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.”
Real Republican. Don’t kid yourself into thinking that this scummy rule-breaking and underhanded back-stabbing by the Missouri Republican party is in any way noble. The only people being dishonest are the Republican party apparatchiks. They are showing themselves to be the crooks they are to everyone who is willing to see.
TSquare Wrote:
“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?”
Comment by tsquare — May 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Judging by your previous comments and knowing you are a neo-con (aka Communist), this is probably pointless, but:
1. No one claimed that a “same group” falsified both the votes and the reasons for an illegal pre-emtive invasion of Iraq to make money. That is a strawman fallacy.
2. It doesn’t take a huge effort to alter vote counts, all it takes is very little knowledge of computer systems. If we actually counted votes by hand - then you would have to “falsify” a ballot, but electronically the term “falsify” is mute. That is a fallacy of documentation.
3. No one needed to have “a ‘few’ piles of WMDs buried in the sand” - Congress had already given up their responsibility and negated their oath of office, so the war was going to happen no matter what. Finding a few WMD’s wouldn’t have changed the public outcome in the least and will not change the pre-planned occupation and permanent stationing of my military brothers and sisters for decades.
4. NO - it’s not funny.
In Liberty
Perhaps this country needs a real viable thrid party to keep the Republican and Democratic parties open honest and bought off by special interests and Backup up by Power Trips on the Supreme Court, Judicial System and MEDIA and Foreign Money.
I’d vote for Ron Paul if he had a chance of winning. Unfortunately, he has no chance of winning, so I am not going to vote. We are given a chioce between three traitorous criminals to vote for, Clinton, McCain, and Obama, with everyone I confront telling me to vote on Election day for the “lesser of two evils”.
What they fail to realize is that the lesser of two evils is still EVIL.
McCain looks sick and tired to me, like he’s been stuffed full of embalming fluid. On top of that he appears to have some kind of unsightly growth issues on one side of his face. This guy is not a good thing to see out a full term. Who needs an angry dying man with his finger on the Nookular trigger?
Unless Americans have somehow gone collectively insane you must support Ron Paul. He’s the only decent candidate who will put America first. America awake!
I am quite upset with the disruptions caused by the Ron Paul supporters at both county caucus and congressional district caucus. I fully support prox 80% of what the Ron Paul Group wanted
to be in the Mo. Platform. The rest of their desires only served to creat dissention in the party.
I was glad the Ron Paul Group stayed active up to and incl. the county caucus, as I felt the
MOGOP would be influenced by their desires. I then felt they would have made an impact,
and it would be time to get onwith electing John McCain, who will be the Republican Candidate.
Since the result of their disruptive tactics prevented County Caucus’s to be able to adequately discuss and VOTE on the platform, I felt disenfranchised. Then came the Congressional District caucus’s, many of which were so disrupted that voting on the Platform just simply did not happen, and the platform issues were referred to the State Convention with “no recommendation” Again- those grassroot people who attended caucus and wanted to make a difference were left out because of the disruptions.. My Time, and the time of many attendees were was wasted because of the disruptions. Discussions with several of the Ron Paul people showed they were NOT true Republicans, and some had obviously lied about their Political Affiliation to get into the Republican Caucus System. Since the Mo. Primary had passed, and John McCain won, they should have either supported him, or just went home and voted for the Democratic Candidate. Their action has created unjustified dissention to the Republican party.
If we wind up with a democratic President, we all will suffer, and look where our Suprems Court will head, with at least one, maybe two appointments to be made in the next 4 years.
The continued disruptions will only alienate them totally from sensible conservatives.
They remind me of Move On.Org!
The more news I hear about all the dirty trick that are being played out in these delegate meetings all over the nation, and the more news I hear about how the GOP and TC are afraid of what RP is doing, the more I know we are winning. And they know we are too. Why else would they be afraid?
I say keep up the GREAT work, keep fighting the good fight of faith that we can win this, and let’s see where the dust settles at the GOP convention in September. It’s important to walk by faith and not by sight in this situation, to not let the circumstances that confront us daily prevent us from doing what we know to be the right thing to do. If Jefferson and Adams had allowed the circumstances surrounding them in 1776 to overwhelm them, we wouldn’t have a Constitution, a free nation, and a nation of laws that allow us to fight for what we believe in.
We just have to continue to FIGHT!!! No matter the cost. Just like anything else, they too will eventually give up and let us through. It’s the chaos principle, it’s proven, and it works.
I forgot to say…
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008!!!!!! ALL THE WAY!!!
If you go to a party that says it’s a public party and all are welcome, and when you get in it’s hosted by the Klu Klux Klan, do you try to restore the party back to an ethnically diverse party? Or do you just leave and start your own or go to another one.
I agree with most of what Ron Paul says(minus securing the border nonsense) but the simple fact is he’s on an idealistic fools quest to save the party rather then forming a new one.
Hey Bernie,
Do sensible Republicans vote for an unconstitutional war? How about the unconstitutional act of taking away our right of Habeus Corpus through the Patriot act, or allowing amnesty for 20+ million criminal illegal aliens in the United States, or catering to hate groups like La Raza and MECHA? Do sensible Republicans agree to let Osama Bin Laden hide out while we mass kill innocent men, women and children in Iraq and blame it on AlQuida when they were never in Iraq? Or do sensible Republicans allow and support our current administration to secretly plot to give America’s sovereignty and destroy our Constitution in the give away of all our rights to the north American union? Your so-called candidate, John McCain, thinks all these things are good things to do to America. You sensible Republicans scare the hell out of me.
This is John McCain, the person you sensible Republicans are supporting. We have EVERY right to disrupt the delegate conventions and to exercise OUR rights as U.S. citizens in this process. Who made you the God of the GOP or the God corrupter of our Constitution to decide who is disinfranchised or not?
WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE THERE AND DO WHAT WE’RE DOING ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION AND REPUBLICAN CONVENTION PARTY RULES. READ THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GOP RULES BOOK.
The Republican nominee, regardless of how many delegates he has from the primaries, is not chosen until the GOP convention in Sept. Abraham Lincoln did not win the beauty vote or the delegate count when he ran for president, going through the primaries. Going into the GOP convention in Sept, he had less than half the delegates the so called chosen candidate had. He became the Republican nominee after five round of voting by the delegates and legally won the nomination over the “beauty chosen candidate”.
You have forgotten what being a Republican is all about, and are corrupting the process by DISENFRANCHISING Ron Paul’s supporters who are fighting for the life of this nation.
Take a good look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, “Can we as a nation take one more year of another president who thinks, acts or votes like George Bush, because McCain, Obama, and Clinton all have the same destroy America ideolgy as Bush, and have never represented what America REALLY stands for…our Constitution.
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008