REPORT- RNC To ADOPT THE MINORITY RULES REPORT (not sure if that means new rules dead yet)

Led by Morton blackwell, a committee man from Virginia, who was a Barry Goldwater delegate, has successfully led a campaign to adopt the minority report. I don't have any sources other then a source inside the Paul campaign..
A toast to Mr. Blackwell for staying in the fight!

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Mr. Blackwell is not a liberty Republican - but he cares about growing the Party and making newcomers welcome. He understands that the GOP has to be a big-tent party going forward in the future. I hope that liberty Republicans in Virginia will remember this minority report in 2016 if Mr. Blackwell chooses to run for another term as our RNC committeeman.
EDIT: Incidentally, I voted against Mr. Blackwell at the convention because I thought he was too old to get things done and we needed new blood. Oops.
 
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Mr. Blackwell is not a liberty Republican - but he cares about growing the Party and making newcomers welcome. He understands that the GOP has to be a big-tent party going forward in the future. I hope that liberty Republicans in Virginia will remember this minority report in 2016 if Mr. Blackwell chooses to run for another term as our RNC committeeman.
EDIT: Incidentally, I voted against Mr. Blackwell at the convention because I thought he was too old to get things done and we needed new blood. Oops.

Blackwell was a Reagan staffer in 1976 I believe I read. Ron led the Texas delegation for Reagan in 1976. Whatever differences they have, there is some common ground and respect, I suspect.
 
Well, he spoke at the YAL National Convention, so he certainly has SOME connection to our movement.


Mr. Blackwell is not a liberty Republican - but he cares about growing the Party and making newcomers welcome. He understands that the GOP has to be a big-tent party going forward in the future. I hope that liberty Republicans in Virginia will remember this minority report in 2016 if Mr. Blackwell chooses to run for another term as our RNC committeeman.
EDIT: Incidentally, I voted against Mr. Blackwell at the convention because I thought he was too old to get things done and we needed new blood. Oops.
 
Hires for LI, at some point, run through Blackwell directly as far as I understand, and he has hired several Paulites, even former Paul campaign staffers, to work for his outfit. For example, a Paul supporter runs the group's Youth Leadership School at the moment, And he has been doing this for years. Rep. Steve Stockman used to be the head of the YLS- he endorsed Paul in 1988 and worked on a college campus in Texas to get him elected.

Go to an LI event, and Morton will toss books by FA Hayek and Frederic Bastiat at you. He is somebody worth standing with and a good example of the friendly establishment types we need on our side.

This is kind of like my CD caucus in Texas. We accidentally voted against a liberty guy for alternate delegate because, him being a local city councilman, we kind of assumed he was one of the establishment guys who would just go along. We were pleasantly surprised later, and I hope Morton is surprising everyone here.
 
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This might be a ploy to get everyone working toward Stop the Rules Report instead of Stop Romney.
 
So what does this mean?

Will Paul carry five states and be nominated from the floor?
 
So what does this mean?

Will Paul carry five states and be nominated from the floor?

Not unless the power grab by Romney's attorney on the rules to entirely change the power structure of the GOP away from the states wakes people up and more vote with our delegates. And I don't see that as likely, but who knows?
 
I would love to see an exit poll of all the delegates on who they would have voted for if they were all unbound
 
My template letter to my State's National Delegates/RNC Members

"Dear National Delegate/RNC Member:

It has come to my attention that the RNC convention rules committee recently advanced an unprecedented proposed rule change to revoke state delegate selection authority from State Parties' and transfer such authority to a small group of individuals in Washington, D.C. As you know Tomorrow (Tuesday August 28) the Convention body will be voting upon adoption of a minority report which would delete this proposed amendment. It is important to note that the proposed rule change has not yet been adopted. There is still ample opportunity for the Convention to reject the proposed rule change and adopt the minority report.

The proposed rule change would inflict irrevocable and irreversibly devastating consequences upon State and local republican party organizations across the country. Most notably the proposed rule change is guaranteed to drive large numbers of dedicated party activists away from the Republican Party. Do you support this? Furthermore the proposed rule change would guarantee permanent decreased participation in precinct caucuses, county conventions, district conventions and state conventions for decades. Moreover the proposed rule change would permanently reduce membership and general enthusiasm within local GOP organizations throughout the country.

Unlike the Democratic Party, for generations the Republican Party has been run from the "bottom-up". Please support local grassroots activists and vote to keep it that way!"
 
"Dear National Delegate/RNC Member:

It has come to my attention that the RNC convention rules committee recently advanced an unprecedented proposed rule change to revoke state delegate selection authority from State Parties' and transfer such authority to a small group of individuals in Washington, D.C. As you know Tomorrow (Tuesday August 28) the Convention body will be voting upon adoption of a minority report which would delete this proposed amendment. It is important to note that the proposed rule change has not yet been adopted. There is still ample opportunity for the Convention to reject the proposed rule change and adopt the minority report.

The proposed rule change would inflict irrevocable and irreversibly devastating consequences upon State and local republican party organizations across the country. Most notably the proposed rule change is guaranteed to drive large numbers of dedicated party activists away from the Republican Party. Do you support this? Furthermore the proposed rule change would guarantee permanent decreased participation in precinct caucuses, county conventions, district conventions and state conventions for decades. Moreover the proposed rule change would permanently reduce membership and general enthusiasm within local GOP organizations throughout the country.

Unlike the Democratic Party, for generations the Republican Party has been run from the "bottom-up". Please support local grassroots activists and vote to keep it that way!"

http://www.rlc.org/2012/08/26/a-letter-from-morton-blackwell-to-rnc-delegates/
 
Does this mean 5 states required for nomination?I ask because it would mean we have a chance of changing the VP nomination and because we still want Ron Paul nominated from the floor whether or not he would or would not win.
 
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