https://youtu.be/QpKAU60Wigs?t=105
This should be interesting.
Truth.
Why then is the Colorado legislature so embarassed they are returning to an actual primary?
As someone who was involved in CO politics in 2012, they are really tired of the DC GOP showing up every 4 years to ask for votes and never helping with the Boulder power grab.
Boulder has been grabbing much of the Front Range politics.
Gun control, Fracking, Green Agenda...
All being pushed in conservative Front Range towns.
As a Trump supporter, I understand what they are fighting.
65K Coloradans voted--they just voted against Trump. That's 11 elections in a row we've won.
#WhiningIsntWinning https://t.co/m0NrRh5mFu— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 11, 2016
Under regulations established in the 1980s, delegates cannot take money from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors or foreign nationals. But an individual donor is permitted to give a delegate unlimited sums to support his or her efforts to get selected to go to the convention, including money to defray the costs of travel and lodging.
There was no presidential caucus in Colorado.
As a disabled veteran and a Colorado Republican, I cannot just show up at the local precinct. I was given no say or input (vote), nor anyway to voice my opinion.
Grumpa, you sound like an elitist know it all. I hope you live long enough for your fellow elitist to tell you they don’t give a damn about your opinion. Just like my fellow Colorado Republicans have done to me.
They go on and on about how wonderful of a system it is - but that system totally discourages voter participation and representation. If you don’t believe that, then why does it attract a fraction of what a primary attracts (closed or open)? It’s a stupid, tilted system that needs to be phased out. Anyone who thinks that the anti-Trump forces didn’t game the system in Colorado is being dishonest. That’s why there’s such an outcry about it. It was unfair and unrepresentational of the overall Republican voters in Colorado.
> “These are our friends and fellow grassroots activists, Tea Party members and long-time Republicans, county chairs and first-time caucus attendees, young and old, very conservative and not-as-conservative, all gathered together to move our country forward, select senate candidates for the June primary election, and to elect delegates to the GOP National Convention, who will help to select our next president.”
The same could be said about good Germans in the 1930s, not Nazis, just everyday German working stiffs.
> “These are the Patriotic Americans that the Donald Trump Campaign compared to Nazis, using Gestapo tactics.”
Yes, indeed such tactics are being used similarly to those used in the 1930s. Inserting delegates into Trump slots leaving out those that did not hold their view. Yep, it’s the same human behavior.
The Cruz people are actively shutting out Trump delegates and installing their own into Trump slots that Trump won.
But it won’t matter. People that do this sort of thing will get a payback. Trump’s people will take over the GOP apparatus and controls, and those that thought they were clever now will be hurting in the future. They can always join the democrats which is where they belong.
the real story is that the colorado caucus process is a sick, insider, anti-democratic joke. About half a dozen people show up for each precinct caucus, and “elect” people to attend county assemblies and Congressional district assemblies; the county assemblies “elect” people to the state convention. The CD and State assemblies then “elect” delegates, who are supposedly unbound.
A few thousand people out of a population of 5 million participate.
if all registered republicans actually showed up, there wouldn’t be enough meeting rooms to hold them in the entire state and the caucuses wouldn’t ‘work’. in fact, the GOPe is counting on just a very, very,very few showing up. that’s why the reserved caucus rooms are always so very, very, very tiny.
family members who have children to take care of, meals to prepare, and work to prepare for don’t have time to waste on a meaningless process where party insiders are going to steal the whole thing at the end anyway.
on the other hand, colorado is a mail-in ballot state for ALL elections, so a few hundred thousand would have voted in an actual primary, whereas the caucuses were held on a weeknight when people have to take care of their families and then go to work the next day.
btw, if this is such a wonderful process, shouldn’t all of our elections for everything require everyone to show up at 7pm to 8pm on a Tuesday night in order to vote on people who then go to a county assembly which elects people to go to a state convention who then elect everyone for all elected offices?
Doesn’t every smooth talking lawyer always have a smooth explanation for why it’s all your fault? “Oh so sad you should have had your lawyer read the fine print.” The no longer surging Slick Teddie is that kind of a Harvard lawyer.
But hey Rush loves him and Rush is sure he and the thugs in the Colorado GOPe are just a few guys trying to run a clean campaign like they ran in Iowa.