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Post by duke on Aug 29, 2012 8:23:51 GMT -5
Maine Ron Paul delegates last holdouts for convention seating Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2012 The delegates fought back against the national committee, and on August 15, the committee acknowledged that there were no grounds for refusing to seat the Paul delegates. However, under pressure from the Romney campaign, the RNC informed the delegation that they wanted a united front for the presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney. And so negotiations began. Some of the Paul delegates will be seated from Louisiana, which had two separate state conventions. The Texas congressman will get 17 of the Louisiana's 46 delegates in the compromise, said Charlie Davis, who served as Paul's campaign chairman in Louisiana. The rest of the state's delegates are expected to support Mitt Romney, the party's presumptive nominee. Supporters for Paul and Romney also have disputes over delegates in Massachusetts and Maine. Jesse Benton, Paul's chief campaign strategist, said Paul's supporters were close to reaching an agreement on divvying up the delegates from Massachusetts. www.newmainetimes.org/articles/2012/08/21/maine-ron-paul-delegates-last-holdouts-convention-seating/
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Post by duke on Aug 29, 2012 8:25:47 GMT -5
Yet another reason not to vote Republican Freespace|Timothy Sandefur The Republican Party has refused to seat the delegates that Maine Republicans elected, [see above ] choosing instead a panel of substitutes from other states. That's because Maine's delegates support Ron Paul. Now, I'm hardly a Paul fan, but this move by the party is yet another example of the disgusting way in which the GOP elite are determined to force Tea Party members to get in their yokes and mush for this year's Anointed Moderate. It's not like Romney needs the votes--he has plenty even with the Maine delegates voting against him. But the leadership knows that none of the actual voters in the Republican Party support Mitt Romney, and that for all his many faults, Ron Paul's support is genuine, grass-roots enthusiasm by voters fed up at the status quo Duopoly. And the GOP's mission to purge the party of the Goldwater/Reagan spirit demands that Paul's supporters be silenced as much as possible. Paul deserves to be defeated--on the merits, not through procedural shenanigans by a party leadership devoted to Winning At All Costs, and which long ago paid the most important cost: its principles. I say, if we're going to have More of The Same, let's really have more of the same, without what a great Republican once called "the base alloy of hypocrisy." feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/TRIV/~3/ULrJznB7bP0/yet-another-reason-not-to-vote-republican.html
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