Posted on 06/05/2012 1:17:51 AM PDT by Casie
Chaos erupted in Shreveport today as police officers arrested state GOP delegates who support Ron Paul for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.
The dispute arose after the state party's central committee issued "supplemental rules" earlier this week concerning the delegate selection process. A press release from the Ron Paul campaign this afternoon referred to the 11th hour changes as "illegal rules."
After fights in the Rules Committee Friday, state party chairman opened the convention moving to pass the new rules, when the majority of delegates moved to elect a new convention chair. When Villere refused to yield the dais, the majority elected a new chair and turned their chairs. As this was happening, the Villere faction convinced the Shreveport Police Department to arrest some of the Paul delegates holding microphones for "trespassing."
During the forcible arrests, Shreveport police dislocated the hip of the gentlemen in the video here, identified by the Paul campaign as State Central Commiteeman Henry Herford Jr. of Franklin Parish.
(video) http://www.examiner.com/video/shreveport-pd-at-la-gop-convention-arrest-injury
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
IOW, you have no clue how the election process works in LA and are just talking out your ass.
A Straw poll is non-binding. It’s the delegate vote that counts. These were duly elected delegates following the process.
Neither Paul, nor Romney, deserve to be on the GOP ticket. The only way for that to happen is to deny Willard the RINO enough ACTUAL delegates.
If the GOP insists on putting moderates and RINO’s (every POTUS candidate since Nixon with the exception of Reagan), then they deserve to be done away with.
Conservatives need more than just “liberal lite” to vote for.
Give that lie a rest.
Paul was crushed in LA !
He has no presence here period.
You think letting a bunch of Obama drones posing as Paul supporters into the GOP convention is a great idea.
NIce try with that scam.
Move on.
You aren’t making any sense. Who voted for the new chairman if Paul didn’t have any delegates? By the sounds of it, a large majority as well.
Again, you are running your mouth without any real clue about what you are talking about.
Look up the definition of “straw poll”. Now look up LA GOP rules on the non-binding nature of the poll. The delegte vote is what counts.
Anything the denies Willard the top slot is ok with me. Paul is the only one still active that could give us a brokered convention and a chance at a real conservative to run against Zero.
Stop thinking checkers and start thinking chess.
LA GOP beat them back and now these lefties are upset.
You can’t seize power you legitimately won.
The Ron Paul camp won their delegates fair and square. The LA GOP needs to ask itself why. Not ignore the results because the current leadership wants a different result. Throwing out legit results is not conservative.
1. Rules Chairman loses election
2. The next day, the State Party Chairman proclaims that old Rules Chairman back in to his position
3. The new Rules Chairman(elected by Paul supporters) objects, State Chairman orders him removed from the floor by police
4. Paul supporters make motion to elect new Party Chairman, succeed in voting in their guy
5. Old State Chairman refuses to leave position
6. Paul supporters turn around seats, begin their own convention
7. Old State Chairman orders police to remove Paul supporters and their elected Chairman
I really don’t see how Paul supporters were “disrupting” the convention, unless showing up and voting in person(where the ballots can’t be fixed) is disruptive.
This isn’t going to work out well for anyone.
Your NOT getting away with you far left radical DELEGATES games in LA.
la IS NOT GOING TO BE A PARTY TO YOUR FASR LEFT CHAOS YOUR PLANNING IN TAMPA.
YOU GOT SMACKED DOWN LEFTY.
So go back to try another left wing delegates scams elsewhere.
Your NOT getting away with you far left radical DELEGATES games in LA.
la IS NOT GOING TO BE A PARTY TO YOUR FAR LEFT CHAOS YOUR PLANNING IN TAMPA GOP convention .
YOU GOT SMACKED DOWN LEFTY.
So go back to try another left wing delegates scams elsewhere.
Your NOT getting away with you far left radical DELEGATES games in LA.
la IS NOT GOING TO BE A PARTY TO YOUR FAR LEFT CHAOS YOUR PLANNING IN TAMPA GOP convention .
YOU GOT SMACKED DOWN LEFTY.
So go back to try another left wing delegates scams elsewhere.
I note that you lack a sig. That would make a great one if it fits.
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment.
Here in GA, the state GOP convention had a very strong Ron Paul supporter presence. In general, we agree with these folks on many, many issues. Even the supporters I talked to disagree with Paul on some of his foreign policy extremes.
We need to figure out how to make common ground with a large part of his supporters. We have a lot of it, and they are young, energetic, and anti-Big Government.
Use more Capitalisation. Since you have no facts, maybe it’ll make someone listen to you.
Like a good Radical leftist your COMRADES trying to seize control of the LA GOP delegates behind closed doors.
THE real LA GOP voters hate Ron Paul and gave him NO support.
He came in Last here in the primary because we are a CLOSED primary so leftists like you can not VOTE ! So like a Good Obam lefty you don't care about the voters you seize power from within ! THanks for verifying who and what you radical Paul bots are all about.
Really? You sound like the typical GOP loser. You know, the idiots losers who have been swallowing the GOP's liberal load for the last few decades.
GO ahead and support the GOP-e's socialist. THEN, if you manage to get him elected go ahead and try to stop the other idiots in the GOP from following his socialist lead...
I really dont know if you guys are naive or just F'ing stupid.
IF you allow the GOP to elect this socialist POS you will have ended whatever meager opposition there was to socialism in the GOP. You will open the flood gates to tyranny.
Its just a damn shame that there are so many who are stuck in the "team" mindset of RNC -vs- DNC. That may have been the case at one time (a long time ago) but now that matchup is meaningless. The battle is Socialism -vs- everyone who wants to be free of socialist tyranny. While the DNC used to be the exclusive home of the socialist tyrant, they have since migrated to the GOP and are in actual leadership positions within the GOP. they are aided by the usefull idiots in the GOP who mindlessly support everything the gop throws at them simply because its not democrat. NO thought at all is given to whether or not the GOP is becoming a tool of the socialists.. Just that its not democrat... Thats all that matters... nothing else...
Its an IDIOTIC mindset and F'ing SUICIDAL strategy. YOU are working FOR the ENEMY! Imagine that... WHAT exactly do you mind numbed romneybots expect to get by supporting a socialist takeover of the GOP? What?! stop Obama? the man? or his party? Or his ideology? if your answer was "the man" or "His party" then YOU are an idiot. If the answer was his ideology then WTF are you doing out of the insane asylum? because your nominating someone with the exact same ideology.
Hey snide lefty.
Isn’t there a Zionist hater convention you need to be at today ?
Get your facts straight before you even think of calling anyone else a troll.
Moron.
I’m Left handed, yes. Politically, I’m to the Right of you.
Keep your teeth together Newbie. You are embarrassing yourself.
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