RP Delegate Ruckus - Aimin' to misbehave

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UPDATED: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 23:23
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SERGEANTX

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:56 PM

Looks like my old homies in Mizzou have been busy.

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/10514

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Ron Paul supporters control Republican county conventions

UPDATE, 10:45: A Ron Paul volunteer and organizer in Kansas City confirms that the Jackson County Republican caucus elected a nearly-complete slate of Paul delegates at its convention Saturday.

Larry Holland says the caucus elected more than 170 Paul delegates out of an estimated 187 available. Those delegates will eventually, directly and indirectly, pick delegates to the Republican National Convention.

"We all know that on the first ballot, we have to vote for McCain," Holland said, but "we can also help affect the Republican platform, and bring it back to its conservative, libertarian values."

Holland also says Jackson County Republican chairman Bunk Farrington walked out of the session, held at William Chrisman High School. We've got a call in to him.

Ron Paul supporters packed caucuses in other counties, with mixed results.

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Details are sketchy, but we're told supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took over party conventions in several Missouri counties Saturday, including Jackson County, electing Ron Paul slates in several of them.

Delegates elected at the county level will attend congressional district conventions in several weeks, where roughly half of the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention will be picked.

The rest will be picked at the party's state convention in late May and early June, again by delegates picked by the county convention attendees.

As a practical matter, though, electing Paul delegates -- even at the state convention, planned for late May and early June -- won't change the presidential nomination picture. Missouri is a winner-take-all state for the GOP and delegates are bound to vote for John McCain on the first ballot. There won't be a second.

But Paul delegates could influence platform discussions at the state level, and, if sent to the national convention, could saddle McCain with a platform he won't be happy with.

We're told the Jackson County convention was a bit raucous. We're gathering info and will have more here later.
Submitted by Dave Helling on March 17, 2008 - 9:57am.
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Saturday in Jackson County Republican caucus wonderland
Submitted by Hickman Mills view on March 17, 2008 - 11:30am.

Allocation of all Missouri Republican delegates to the national convention was determined by John McCain's first place finish at the polls March 3rd in a tight Super Tuesday contest between McCain, Huckaby, and Romney where Ron Paul "also ran".

Under Missouri Republican Party rules a series of ministerial meetings are held at the county level to formally identify slates of specific names for those who will pay their own way, first to nine congressional district meetings around the state and then the state convention in Branson, to select the actual McCain committed delegates that will go on to Minnesota. The meetings also provide some trickle up input into the the State Committee's pre-written party platform planks.

Into this business like atmosphere that normally only attracts a handful of active party regulars, which in Jackson County at William Chrisman High School this past Saturday numbered less than a hundred, flowed about 135 Ron Paul supporters with an apparent misapprehension that who Missouri delegates must vote for in Minnesota is an open question. One or two appeared to be dressed as patriotic leprechauns.

Initially Ron Paul organizers worked with conciliatory long time Republican County Chairman and eminent Independence attorney Bunk Farrington to compose a unity slate list of delegates, dominated by Ron Paul supporters but including some party regulars, to next the stage state and congressional district meetings which actually select national delegates. Three less inflamatory Ron Paul resolutions were were culled from a nine page li

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ANTIMASON

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:27 PM

thats great news... this is a good sign that there is a constitutional revolution going on; now if we could only get the media to acknowledge it, and jump on board, we'd be in business. considering Ron has the ONLY solutions for the economy and falling dollar, its time the joe-shmo- boot lickers wake up and get behind the right guy

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:23 PM

Poor bastards, so used to functioning with complete autonomy in the face of voter apathy that when folks DO wanna involve themselves, and cursed well mean to do exactly that, they don't know how to handle it.

Anyone show up with a can of tar in one hand and a clear plastic bag of feathers in the other ?

I'd likely do something like that just as a pointed reminder of who's REALLY supposed to be in charge of this country.

-F