with that view. Unfortunately, my analogy of the rise of Hitler and the Colorado delegate appointment process pertains despite my flaws in chronology. Hitler achieved complete control not because of his popular election but because of the Nazi party getting a majority of Reichstag members and back room deals to get the chancellorship.
Where party rules overrun the choices of the voters, the party is following the example of the National Socialists.
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