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Message #114472 posted by dana west (Info) May 10, 2008 01:12:19 ET
NV GOP Sabotages Ron Paul Delegate Vote
By Joel Skousen
World Affairs Brief
5-3-8
The Republican Party has a real problem with Ron Paul. He just won't
go away quietly. He is still a candidate for President. He hasn't
conceded or dropped out--despite media wishful thinking. Best of all,
he refuses to endorse front runner John McCain, the worst
warmongering candidate of the entire Republican field. Frankly, Dr.
Paul both scares and embarrasses the Republican leadership. They are
afraid that if he gets any momentum or significant number of
delegates to the convention they will have to let him make a major
add ress on prime time TV and thus more converts.
Dr. Paul is certainly capable of making converts. He takes all the
traditional positions the Republican Party was built upon and that
core Republican voters love: small and limited federal government,
low regulation, non-aggressive foreign policy, honest money,
anti-abortion, and pro-family values. The Republican National
Committee wants him to go away so they can get on with the promotion
of Sen. John McCain-a totally dishonest and corrupt insider,
according to his own son--and continue the hidden globalist agenda
which now rules the Party at the highest levels.
This week in the Nevada GOP convention, the party leadership shut
down the convention when it became obvious that Ron Paul supporters
outnumbered those loyal to party leaders who wanted to elect only
McCain delegates to the national convention--even though Romney won
the primary and Paul came in second, above McCain. It's as if they
are saying, "If we don't like the results of the vote, we'll adjourn
till we can muster enough of our people to outnumber you!"
Here's the best account of what happened by C. Bunce of the Daily
Paul online newsletter. It is specific enough to show my readers just
how evil this really was and who did it [edited for clarity].
"On Saturday April 26th , 2008, in Reno Nevada, the Republican State
convention came to order with a set agenda and rigged rules to
basically give complete control of the Delegate pro cess to the party.
The original rules would have only allowed for a set list of people
that could be chosen as a whole to represent the state. This slate
was created by a small group of people and were never published, and
even as we began the convention were not known.
"This was the first attempt to keep complete control of the delegate
selection process. After three hours of [debate], the convention
modified the delegate selection process to allow anyone to run for a
national de legate position. Three would be chosen from each of the
three Congressional District and twenty-two from the entire body by
each person voting for twenty-two people.
"It was lunch at that point in time, giving two hours for the next
play to be planned. Upon reconvening from lunch at 2:27pm, [the
party] wasted no time in unfurling a new plan, which was to not vote
for twenty-two people at large (that would take far to much time),
but instead vote for only five. Anybody with an eighth grade math
understanding would know this was intended to cut our voting by four.
This just rejected by the convention getting with a 75% rejection
vote.
"At this time we split into three districts and began to vote on
delegates, this only took about an hour and went rather smoothly in
district three and one. District two was continually delayed because
of a dispute of whether a printed ballot was acceptable or a
handwritten one... After this we came back and began to debate planks
on the floor.
"From our previous count from observers in the rooms of Congressional
District's 1 and 3, Paul Supporters had won all three delegates spots
in District 3 and one Paul supporter in District 1. The counts of
these districts took about 30 minutes after voting was completed. The
2nd District was taking very long to complete and no one could
understand the delay of more then an hour. Information from observers
within its count room relayed that Paul supporters had swept its
three delegates as well. This meant that Paul Supporters took 7 out
of 9 possible Congressional District delegates to the National
Convention.
"The person walking from the counting room made a straight line to
State Chairwoman Sue Lowd en, leaning over and whispering into her
ear. After the person walked off Sue sat there for about 30 seconds
tapping her foot and then stood up and walked over to Councilman
Woodbury who was sitting in front of me, leaning over she said, 'If
we can break Quorum, can we invalidate this?' After saying this
rather loudly and glancing at the expression on my face she quickly
quieted down and I was unable to hear the rest of the conversation.
"I figured out what would constitute a quorum in this convention of
1347 delegates--674 delegates. Soon after Chairwoman Lowden left, a
John McCain staffer, Paul Johnson, came by. I had been gathering
signs and information from him all day, and he believed I was a
hardcore McCain supporter... He began his conversation with, 'They
[presumably the Ron Paul supporters] are trying to pull a coup, we
are going to leave and quarter the convention.' I responded, 'Do we
even have the numbers, all they need is a couple hundred to keep
Quorum?' He answered back, 'The powers that be [NOTE: the insiders
know the term and use it] have the numbers, I am just doing what I
was told to do by my boss.' At this moment I knew that they had lost
control of the convention and were desperat e.
"I watched the party officers directly in front of me huddling up
with the parliamentarian and trying to come up with something. Soon
after this huddle, the party began to filibuster the convention
[purposely taking up time] filling it wit h videos and speakers over a
course of 60 minutes. During this time Sue Lowden began barking at
Chairman Bob Beers, and I could clearly see Chairman Beers not
agreeing with what she was telling him. First it was just her talking
to him, but by the fourth time he stepped off the stage, eight people
were surrounding him and pressuring him, which I can only assume was
to end the convention, since that is what happened next.
"When he returned to the stage for the last time, Chairman Beer s
ended the convention illegally calling an indefinite recess without a
vote of the delegation to do so, at 6 pm. This was not before their
first plan of ending the convention was attempted to be put into play
by a member that was not informed calling for a Quorum which we would
still have had. But Beers interrupted him saying, 'I will save you
some time', and called the indefinite recess. Later it was claimed to
be the end of the contract of the room. But upon request from the
Hot el they gladly gave us three more hours for free.
"After five seconds of pure silence, disbelief, and confusion, a once
consistently civil and controlled convention was thrown into ten
minutes of anarchy, while the party [leaders] vacated the ro om out
the back doors. Bob Bears attempted to speak with an angry mob with
little to no avail before leaving. After this occurred we attempted
to reconvene the meeting but fell 70 people short of a quorum." Too
bad.
What was done in Nevada is merely a prelude to what will happen at
the national convention in Minneapolis MN on September 1-4. National
GOP leaders will attempt to marginalize Dr. Paul since he "can't
win." They may even try to avoid a vote and proclaim McCain the
c andidate by acclamation. That means dedicating the entire convention
to McCain and his potential Vice Presidents ignoring Paul's
challenge. I spoke with Ron about the convention and he feels
confident they will treat him fairly. He says the GOP n ational
chairman Mike Duncan was very friendly to him on the phone. I think
that's all a ploy to disarm the good doctor. I think we will see Dr.
Paul completely sidelined at the convention. Even the RNC website
speaks only about building the t eam necessary to see John McCain
elected president. They act as if there will be no contest at the
convention.
In light of these developments, not at all unexpected, I'm going to
recommend that all Ron Paul supporters continue to seek to beco me
delegates to the GOP convention and to be prepared to embarrass the
party if it continues to deny Dr. Paul a voice. That said, we must
also be prepared to fight on under a third party banner after the
Republicans reject Dr. Paul. Under no circumstances should
constitutional conservatives vote for John McCain as the "lesser of
two evils." There is no such thing anymore among the major party
candidates.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution
permitted.
Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief
( http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com )
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