Republican National Committee members - Unbound

[zeloc]

I have gotten into the election process more than in 2012 and noticed that every state has its 3 Republican National Committee members as delegates, in addition to the ones that are assigned to congressional districts. Some of these RNC members are UNBOUND, meaning that they can vote for whomever they want. This is going to be a key source of delegates. Is it a strategy, in the unbound states, for us to write to our RNC members and ask them to vote for Ron Paul? There is a list of the members here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee_members

And a list of bound/unbound states here. Note the states in the table in which the unbound delegates is 3:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012




Does anyone know how these Republican National Committee members are chosen and is there any way to find out whom they voted for after the convention? I haven't often participated in state elections but if they are elected there and by us then I will start voting in these!

 

[The Gold Standard]

Those are the superdelegates. You have a better chance of getting those superdelegates than Ron does. They are establishment through and through.

 

[tsai3904]

21 of them have already publicly endorsed a candidate:

http://www.democraticconventionwatch.com/diary/4726/republican-superdelegate-endorsement-list

 

[gerryb]

We need to get elected as a Committee members, so we control the super delegates in 2016..

 

[zeloc]

How do these superdelegates get elected?

We should write letters to all the superdelegates in our respective states, regardless of whom they've publicly endorsed.

 

[The Gold Standard]

How do these superdelegates get elected?

We should write letters to all the superdelegates in our respective states, regardless of whom they've publicly endorsed.

Superdelegates choose who they are awarded to. They go wherever they want.

 

[zeloc]

Superdelegates choose who they are awarded to. They go wherever they want.

No I mean how did they get elected in the first place?

Is the voting at the RNC open, so that we can see which superdelegate votes for whom?

 

[tsai3904]

No I mean how did they get elected in the first place?

Is the voting at the RNC open, so that we can see which superdelegate votes for whom?

Most are voted in by their State GOP leadership. The State GOP leadership is voted in by people who attend their local monthly Republican meetings. The people who attend their local monthly Republican meetings are the ones who hold the power.

 

[J_White]

truth, we need to do this from the ground up.
Dr.Paul has done what he can from the top to ignite us,
but we need to work in our areas, to take back the GOP.

Most are voted in by their State GOP leadership. The State GOP leadership is voted in by people who attend their local monthly Republican meetings. The people who attend their local monthly Republican meetings are the ones who hold the power.

 

[eleganz]

go to your county gop and figure it out. There should be a couple rp supporters in the local gop...you gotta find them and form alliances.

 

[zeloc]

I plan on joining the local republican group and will also look into Ron Paul supporters to form alliances. I wish I knew about this a few years ago, I could have been trying to influence the process during that time, but will still make a big difference for a lot of us to get involved in our local and state republican meetings since we could potentially have a lot more influence than a single vote.

 

[Johncjackson]

It looks like most of the names on the Super Delegates list are either establishment GOP office holders or their relatives ( having the same last names as Governors/Senators) and I recognize a couple of the names supporting Romney because they have been touted on these very forums as friends of liberty and/or potential Friends of P.

 

[mattdcw]

Paul gets his first superdelegate

Paul Iowa co-chairman AJ Striker was elected today to be chairman of the Iowa GOP, and is Paul's first verified superdelegate.

 

[1836]

RNC members are selected at state conventions, often by a public vote of the delegates, but I don't think always.

Here in Texas, state convention delegates choose the committeeman and woman, and this year, we have a committeeman position that is open. There is so far only one announced candidate that I know of, not a Ron Paul guy but supposedly well respected by some of the Ron Paul people within the party, or that is what I've heard from a couple of them. Bill Crocker, our well-respected establishment committeeman, is retiring.

 

[zeloc]

I read extensively about this in the state of MA. What I found about the 3 superdelegates from MA:

Are elected by the members of the Republican State Committee of MA, have 4-year terms each. There are 80 members of the Republican State Committee of MA, who each have 4-year terms, and are elected during the presidential primary. 1 man and woman from each senatorial district in MA are elected (40 senatorial districts in MA). I didn't pay attention to my ballot today except for Ron Paul, but I think one of the state committee members in my district was running unopposed, so it would have been a good chance for someone else to run.

The problem is that all of the electing takes place on the date of the primary, which was today, so it doesn't seem that we have a chance to influence the process for another 4 years. If a vacancy does occur, however, the town/city Republican committees are the first to find out, and the vacancies are filled within a couple months. My town Republican committee vote was also today, but they have yearly elections, so I may run next year. I also signed up for the e-mail list for the state GOP party (http://massgop.com/).