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strip the Republican National Committee chair of power and decentralize control of the party apparatus

I don't recall that. I do recall Cuch proposing that the Republican National Committee chair powers be reduced and that the party's apparatus at the convention should be decentralized. He was proposing that for the future and not 2016.

(Excerpts from my link in post #31)

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a prominent conservative and expert on the complexities of the party convention process, has begun pitching GOP delegates on a proposal that would have far-reaching consequences for the party. The idea: strip the Republican National Committee chair of power and decentralize control of the party apparatus, handing it over to the 168 RNC members who compose the national party. The package, according to three sources who’ve been briefed on the matter, would also aim to diminish the overall power of the RNC and empower grass-roots conservatives in future party nominations. Under the concept, for example, the RNC chair would lose the power to appoint powerful party officers.

That's a "good look".

The Cuccinnelli effort to strip powers from the RNC chair is apparently separate from another rules-writing package being pushed by a pro-Cruz super PAC that Cuccinelli helps to oversee. That change would seek to encourage states to hold closed primaries — a format Cruz fared well in. It would shift the delegate-allocation process, penalizing states that choose to hold open primaries and allowing states where there is no party registration to hold closed caucuses or conventions to allocate delegates, according to a person familiar with that plan.

That's a real "good look".