And, by the way, we did win all 14 alternate delegates. Our entire slate.. But get this, our top guy only lost by 5 legal votes (or so we assume legal). The next one lost by 7. The next by 10. The next by 11. And so on. They did NOT kick our butts.
We had them running scared all day and night. At 1am this morning when I was walking down the hall, the WYGOP's meeting room door was ajar and there was a heated discussion ensuing. We rented a large meeting room last night and the Romney people were doing everything they could to try to get into our room. 1 succeeded. Another attempted and was stopped. Several others camped out in the hall to attempt to figure out who we all were. They were trying to identify our undeclared candidates that had made the preferred nomination list. I don't think I mentioned that we took over in nominating and 9 out of the 14 delegates recommended by the committee were our supporters. This is what scared them to death yesterday.
The Santorum supporters appear to have plugged their noses and gone Romney today. After my announcement that the executive committee were responsible for the fraud, I had several Santorum supporters approach me and thank me for having the guts to do that. We had around 140 supporters present, which includes around 40 delegates. Less than 400 delegates voted.
The Paul campaign did not spend a $1 in WY and we did not have an official campaign chairman. Yes, we rented a meeting room last night for $287 on our personal credit card. The Paul supporters in attendance donated over $450 to us to cover it so the excess will be donated to the campaign. in other words, not only did the campaign not spend money in our state, they will make money.
I honestly had no real authority to represent our campaign today, yesterday, the past 2 months, etc, but I did it anyway. It wasn't just me though. We had a core group of individuals in the state, along with Tsai, who worked tirelessly. The fact that we got as close as we did with no money and no campaign help ought to be a lesson to the campaign. If they had at least been willing to name one of us as a chair and to offer us advice as needed, we could have completely taken the convention today.
It's been useful. But mostly it's grassroots all the way.
