Minnesota Chaos! Stealing delegates
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I was at this convention.
They were apparently asked if they support McCain. The specific question asked to them was questionable to me. Were they specifically asked if they would choose McCain at the National Convention? Or was it simply if they would support him if he is the nominee? I could be a supporter of McCain, Romney, Ron Paul and Huckabee, and answer the question asked about McCain as a yes. But, unless they were specifically asked if they would vote for McCain at the National Convention, the preference order would be unknown.
During the debate of the motion, it was made clear by many that the question asked was questionable as to what it meant. One of the elected delegates stated they clarified their answer to the nominating committee to say that there is no nominee yet, but if McCain is the nominee, he would support McCain.
The motion was to bind the elected delegates to voting for what they told the nominating committee. Obviously that's in question. The motion did succeed at a vote of 101 to 89. From memory, at the beginning of the day there were 327 seated delegates.
Who knows, but reading the flyers handed out, it was clear to me that they were Ron Paul supporters. Mention of working on the Goldwater campaign were on both and on one there was mention to abolishing the Federal Reserve.
In my opinion, don't answer such a question to the nominating committee or be very clear what you mean and what they mean by the question. Then also make sure that the explanation of what it means when presented by to the convention is clear, and if different than understood by any of the candidates, then it needs to be pointed out by someone before voting. I missed the exact explanation given to us by the committee.
In our congressional convention, the Ron Paul supporters could have been listed as "no" or "maybe" on the list in support of McCain and we still would've won the same number of seats.
They were apparently asked if they support McCain. The specific question asked to them was questionable to me. Were they specifically asked if they would choose McCain at the National Convention? Or was it simply if they would support him if he is the nominee? I could be a supporter of McCain, Romney, Ron Paul and Huckabee, and answer the question asked about McCain as a yes. But, unless they were specifically asked if they would vote for McCain at the National Convention, the preference order would be unknown.
During the debate of the motion, it was made clear by many that the question asked was questionable as to what it meant. One of the elected delegates stated they clarified their answer to the nominating committee to say that there is no nominee yet, but if McCain is the nominee, he would support McCain.
The motion was to bind the elected delegates to voting for what they told the nominating committee. Obviously that's in question. The motion did succeed at a vote of 101 to 89. From memory, at the beginning of the day there were 327 seated delegates.
Who knows, but reading the flyers handed out, it was clear to me that they were Ron Paul supporters. Mention of working on the Goldwater campaign were on both and on one there was mention to abolishing the Federal Reserve.
In my opinion, don't answer such a question to the nominating committee or be very clear what you mean and what they mean by the question. Then also make sure that the explanation of what it means when presented by to the convention is clear, and if different than understood by any of the candidates, then it needs to be pointed out by someone before voting. I missed the exact explanation given to us by the committee.
In our congressional convention, the Ron Paul supporters could have been listed as "no" or "maybe" on the list in support of McCain and we still would've won the same number of seats.
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