Posted on 04/18/2016 8:36:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump is complaining that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is racking up “voterless” victories in states such as Colorado and Wyoming, where delegates are chosen by a “small handful of elites” who are “sidelining” Republican voters.
This is dead wrong. In both Colorado and Wyoming, all registered Republican voters in the state had the chance to vote and participate in the delegate selection process.
The Wyoming Republican Party website explains the process clearly: “Delegates to the state convention are elected by the county conventions. Delegates to the county convention are elected by precinct caucuses in their respective counties. Any person registered to vote Republican as of the call for precinct caucuses in a given precinct may vote in that precinct’s caucus” (emphasis added).
In other words, there is a whole lot of voting going on. All Republicans in Wyoming had the chance to go to their precinct and vote for delegates who support their preferred candidate. And they did so in record numbers. In Laramie County, for example, the lines ran out the door on Super Tuesday, and turnout was up almost 400 percent compared with 2012. “The lines outside, they are amazing,” said Glen Chavez, a first-time caucus-goer. “If you’ve never taken part in something like this, get involved. If you want to make the difference, you make the change.”
The same was true for Colorado. Under Article XII of the Colorado Republican Party’s bylaws, any person who is a resident of a precinct for 30 days and is a registered voter “affiliated with the Republican Party” for at least two months can vote in a precinct caucus. Any such person can also run for delegate.
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Quit being an apologist for a corrupt system!
You forgot Earth Shoe wearing, PBS watching, NPR listening, George Will reading.... In your tagline. ;-)
I agree with you that Trump is spinning the issue.
However, I have watched a lot of this stuff since last summer. SCruz is a master of spinning. I don’t see you pointing that out.
Then the rules must be changed.
This time, the great unwashed are beginning to pay attention. We can thank Trump for that.
I ran out of room in the description I grabbed from another FReeper’s posting that described the east coast, elitist, Republican progressives.
“COLORADO PUBLIC NOTICE LAWS REQUIRE notices be uploaded to http://publicnoticecolorado.com…”(emphasis supplied)”
Doesn’t mean a thing if they don’t tell anyone about it.
Do you think people spend all day in a law library looking for these things?
If *any* reasonable effort had been made to publicize these meetings, people would have known about them.
People didn’t know about them. QED.
“No, it isn’t dishonest. It’s extremely convenient for you.”
Convenient to allegedly post things to a web site they don’t tell anyone about? Go on back to DU.
“Newspapers still publish the traditional public notices.”
I’m sure they do, if anyone asks them to.
“Now they are required by CO law to take the second step of uploading the notices to a centralized repository at that web site.”
Stop pretending that what they did was in any way ethical, or that it constituted real notification.
“Google. It’s a new fangled research tool on the interwebz.”
Bullshit. No search on the words Republican or caucus led to that web site.
There was no way for an ordinary person even to discover the existence of that web site.
The HMFIC of the CO GOPe had to go into hiding after the travesty; that was not because people were so happy with the way things were done.
There is a difference between spinning and lying. To me, it is like Alice in Wonderland to hear Trump accuse Cruz of lying.
The biggest lie of all is that the GOP establishment fixed the rules on the states who have chosen not to use a direct voting primary to select delegates. Colorado, for example, used to have a straw poll and they decided not to continue with that—in March of 2015—by a vote in their legislature. They would have had to have a crystal ball to know that Trump was going to enter the race in June.
If the so-called GOPe was so all-powerful, then Jeb Bush would have already won the nomination.
Strawman. You didn't need the website to find the public notice. It was in the newspaper.
Go on back to DU.
Having had your claim about closely guarded secrets go down in flames, you resort to insults. Noted.
I’m sure they do, if anyone asks them to.
They were asked. They complied.
“A review of your replies reveals why anecdotal evidence is so untrustworthy.”
So, you have arrived at a judgment without seeing a single newspaper ad.
If they were there, where were they?
“Strawman. You didn’t need the website to find the public notice. It was in the newspaper.”
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Advanced Search Search Keywords: precinct caucus locations Search Type: All Keywords Published Date From: 2/20/2016 Published Date To: 4/20/2016 City(s): Grand Junction
No public notices found. Retry your search.
Or rather, it wasn’t in the newspaper.
Keep on supporting your pervert, even if you have to lie to do it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3413956/posts?page=181#155
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Published February 27, 2016
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/gop-dems-gear-up-for-caucuses
■ Palisade High School 3679 G Road Precincts 14, 15, 17
■ Mount Garfield Middle School 3475 Front St. Precincts 20, 21, 22
■ Grand Mesa Middle School 585 31 1/2 Road Precincts 51, 52, 53
■ Central High School 550 Warrior Way Precincts 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 50
■ Orchard Mesa Middle School 2736 Unaweep Ave. Precincts 55, 56, 57
■ East Middle School 830 Gunnison Ave. Precincts 10, 38, 39, 45, 54
■ Grand Junction High School 1400 N. Fifth St, Grand Junction 81501 Precincts 9, 13, 30, 44, 46, 47, 48
■ West Middle School 123 W. Orchard Ave. Precincts 28, 40, 41, 42, 43
■ Redlands Middle School 2200 Broadway, Grand Junction 81507 Precincts 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
■ Fruita Monument High School 1102 Wildcat Ave. Precincts 1, 3, 4, 8, 29, 31
■ Fruita Middle School 239 N. Maple St. Precincts 2, 5, 6, 7 ■ Gateway School 42575 Colorado Highway 141 Precinct 11
■ Whitewater Lands End Fire Station Precinct 12
■ Plateau Valley School 56600 Colorado Highway 330 Precinct 18
■ Mesa Community Center 48973 KE Road Precinct 16
■ De Beque High School 730 Minter Ave. Precinct 19
See post 213.
And that was printed in the newspaper when?
Or is an online article all they did, contrary to law?
Of course, even if it was printed, someone violated the law as you presented it by not posting it on that web site you came up with.
Oh, and I don’t like it when sodomites make advances on me, so keep your endearments.
Oy.
Did they vote for a CANDIDATE ?
No ?
“Myth” survives.
Looks like Cruz worked with the CO RNC to disenfranchise Trump voters.
They tweeted, We Did It, #NeverTrump,
It is obvious that the Voterless CO distribution of delegates was secretly coordinated between the Cruz campaign and the local CO RNC operatives, some of who are actual sitting State Reps and Senators who voted against CO citizens right to vote in the Primary and inducted themselves in as pro-Cruz friendly delegates.
You have to know there is documented evidence that the Cruz campaign and/or RNC conspired to keep pro Trump voters from voting in the CO primary. Emails and/or documents likely show the disenfranchisement of voters. Most likely this was initially thought up for Jeb Bush. Then Bush left the race, Jeb Bush’s brother joins the Cruz campaign, tells him of their bright idea to steal delegates, which was initially in place for Jeb to stop Trump, but now they were willing to share the playbook with Cruz.
The minute Jeb Bush’s brother joined the Cruz campaign, was the minute Cruz started stealing delegate votes because Jeb Bush’s brother, Neil Bush, gave Cruz the playbook on how to steal delegates.
What both the Bush and Cruz teams failed to understand is that in today’s 24/7 news cycle and social media, people are capable and willing to expose the corrupt politicians who are trying to prevent primary elections. That Trump supporter in CO who was suppose to be a delegate posted his video which went viral on the same Saturday of the voterless CO delegate sneak. Everyone started to connect the dots. Cruz then doubled down and replayed his CO strategy in states Trump had already won like MO, AZ, GA and LA. Voters and even the media was horrified that someone, i.e. a losing candidate, would be so brazen and tone deaf to not know how corrupt they would be viewed by everyone. If there is one thing in America we are proud of, it is our right to vote.
Cruz thought he was the benefactor of the Bush “how to steal delegates” playbook given to him by Neil Bush, but must now see how average Americans from all walks of life are horrified that a Senator from Texas would brag about disenfranchising citizens from Colorado and other states that Trump has already won. It’s almost like Cruz is getting played by the Bush team to be his own worst enemy.
Sodomites?
Yes, rules are rules. You gotta play by the rules.
But most rank-and-file voters have never known what those rules are. They are too busy going to work, raising kids, paying taxes, and just generally not being parasites. They’ve never had time to research the intricacies of these so-called rules.
But the unique circumstances of this year’s primary season — on both sides — have necessarily brought these rules to light. And the voters are now learning how these rules work. And, boy, are the voters pissed!!!
No matter who ultimately wins in November, I suspect a lot of these rules are going to be changed. The voters will insist.
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