Green Energy
From CNN:
That does not mean I am any happier about it.
The GOP has revealed it's arrogance, with Rinse Pubis declaring,
“The party is choosing a nominee. If you don’t like the party, then sit down.”
UPDATE - Epa sez:
"LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENT BY COMMITTEE VOTE…"
It's IRAN'S GUARDIAN COUNCIL - AMERICAN STYLE .. make no mistake.
They pick who we can vote for .. ROUHANI, or ACHMADINEJAD
We should emphasize this over and over and over.
- Cruz And Virginia's Convention Delegates
Cruz wins majority of delegates at Virginia convention Never mind that Trump defeated Cruz two to one in the primary held here in my state. One commenter at the above thread opined as follows: Watch out GOP, you're digging your grave. Maybe you'll...
- Collusion
The absurdity of these two clowns astonishes me. Neither man has a path to claiming the nomination outright and there is a case to be made that even combined they couldn't secure the nominaton outright. So instead of giving a shit about the country...
- I'll Give Ted Cruz This: He's Absolutely Nails At Winning When The Citizens Don't Vote
What a fuckin' idiot Cruz is. Cruz Slams Trump: Campaign Seems Incapable Of 'Running A Lemonade Stand' Texas Senator Cruz is dismissing charges from the Trump campaign that his recent delegate victories in states like Colorado and Wyoming...
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CBS: Why the GOP can't take the nomination from Donald Trump Is it me, or does the argument that the Republican nomination can be taken from Donald Trump at a contested convention make almost no sense? It's not that it would be unfeasible for...
- Reince Priebus Tells Hannity, Our Nominee Will Be One Of The Three Who Is Running, Maybe Kasich
Hannity: If there is an attempt to jump, leapfrog over the two top vote getters, the two top state winners, the two top delegate winners, don’t you think that those caucused and voted for those two top guys if they don’t get it, that they are going...
Green Energy
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST - Email shows Cruz moves to weaken Trump grip on delegates
The Puffy Vampire
From CNN:
Donald Trump won the Arizona Republican presidential primary in a landslide, but Ted Cruz's campaign is trying to break the billionaire developer's hold on state delegates in anticipation of a convention fight this summer -- a move the Trump camp has branded "shenanigans and trickery."
A Phoenix-based political consulting firm working with the Cruz campaign emailed Republicans in Pima County Monday asking supporters to join the Texas senator's state delegate slate.
The outreach is part of an organized effort to elect Cruz loyalists to the GOP national convention, where they could vote for him on a second ballot.
Trump dominated Arizona's March 22 contest, defeating Cruz by 22 points -- a margin of more than 117,000 votes -- and locking up the winner-take-all state's 58 delegates for at least one round of voting at the convention in Cleveland.
But Cruz, as he has in a number of states, is now seeking to better position himself should the nomination fight go multiple ballots.
In the email obtained by CNN, Sam Stone from the Cairn Consulting firm contacted Republican precinct committee members in Arizona's 10th legislative district and invited them to join Cruz.
"National delegates are required to pay their own way to Cleveland, but for those non-Trump supporters who are interested in doing so, the Cruz campaign is organizing a delegate slate at our state party convention to elect people who would be willing to support Sen. Cruz on a second ballot," he wrote.
"Being part of the slate will dramatically increase your chances of attending the national convention." Stone explained the effort:
"As you know, the state convention will select our delegates to the national convention. At the convention, these delegates are bound to vote for Donald Trump on the first ballot.
However, it looks increasingly unlikely that Trump will earn the 1,237 delegates needed to win on the first ballot, and after the first ballot most delegates -- including those from Arizona -- will be free to vote for the candidate of their choice."
"That means," he continued, "as a delegate, your single vote might decide who our nominee is." Stone told CNN in a phone interview that he was not on the Cruz campaign payroll but had been contacted by its state director, Constantin Querard, and "asked if I'd be willing to do this since I have a lot of ties to Tucson."
Stone said Querard asked him "to see how many people we could get who would be Cruz supporters on the elected slate of delegates from the LD10 meeting." The Cruz campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the arrangement between Stone and Querard.I believe this is all legal and according to GOP rules.
That does not mean I am any happier about it.
The GOP has revealed it's arrogance, with Rinse Pubis declaring,
“The party is choosing a nominee. If you don’t like the party, then sit down.”
UPDATE - Epa sez:
"LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENT BY COMMITTEE VOTE…"
It's IRAN'S GUARDIAN COUNCIL - AMERICAN STYLE .. make no mistake.
They pick who we can vote for .. ROUHANI, or ACHMADINEJAD
We should emphasize this over and over and over.
- Cruz And Virginia's Convention Delegates
Cruz wins majority of delegates at Virginia convention Never mind that Trump defeated Cruz two to one in the primary held here in my state. One commenter at the above thread opined as follows: Watch out GOP, you're digging your grave. Maybe you'll...
- Collusion
The absurdity of these two clowns astonishes me. Neither man has a path to claiming the nomination outright and there is a case to be made that even combined they couldn't secure the nominaton outright. So instead of giving a shit about the country...
- I'll Give Ted Cruz This: He's Absolutely Nails At Winning When The Citizens Don't Vote
What a fuckin' idiot Cruz is. Cruz Slams Trump: Campaign Seems Incapable Of 'Running A Lemonade Stand' Texas Senator Cruz is dismissing charges from the Trump campaign that his recent delegate victories in states like Colorado and Wyoming...
-
CBS: Why the GOP can't take the nomination from Donald Trump Is it me, or does the argument that the Republican nomination can be taken from Donald Trump at a contested convention make almost no sense? It's not that it would be unfeasible for...
- Reince Priebus Tells Hannity, Our Nominee Will Be One Of The Three Who Is Running, Maybe Kasich
Hannity: If there is an attempt to jump, leapfrog over the two top vote getters, the two top state winners, the two top delegate winners, don’t you think that those caucused and voted for those two top guys if they don’t get it, that they are going...