Alaska Republican Convention Report

[paecontrol]

delegates

We indeed walked away with 5 delegates and 5 alternates that were hand-picked by the "Ron Paul Republicans", confirmed by the Nominations committee, and voted on by the Party as a whole, to represent Alaska at the National Convention. These delegates are bound to vote for Ron Paul in the initial ballot at the National Convention.

Alaska is NOT a winner-take-all state.

I will say that in general, our fellow Republicans at the State Convention treated us VERY fairly and with respect; I know I was definitely made to feel welcome. It was a very educational and rewarding experience that I hope others get the opportunity to take part in.

 

[N13]

Great thread.

 

[runderwo]

Well, that's good to know! And McCain lost AK in a big way, so now you just need to work on getting the rest of those delegates on board. One or the other, Romney or Huck will fully withdraw and run for VP. I don't think every Romney supporter will be happy with a VP to McCain. None of the Romney supporters here could stand McCain because they know his history.

 

[LEK]

Unfortunately, both the Romney and Huckabee campaigns sent letters to the convention explaining that their campaign "suspensions" were intended to reserve delegates rather than release them.

This is legal?

And THANKS!!!!!!!

 

[Give me liberty]

So now we have good news from alaska and Kas city Mo

and i wonder how many delegates does ron paul now have?

 

[therealjjj77]

Iowa had it's county conventions a week ago last Saturday. We had outstanding results as well. Congressional district 1 has 48 identified Ron Paul supporting delegates going to the district convention. We do realize that to grab the national delegate and alternate delegate spots, as well as the rules committee and platform committee spot, will require that we do a little campaigning. Such as calling the other delegates who aren't RP supporters and asking them to vote for us. Also, mailing out a brochure with our picture, name, biography and where we stand on the issues to the other delegates(worded within a conservative frame).

Each state is allowed 2 people(one male, one female) for each committee. The important ones are the platform committee and the rules committee.

The rules committee will write the rules for the Republican National Convention which will be presented and voted on to accept them.

The platform committee will write the platform for the Republican National Convention and this will be voted on by the delegates there.

The rule that I would like to see added is one that defines majority as 66% of the delegates present:

RULE NO. 40
Nominations
(e)"Majority" when used in RULE NO. 40 shall be defined as 66% of the votes of the delegates present.

I will need 4 Ron Paul supporters(2 male and 2 female) from each state committed to campaigning for these spots. One male and one female from your state for the rules committee and one male and one female from your state for the platform committee. It will require a significant amount of time as writing the platform and rules is no small task. You will also need to be a delegate to the national convention.

Now is the time to organize to acheive victory in September. We don't have much time left for our country to it's change course. We must take full advantage of the opportunity we have set before us.

 

[A Ron Paul Rebel]

Iowa had it's county conventions a week ago last Saturday. We had outstanding results as well. Congressional district 1 has 48 identified Ron Paul supporting delegates going to the district convention. We do realize that to grab the national delegate and alternate delegate spots, as well as the rules committee and platform committee spot, will require that we do a little campaigning. Such as calling the other delegates who aren't RP supporters and asking them to vote for us. Also, mailing out a brochure with our picture, name, biography and where we stand on the issues to the other delegates(worded within a conservative frame).

Each state is allowed 2 people(one male, one female) for each committee. The important ones are the platform committee and the rules committee.

The rules committee will write the rules for the Republican National Convention which will be presented and voted on to accept them.

The platform committee will write the platform for the Republican National Convention and this will be voted on by the delegates there.

The rule that I would like to see added is one that defines majority as 66% of the delegates present:

RULE NO. 40
Nominations
(e)"Majority" when used in RULE NO. 40 shall be defined as 66% of the votes of the delegates present.

I will need 4 Ron Paul supporters(2 male and 2 female) from each state committed to campaigning for these spots. One male and one female from your state for the rules committee and one male and one female from your state for the platform committee. It will require a significant amount of time as writing the platform and rules is no small task. You will also need to be a delegate to the national convention.

Now is the time to organize to acheive victory in September. We don't have much time left for our country to it's change course. We must take full advantage of the opportunity we have set before us.

Bump for reading that strategy again!
Still sinking in.

 

[UK4Paul]

Way to go, Alaska.

 

[jblosser]

While I love the work you guys have done and you have been an inspiration to the rest of us out here, I can't claim to think your deal regarding the national delegation was a good thing. I'm hestitating to post this because I am not interested in splintering and I don't want to be a backseat driver, but other states are yet to go and we need to learn from each other.

Resolutions and platform changes and speeches are not going to fix our current problem. The delegation is what matters. Their strategy is to winnow us down at each step along the way, until all we have left are a few resolutions they can ignore just like the other ones they have been ignoring for years. You saw it yourself with what happened to your war resolution.

That doesn't mean I don't think resolutions are valuable. I wrote most of the ones that have been used across Texas. But they are mostly useful in keeping people going and showing success and as a metric for how strong we are. When all our resolutions are passing, we are in the majority. When fewer pass or we have to make deals, we are losing the majority. And if we reach a point we can't pass our big ones no matter what, we are becoming marginalized.

Ron Paul has been speaking before Congress and America for 30 years. A speech at the RNC is not going to change anything. It's not going to turn the party around, it's not going to save the dollar, it's not going to save lives. We want him to speak there, sure, but because the delegation demands it, not because of resolutions that have as much chance of being ignored by the RNC as anything else right now.

If we want to fix things in the party the path lies through boots on the ground inside the convention in St. Paul, whether people think we can get the full nomination or not. To those that will argue that if you hadn't cut the deal you might have somehow lost all your progress and delegates -- fine. I have no problem saying this is all or nothing time. Incrementalism is what got us where we are and we do not have the time left to us to try to adopt a minority position and fight our way to the top across multiple cycles. If we don't make a strong stand now we will see our numbers only get weaker and more divided as we bring in the hangers on and lose our no-compromise high ground.

I guess the other argument and the one you're probably making is that it wasn't going to happen anyway so you at least got something out of them. I respect that but if they were willing to offer anything I think the fight was worth having. People are dying and it's only getting worse.

My .02, adjusted for inflation, worthless.

 

[speciallyblend]

don't sweat it

While I love the work you guys have done and you have been an inspiration to the rest of us out here, I can't claim to think your deal regarding the national delegation was a good thing. I'm hestitating to post this because I am not interested in splintering and I don't want to be a backseat driver, but other states are yet to go and we need to learn from each other.

Resolutions and platform changes and speeches are not going to fix our current problem. The delegation is what matters. Their strategy is to winnow us down at each step along the way, until all we have left are a few resolutions they can ignore just like the other ones they have been ignoring for years. You saw it yourself with what happened to your war resolution.

That doesn't mean I don't think resolutions are valuable. I wrote most of the ones that have been used across Texas. But they are mostly useful in keeping people going and showing success and as a metric for how strong we are. When all our resolutions are passing, we are in the majority. When fewer pass or we have to make deals, we are losing the majority. And if we reach a point we can't pass our big ones no matter what, we are becoming marginalized.

Ron Paul has been speaking before Congress and America for 30 years. A speech at the RNC is not going to change anything. It's not going to turn the party around, it's not going to save the dollar, it's not going to save lives. We want him to speak there, sure, but because the delegation demands it, not because of resolutions that have as much chance of being ignored by the RNC as anything else right now.

If we want to fix things in the party the path lies through boots on the ground inside the convention in St. Paul, whether people think we can get the full nomination or not. To those that will argue that if you hadn't cut the deal you might have somehow lost all your progress and delegates -- fine. I have no problem saying this is all or nothing time. Incrementalism is what got us where we are and we do not have the time left to us to try to adopt a minority position and fight our way to the top across multiple cycles. If we don't make a strong stand now we will see our numbers only get weaker and more divided as we bring in the hangers on and lose our no-compromise high ground.

I guess the other argument and the one you're probably making is that it wasn't going to happen anyway so you at least got something out of them. I respect that but if they were willing to offer anything I think the fight was worth having. People are dying and it's only getting worse.

My .02, adjusted for inflation, worthless.

the gop has 2 options ,Choose Ron Paul and win the general election or choose mccain and lose the election either option works for me

 

[itshappening]

thank you for this update, i enjoyed reading it, very inspiring !!!!

 

[Tdcci]

Unfortunately, both the Romney and Huckabee campaigns sent letters to the convention explaining that their campaign "suspensions" were intended to reserve delegates rather than release them.

This is legal?

And THANKS!!!!!!!

They did not drop out, they were just not going to campaign any longer. If John McCain has a heart attack, Mitt Romney would step up and take the nomination.

 

[Broadlighter]

Thanks for the Report. That was awesome!

 

[Xenophage]

While I love the work you guys have done and you have been an inspiration to the rest of us out here, I can't claim to think your deal regarding the national delegation was a good thing. I'm hestitating to post this because I am not interested in splintering and I don't want to be a backseat driver, but other states are yet to go and we need to learn from each other.

Resolutions and platform changes and speeches are not going to fix our current problem. The delegation is what matters. Their strategy is to winnow us down at each step along the way, until all we have left are a few resolutions they can ignore just like the other ones they have been ignoring for years. You saw it yourself with what happened to your war resolution.

That doesn't mean I don't think resolutions are valuable. I wrote most of the ones that have been used across Texas. But they are mostly useful in keeping people going and showing success and as a metric for how strong we are. When all our resolutions are passing, we are in the majority. When fewer pass or we have to make deals, we are losing the majority. And if we reach a point we can't pass our big ones no matter what, we are becoming marginalized.

Ron Paul has been speaking before Congress and America for 30 years. A speech at the RNC is not going to change anything. It's not going to turn the party around, it's not going to save the dollar, it's not going to save lives. We want him to speak there, sure, but because the delegation demands it, not because of resolutions that have as much chance of being ignored by the RNC as anything else right now.

If we want to fix things in the party the path lies through boots on the ground inside the convention in St. Paul, whether people think we can get the full nomination or not. To those that will argue that if you hadn't cut the deal you might have somehow lost all your progress and delegates -- fine. I have no problem saying this is all or nothing time. Incrementalism is what got us where we are and we do not have the time left to us to try to adopt a minority position and fight our way to the top across multiple cycles. If we don't make a strong stand now we will see our numbers only get weaker and more divided as we bring in the hangers on and lose our no-compromise high ground.

I guess the other argument and the one you're probably making is that it wasn't going to happen anyway so you at least got something out of them. I respect that but if they were willing to offer anything I think the fight was worth having. People are dying and it's only getting worse.

My .02, adjusted for inflation, worthless.

None of us were happy that we could not secure 14 delegates to national. Trust me when I say we approached this problem from every reasonable angle we could. There are probably different ways we could have approached things, but hindsight is 20/20, and we really worked hard to achieve every victory we did.

Unfortunately the Romney and Huckabee people at our convention, which comprised almost everyone who wasn't a Ron Paul supporter, were not willing to give up those delegates to us, no matter how much they disliked McCain. Since we were a minority, we could not win that fight. We tried on the rules committee, nominations committee, and central committee, and failed. A failure was guaranteed during the general assembly.

Some other people who were present might have a different perspective about what happened. Not everyone agreed on what to do all the time. I was not involved in any of the deal making that took place and I'm not privy to every piece of information, but I do know that the people we entrusted to lead us in this battle were philosophically strong, very intelligent, and extremely hard working. Everyone argued our various options and courses of action and a consensus was reached. We had good reasons for what we ended up doing.

I do hope that other states can succeed in getting more delegates to national than we did. I believe it will require taking the conventions over with a majority, or very close to a majority, of Ron Paul delegates.

 

[acroso]

Alaska

Missouri seems to be undergoing a semi-hostile take-over right now.

I don't think we should give any delegates to Romney, Huckabee, McCain if we ever take a majority at one of the state conventions.

 

[Paul Revered]

Great news! Thank you.

 

[PismoPam]

"Overall, we made a lot of good inroads in the local party, made some great changes, established ourselves as a force, and got some great people in to go to national for Ron Paul. "

This is JUST ASTONISHING!! REALLy gives me hope that we are on the right path.
And Murray. Murray gives me a TON of hope.
GO MURRAY!
Bless you, Alaskans!

 

[orlandoinfl]

success is beauty.

 

[defe07]

Question: is it true that we were able to get McCain's delegates on our side?