Posted on 04/16/2016 5:51:19 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.
A Cruz-Rubio alliance at the district convention in Buford, Georgia helped to knock Trump supporters out of the district’s national delegation altogether. Cruz supporters implied that Trump’s people would “embarrass” the district at the convention in Cleveland. Then things got heated.
“This morning, I attended Georgia 7th Congressional District GOP convention as a delegate and a Donald Trump supporter. We were there to elect the 3 delegates and 3 alternates to the national convention,” Ronnie Kurtz told Breitbart News. “Per the primary results, two slots were for Trump, and one was for Rubio. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% Cruz finished third in the primary and had no delegates allotted to him…Nonetheless, the hall was stacked with Cruz delegates.”
On the first ballot, the party voted on a delegate slate that would have taken away one of Trump’s delegates but would have, at least, still given him one representative. That bloc would have given Trump supporter Debbie Dooley one of the slots and a Cruz supporter named Carolyn Fisher another slot, with a Rubio slot going to local party convention chairman BJ Van Gundy. But Cruz supporters voted down that slate.
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Excellent
If that is supposed to be a against Cruz, you might want to ‘re check your ‘facts’ before posting.
I’m only voting for Trump. If he’s not on the ballot I’ll write him in. I owe the national GOP nothing and that’s what they’ll get
A “conservative” GOP tool isn’t worth much more than Lindsay Graham or John McCain or any other GOP tool. The GOP just deploys their conservative tools in a different way than their moderate tools, but for the same purpose- disenfranchising their voters.
Trump, for not being a politician is doing a great job bringing forth and exposing the sleazy tactics of our political system. He represents us vs them. He dares to breach subjects most programed politicians won’t touch.
Probably stacked that vote as well.
I love this: “ Cruz got clobbered a long time ago....he just hasn’t hit the floor, yet.”
LOL!
I think that Trump is "conservative enough". More importantly, I think that he can survive and prevail over Hillary's expected "scorched earth" campaign, and that neither Cruz nor any other GOPE designated-loser would be able to.
Fixing immigration is the senior issue right now, above all other things. If the demographic shift continues any further, then no conservative will ever be elected again. Abortion will become a sacrament. Hospitals will be required to offer abortion services, or be denied access to federal funding. This is the future you have to look forward to if Hillary wins.
The people who have the more time and motivation to become a delegate, are the people already involved in party activities. They are, by definition, the GOP Establishment that so many of us rail against, even if they don't realize it.
LOL.....glad you liked it.
You do have the right to vote... In the general election where you choose delegates for the electoral college. The problem is that you are confusing an election with a nomination. A nomination is where the PARTY chooses who it wishes to run and sets it’s own rules on how it chooses it’s nominee.
The Republican party chooses it’s nominee. If a candidate wishes to run, he can play by the party’s rules or choose a different party where he can simply be appointed.
Those of you falling for the Trump propaganda are being fooled. Take some time to learn how our political system works, then you will see that Trump is simply yanking your chains.
I am talking about how if you are from CO, then you can vote for a delegate, but who the hell knows these people as some of these voting places are done in peoples front rooms.
then there are people who are denied to vote and that is those who are not in the country, ie. military who are overseas risking their lives to keep us safe are denied, oil riggers, business men and women etc, as no absentee ballots are given out.
“Sorry I only read the first sentence and then my eyes glazed over and I lost interest... Politics & religion don’t mix.”
I often post well-reasoned arguments for the benefit of other readers, knowing the person I am posting to is prefers to be ignorant. No skin off my nose. Suit yourself.
But before you go too far out on a limb and saw it off, you may want to consult how the founder and owner of this website feels about the role of religion and politics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103363/posts
You may find you pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, anti-family, anti-religious freedom, anti-gun rights, views better received on some other forum like DU.
I can’t argue with a single word you said.
That's very true. And, as you may have noticed, Trump has a bunch of very enthusiastic people on his side. And if Trump decides to start a new party, based on rules more agreeable to the majority of Republican voters, then he has enough money to do so.
And the current Republican party you so love, will be on the way to join the Whigs in the trash heap of prior parties who felt they knew better than their customers.
I doubt it, especially after reading how this went down. I've been a state delegate at times in the past.
I can't speak for all states, but in my state there are three types of delegates. Precinct delegates, state delegates, and RNC delegates. Precinct delegates are elected by voters in primary elections. In my state, they, choose 1/2 of the county party's executive committee. Precinct delegates also choose the state delegates. State delegates choose the RNC delegates in district caucuses and/or the convention floor.
A lot of those delegates happen to be part of the same base as Cruz's supporters and it's showing up in his convention success.
It’s a nomination, not an election. The party gets to choose the nominee however it wishes to do so to ensure a good candidate. Start your own party so you can set the rules. Honestly, that is the answer to our problems that are unhappy with the status quo.
I don’t love the Republican party. I’m good with a new party. I think it would be great if we all did so as long as we don’t nominate a lying, manipulating populist.
Two things the Republican party needs to change:
1) Primaries will be elections for the nominee.
2) The winning candidates, NOT party officials, will select the delegates.
so why vote?
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