Nevada GOP and McCain try to steal Nevada from ron Paul

[deadserious]

Here is an account of the underhanded actions that took place today at the Nevada State GOP convention.

http://jasonsouthwell.com/post/32976248

 

[DamianTV]

The party of fairness today pulled a dirty trick to keep John McCain from losing the Nevada state GOP Convention.

After a speech by Ron Paul that was very well received and after the party platform was accepted, which illustrated overwhelming support for Ron Paul due to his multiple issues being represented, several McCain supporters began to leave. One woman came up to me to say that they were all leaving because Ron Paul was going to get most or all of the delegates and they were going to try to get enough people to leave in order to not have a quorum. Just before the vote for the remaining 22 delegates, the convention chair Bob Beers announced that we were going to recess and we were to resume some other day yet to bet determined. With one click of the gavel, Mr. Beers ran from the room along side all of the committee chairs. This obviously caused quite a commotion with many people yelling for an appeal.

Roberts Rules permits an appeal of the chair’s decision, however Mr. Beers permitted no opportunity for appeal. An appeal if offered certainly would have met the requirement of quorum, however to promote confusion, the GOP had the microphones cut off and turned out the lights. When we were finally able to find a microphone, security came to take it away. This in addition to the darkness made it difficult to maintain order and hard to advise people that they should stay. When the lights finally came back on, we were about 100 people short of convening with a quorum.

The actions of the republican party leadership and the McCain campaign were reprehensible. I can’t see how they expect to win over Ron Paul supporters with such actions. In addition the Nevada state GOP should be ashamed at their actions and the citizens of Nevada should seriously reconsider if they can support a party that supports such snakelike and underhanded actions.

Party chair Susan Lowden started the day stating that we were going to have a fair and orderly convention. She obviously had no intention of maintaining a fair convention unless it was ultimately going to favor McCain.

I’m really ashamed of my party. Shame on Sue Lowden. Shame on Bob Beers. Shame on the leadership of the Republican Party of Nevada.

I was there. This was not the end of it. They were very very close to having a full blown riot at this convention for this. And since I was there I'd say that the Percentage of Ron Paul supporters was at leat 65% of the people in the room. This country is going to hell.

Thank you dirty politics.

 

[torchbearer]

No Surrender!

 

[torchbearer]

found this on a digg comment:

Nevada State Republican Convention MAY CONTINUE TOMORROW MORNING!!!

ALL RON PAUL SUPPORTERS PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND!

The plan at this point is to RECONVENE tomorrow, Sunday, April 27.

Please come to the Tuscany Ballroom at 8:00AM

Plans may change by the moment...

STAY TUNED TO YOUR E-MAIL!!

WE HAVE A CHANCE TO SWEEP THIS CONVENTION!! Rumor is that we WON 7 out of 9 CD delegates!

Thanks!
Robert

 

[Joel High]

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=032805


1417 is the number of credentialed delegates that can vote and a quorum is 709.

At the beginning of the Convention the State GOP/McCain campaign tried to limit who could be considered delegates. This prompted a floor fight that went on for hours. The record crowd wondered why they were there if the people to be voted on were already predetermined.

Already the 3 congressional districts have gone (3 delegates for each Congressional District) One district has awarded all 3 to Ron Paul, the second district went, One for Ron Paul, One for John McCain and One for NV. US Senator John Ensign and the third congressional district is unknown since the convention authorities won't tell.


Nevada's US Senator Bob Beers is also permanent chair of the convention. He approached the podium at 6pm banged gavel and said we lost the room, we're in recess and have to figure out another way another time to elect the remaining 22 delegates to the national convention and left the room.... but a quorum was present and the people were not finished

After the hotel stated that they had no problem with another 3 hours of room use someone tried turning off the lights.

After running off as many as possible during the confusion the lights started coming back on. Ron Paul supporters are now getting as many back as possible to get the 709 needed to continue to vote for the 22 more delegates that need to be elected.

The lights are back on and now the microphones are coming back on and the convention chair is being asked to take a qurorum count,.... Bob Beers is nowhere to be found soooo....

Brock Lorber our on the scene correspondent (and delegate) will call me back with more shortly . I'll get it to you as I hear about it while I am now in Washington DC (gott'a love the Internet and modern communications

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Brock just called and said that the convention chair refused to reappear. A quorum call was taken and they were short of the 709 by over 100 (I think he said 580 something). Observers to the congressional delegate count told them the numbers of the delegates from the congressional delegates for the two districts that they were involved in but the third district ballots have been confiscated by the GOP and sealed and so have the other two congressional districts without an official report to the convention.

Now the remaining 500+ delegates to the convention are acting as a 'Committee of the Whole' to verify WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

I talked to several Ron Paul delegates at the convention that confirmed how the State GOP tried multiple methods to limit which delegates were to be selected from and when that didn't work their next tactic was to drag out the process as long as possible to claim that there was no more time and end the process. Once this was done all of the McCain/GOP suits left.

I was also told that CSPAN began covering the Convention but soon left after it was clear that it was getting more complicated than could be rationally explained on TV.

Brock called again to say that a second call for a quorum was taken and it fell short. When it was clear that it was over and the delegates began to leave they found over 50 people standing in another room wanting to be around in case there was a quorum meet but didn't want it to happen so they hid

Nevada Senator Bob Beers, convention chair, told Brian Komisky (Ron Paul's Southern Nevada chair) that most likely the convention will come out of recess in Las Vegas... (in secret at the Mormon Temple - I suspect --- couldn't help myself

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9:30pm update (Nevada Time)

Confirmed by delegates who witnessed a conversation between the state party chairwoman, Sue Lowden at just before 6pm, with counters from the counting room and McCain functionaries that of the 9 Congressional Delegates up for grabs - 7 had gone to Ron Paul. These numbers were told to the state party chair and the McCain campaign people implored the chair to stop the State Convention. Soon after this conversation the Convention chair Nevada US Senator Bob Beers put the Convention in recess and the lights were turned off

 

[RP4EVER]

take it to civil court on a sworn affidavit

 

[pahs1994]

Un-freakin-believable...

 

[Paul Revered]

Get 'em!

 

[LibertasPraesidium]

I received an email this morning just trying to keep you up to date.

[email protected] to me

show details 6:08 AM (36 minutes ago)


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Sorry for the extra email folks... but yesterday the nevada GOP pulled the most underhanded thing I've seen yet. We had the convention SWEPT, we had ALL of the delegates. So the Chair ADJORNED in mid-sentence...and walked out.....

Now at they have announced that the convention will RECONVIENE at 8AM tomorrow morning (SUNDAY),

If you know anyone who lives in Nevada and knows where the convention is going to be held....please get them there

It's three am here so I'm not sure where it is...but I think it's at a casino in RENO Nevada....they do NOT have to be delegates they just have to have a plus and support ron paul...please get them to the CONVENTION so these %#@#F@# can't screw us over again!!!!!

 

[DaveGarber1975]

Don't let them get away with this. The law and rules are on your side--fight them tooth and nail when they violate them. Finish what you came to Reno to do.

 

[ItsTime]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=134750

 

[Young Paleocon]

so how did we do on day 2?

 

[satchelmcqueen]

found this on a digg comment:

yep. monday at 8am. right when most people are going to or at work. Dirty indeed.

 

[DamianTV]

Looks like they have even more dirty tactics up their sleeves. If we did happen to get our delegates in, the chairmen will just flat out say "you cant go". Great. Well this at least is useful to know so we can come up with a counter strategy.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=134605

I heard also that something else terrible happened in teh Texas GOP, anyone got a link on that?