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AP McCain wins 20 GOP delegates
Yahoo News ^ | Feb 24, 2008 | DAVID McFADDEN

Posted on 02/24/2008 12:41:49 PM PST by TinaJeannes

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To: TinaJeannes

McCain 2008. Next President of The United States.


21 posted on 02/24/2008 3:49:46 PM PST by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: TinaJeannes

This is a total fraud.

Certain self-appointed “members” of the PR Republican Party convened a meeting over the heads of the duly established island GOP leadership and declared themselves as the new PR GOP leadership and their delegates. A complaint was raised withe the RNC and they did nothing.

Heck, I could gather a couple of hundred cronies tomorrow, elect ourselves to the leadership of the island GOP and it would have the same effect: nothing.

McCain should reject these delegates. The RNC convention should not count these impostors for anything.


22 posted on 02/24/2008 4:39:20 PM PST by cll (Carthage must be destroyed)
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To: rrstar96; AuH2ORepublican; livius; adorno; Teófilo; wtc911; Willie Green; CGVet58; Clemenza; ...
Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.


23 posted on 02/24/2008 4:44:31 PM PST by cll (Carthage must be destroyed)
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To: cll

Mccain campaign didnt make a big deal about it. AP did


24 posted on 02/24/2008 4:49:13 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: cll

Btw that is the same way its done in wv. brokered i think its called. many of the states citizens dont even know about it


25 posted on 02/24/2008 4:50:48 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: All

obama campaign likes to talk about how his roots reach out across the world
Mccain has dealt with many in our world for decades


26 posted on 02/24/2008 4:53:04 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: Norman Bates

BTTT!


27 posted on 02/24/2008 5:01:22 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: TinaJeannes

Our problem is that we do not get to vote in the general election because we are not a state, so the primaries would have been our only chance to have a say in the process. Hence, our indignation.

Cheers,

cll


28 posted on 02/24/2008 5:11:15 PM PST by cll (Carthage must be destroyed)
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To: cll

Oh well that is life and sometimes it sucks for some and is good for others and vice versa. Hey i am a bit ticked cause by the time primaries get to pa usually already decided *L* I hate that. I want to be a part of the get out the vote for primaries too *L*


29 posted on 02/24/2008 5:30:39 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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Whoa! A schism in the Puerto Rico GOP?

What surprises me is that the National Committee has done nothing. Is there a chance the delegates will not be recognized at the time of the convention?


30 posted on 02/25/2008 7:58:35 AM PST by Ebenezer (Strength and Honor!)
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To: cll

While I know that many have questioned the validity of the convocation to the party reorganization meeting of a few months back, the list of McCain delegates elected yesterday would likely be the same regardless of how the reorganization meeting had been held. And given that one of the GOP officers elected in the “coup” was John Regis, who is McCain’s Puerto Rico Chairman and was also his Puerto Rico Chairman in 2000, I don’t think John McCain will refuse to accept the delegates elected on Sunday.


31 posted on 02/25/2008 12:19:03 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: 1curiousmind

Actually PR had a Republican congressional delegate.


32 posted on 02/26/2008 2:27:24 AM PST by Impy (Our rivers are full of fish... B. H. Obama)
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To: TinaJeannes
In a letter to Luis Fortuno, Puerto Rico's nonvoting congressional delegate and a superdelegate, McCain pledged to support a process that would enable Puerto Ricans to decide if they want to remain a commonwealth, become a state or an independent nation.

That's nice, but it's not very imaginative. There have been at least three referenda in my lifetime that framed the question in exactly those terms, and in every one a plurality of the vote opted to maintain the status quo. So, basically, McCain bravely pledged to do nothing. It's a safe position.

33 posted on 02/26/2008 2:38:37 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

Correction: two, not three. 1993 and 1998. After frequent referenda in the early 20th century, they went quiet for a while.


34 posted on 02/26/2008 2:49:52 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

The difference here is that (i) the referendum would be federally sanctioned, so the status definitions would need to be acceptable to Congress, and (ii) voters would first decide whether or not they wanted to keep the status quo, and if a majority votes to change the status quo, then there would be a second vote where they would choose between statehood and sovereignty (with sovereignty being either full independence or “free association/associated republic” status).


35 posted on 02/26/2008 11:38:10 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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