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I was Chair of my Colorado Precinct caucus Let me tell you about it so you have some context (yes I'm very angry right now about this balderdash about "stolen" delegates.). Just to be clear: I WAS NOT a Cruz supporter, I was for Rubio at that time. --it was just as Marco was dragged into the filth swamp with Donald, foolishly responding to Donald's constant junior high "Little Marco, oh, sweating! oh sweating little Marco: thirsty boy, big ears big ears little marco and on and on blah-stupid-blah ad infinitum, junior high without end from Donald, and then Marco, frustrated, finally lashed out and mde his own foolish remarks, getting in the gutter with the gutter-master.….

Like the system or not, and I oppose it, I want it changed, because it is too complicated for the simple-minded and lazy -----this is what it is:

You go to caucus, you check in, (March First) --you must be a registered Republican, you present picture ID which is checked against the precinct rolls. NO ONE WAS TURNED AWAY that showed up, except for one guy who lived in a different precinct, they were meeting gown the hall.

We did the formalities: Prayer, pledge, summary of Agenda.

Explanation of the process, 6-8 minutes

Step ONE: appoint tellers to count the ballots (which were just 3x5 sheets to write names on. Then elect two Precinct Leaders, you may self-nominate OK, we did that. I was elected along with one other guy, though we only had one candidate, I accepted in absence of anyone wanting to do the job.

Step TWO: elect 8 people to the County Assembly. We had only 8 people nominated so that made "election" moot, by acclamation we decided they all won (again, you can self-nominate for all of these spots)

Step THREE: Then we elected 2 delegates to the Congressional District Assembly and 2 to the State-wide Assembly (where national delegates are VOTED on by the delegates that come from the precincts).

More people were nominated (self-nominated) than the number of positions, so we held our little election. I invited each person to get up, state their name and say whatever they wanted, and say who they favored, though they could not be compelled to do so, according to the rules. Two people spoke on behalf of Carson, Five for Cruz, one for Rubio and one (yes ONE) for Trump. # Cruzers were elected plus one Rubio-guy (me).

At the County Assembly (El Paso County, 31% of the state's Republicans), we did an unofficial non-binding straw poll, Rubio was out, Carson was out. It was 71% for Cruz, 18% Trump, 11% Kasich.

Then, the "higher" Assemblies, where, Friday April 8 for the Congressional District and April 9 for the State, delegates to CLEVELAND were elected. Again, you could self-nominate for Cleveland, though it had to be done by filing with the State GOP by the 26th of March, 3 1/2 weeks after the Precinct Caucus. You could Name a candidate, or you could just remain "unpledged." There were 600+ candidates at the State Assembly, I'm not sure how many at the CD (I was at State, not CD). We voted by ballot. The State elects 13 at-large delegates, plus 13 alternates, so vote for 26 people, the top 13 are delegates, the next 13, alternates. Iknow of one Trump supporter who did get elected as an alternate, he's always been very politically active, friends with everyone, well known (which helps a lot). The rest were Cruz supporters.

This system WAS NOT put in place by Cruz or his team, the system the last few cycles was the same, with minor differences. I was at the previous 3 State Assemblies.

Yes, it is complicated, definitely too complicated for Trump's minor-league management team. The fact is Trump's people did not prepare, did not plan, did not think strategically and flat-out did not show up.

It is interesting that the Cruzer-dominated convention DID vote and pass a resolution to go to a primary system next time.

And I moved to Cruz, not Trump, because politically, Cruz is much more consistently conservative, pushes the idea of constitutional government, limited government. Trump seems to me confused about small-government, very rarely cites the Constitution. And Cruz seemed much closer to Rubio in philosophy than Trump, who, sad to say, I do not believe is a conservative at all, he just has a few ideas that seem conservative, though he came to them very very late in life. It rankles me that we had to fight with Harry Reid's Senate shutdown, ----and Donald Trump put Harry Reid in that position. Why did he do it? Because he was really a liberal? NO. Worse than that, It was because he thought he could get a real estate deal in Las Vegas. In other words, he put his company ahead of his country. Donald, I find you utterly unimpressive, though entertaining.