Bill’s claim is a lie: “Unfortunately, our party leadership was essentially overtaken by the Tea Party groups and the Ron Paul folks, and they voted to change the rules in the middle of the campaign”
The old State Central Committee of RPV was run by moderates who like Bolling and voted A YEAR EARLY to give him a Republican primary so democrats could vote for Bolling (a la John Warner style) to beat Cuccinelli, the conservative.
The recently-elected SCC is more conservative and overturned that decision, giving us a Convention instead, which will save the VA taxpayers about $3M.
Bolling needs to start telling the truth.
He should walk away, he is finished in Virginia. Maybe he could get a job in the Obama Whitehouse.
Per my #6, it looks like Bolling has cut a deal with McAuliffe to undercut Cuccinelli, probably in exchange for another high level job in the Commonwealth’s government.