I want to become a delegate - help

[WilliamC]

Oh I see people trying to talk to RedCard again and failing to get him to have anything positive to say about Ron Paul or his campaign.

I knew there was a reason I put him on my ignore list

Personally, I'm going to make a try for a delegate spot in my County, but I have to wait until April to do this.

Lot's can happen between now and then....

 

[fabijo]

I'm in Mississippi. I've tried to figure out the delegate thing also without a lot of success. I think you can be a delegate by showing up at the 10:00 am meeting on the election day if you are a registered voter. Can anyone confirm this?

For Mississippi, this is the info I found.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/states/mississippi/mississippi-delegate-and-convention-process/

You might want to contact one of the coordinators for your area. They should have the necessary info.

 

[solrac]

Ron Paul won ZERO delegates in California???

It is amazing to me to think that if I simply knew the process to become a delegate in California that I would be the ONLY person in the ENTIRE state of tens of millions of people to have become a Ron Paul delegate.

That just doesn't add up. There must have been many knowledgeable people in CA who tried to become a delegate and failed legitimately. I CAN'T be the only one who would have gone all the way if I had the tools.

RPDelegate:
So you became a delegate just by raising your hand at a caucus? Did you make it to be a state delegate? Can you do what I suggested and write a day by day diary of every action you took to become a delegate? (Starting from the VERY first step: how you found out where the caucus was)

RedCard:
Apologies accepted. I am sorry you feel the campaign has lost its chances. I am not educated enough to even agree or disagree with you. I'm pretty much just hoping for a miracle that the smart ones can orchestrate. I'm just very hopeful and very clueless at this point, which makes me feel religious (read: stupid).

Bradley in DC:
You come off appearing to be very knowledgeable in the process of becoming a delegate. You should be spending your time writing documentation for people like me, in every state. If you are correct in what you write, your step by step instructions for MN should end up looking very similar to RPDelegate's diary for MN!!

SENSE THIS MAKES????

And I'm not joking around either. You guys should write this up. If you do, I'll put it online on a REAL "how to become a delegate" site as I'm a professional web developer and web hoster.

-Carlos-

 

[No1ButPaul08]

Bradley in DC pointed me to this post

We are working together to come up with a delegate plan. I have figured out which states we can win delegates in

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=116576

If we can work together on a website that would be huge.

We are also going to come up with a plan, negotiate with huckabee supporters at huck's army, for vote swapping that would benefit both candidates and maybe lead to a brokered convention

 

[Roxi]

Redcard, you should spend your time teaching people step by step how to become a delegate and be successful rather than saying there's no hope for the uneducated.

Your way of looking at this is a road to defeat.

Sorry, but you gotta change your attitude. Change comes from grass roots. And believe me, the grass roots do NOT know how to become delegates. Most people don't even know that delegates exist, grass roots or not.

I watched the 2000 and 2004 elections on TV and this year is the first time I've ever heard the word delegate in my life. (Other than in computer programming where a delegate function would help pass variables or parameters from one scope to another.)

If you are blessed with knowledge and brains you should be traveling to the other states that are left (your time and money permitting of course) and instructing Paul supporters out there how to become delegates.

I bet you most of them out there are like me. F'in CLUELESS.

Thanks,
-Carlos-

BINGO!


i wish i could help you, i don't know the rules for california I am in missouri, and my caucus is march 15th which i will be going to. I also know that several people in our group has pledged to donate the money for any delegates going to the state and national conventions, (although the GOP pays for the hotel)

i would call your local election board and see if you can some how still get in, just don't tell them your a paul supporter.

 

[solrac]

Bradley in DC pointed me to this post

We are working together to come up with a delegate plan. I have figured out which states we can win delegates in

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=116576

If we can work together on a website that would be huge.

We are also going to come up with a plan, negotiate with huckabee supporters at huck's army, for vote swapping that would benefit both candidates and maybe lead to a brokered convention

Again, I'm in. If we can get the content put together well, we can definitely put it up on a web site. It must be concise and straight to the point. Where anyone in an upcoming state can just click on their state, and read very concise instructions on what to do to become delegates.

 

[HollyforRP]

Change my attitude?

You're too late for California, Carlos. You're just too late. My attitude doesn't change that. If you were in Texas, or Michigan (which, now is too late too) , or another state that hasn't voted or registered its delegates, that'd be different.. but my attitude is one of frustration.. because just NOW people like you are coming up and saying "How do I be's a delegate?" when we've been wanting people to speak up in the party for awhile.

I don't believe in this Brokered Convention strategy, but Paul does, and he's been telling people how to get involved with this for a while now.

My way is the way to defeat?

Excuse me? Mr. I don't know how to be a delegate despite precinct captains and Ron Paul and everyone here talking about it? No. Delegates matter. Getting to be one matters. I'm not one, but several people from my precinct are working their way into it.

It's not my fault that Dr. Paul has chosen to go this very shaky route. It's HIS. You want to blame someone for not educating you, blame Dr. Paul. Not me. MY way would have been to buy TV ads and not mailers, because that's what statistically works. My way would have been to buy databases and target Centrist Democrats, Moderates, and Libertarians/Independants, not to take the REpublican walk sheets.

My point is, you're asking me to be nice when the time for being nice has passed. We're LOSING BADLY, and we need to wake up to that reality and start addressing things we can address.

Quit being mean. The time to be nice has passed? This person is a supporter! Be nice!

You signed up in January and have over a thousand posts. You are telling him to blame Dr. Paul. Why?

To the OP, the most you can do now is continue to spread the word.

 

[HollyforRP]

Oh I see people trying to talk to RedCard again and failing to get him to have anything positive to say about Ron Paul or his campaign.

I knew there was a reason I put him on my ignore list

Personally, I'm going to make a try for a delegate spot in my County, but I have to wait until April to do this.

Lot's can happen between now and then....

Good call. It's pretty funny that this person has over a thousand posts, signed up in January. I guess he thought he'd go under the radar with his post count! Putting Redcard on ignore.

 

[fabijo]

Ron Paul won ZERO delegates in California???

That just means that the delegate slots were not alotted to Ron Paul because California is a winner-take-all state for the At Large delegates. Then any Congressional District delegates are awarded to the winner of each district. So, the delegates that were signed on under Ron Paul are not going to be Ron Paul delegates in California, since he didn't win any districts.

But, if any Ron Paul supporters managed to enter as delegates under McCain then they are bound to vote for McCain for 2 ballots at the National Convention. They would be unbound after that to vote for Ron Paul.

This just goes back to the fact that each state is different in the way delegates are allotted. California's delegates work out differently than some of the states you've been hearing about.

For California, each candidate submits their list of choices for delegates by January. Whichever candidate wins the state, gets their at-large delegates that they chose. Whichever candidate wins in any district gets their district delegates that they chose.

Other states have different rules. Many caucus states have a delegate election process AFTER the Presidential caucus. That's why we are hearing reports of Ron Paul supporters being elected as delegates. They are still bound by that state's rules to vote for whichever candidate won in the district or state. But the power of getting Ron Paul supporters in those positions is if we get a brokered convention. Once these people become unbound, we'll see many more votes for Ron Paul.

I hope I didn't confuse things further, but it is a confusing process.

 

[fabijo]

Bradley in DC pointed me to this post

We are working together to come up with a delegate plan. I have figured out which states we can win delegates in

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=116576

If we can work together on a website that would be huge.

We are also going to come up with a plan, negotiate with huckabee supporters at huck's army, for vote swapping that would benefit both candidates and maybe lead to a brokered convention

I just registered the domain name gopdelegates.com . If anyone wants to help code it PM me.

 

[No1ButPaul08]

Again, I'm in. If we can get the content put together well, we can definitely put it up on a web site. It must be concise and straight to the point. Where anyone in an upcoming state can just click on their state, and read very concise instructions on what to do to become delegates.

I think we should do 2 websites, one with the delegate strategy, and another dealing with the huckabee voteswapping. We should focus on the delegate strategy site first. We will first focus on the states I listed in the link. I will gather all the info for the states, how to become a delegate, important dates If you can start designing a site and create a template of sorts, that would be great.

I sent you my email in a PM.

A member of this site offered to host the site at his domain, gopdelegates.com