Breaking tonight... 9 Gingrich Delegates in Illinois announce they’re switching their support to Santorum during an East Peoria event. Al Salvi is breaking the story... don’t have more info. now or the names of the 9 Gingrich delegates. Will post a link once the names are confirmed.
this seems to be a pattern with the good principled conservative santorum... and it is very unseemly and unethical.
Super-Newt-Freeper, Marguerite, posted this this morning, about when Santorum did the same thing in Tennessee. Is there anyone who can picture Newt doing this?
"In Tennessee, they tried a different underhanded tactic and succeeded… Hours before the election, Santorum met with several state delegates declared on the ballot for Gingrich, one even the Co-Chair of the Gingrich campaign, convincing them to switch to Santorum delegates even though the state ballots declared them all for Gingrich.
It amounted to election fraud, as millions of Tennessee Gingrich supporters cast vote after vote for Gingrich delegates that had quietly switched to Santorum hours before the election. The old backroom switcheroo had worked and Santorum won Tennessee, snatching the number two spot in the GOP race from Gingrich for the first time."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860896/posts
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2012/03/09/gop-defeating-itself-again/