TruePatriot44
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I just got back from the Minnesota State Convention and I've never experienced a bigger screw over.
First, they made Ron Paul speak outside the convention in a Park. They wouldn't let him inside even though he came all the way from Texas.
Secondly, going into the convention, there were 14 delegates and 14 alternate slots up for grabs. Anyone who wanted to run for the positions were required to meet with a nominee committee the day before. Hundreds of people met with the committee spending 3+ hours in line to be interviewed. Many people traveled to Rochester Minnesota from hundreds of miles away. The Ron Paul forces had their slate of 14 delegates and 14 alternates to vote for.
Now, when it came time to vote for the 14 delegates and alternate slots, The committee filtered the names on the ballot to mostly John McCain supporters. Only 3 names on the ballot were Ron Paul supporters. Nobody knew that the committee was going to filter names and prevent people for voting for them. So basically the Ron Paul slate was 95% ineligible.
To make it worse, in the rules that were stealthy adopted prior, one rule did not allow nominations from the floor. This mean't we could not write in names on the ballot. Also our ballots were ineligible if we did not vote for exactly 14 people. So in essence, we were forced to vote McCain delegates to the convention.
There was an uproar by the Paul forces when this occured. The convention at one point was getting out of hand when there were 50+ people waiting at the microphones to speak wondering why we couldn't write people in. Everyone was clearly anger at this bullshit. This was clearly not democratic, but more like Iran where their Supreme Council cherry picks candidates for their national elections.
I am dumb founded they would not allow us to even write names in for the delegate slots. They were clearly trying to prevent Paul from winning any delegates.
Ron Carey, the Minnesota GOP Chairman, obviously cherry picked his slate of McCain supporters that would be elected. The chairman is not impartial to the campaigns, but is actively working against Ron Paul.
We will need your support up here in Minnesota this September. This action by the GOP must be countered with our demonstrations during the national convention.
First, they made Ron Paul speak outside the convention in a Park. They wouldn't let him inside even though he came all the way from Texas.
Secondly, going into the convention, there were 14 delegates and 14 alternate slots up for grabs. Anyone who wanted to run for the positions were required to meet with a nominee committee the day before. Hundreds of people met with the committee spending 3+ hours in line to be interviewed. Many people traveled to Rochester Minnesota from hundreds of miles away. The Ron Paul forces had their slate of 14 delegates and 14 alternates to vote for.
Now, when it came time to vote for the 14 delegates and alternate slots, The committee filtered the names on the ballot to mostly John McCain supporters. Only 3 names on the ballot were Ron Paul supporters. Nobody knew that the committee was going to filter names and prevent people for voting for them. So basically the Ron Paul slate was 95% ineligible.
To make it worse, in the rules that were stealthy adopted prior, one rule did not allow nominations from the floor. This mean't we could not write in names on the ballot. Also our ballots were ineligible if we did not vote for exactly 14 people. So in essence, we were forced to vote McCain delegates to the convention.
There was an uproar by the Paul forces when this occured. The convention at one point was getting out of hand when there were 50+ people waiting at the microphones to speak wondering why we couldn't write people in. Everyone was clearly anger at this bullshit. This was clearly not democratic, but more like Iran where their Supreme Council cherry picks candidates for their national elections.
I am dumb founded they would not allow us to even write names in for the delegate slots. They were clearly trying to prevent Paul from winning any delegates.
Ron Carey, the Minnesota GOP Chairman, obviously cherry picked his slate of McCain supporters that would be elected. The chairman is not impartial to the campaigns, but is actively working against Ron Paul.
We will need your support up here in Minnesota this September. This action by the GOP must be countered with our demonstrations during the national convention.
