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Allen is in BIG trouble...and, he looks like a rat.
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Allen is in BIG trouble...and, he looks like a rat.
She told Dale that Alan/Allen said to take the ballots back ... so my question, who is Alan??? If he was the one that told them to take the ballots back, he was probably the one that told them to take them away in the first place.
That would make perfect sense and is likely true.
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I notified the Lawyers for Ron Paul and gave them a link to the video.
If people reading this thread were present and witnessed the attack or other anomalies, please contact David Callihan of Lawyers for RP.
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Allen Alley is the chairman of the Oregon Republican party
The lady in questiion who returned the ballots and mentioned Allen and the other man Dale is Terri Moffett ORP Staff Liaison. Second in charge at the CD4 convention behind Chairman Bob Avery
The Ron Paul Revolution vs. Allen Alley at the Oregon Republican Party's district conventions
The ORP cannot afford another decade long factional struggle like it endured in the 1990s. It also cannot beat this new generation. Look at the age of the average Precinct Committee Person (PCP) outside the Paul faction compared to their new insurgents. Who will outlast whom? Who will outlive whom? Who will out organize whom? The ORP’s present leadership has a choice to make, and last weekend they chose poorly.
Evidence for the claim that at 5pm there was an intentional attempt by the executive leadership of the ORP to stop the voting so that they could at least appoint their own people as alternate delegates is even more interesting to examine. Historically these conventions have gone way over time due to obvious problems in coordination, begging the question why the rush this year?
More interesting is the way the ORP leadership tried to exceed its authority by shutting things down. Evidence of centrally coordinated behavior undermines the notion this was all an innocent mistake. Under the convention rules Allen Alley had no power to unilaterally stop these conventions, but he and his staff did have phones. It appears that two things happened. 1) Each district chair was told that the other districts decided to shut down at five and were told they can no longer vote unless all five districts participated (a claim not supported by a convention rule). This seems to have been a clever ploy to get each district chair to attempt to convince his members to go home. 2) For safe measure, the ORP leadership told its state staff to grab the unused ballots and leave in the confusion.
There was no legitimate reason for the ORP to violate its own rules, engage in obfuscation after the fact, and alienate its only source of demographic growth. If the point of the ORP were to remain a club for rural Oregonians over the age of 50 to complain about Portland and Salem with no power to do anything about it, then perhaps trying to fend off the influence of what conservatives often dismissed as mere “Paulistas” makes sense. If they want to win however, the ORP needs to give college-educated urban professionals a reason to vote R. In that sense, the rise of Ron Paul should be embraced as a blessing.