Posted on 03/08/2016 5:15:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A lot of Trump folks are not very happy about the fact that Ted Cruz tied Donald Trump in the number of delegates he received from the Louisiana Primary on Saturday. The head of Trump's campaign in Louisiana, Woody Jenkins, posted a lengthy rant on how unfair it is and said that it is, somehow, a violation of the 14th Amendment.
The problem for Team Trump is that they simply did not take part in writing the formula for handing out the delegates in the first place. This comes from the Louisiana GOP Executive Director, via the Hayride:
I sent out a memo to the campaigns last week telling them how the calculations would be done. We wanted to announce before the election how we viewed proportionality. The rules provided the authority for the Executive Committee to do so.
We asked Woody [Jenkins] on multiple occasions to send his suggestions. He sent nothing.
We sent the memo out to all campaigns and received no objections. The intro of the memo said "Below are the mathematical formulas we intend to use to determine allocations tomorrow. If you have any questions or objections, please contact me immediately to discuss." Woody had four chances to participate in writing the formula and declined.
The Trump folks didn't participate in writing the formula that would ultimately determine how many delegates their candidate would get. That's beyond irresponsible. It's negligent and, if you care about such things, it's going to hurt Trump in the long run.
Of course, if you're like me, you're hoping for more Woody Jenkinses across these United States.
It gave me a blooming headache just trying to figure it out. LOL
Understand this. The delegate selection process has been gerrymandered.
The GOPe did this. That is why Trump is running away with popular vote state by state (except a few) and he has just a narrow lead in delegates.
Meh
If I read this correctly, the one that Trump should be upset with is Woody Jenkins- the guy running his campaign in LA.
The rules are dreadful, no doubt. But what was Woody doing instead of filling out the paperwork and replying to the questions???
This is right up Trump’s alley, “ incompetence”. Tell Woody, you’re fired.
4 were caucuses, not primary elections.
Cruzio and his Establishment masters will stop at nothing. Just get ready for it. Wait’ll we get to the first vote of the convention. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Anybody who can't win their home state should be running in the first place. It's nothing to brag about.
WOW! :-)
I wasn’t bragging, I was simply describing the cause of his relative closeness to Trump in number of delegates.
Lesthes:
“Sorry I got so hot under the collar I did not think about how I posted that. It is at the article author.”
NO. You posted that to 2ndDivionVet below in post #4 on this thread.
“Personally I hope your festering carcass rots in hell for eternity. What you posted is evil. 666 kind of evil. I don’t care what division you were in, you are a son of Satan. To want to have your own will done over the people is disgusting. It is not throw up in my mouth a little disgusting it is Charles Manson disgusting.”
READ above and own up. Put down your drink and apologize to 2nd. I don’t know either one of you.
Nope. 2nd is a Cruz troll. I apologized for directing my vitriol at him, but he was gleeful getting to post it. My apology was MORE than enough.
How in the hell did you come up with lesthes. IT IS LTGM. sheesh. These troll farmers need to work harder.
You did apologize to 2nd? I read where you said that it was directed at the author, not the 2nd. Please point me to your post where you apologized to 2nd.
Louisiana votes determine Louisiana’s delegates.
Now yes, you can argue about the rounding rules - that should have been done prior to the count though.
Post #4
“Personally I hope your festering carcass rots in hell for eternity. What you posted is evil. 666 kind of evil. I don’t care what division you were in, you are a son of Satan. To want to have your own will done over the people is disgusting. It is not throw up in my mouth a little disgusting it is Charles Manson disgusting.”
BTW, midget (since you don’t like my other abbr. of your sn), I support Cruz, so should I also go ahead and head on down to hell to rot for eternity?
Nope I dont. I hope you see what is happening. Please dont make us enemies. 2nd has been out of line a lot. So have I. We are battling for our candidates. We will sit around the same fire too.
NO HILLARY!!!
Yep, GOPe is pulling MISSISSIPPI on US, again! This, according to Rand Paul, is to be forgotten by WTP. Not likely!!!
Nope, just get a little less touchy. We are going to need you too, even though your have an extremely tight hind end.
(politically correct enough for you?)
I have had it with the GOPe tight asses.
Cruz went to DC and, as promised, fought the establishment.
Trump funded them, as well as their Democrat allies.
The way we do things in regard to primaries and caucuses still seems a lot more honest and fair than the crazy way they do things in the Democratic camp. If I were on the other side and “feeling the bern,” I would be outraged. Now, if the GOP tries illegitimately to steal the nomination at the convention that’s another matter...
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