Mo GOP targeting 300 pro-Ron Paul at Monday ‘credentials meeting’
According to an email from some Missouri supporters of Ron Paul, sent late Sunday night, the state Republican Party has scheduled a special “credentials meeting” for 10 a.m. Monday at the Blue Armory in Jefferson City.
At the meeting, according to the email, about 300 of the 1,900 elected delegates to the state GOP convention May 30-June 1 must disprove allegations that — presumably — accuse the targeted delegates of not being bona fide Republicans and/or not committed to supporting John McCain for president.
“The state Central Committee spent approximately $1,000 on certified mailings that do not even state the allegations,” said the email sent from one challenged delegate. “A small group of insiders in the Missouri Republican Party are attempting to prevent delegates, properly elected at their county caucuses, from attending the state Convention in Branson…
“Although many have repeatedly attempted to find out the basis of the challenges, these 300-plus delegates have been left in the dark and forced to travel great distances, some well over 100 miles, to finally learn the charges against them. Challenged delegates will be limited to a mere five minutes to respond to the charges with no time to prepare.”
Those challenged include “current Republican Committee members, members of the Missouri Republican Assembly, current Republican candidates, and attendees of previous conventions, with the only common factor being that they voted for Republican Congressman Ron Paul during the primary.”
Here’s a few examples cited in the email:
–Laura Mize: “As a 78-year-old long-time Republican voter and the daughter of a lifetime staunch Republican from Southeast Missouri, I voted for the only man that represents the principles of the Republican Party as taught by my father and now they want to throw me away like an old newspaper. Well, they have started a fire instead! I’m so angry, I will show up even if I have to be carried on a stretcher!”
– Eric Vought, Republican Committeeman from Springfield: “Having just worked to sell tickets for one fundraiser and putting together a donation for their silent auction, it disturbs me that they are spending $3.60 per certified letter, times a few hundred delegates to challenge all of these people. Why should I bother raising money for them if this is how they choose to spend it?”
– Tom Klein of St. Louis County: “I thought we were the ‘party of the open door’ as resolved in the National Party Rules. Well, now that door is being slammed in my face! I know the vast majority of us Republicans are very good people but you know what they say… All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
The Paul supporters assert that similar actions are happening elsewhere.
“Across the nation, including Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas, the time and location of conventions have been changed at the last minute and party insiders have attempted to sneak in ‘delegates’ to inflate their numbers who were never elected at their local caucuses.“
“Others have walked out with crucial documents belonging to the convention, convention Chairmen have run roughshod over the rules of order by refusing to recognize delegates not from their faction, and some have simply walked out shutting off the lights to the convention hall as they did in Nevada.”
“Because of growing concern over honesty and integrity in government, a new group is being founded, Statesmen for our Constitutional Republic, to educate voters about the inner workings of our political mechanisms, encourage and teach people to be active leaders in our government, the Republican Party, and, especially, our communities. …”
A co-founder of the group, Curtis Abbott of Springfield, Mo., says, “”It is a sad day when much of the public believes that their involvement no longer matters because ‘the insiders’ have already decided who is going to win and those most involved suppress their own conscience to support the lesser of two evils. “We are setting up monthly caucuses where the real issues will be discussed, we are going to the high schools and colleges to raise up the next generation of Statesmen, and we are pledging ourselves to high ideals of principle, conduct, and courage. What we do matters greatly; how we do it matters every bit as much. We mustn’t merely know what is right: we must have the courage to do it.”
Tsquare (post #19):
You’ve bought into the fallacy that there are only 3 candidates remaining.
As much as you’d like to think so, it ain’t true.
McCain may have more ‘pledged’ delegates, but that doesn’t mean that all of them will vote for him on the first ballot, especially if they have strong reservations about him. Some may choose to abstain from voting for the first ballot– because they are then free to vote their conscience at the second, third and fourth ballots (if necessary).
That is what Paul’s strategy is– to be present at the convention and make his case as to why he’ll be able to garner the conservative vote. His conservative credentials are MUCH stronger than McCain’s.
The GOP is so infested with ex-democrats (neo-cons), only it’s demise can reverse it back to its original platform. This is obvious from this election season. Juan McWar is the Bob Dole of 08 - lets do something about it when we still have a chance - get behind Ron Paul and the r3VOLutions.
Joshua, sure they have a way of telling who I support, simply look at the open donation records and see who I contributed money to. Granted not everyone is a donor, but thanks to campaign finance reform, we have given the government power over political speech. Too bad McCain has been willing to break most all campaign finance laws that he felt were so important to this country.
The “election” has already been stolen for John McCain. The electronic vote-stealing, used in all states but mine (NY), will see to that. All — and everything — you see going on now in the media and in these “Republican” (NeoCons) nominating committees, etc., is to provide the APPEARANCE that McCain has overcome the impossible hurdles the bush regime crime-spree has put in his way and justify his “win” on “election” day. Same with the keeping of Clinton in the race with the vote-stealing machines in the primaries. Same with the buying off of the “polling” companies.
Beware: the take-over began with the Supreme Court in 2000, and it is nearly complete right now. It won’t be pretty if these vermin are allowed to succeed. Think about what you can do to avert it.
Support, for example, Hand Counted Paper Ballots for the November “election.”
I’m going to join the Constitution Party.
Maybe I’m throwing my vote away but at least I didn’t vote for McCain.
The entrenched beltway folks are fearful of both Ron Paul and Barack Obama. Both of which have a keen understanding of the US Constitution. If either one is elected president, they’re gonna need a lot of protection. Powerful people who have benfitted from the lawlessness and corruption in our government aren’t going to take too kindly to their diminished influence in government affairs.
My prayers go out to the both of them, because both of them know exactly how dangerous it will be for them in returning America to We The People.
So, ok…
The GOP (or someone… ‘neo-cons’?) has the capability to falsify tens of millions of votes across 40 or more states to get ‘their man’ the nomination.
And yet this same group (whoever they are) can’t get a ‘few’ piles of WMDs buried in the sand… knowing as they did, that they were not already there.
Hmmmm…. funny huh?
You’d think so wouldn’t you?
But the votes of the little people do count…and Missouri elected John McCain in the Presidential Preference primary. It is the vote of the people that the party is trying to protect not the followers of a candidate who couldn’t garner 5% of the vote. It is funny how the losers always yell about voter fraud when their candidate doesn’t win.
I’m a conservative, have always been, and will always be. But there is no way I’m going to support McCain.
McCain is not a conservative, he is an anti-freedom pro-senseless-war tyrant, just like Mr. Bush whom I still regret supporting in 2000 (but not in 2004, 1 term was more than enough!).
A vote for McCain is a vote for eternal war, and for the draft, given nobody will be volunteering anymore with more and more wars without any reason coming up.
McCain and Clinton have both pledged to “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb” (McCain) or “obliterate” (Clinton) Iran, certainly not the way to go.
I’m disgusted with all the candidates, but given 2 of them are clearly pure evil, I’m not going to leave it up to the same morons who gave Bush a second term. As compelling as a third party sounds, I’ve decided to try and help make sure those two criminals don’t get any say.
I disagree with Obama about a great many things, but he is so clearly the lesser of three evils (he might not nuke Iran, he wants to restore the constitution) that all other issues just disappear into unimportance.
Let’s put in Obama to fix the really bad things for the next 4 years, and in 4 years (when the Republicans have hopefully come to senses and eliminated the Neocon faction), let’s put someone good like Ron Paul into the office to fix the rest.
Generally voted republican for last 20 years. This time I’ll vote against McCain.