"I love Curly!"
Posted on 05/18/2016 11:59:57 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Curly Haugland loves the rules..... North Dakota’s top Republican gadfly, its rule-mongering crank, its official state pain in the ass. On the national GOP’s standing rules committee, he’s been the pedantic curmudgeon, the stubborn speed bump who for years has raised points of order only to watch establishment Republicans stampede over him.
... Haugland has become one of the most dangerous men in politics: He’s the mainstream GOP’s last hope to deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination in Cleveland. It would take a miracle—and almost certainly lead to a historic split in the party—but there is still a way, buried in the labyrinthine rulebook, that the party could free delegates from their obligation to vote for Trump. To get there, the convention’s rules committee would need to travel a perilous road. But nobody knows the terrain better than Haugland, a self-taught maverick expert on the Republican convention rules, who has spent a decade pushing schemes to take power away from Republican primary voters and give it back to party insiders.
There is one article of faith in the Republican Party: On the convention’s first ballot, bound delegates are required to vote for the candidate to whom they’re bound. What you need to know about Haugland’s radical vision is this: He insists that’s not the case. Haugland has been trumpeting this nuclear option for months. In March, he blasted out a letter to fellow RNC members with the subject line:
“NEWS FLASH: All Republican Delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention are Unbound!” He’s on a mission to let all the delegates at the convention in Cleveland to vote however they’d like on the first ballot, no matter whom their state’s voters chose
This has long seemed like a crazy cause—who doesn’t want voters to decide?
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Curley is an undaunted in his approach as he holds the record in rules committee defeats. He claims to be laying the groundwork for his greatest victory ever and is an inspiration to those holdouts that refuse to come to terms with the distinct possibility of the Trump presidency.
We need a Moe to poke Curly in the eyes.
Curly can suck an egg. Morton Blackwell from VA is higher up in the food chain in the RNC and a reliable source has conveyed that there will no rules changes as per Rinse Prewash and decided on by the rules committee. He is blowing hot air.
Someone needs to put this guy on 10,000 CC’s of Thorazine a day and put in a rubber room till after the convention is over.
Poke Curly in the eyes? Good idea, then he couldn’t read his RNC Rule book anymore.
So, Curly Haugland has been a crypto-Democrat all these years?
I don’t know this guy Curly Haugland, but I do know a guy who came pretty darn close in 1976 in North Dakota politics. See my Freeper page for details.
Trump gets the nomination or the country burns.
Angry white people don’t burn cities. We burn continents.
So the RNC has told the convention rules committee to stand down? Just as they did at the Spring RNC convention.
How many delegates are on the rules committee?
The two cruzers from Colorado are a problem: Unruh & Little.
Curly is a blowhard who bought his seat from the ND GOP Party. He has no power.
Yep! The NeverTrump movement is being dismantled. Heard this at the VA State and 1st CD conventions.
“He’s the mainstream GOP’s last hope to deny Donald Trump...”
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The “Mainstream GOP” is behind Trump. It’s the dinosaur GOPe clingers-on who oppose him, and will be left behind.
Sounds like he has a serious personality disorder.
“...but there is still a way, buried in the labyrinthine rulebook...”
Yet these anti-American GOPe bastards can’t do the obvious ways, openly exposed in our COTUS, to deal with Obama, SCOTUS, trade agreements, state control, and on and on.
I vote NO CONFIDENCE on GOPe.
I am not an expert but if a state can block a candidate from a federal ballot then they are taking away Constitutional rights. Shouldn’t all federal offices be outside the domain of state law?
The article is very long, but Curly has tried to change the outcome of elections and the selection of the RNC party chair, as well. He has been at this for decades and this is his ‘pet project.’ If no one favors him, he needs to be replaced within the hierarchy of the party. Why is he still here?
It is a great thing that Donald Trump will walk into Cleveland with an ample surplus of delegates and the greatest number of votes every accumulated during a primary election.
Anything close to 1237 would be opening the door to the chipping away process.
Nuclear options presume delivery as intended.
First-ballot “vote for whoever you want” may very well result in a landslide for Trump. Seriously: who is going to vote for flamed-out candidates? (I voted Cruz, but given a second chance as a delegate may very well change my mind.)
Apparently he hasn’t heard of sections .223 and .45 of the American rulebook. Go ahead there, Curly sue...I dare you.
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