North Dakota currently voting for delegates

[MozoVote]

WTF IS GOING ON

Welcome to Twitter news. Like looking through a picket fence with paint splattered goggles on. LOL

 

[Xenliad]

Someone's blog on what happened: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/na...ess-dissolves-into-chaos-at-ndgop-convention/

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

You've obviously never been to a convention before. We just swept a convention with less than 40% of the delegates.

Yes obviously. I was one of the delegates to the 2008 Nevada state convention when we had less than 40% of the delegates and they dissolved the assembly. We'd still be better off with a majority.

I also was a delegate to the 1998 Nevada state convention where we actually needed 50% Aaron Russo fans and fell a little short.

So it obviously depends on whether there are sympathetic non-fans.

Which state republican conventions have you attended?

 

[ClydeCoulter]

"good point made about Romney taking 3rd in caucus but getting most of the delegates to tampa convention"

(Don't know how to copy who from)

 

[sailingaway]

A story I posted said we couldn't marshall the votes to get a different ballot, which suggests we don't have the votes for whatever. I hope it is wrong, but it doesn't look good.

 

[sailingaway]

"good point made about Romney taking 3rd in caucus but getting most of the delegates to tampa convention"

(Don't know how to copy who from)

We have to catalog all of this so when they say it is unfair when we get more delegates in a state we can show Romney supported the plan, Gingrich did, Santorum did....

 

[carterm]

that blog was posted over an hour ago. might not be updated enough to give us information.

 

[MozoVote]

Sounds like this convention was run like some of the "bad ones" in 2008. Hopefully the party honchos made lots of enemies today and will be swept aside in the next election cycle.

 

[CTRattlesnake]

Heres what i think happened.


Establishment presents slate of delegates that heavily favors mitt
paul/santorum voters protest, try to get paper ballot vote of new delegates
chair doesnt take accurate count of votes for or against the measure, no paper ballots issued
establishment slate seems to have won

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Someone's blog on what happened: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/na...ess-dissolves-into-chaos-at-ndgop-convention/

I am SO SICK of crap popups to sign up for something every time I go to read a news story or blog! Do they want people to read their blogs/opinions or not?

 

[sailingaway]

Well that blog someone posted looks better, it looks like they denied the request without really counting the votes for it. If so, and if we can get division by standing, it MIGHT NOT be a preview of what happens in the vote.

This morning I wrote about an issue in the selection process of the NDGOP’s delegates to the national RNC convention for selecting the president.
The delegates nominated before the convention were mostly Romney supporters, despite Romney taking third in the statewide caucus vote to Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.
This morning the convention took up the business of confirming the national delegates, but there was a significant amount of push back from Santorum and Paul supporters on the floor. They nominated their own delegates from the floor, and when they asked Chairman Stan Stein to use a ballot to select the final delegates that made no distinction between pre-selected delegates and delegates nominated from the floor, Chairman Stein lost his cool and denied the request.
The convention then dissolved into a parliamentary slug fest between the Santorum/Paul supporters on the floor and the party leadership on the stage.
What’s frustrating is that there was clearly an effort by party leadership to ram-rod delegates for Romney through the convention, in contradiction to the outcome of the caucus vote. It was a pretty shameful proceeding. The convention leadership held voice votes and hand votes from the floor, but there was no real effort made to tabulate vote accurately.

 

[MozoVote]

I am SO SICK of crap popups to sign up for something every time I go to read a news story or blog! Do they want people to read their blogs/opinions or not?

I was able to read it after hitting the back button.

 

[risk_reward]

Heres what i think happened.
establishment slate seems to have won

There is no evidence of that.

 

[PaulSoHard]

Looks like the establishment just rammed it down our throats. again.

I hope our people do something about it.

 

[risk_reward]

We'll see once the vote is counted. A plurality is all that is usually needed for delegate selection, a much lower hurdle than getting rules changed which usually requires 60%.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

So, what's a dragon fly camera cost? Fly on the wall

 

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I sure hope they video camera's in there.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Anyone know if there will be any video of this event?

 

[PatriotOne]

I'm not sure what's going on either. Are they still tabulating the votes on the slate?

 

[ClydeCoulter]

:o Maybe we still have a chance.....?