We attended our county convention which revealed the truth of this election. That truth is so simple it makes one cry. It was pointed out to us by a member of our meet up who is familiar with the process and has been a republican for many years.
There ended up being many more slots for county delegates than there were people who attended. This means that all who attended and those who filed absentee forms were all made delegates as a simple matter of procedure.
We voted to recommend 2 delegates to the national convention. Our people lost.
Of the 157 members in our meet up, only 40 showed up, plus a few probable absentee applications. 30 of them were not registered to vote. 40 of them were registered Dem or Indy. (These are round numbers)
Had all of them been registered R and showed up, we would have completely dominated our convention. Our 2 people would be headed to national and we would have more than a 2/3 majority.
Had every precinct done the same, then at the state convention, all delegates chosen to the national convention would be RP delegates. We would also have a 2/3 majority of delegates in our state.
This means that any one of them could stand up and motion to change the rule so that all delegates be unbound in the first round of the national convention. No one would be able to stop that motion from being adopted, nor could anyone motion for in any other way to negate this rule change.
If every county did the same thing, we would hold the majority at national and enough states, one by one, would stand and declare RP the nominee. There would have been nothing anyone could do about it.
Yes, it would have been that easy.
A few people who knew this have been screaming it from the rooftops for months. Grassroots did not listen. We didn't organize to take the election this way, which would have required no money, no rallies, door to door, no phone calls, no national ads and no HQ.
There is still a chance for us to sway the votes of enough people to vote for our people at the state convention next month, but it will be an uphill battle. Rest assured that I have already begun to do just that, but the sad reality is that our own people didn't register R and s-h-o-w u-p. which is all it would have taken.
113 people in our district is all that was needed. 157 in our meet up alone would have done the job with room to spare. We have 40, and we can't change that now.
To all the whiners against the campaign, the ads, the money and whatever the hell else you have been whining about for the past months, read it and weep. It would have been that easy.
I now wonder how many of our group chose not to show up Saturday because so many 'supporters' told them not to waste their time because 'it's over, we lost, stay home'.
F-U-C-K.
Bosso
There ended up being many more slots for county delegates than there were people who attended. This means that all who attended and those who filed absentee forms were all made delegates as a simple matter of procedure.
We voted to recommend 2 delegates to the national convention. Our people lost.
Of the 157 members in our meet up, only 40 showed up, plus a few probable absentee applications. 30 of them were not registered to vote. 40 of them were registered Dem or Indy. (These are round numbers)
Had all of them been registered R and showed up, we would have completely dominated our convention. Our 2 people would be headed to national and we would have more than a 2/3 majority.
Had every precinct done the same, then at the state convention, all delegates chosen to the national convention would be RP delegates. We would also have a 2/3 majority of delegates in our state.
This means that any one of them could stand up and motion to change the rule so that all delegates be unbound in the first round of the national convention. No one would be able to stop that motion from being adopted, nor could anyone motion for in any other way to negate this rule change.
If every county did the same thing, we would hold the majority at national and enough states, one by one, would stand and declare RP the nominee. There would have been nothing anyone could do about it.
Yes, it would have been that easy.
A few people who knew this have been screaming it from the rooftops for months. Grassroots did not listen. We didn't organize to take the election this way, which would have required no money, no rallies, door to door, no phone calls, no national ads and no HQ.
There is still a chance for us to sway the votes of enough people to vote for our people at the state convention next month, but it will be an uphill battle. Rest assured that I have already begun to do just that, but the sad reality is that our own people didn't register R and s-h-o-w u-p. which is all it would have taken.
113 people in our district is all that was needed. 157 in our meet up alone would have done the job with room to spare. We have 40, and we can't change that now.
To all the whiners against the campaign, the ads, the money and whatever the hell else you have been whining about for the past months, read it and weep. It would have been that easy.
I now wonder how many of our group chose not to show up Saturday because so many 'supporters' told them not to waste their time because 'it's over, we lost, stay home'.
F-U-C-K.
Bosso
