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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I don’t think so. This article describes the 112-member rules committee as being for the convention.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/12/politics/gop-convention-rules-committee/


58 posted on 05/18/2016 7:11:58 PM PDT by JediJones (Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.)
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This is Morton Blackwell from Virginia (attending Rules committee meetings since 1972 & representing VA since 1988.)

“There are still four ways any rules regarding the 2016 nomination process at the convention can be changed.”

“First, the RNC Standing Committee on Rules could adopt changes, including once again reversing itself and restoring legitimate Delegates’ right to have their votes counted.”

“Second, the RNC itself could in Cleveland amend the report of its Standing Committee on Rules.”

“Third, the Convention Rules Committee, comprised of two Delegates, a man and a woman elected by each state’s Delegation, can and always does make amendments to the proposed new rules package it receives from the RNC.”

“Fourth, when the report of the Convention Rules Committee is received by the national convention, the convention itself can adopt new amendments, but only if the convention receives a minority report signed by at least 25% of the members of its Convention Rules Committee.”

“Unfortunately, the January RNC meeting in South Carolina was the last time it was likely to be possible to make changes dispassionately based on what is fair and best for our Party in the rules governing the nomination process at the coming convention. Now every proposed rule change will be evaluated by the effect it would have on the respective candidates still in the nomination contest.”

“The Romney campaign in 2012 broke with the practice of incoming nominees for many decades of allowing the Convention Rules Committee to make its own decisions.”

“If any 2016 candidate comes to the convention with 1,237 or more committed delegates, he might use his power to reform the national Party rules.”

“And it might be possible for two or more of the current four candidates to agree to support a set of reforms in the Party rules that would make those rules more fair and increase the extent to which power in our Party can flow from the bottom up.”

http://www.redstate.com/diary/Morton_C_Blackwell/2016/03/08/rules-2016-republican-national-convention/


69 posted on 05/18/2016 8:17:21 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: JediJones

You are correct, and I posted that article to OP last night. In addition to that the link provided by OP for ballotpedia says the same thing. 112 people on the rules committee, 2 from each state plus dc and the territories, chosen by the 56 delegates from those locations. OP is paranoid delusional about this issue.


90 posted on 05/18/2016 10:00:50 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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