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$$$ & Power: “...subtle rules changes to empower primaries at the expense of convention delegates....” Curly wants the delegates to hold 100% power and not the caucus goers/voters, especially the primary voters.

Curly wants convention delegates to be have no loyalty to a candidate and no obligation to the voters. Haughland is consumed with himself. Here is one of Curly’s ‘outrage’ letters to the other RNC delegates over ‘binding’ the delegates 2014:

May 8, 2014 email received from
Curly Haugland, National Committeeman for North Dakota

Dear RNC Member:

Re: Binding Added to Rules by Fraud

The Binding Discussion has recently led to the shocking discovery that the word “binding” was added to the Rules of the Republican Party through deliberate acts of fraud and deceit.

Shocking, to say the least!

A page by page review of all of the proceedings since the 2004 National Convention, which led to the adoption of a rules change to add the words “select, allocate and bind” to what was then Rule 15, “Election of Delegates and Alternate Delegates”, reveals that, in fact, there was virtually NO discussion of the impact that adding these words to the Rules of the Republican Party would have on the presidential nomination process......

“Binding” delegates to the results of primary elections is the only way primary proponents can preserve the “value” of primaries and justify the huge amounts of money invested in attempts to “win” primaries. This primary money has a large constituency of big money donors and campaign consultants that have become dependent on primaries as a way to exert undue influence, in the case of donors; and accrue tremendous wealth, in the case of campaign consultants. Members of the RNC who are also members of the National Presidential Caucus have been directly involved in subtle rules changes to empower primaries at the expense of convention delegates.

National Presidential Caucus Participants

G. “Binding” delegates was, and is, in direct conflict with Rules 37 and 38 which prohibit binding. According to Robert’s Rules of Order, a motion which conflicts with an existing rule is an improper motion, and is null and void.

Thus, a major fraud was perpetrated on the Republican National Committee, and subsequently, on the entire Republican National Conventions of 2008 and 2012.

http://www.p2016.org/parties/rncbinding.html

Had Colorado and Wyoming voters been allowed hold elections, the GOP vote in both states would have set records, bringing previously unseen-and-unheard-of thousands of previously registered Independents, Libertarians, Democrats and huge swarms who never even voted before.

Trump is doing that everywhere.

By not holding elections, those states kept the GOP bereft of that Trumped-up benevolence. Pretty stupid crap when you look at it in those terms, but then again, this is the GOP that gave us "The Human Penholder" Bob Dole, Commie Johnny McCain, and Mitt "The Mormon" Romney the last three time at bat.

In baseball, they'd be warming the pine after three stunts like that. Yer OUT!

Wasn’t there something recently about the GOP conventions switching from the rules of order used in the US Senate to Robert’s Rules of Order?

If so, it sounds from your blurb like they would automatically unbind all delegates.