When are the convention results announced?

[drpaulno777]

See title. Anyone have an answer? I could use the validation right now.

Washington State RP supporters: nice job, keep up the good work!

 

[surf]

It's still delegates, w/o any meaningful tag attached.

we had our district convention yesterday and got shut-out. roughly 300 people in a gym, 30 second speeches, requirement to identify the candidate you support. my district is old-school republican money (Bill Gates lives in our district). I think the old-school Rs turned out in force to shut us down. They had a slate of delegates that included many of the prominent names in WA republican circles. I gave my name, said, "I support Ron Paul," and spoke about spending. I was nervous, but I do remember getting what seemed to be one of the largest rounds of applause. I was out after the second ballot.

The sad results of our district caucus: Perpetual War and debt - 28; Peace, freedom and prosperity - 0

Only one of the people on our slate made it to the third round of voting (out of 4).

It was quite disturbing. One speaker before myself said, "The biggest threat to the Republican Party is Ron Paul." I wanted to take him out back and have physical-chat with him, but this is supposed to be a non-violent revolution.

On the plus side, one of my friends was elected in a district south of here. She was not required to state whom she supported, but spoke about being a cancer survivor, medical freedom, balancing a budget, and her very Republican parents. As a write-in not on the GOP recommended slate, she was elected on the first ballot (smaller precinct - but i'm proud of her).

 

[TheTyke]

How does that work, exactly? From reports I heard of Washington, it sounded like we had gotten a majority of the delegates from the counties... are they not the ones voting in these district conventions?

I'm wondering because we're going to be going through this in Kentucky soon. I'm putting in for national delegate...

 

[nate895]

How does that work, exactly? From reports I heard of Washington, it sounded like we had gotten a majority of the delegates from the counties... are they not the ones voting in these district conventions?

I'm wondering because we're going to be going through this in Kentucky soon. I'm putting in for national delegate...

We are winning some places, losing others.

 

[Banana]

FWIW, someone already posted about Whatcom getting 32 out of 38 for RP.

 

[nate895]

FWIW, someone already posted about Whatcom getting 32 out of 38 for RP.

There are two places we are doing really bad in: really rural counties that have too few delegates to make that much of an impact and some King County Districts. Our worst convention (or at least probably, Ron Paul only got 2 in that county out of 28), only has like 3500 people that live there. There are half that many voters in my precinct.

 

[Banana]

Let us hope that we still come out with a majority for state convention or at least for a split convention (assuming that Huckabee picked up delegates as well)

 

[Joe Schwartz]

King County 48th District Caucus

we had our district convention yesterday and got shut-out. roughly 300 people in a gym, 30 second speeches, requirement to identify the candidate you support. my district is old-school republican money (Bill Gates lives in our district). I think the old-school Rs turned out in force to shut us down. They had a slate of delegates that included many of the prominent names in WA republican circles. I gave my name, said, "I support Ron Paul," and spoke about spending. I was nervous, but I do remember getting what seemed to be one of the largest rounds of applause. I was out after the second ballot.

Thanks for the work you did to organize our nominees, and for having the guts to speak before that audience. I was hoping we'd have more Ron Paul supporters, but apparently we had fewer than 42, since there were 213 voting attendees and the second ballot eliminated everyone with less than 20% of the vote. I think it was especially demoralizing to see the slate of recommended nominees from the district leaders -- the fix was already in.

It was quite disturbing. One speaker before myself said, "The biggest threat to the Republican Party is Ron Paul." I wanted to take him out back and have physical-chat with him, but this is supposed to be a non-violent revolution.

I think he was the only nominee who denounced Ron Paul, and I took some satisfaction in seeing that he was not elected a delegate, despite being on the district's recommended slate.