DeadtoSin
03-29-2008, 04:22 PM
I live in Fannin County, and we had our County Convention today like all the other Texas counties. We went there and nearly every single person was a first time delegate. My county are almost all McCain/Huckabee supporters. I would have to say that we definitely had a disproportionate amount of RP delegates than our votes. (Good thing)
We had a resolution to repeal the Federal reserve act as soon as feasibly possible among other things. The resolution DID fail. However, what it did was show me people who were waking up. It showed me the people that would listen. I was amazed at how split the vote ended up being. Not only that, but one of the RP supporters there knew the rule book/parliamentary procedure better than the elected officials. We couldn't discern the winner by a simple "Aye"/'Nay' call. Then, they wanted to declare the resolution as failed after they won a simple majority in the show of hands.
That RP supporter made a motion to do a weighted vote. After that, they tried to vote on this motion with a majority vote. However, a simple 1/5 vote is all thats required, and he reminded them of that as well. A couple of the people had almost no delegates show up so they had a lot of votes. They were typical neo-cons so we lost there.
I know I took a long time to say we lost. However, they were impressed with the knowledge and issues brought forward. To think that a resolution would nearly be passed in my county calling to repeal the Fed reserve act would have never crossed my mind. There are people there that I know are good moral people, but I thought they were asleep. They were awake to certain issues, and they rose to the challenge with me here.
All in all, I am very encouraged. I'll be working with my GOP for a long time to come. I was surprised that I knew a great deal of the people, and the rest of them were very nice. I suppose the fact that we have some good decent people stems from the fact that we are a smaller county.
We had a resolution to repeal the Federal reserve act as soon as feasibly possible among other things. The resolution DID fail. However, what it did was show me people who were waking up. It showed me the people that would listen. I was amazed at how split the vote ended up being. Not only that, but one of the RP supporters there knew the rule book/parliamentary procedure better than the elected officials. We couldn't discern the winner by a simple "Aye"/'Nay' call. Then, they wanted to declare the resolution as failed after they won a simple majority in the show of hands.
That RP supporter made a motion to do a weighted vote. After that, they tried to vote on this motion with a majority vote. However, a simple 1/5 vote is all thats required, and he reminded them of that as well. A couple of the people had almost no delegates show up so they had a lot of votes. They were typical neo-cons so we lost there.
I know I took a long time to say we lost. However, they were impressed with the knowledge and issues brought forward. To think that a resolution would nearly be passed in my county calling to repeal the Fed reserve act would have never crossed my mind. There are people there that I know are good moral people, but I thought they were asleep. They were awake to certain issues, and they rose to the challenge with me here.
All in all, I am very encouraged. I'll be working with my GOP for a long time to come. I was surprised that I knew a great deal of the people, and the rest of them were very nice. I suppose the fact that we have some good decent people stems from the fact that we are a smaller county.