OK folks, I'm learning as I go here, but Romney's delegates really are up for grabs.
This is what I know so far:
1. The people that showed up at their county conventions last night (and for Ottawa county some that didn't) will attend the state convention as Precinct Delegates THANKS FOR GOING ON SHORT NOTICE
2. At the state convention next Friday, you will attend your DISTRICT caucus.
3. If you were not a Precinct Delegate in the previous election cycle, you will not be allowed to vote at the district caucus, HOWEVER
4. You may offer yourself as a candidate for State Delegate...you need to fill out and submit a Presidential Preference form to the caucus chair in order to be considered.
Therefore it is important that you attend the state convention and offer yourself as a candidate for State Delegate. Item 4 is key.
There might already be one or more people from your district running as State Delegate that are RP supporters, in which case, you might not be needed as a candidate. However, even in that case, it will be good for you to lend your support to candidates running as RP supporters in whatever manner they might suggest. You might want to prepare info packets about yourself to hand out at the caucus and a stump speech, if you run. I imagine this caucus would be similar to those held in other states, so, if anyone can offer advice about running as a state delegate to the national convention, please do.
I know someone that worked in Congressman Elhers office for years and is pretty familar with what goes on. I'll be seeing her tomorrow and educating myself some more about all this. I'll post more later, if anything is substantially different than indicated.
In the meantime, go to http://www.migop.org/2008convention/ and print off info from all 21 subsections...especially the Presidential Preference form.
Please keep this bumped or make sticky!
This is what I know so far:
1. The people that showed up at their county conventions last night (and for Ottawa county some that didn't) will attend the state convention as Precinct Delegates THANKS FOR GOING ON SHORT NOTICE
2. At the state convention next Friday, you will attend your DISTRICT caucus.
3. If you were not a Precinct Delegate in the previous election cycle, you will not be allowed to vote at the district caucus, HOWEVER
4. You may offer yourself as a candidate for State Delegate...you need to fill out and submit a Presidential Preference form to the caucus chair in order to be considered.
Therefore it is important that you attend the state convention and offer yourself as a candidate for State Delegate. Item 4 is key.
There might already be one or more people from your district running as State Delegate that are RP supporters, in which case, you might not be needed as a candidate. However, even in that case, it will be good for you to lend your support to candidates running as RP supporters in whatever manner they might suggest. You might want to prepare info packets about yourself to hand out at the caucus and a stump speech, if you run. I imagine this caucus would be similar to those held in other states, so, if anyone can offer advice about running as a state delegate to the national convention, please do.
I know someone that worked in Congressman Elhers office for years and is pretty familar with what goes on. I'll be seeing her tomorrow and educating myself some more about all this. I'll post more later, if anything is substantially different than indicated.
In the meantime, go to http://www.migop.org/2008convention/ and print off info from all 21 subsections...especially the Presidential Preference form.
Please keep this bumped or make sticky!
