Posted on 04/05/2016 8:23:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Northern Kentucky Republicans will send supporters of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to the national convention in July.
A group of 126 Republicans on Saturday from the 20 counties of Northern Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District gathered in the theater of Boone County High School to choose their three delegates and three alternates for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland for July.
People at the convention seemed to either support Donald Trump or Cruz.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s name never came up.
Cruz won the Fourth District in the March 5 GOP caucus but came in second to Donald Trump statewide.
Two of the delegates — U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Garrison, and Henry County GOP chairman Jon Park — wouldn’t say a preference. The rest said they supported Cruz.
From this district, the delegates are Massie, Park and Kenton County resident and tea party leader Garth Kuhnhein. The alternates are State Rep. Diane St. Onge, R-Lakeside Park; Boyd County GOP Chairman Randy Vanhoose and Boone County GOP Vice Chairwoman Phyllis Sparks.
All the candidates pledged to only vote for candidates who were on the ballot in Kentucky and have not suspended their campaigns, which as of now are Trump, Cruz and Kasich.
The GOP voted down three similar slates before picking this one. Many pressed the delegates on who they supported for president. When one proposed alternate delegate, J.D. Sparks from Oldham County, wouldn’t say, he got voted off.
Former Boone County GOP chairman Pat O’Reagan on Saturday wanted to make sure none of the delegates from Northern Kentucky wouldn’t go rogue and vote for an unelectable candidate. O’Reagan supports Cruz but also thinks Trump’s mass appeal could also beat Hillary Clinton.
“If you believe in will of people, which I do, you have to go with who’s bringing people out to vote,” O’Reagan said. “End of the day, I don’t want Hillary Clinton. How do you do that? Get someone who can get more votes. I don’t see Gov. Kasich connecting with the people to do that. I don’t see anyone not running for president doing that.”
Massie said he doesn’t have a preference between Trump or Cruz and wouldn’t commit when pressed by the crowd Saturday.
“I don’t have a preference between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump at this point,” Massie said. “There’s a great advantage to waiting to the end to play your card. I think there are people in this room for candidates who may decide in the next three months they are for a different candidate.”
Massie said it’s not a sound strategy to commit to a candidate, especially if it becomes a contested convention. He floated the hypothetical idea that if someone like former House Speaker John Boehner got nominated at a contested convention, he might need to vote for someone else to prevent Boehner from getting the nomination. Massie consistently voted against Boehner for House leader.
“Sometimes you have to vote for your second choice to keep your third choice from being elected,” Massie said. “What if John Boehner gets elected and the only way for me to stop that is for me to vote for our district’s second choice and not district’s first choice?”
Park also wouldn’t commit between Trump or Cruz but after the meeting said he was leaning toward Cruz.
“We have Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and that’s who I have to choose from,” Park said.
The rest of the slate said they supported Cruz.
Northern Kentucky was the first of Kentucky’s six congressional districts where Republicans chose their delegates for the Republican National Convention.
The Republican Party of Kentucky will choose its delegates at district conventions over the next few weeks leading up to the state Republican convention April 23. Of Kentucky’s 46 delegates, 18 are chosen from the districts— three from each district—and 25 at the state convention. The remaining three delegates are the state chairman, Mac Brown, and two national committee members, Mike Duncan and K.C. Crosbie.
Kentucky has 46 delegates and, on the first ballot, will dole them out proportionally at the Republican National Convention based on the number of votes each candidate received in the March 5 caucus.
Trump won the state and will receive 17 delegates. Cruz will get 15. Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will each get seven.
If the convention becomes contested, it delegates could change votes on subsequent ballots.
In that case, King Abdullah of Jordan’s son is also eligible to become president. So what if he was born in Jordan and his father is Jordanian. His mother is an American.
It’s a real eye opener for many of us that our actual votes mean horse shit, and the only thing that matters is the party machinery.
Nope. She forfeited her citizenship in accepting nobility.
Ba-bye!
Drumpfettes think one primary election cycle makes your a Republican.
Well, since Cruz won’t allow anyone to see any of his mother’s docs or his other than birth certificates despite FOI requests, who knows whether his mother became a Canadian citizen or not, there is some evidence she did.
Myself and about a dozen of my family members, and many more friends I’ve spoken too, have all agreed if Trump gets cheated out of the nomination we are immediate changing to Independents. The party couldn’t care less, but our eyes have been opened and just can’t be a part of the corruption anymore.
Regardless of the reasoning behind it, Trump has a more committed following than Cruz. Millions of first time voters and crossovers will not bother coming out to vote for Cruz, especially in the Northeast where I’m located. The Trump voters are driven by passion for real change to our corrupt systems, while the Cruz voters are still devoted to the Republican party as a whole, which really only cares about its own power anyways.
So I refuse to vote between one elite corrupt politician or another. I will however vote for a man or woman I believe in.
Unfortunately, Cruz cannot win a general election without the Trump voters, so all the Cruz people are better off not bashing them so much that hate the man and would die before casting a vote for him.
So ‘winning’ by cheating - or wait, having a ‘ground game’ is the same as changing things for the better?
I can’t understand what it will take to penetrate cruzettes, unless you’re all trolls.
With Teddy the TOOL, nothing changes. How could it?
When Bush/Romney/Ryan/Hatch/Club for Growth/Singer are all propping you up, what will change??
Cruz = amnesty - own it
Ad a crapload that still consider him too radical a left-winger to be voted for - those folks have their opinions on hold until after Trump is stopped so they can then provide a "reasonable excuse" for why they ended up betraying Cruz after he made all them deals with them...he can be the savior of the GOPe merely by stopping Trump....
I know what a natural born citizen is and it is not someone who had divided loyalties ar birth. No matter what a guy from Fresno says.
This is not difficult, do you truly believe the founders would have allowed king George’s son, born of an American mother, be president?! Come on, that doesnt even pass the smell test.
You are beyond reach. So why bother.
That’s the way I feel on the basis of the RNC allowing Cruz to even run. The party objects to the NBC clause, and likely other parts of the constitution as well, and is duplicitous about its goals.
You need to check your math. The "anti" vote ranking is noting more than the inverse of the "pro" vote ranking.
So in a state primary where say 20% of the people voted for Cruze would it not be fair to say that 80% of the people rejected Cruze in favor of another candidate?
And if in that same state Trump got 42% of the vote that would mean that even though 58% rejected Trump 80% rejected Cruz right?
That actually translates to Cruze having a much higher unfavorable rating in Trump ever has in the majority of states thus far
It explains why Trump has millions of more votes from people than Cruz does.
Right back at ya skeets -
the reality is right there, if you open your eyes
Who is standing behind Cruz? C’mon, I can’t understand why it’s so difficult for some people to face reality.
Cruz = amnesty = status quo
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