Posted on 04/10/2016 3:20:19 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Moments after announcing that Ted Cruz had swept all 34 delegate slots at the Colorado GOP convention Saturday, the state party tweeted: "We did it. #NeverTrump."
Within minutes, the tweet had been deleted.
Steve House, the Colorado GOP chairman, insisted his staff had nothing to do with the tweet and is now investigating.
"There's no way we tweeted that," House said, although he acknowledged that the state party was responsible for deleting it.
The last tweet was the result of unauthorized access to our account and in no way represents the opinion of the party. We are investigating.
— The Colorado GOP (@cologop) April 10, 2016
Even though it only existed in the ether of cyberspace for a few minutes, the optics of such a tweet coming from the neutral arbiter of Saturday's delegate selection process amidst a hard-fought trench war between Cruz and Donald Trump to secure the Republican presidential nomination rankled a number of Colorado Republicans.
Several local GOP operatives were quick to suggest that the tweet, which was quickly deleted, was the work of the two young Republican operatives at D/CO, a newly formed Republican consulting firm that caters on outreach to Millennials. Caleb Bonham and Kyle Forti, who formed D/CO in December, just took over a number of clients from another local firm, Avinova, which used to assist the Colorado GOP with social media.
But Forti denied that he or Bonham were responsible and said they don't have access to the state GOP's Twitter feed.
While the tweet immediately drew a backlash, another mistake by the party itself could have a more lasting impact.
That mistake centers around one prospective delegate, Larry Singer, who filed paperwork to run as a delegate in Colorado's 3rd congressional district. But when the election was held on Friday, Singer's name did not appear on the ballot. Somewhere along the way, someone had lost his paperwork.
House tried to remedy the problem, placing Singer on the ballot to run for one of 13 at-large delegate slots up for grabs at Saturday's statewide assembly. As one of more than 600 delegates for those slots, Singer, not surprisingly, came up short.
In that sense, he is not unlike almost every other person who filed papers to be a delegate. He is, however, unlike all the other delegate candidates in one way: he is the BROTHER OF PUAUL SINGER, THE NEW YORK CITY HEDGE FUND MAGNATE AND ONE OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT'S MOST COVETED DONORS, often a 7-figure contributor and one of the funders of the conservative infrastructure that's been built in Colorado and across the country.
"This is the one guy who wants to get on who the party should recognize we need to get on because he basically pays for all this," said one local GOP operative. "He wound up being number 600 [on the ballot] and he wasn't even listed on the program because they ran out of paper."
According to House, Singer wasn't too upset about it.
"I actually sat with him while we were waiting for the final results and he was in good spirits," House said. "He's a great guy."
(Capitals are mine.)
NO PRIMARY, NO CAUCUS, CRUZ GETS ALL DELEGATES, VOTERS NOT NEEDED...
Of course the GOPe denied tweeting:
We did it! #NEVERTRUMP
...Would anyone expect them to tell the truth?!?!? Oh and they are going to do an investigation...That is rich LOL...
This is what our elections have come to!
STOPTHESTEAL.ORG
ALSO For all the evangelicals supporting the Anointed by God candidate, Ted Cruz, Paul Singer is openly gay, and has been actively courted by the fundamentalist candidate Cruz...
More of that Cruz campaign consistency at play...
At least Singer did not have a gay 23-year old man die of drug overdose in his bathtub like the gay hoteliers did...
Colorado; where the official @cologop actually tweets out; “We did it. #nevertrump”.
Colorado GOP elites are #nevertrump
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3419332/posts
#nevertrump is more than a simple political statment - it’s a mission statement. And it was executed by the Colorado GOP as a mission statement. That is not we-the people.
The Republican Party of Colorado Sends America a Message
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3419335/posts
Colorado Republican Party. Following the lead of the GOPe.
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." Joseph Stalin
What else are they going to say?? LOLOL!!!
Their actions and the outcome prove nevertrump was their mission. No doubt whatsoever about that. Just didn’t think ahead too much when they tweeted it.
Amazing how so called self professed “conservatives” bong the elite establishment kool-aid. Probably take it as an enema too. Drunk on it for sure.
I agree with Jim;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3418598/posts?page=62#62
Cruz told the Colorado crowd earlier that it’s easy to talk about making America great again — “you can even print that on a baseball cap” — but that the more important question is which candidate understands “the principles and values that made America great in the first place.”
Does that mean getting in bed with and wildly fornicating and fluffing every establishment elitist he can get close to?
Wow he makes me sick. To think I bought his book “A Time For Truth”. I actually believed he was “the only principled candidate in the race”. He proved how stupid I was to believe him. Six months ago no one would have believed Cruz would be where he is right now - in bed with the GOP elite.
I’ll still vote for him if he is the nominee but I’d like a refund on the book.
And Cruz doesn’t care to know that he is being a chump for the GOPe. He will be tossed aside like a $5 whore when he has outlasted his usefulness to them.
MFO
IMHO the VichyGOP and the Dhimmirats are conspiring to destroy the American Republic. “By their fruits ye shall know them..”
Gee, after they investigate themselves, I’m sure they will miraculously find no wrongdoing. Or maybe pick a scapegoat - probably a constitutionalist, TEA party member, or some other non-GOPe person.
Tell them to contact O. J. Simpson.
He’s hot on the trail of Nichole’s killer, and I’m sure he could be of help here.
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Colorado Trump delegate supporter replaced with Cruz supporter by Cruz thugs
Yup!
we know whats smoked in their smoke filled backroooms..
Isn’t it interesting that the “Constitutional Candidate” or as many have called him, the “right” candidate is allowing the subversion of the Citzen’s votes.
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