More shenanigans in MN republican conventions

[Matt Collins]

First motion of the morning was to prohibit video taping of the Convention and it amazingly passed.

 

[eduardo89]

First motion of the morning was to prohibit video taping of the Convention and it amazingly passed.

What about audio?

 

[Chainspell]

 

[chudrockz]

I'll be interested to hear how this went, as well. I have a couple of friends who should have been at that, may have to call later when I think they are awake.

I was at MY county convention (southern Minnesota) a few weeks ago and Ron Paul delegates swept the entire thing to both District and State conventions. No shenanigans there! (Well, the "other" side said WE were guilty. Except that by "guilty" they meant "organized" and "in the majority"!) Tough cookies for neocons in Minnesota these days!

 

[WilliamC]

Thanks to all who are actually putting themselves out there to do this as opposed to just talking about it.

Hopefully I'll be able to report from my efforts at caucusing here in a month or so; MS starts ours in late April.

Collins to the rescue, The Legend Lives On!

 

[Liberty Rebellion]

I hope you guys kept recording!

 

[risk_reward]

I live in another area in MN that had it's caucus on Saturday. It was pretty uneventful. Although, we had been preparing for weeks behind the scenes, building the buy-in needed with the current leadership to get the results we wanted. In the end 85% of the delegates to CD and state were RP supporters.

 

[na_golfball]

I know 13 of 16 delegates in MN's CD-1 are Paul supporters...This info comes from a friend of mine who is one of the 13 delegates.

 

[thesnake742]

MN-59/60 was swept for RP.

This is the University of Minnesota area, mainly, so it wasn't quite as hard fought as some others.

 

[Matt Collins]

Oh, and a couple of people tried to have me removed from the room because I was obviously coaching the RP delegates on what parliamentary moves to make. Fortunately for their sake, they weren't able to convince the leadership to do it.

 

[JacobSzumniak]

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So what were the results of your Caucus?

 

[slamhead]

First motion of the morning was to prohibit video taping of the Convention and it amazingly passed.

Well that is not a good sign from the start if we did not have the support there to defeat that.

 

[kathy88]

Well that is not a good sign from the start if we did not have the support there to defeat that.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Sad that more people would rather everything be secret than not. Unfortunately that's what America has become. Everyone is so used to it.

 

[PolicyReader]

Ironic that so many of the people who say "if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to hide" about personal privacy are the same ones saying "we should keep this secret for security reasons" when it comes to institutional privacy.

 

[opinionatedfool]

If anything was illegal contact the MN ACLU for some legal support:

http://www.aclu.org/affiliate/minnesota

 

[Matt Collins]

Well that is not a good sign from the start if we did not have the support there to defeat that.

It kind of caught everyone off guard. Some people just walked in and set up a couple of video cameras in the back of the room, and a motion was made. I think this was even before the pledge and invocation. Needless to say they swept it through while I was out of the room and was unable to mobilize against it.

It's ok though, I still filmed some of the more contentious parts of it. I told the guys with the cameras that you should record their efforts to physically remove them from the room; it'd make them look awful. I couldn't convince them to do it though.

 

[skyorbit]

So, what were the results of your caucus?

 

[Matt Collins]

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[BrittanySligar]

Doubt we had a strong showing if that small victory was the highlight of your day.

 

[Matt Collins]

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