Posted on 02/02/2012 4:00:03 PM PST by Southnsoul
From my FNC colleague Carl Cameron:
Newt 2012 Statement on Florida Delegate Allocation
Atlanta, GA - Newt 2012 Florida State Chair and former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum released this statement today about the campaign’s plans regarding the Florida GOP delegate allocation:
The Gingrich campaign is confirming that the Republican Party of Florida is to abide by RNC Rule 15(b)(2) and instruction from Chairman Reince Priebus in his letter of December 21, 2011. As noted by Chariman Priebus, “winner-take-all” states cannot hold a primary or caucus before April 1, 2012. Clearly the rules require that Florida’s delegates be allocated proportionately. In the unlikely event that the State Party will not be following its rules, the campaign will take appropriate action.
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I keep reading this over and over, and I still don't get it.
To me it reads CAN NOT hold a primary or caucus, its the CAN NOT that grabs me.
If you Can Not hold a primary or caucus before April 1st, what in the heck just happened down there? Sounds to me like the whole primary was not valid. If that is the case then there is no delegates to be had.
-PJ
newt believes in global warming so might as well go all the way with gore act and whine
I wonder what the unintended consequences would be, but if millions of us changed all at once, it would SEND A VERY LOUD MESSAGE to the GOP-e.
If I'm correct, Florida had already been penalized by it, losing half of the number of delegates. But that's not good enough for Newt, noooo...! Double jeopardy!
“Sounds to me like the whole primary was not valid. If that is the case then there is no delegates to be had.”
That is how I read it. LOL
I think a lot of folks on this thread and probably throughout the conservative movement have been a bit shaken by the FL results. I know it's not what I was hoping for but let's get back on track.
The GOP rules are what they are. No body needs to go bonkers about foul play at this point.
Newt is going to be a hard sell to a lot of people, conservatives included. Just like Sarah Palin would be at this point. Let's try to keep our (unmentionables) out of a bunch until that time comes.
Wait... Strike that. Reverse it!
Right after the Primary in our state.
If they CANNOT, and they DID, but SHOULDN'T have, then that primary is all NULL AND VOID.
You CANNOT do what they said you CANNOT do. Hey, I did not write that RULE, if they were stupid enough to write it that way, well it is VOIDABLE on the technicality of the word CANNOT.
Last time I checked CANNOT means you can not. NEWTTTTTT??? are you looking.
My thoughts exactly!! Would love some input from those who know more about such things.
You regurgitate an old lie: “newt believes in global warming so might as well go all the way with gore act and whine” - and there is no way anyone on FR by now doesn’t know it’s a lie - So why don’t YOU take YOUR whine and stuff it?
NO ONE has refuted gore and GoreBull warming more emphatically that Newt - and not for a press sound bite - but testifying in the House - ON RECORD - in 2009. Care to give us a link to any evidence of ANYONE else so doing?
As Justice Joe Wilson famously said “YOU LIE.” and it’s getting old.............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VUg7nG3lw&feature=related
Checking my tagline.
Unfortunately the penalty called for in the Republican Party rules is a 50% reduction in the number of delegates rather than forcing the state to allocate delegates proportionally.
SC didn’t award its delegates proportionally either, so those would have to be recomputed also.
Now most states that have proportional have a 15% or 20% threshold. NH had a 10% threshold.
A proportional-with-a-20% threshold would yield 59 Romney - 40 Gingrich split.
So, maybe Gingrich should enlist 49 Floridians (include 9 Romney supporters) and demand they be seated at the convention. Invite Romney to enlist 22 South Carolinians, but insist that 7 of them be Gingrich supporters.
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