Posted on 03/17/2012 2:50:23 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
After months of preparation, education, and activism by conservatives, all over Missouri, caucus day arrived, and in St. Charles County it came and went without awarding delegates.
The Francis Howell North High School bleachers were packed and there was a standing room only crowd after the caucus was called to order, an hour and a half late. Clearly crowds exceeded expectation as checking in the overflow crowd took much longer than expected. Most in the crowd waited longer to be checked into the caucus than the caucus lasted.
The beginning of the caucus started with the reading of the pre-approved rules, which included disallowing recording devices and cameras by attendees and media. Boisterous objections broke out after this announcement and things disintegrated from there.
One protester challenged Eugene Dokes, the St. Charles County Central Committee Chairman, and soon after that police reinforcements were called into the meeting.
Ron Paul and Mitt Romney supporters made up the majority of the crowd as was evidenced by their reactions when the caucus chairman was nominated by the St Charles County Republican Central Committee Chair. While a voice vote was taken to elect the caucus chair, the noise of the crowd clearly did not support the conclusion of the vote as another noisy protest broke out after Matt Ehlen was declared caucus chair.
Unable to bring the crowd under control, there was a motion to adjourn, a quick second followed with an even faster voice vote, and the meeting was ended. By this time, police were in place, inside and outside of the building as well as in the air, and attendees were told to leave or be arrested on grounds of trespass.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6sKbpR24ASM#
http://www.dailypaul.com/221346/this-is-brent-stafford-from-missouri
“Really. I’m beginning to think Paulbots and Occupiers are sisters under the skin. When I voted in the Ohio primary there was a Paulbot there, wearing a campaign T-shirt (illegal and well known to be so) who made a stink about having to cover it up. Narcisistic twentysomething d-bag who had to make a scene, in a tiny precinct in a small town voting place. What ails these jerk-offs.”
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My very limited experience (I know, it might not be representative) with some local Paulbots reminded me very much of some followers of Lyndon LaRouche I’ve encountered when going to the main Baltimore post office. I’m beginning to think there may be some “interbreeding/intermixing” between the membership of these groups. Or maybe they just draw from the same type of personality?
And, from the reporting I’ve seen, it seems that some Saul Alinsky type tactics are beginning to be employed by SOME of the Paulbot and Mittbot groups. The end justifies the means, don’t you know? Power at all costs!
Things may get VERY INTERESTING in the lead up to Tampa.
When someone is trying to run a railroad, a bit of disruption is never out of place.
Never agree to the ground rules that someone has pre-arranged. Bring your Roberts Rules and have some fun.
Why no results yet from elsewhere in the state?
That’s a mystery about results...been looking online and haven’t seen anything.
I don’t know about any postponement. Not sure how it’s going to be handled.
That is exactly what I thought, having seen it first hand. These people are "agents provocateurs".
I believe we are done. The rest of the state delegates will choose the national delegates and St. Charles County will have no voice.
I believe this incident was well planned and expected by both sides and the result as well. The plurality was for Santorum, so the Paul and Romney people ganged up and shut it down.
I live in St. Charles County, MO and you are correct. The federal government has been moving people from St. Louis City and St. Louis County into St.Charles for years and paying their rent and feeding them when they get here. We have always been a strong Republican county but if the federal government has it’s way that could change in the future.
Caucuses are lame. Every state needs to use primaries, period. They should not have a choice.
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