Massachusetts caucus today

[SilentBull]

Woot!! for the kickass party!

Wish I would have been able to make it.

 

[anaconda]

This is just what I was about to ask. This is stated on the Mass GOP website: http://www.massgop.com/feature/caucuses-to-elect-delegates-to-rnc-in-tampa-scheduled/2480/

But still good news nevertheless if these are Paul supporters we're sending to Tampa.

Ah! Finally I am beginning to understand. We're not winning delegates for Ron in Mass., unless the first ballot at the RNC fails to produce a majority.

 

[Aratus]

we will have people voting for platform planks and the gop rules for 2016

shemdogg! its sorta neat how everything went, even so! we can dream!!!

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

Ah! Finally I am beginning to understand. We're not winning delegates for Ron in Mass., unless the first ballot at the RNC fails to produce a majority.

Better to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them.

 

[jt8025]

So at State Convention, the people that are chosen for the 11 slots can not be overturned?

In my State of GA, there is a nominating committee of party big wigs and they nominate a slate of people and it is always voted through without objection (until 2008 but we only had around 10% of the vote). The slate can be voted down though and nominations can be put forward by the state delegates in attendance.

 

[MarcusI]

MSM slowly beginning to realize:

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State GOP’s caucus picks leave Romney slate slighted

Having all but locked up the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, assembled a slate of delegates to support him at the Republican nominating convention in Tampa.

But when Massachusetts Republicans went to their caucuses on Saturday, many didn’t vote for Mitt Romney’s picks.

Instead, they went for Ron Paul.

Less than half of Romney’s 27 chosen delegates won, and the losers included some notable Massachusetts Republicans - including Kerry Healey, the former lieutenant governor, and the House minority leader, Bradley H. Jones Jr., according to two Republican State Committee members who did not want to be named. Even some prominent alternate delegates lost - including 2010 gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker and Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr., the Republicans said.

A spokesman for the state Republican Party said he could not confirm numbers because results included provisional ballots yet to be verified. Some of those who turned up at the caucuses on Saturday could not be immediately identified as registered Republicans in Massachusetts, according to a spokesman, Timothy Buckley. Additional delegates at large will be elected at a convention in June.

The complexion of the delegation may not matter much to Romney’s nomination: All delegates and alternates are committed to vote for him.

But the delegates will get to choose the chairman, vote on a platform, and support whomever they choose for vice president. And the team that Romney brings to the convention may not all be rooting for the home-state nominee.
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http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/0...te-slighted/AGemTuxxNkr0GEKJkSwZqN/story.html

 

[juvanya]

So at State Convention, the people that are chosen for the 11 slots can not be overturned?

In my State of GA, there is a nominating committee of party big wigs and they nominate a slate of people and it is always voted through without objection (until 2008 but we only had around 10% of the vote). The slate can be voted down though and nominations can be put forward by the state delegates in attendance.

hmm if the committee nominates, but it can be overturned, then we could get those 11 delegates after all...