Posted on 03/17/2016 7:48:28 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Top Republicans will try to force more transparency at the party’s national convention in July, aiming to scrap their 1,500-page rule book in favor of simpler procedures that they hope will head off arcane maneuvers designed to deny Donald Trump the presidential nomination.
The changes wouldn’t guarantee Mr. Trump the nod but would make it easier for all sides to see what sorts of changes anti- Trump factions are attempting.
Some members of the Republican National Committee want to ditch the massive rule book, which is based on the parliamentary handbook of the U.S. House, and instead use Robert’s Rules of Order to govern floor action at the convention. Robert’s is the standard manual used by entities such as civic associations, county boards and state legislatures.
Those pushing the change are not Trump partisans, but they want to make it hard to forge in secrecy what voters might see as backroom deals to “steal” the presidential nomination from Mr. Trump , the front-runner.
“To make this convention more transparent, I will advocate, at the RNC Standing Rules committee meeting in April, adoption of Robert’s Rules of Order to replace the 1,500-page U.S. House rules to govern the convention,” Oregon RNC member Solomon Yue told The Washington Times on Wednesday.
Kansas RNC member Helen Van Etten, a member of the RNC’s Standing Rules Committee, said she will vote for the change to Robert’s Rules, which “our party’s grass roots have been using to conduct business at the county party, state party and national party levels for many years. Unlike the 1,500-page U.S. House rules, there are in Robert’s no surprises that will prevent the kind of chaos media are predicting.”
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That’s some list.
I still think Trump is on his path to 1237 before or after June 7 and before the convention.
I enjoy watching the smart, in-the-know punditry and advisor class being exposed as naked emperors. It’s not their republic, it’s ours.
But I retain a smidgen of skepticism that things will “go the way they are supposed to.”
The pundits lie about pledged delegates Trump currently holds and the available remaining delegate allocations.
Sure they will.
Trump’s current (March 18) total is 691, if my source is correct.
...aiming to scrap their 1,500-page rule book in favor of simpler procedures that they hope will head off arcane maneuvers designed to deny Donald Trump the presidential nomination.IOW, no, they're not, but they're trying to get the media to go along with the meme-building, to make it appear that most of the party mechanics are operating fairly. Instead of what it sez in the PR, the work will be going into harmless-looking arcane changes to make it easier to hide the fact that a majority of delegates won't be able to elect the nominee.
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