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Exclusive: GOP campaigns plot revolt against RNC
Politico ^ | October 29, 2015 | Alex Isenstadt

Posted on 10/30/2015 6:24:47 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Exclusive: GOP campaigns plot revolt against RNC

The Sunday evening meeting comes after an eruption of complaints by the candidates about the debates. Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter their party’s messy debate process — and how to remove power from the hands of the Republican National Committee.

Not invited to the meeting: Anyone from the RNC, which many candidates have openly criticized in the hours since Wednesday’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado — a chaotic, disorganized affair that was widely panned by political observers.

On Thursday, many of the campaigns told POLITICO that the RNC, which has taken a greater role in the 2016 debate process than in previous election cycles, had failed to take their concerns into account. It was time, top aides to at least half a dozen of the candidates agreed, to begin discussing among themselves how the next debates should be structured and not leave it up to the RNC and television networks.

The gathering is being organized by advisers to the campaigns of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal and Lindsey Graham, according to multiple sources involved in the planning. Others who are expected to attend, organizers say, are representatives for Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Rick Santorum. The planners are also reaching out to other Republican candidates.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnbc; debates; elections; media; mediabias; msm; nbc; reincepriebus; rnc; sm
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To: COUNTrecount

IIRC, Lincoln and Stephen Douglass invited each other to hold debates, did they not, and the public was invited to attend.

Were there not ‘journalists’ in the crowd, but NOT a host at all?

Did not Lincoln and Douglass use the original model of debate, instead of a circus act news reporter moderator?

If I framed this, as accurate, why not do it, again?


21 posted on 10/30/2015 7:23:33 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Objective Scrutator
"I’m surprised Rube-o is attending, considering the media loves him. Maybe he’s just upset that they love ¡Yeb! more?:

Another snow job. He wants us to believe he is not part of the GOPe.

22 posted on 10/30/2015 7:24:27 AM PDT by Amntn
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To: wmfights

What the media has yet to understand is that there are other options now with the internet.


23 posted on 10/30/2015 7:30:44 AM PDT by Amntn
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To: El Cid

“Understand that the Democrat Party and the Republican Party is just one large Uni-Party that seeks to expand Government and the power in Washington DC “


Oh, I know that...I just believe in asking questions that have obvious answers, to show even slow people that someone or some organization is a lying sack of dog crap. Here it is not, regrettably, much of a challenge.


24 posted on 10/30/2015 7:32:49 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: COUNTrecount

[and how to remove power from the hands of the Republican National Committee.]

a.k.a., the liberal democrat rino coalition of liars and thieves united to destroy conservatives in America. The conservatives have but a few conservatives in Congres to represent us as the dem rino coalition represents dems and rinos only.


25 posted on 10/30/2015 7:42:52 AM PDT by kindred (And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus,)
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To: Ancesthntr

[Why there is cross-over voting allowed in ANY primary.]

Cause the conservative hating majority rinos love to have it that way, it has been way past time for conservatives to bail from the dem controlled GOP. Yes, we need a third party for conservatives run only by conservatives and who are enemies of the fools, liars, and theieves who run DC nowdays.


26 posted on 10/30/2015 7:48:10 AM PDT by kindred (And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus,)
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To: COUNTrecount
I don't care who attends this, and I don't care what they do to get to the point that the candidates are the ones that are being treated poorly, and there is no reason for this other than the GOPe is in bed with the immigration and amnesty people that don't want it to become an issue...

It is the focus of this election, get the illegal immigrants out of here, stop paying medicare, food stamps, social security, housing and medical expenses...these programs are for OUR people, veterans and elderly....

Why not let the candidates pick someone to head a round table discussion, sit around a big table and talk, and quit throwing these ‘well you said this about Bush and you told Christie this about Cruz’ crap...

Tell the super pacs to take a hike, this is a lot of the problems anyway...

27 posted on 10/30/2015 7:52:47 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: Ancesthntr
...Why there is cross-over voting allowed in ANY primary...

History. Parties did not used to disagree so much on basic values and people were more neighborly about politics. And also, more recently, 'independents' are the ones most politicians want to pander to, and those independents do not want to be excluded from either party's nominating process.

28 posted on 10/30/2015 7:54:05 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: catnipman

I’m betting Cavuto does a good job. He seems quite capable, and serious in his role. I have no idea who Bartiromo is.


29 posted on 10/30/2015 7:56:14 AM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: catnipman
Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto are class acts and will treat the candidates fairly.

Not Guilty

So as not to appears sexist (even thou I am)

30 posted on 10/30/2015 7:57:10 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto von Bismarck)
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To: G Larry
Every state has three members on the RNC: the national committeeman, the national committeewoman, and the state chairman. These people are elected by their state parties under state party rules. The national umbrella organization is simply a confederation of the various state and territorial parties.

The downside of this structure is that the microscopically small Republican parties of the various New England states, and Hawaii, have as much clout as Texas, Florida, Ohio, or Georgia. If it's any consolation, however, in terms of voting power in the RNC, Idaho balances out New York, and Indiana offsets California.

I tend to think a loose confederation is preferable to a highly centralized central committee type of structure. YMMV.

31 posted on 10/30/2015 8:08:26 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: MortMan
She on of the good guys, propablity leans liberal but she will be fair and ask policy questions not gotya questions.

Here she is in the 2012 CNBC debate

32 posted on 10/30/2015 8:10:29 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto von Bismarck)
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To: jpsb

Thank you for the info.


33 posted on 10/30/2015 8:12:33 AM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Rinse ‘n Repeat has been a disaster for the RNC, and the GOP suffers because of it. Where did they ever find this guy? He is just awful. Under his stewardship the RNC is just an arm of the DNC.


34 posted on 10/30/2015 8:25:41 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Amntn
What the media has yet to understand is that there are other options now with the internet.

You're right. First it was talk radio, then Fox News came along and finally the internet became very accessible. Now the media and govt want to put the "genie" back in the bottle.

35 posted on 10/30/2015 8:30:38 AM PDT by wmfights (a stranger in a hostile and foreign land that used to be my home)
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To: jpsb; catnipman
Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto are class acts and will treat the candidates fairly.

No they won't. They will just be slicker about it than Megan Fox was. Murdoch is an open borders/amnesty guy and the talking heads at Fox have to toe the company line, or their contracts won't get renewed. Fox was all Bush at the start and now they are all Rubio.

36 posted on 10/30/2015 8:36:41 AM PDT by wmfights (a stranger in a hostile and foreign land that used to be my home)
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To: Ancesthntr

I figured it was more of a rhetorical question, but I didn’t mind playing the straight-man. Our Political/Media class are destructive enemies that need to be called out at every opportunity.


37 posted on 10/30/2015 8:42:33 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: ought-six
Where did they ever find this guy?

I think if we dig deep enough to find out we would hit the top of Rove's bald head......

38 posted on 10/30/2015 9:00:18 AM PDT by capydick ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.")
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To: jpsb

Bartiromo got posterized by Newt in 2012 when she was with CNBC.


39 posted on 10/30/2015 9:21:44 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

Cavuto can hardly restrain his contempt for Cruz. I have watched him interview Cruz. I was furious.


40 posted on 10/30/2015 9:33:51 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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