Woohoo first thread in the MD forum!

[jumpyg1258]

No real reason for me to post this but the MD section looked like it needed some company so here I am! =)

[Bradley in DC]

Congrats, now it's your job to update the posting for the 2008 rules for delegates in Maryland!

Copy the 2004 rules in my post, and email the state Republican Party, remind them of RNC bylaws, specifically Rule 14(a) (http://www.gop.com/About/AboutRead.aspx?AboutType=4&Section=16):


RULE NO. 14
Participation
(a) The Republican National Committee shall assist the states in their efforts to inform all citizens as to how they may participate in delegate selection procedures. The states, in cooperation with the Republican National Committee, shall prepare instructive material on delegate selection methods and make it available for distribution.

and ask them for the updated version for 2008 that they had to send to the RNC last month. When you get the results, post them here for everyone else. Feel free to do other states too!

[Primbs]

Is there anybody in Western Maryland for Ron Paul?

Deep Creek lake area is very republican.

[Bradley in DC]

Is there anybody in Western Maryland for Ron Paul?

Deep Creek lake area is very republican.

The Congressman from there is close with Dr. Paul too.

[Marshall]

I'm from Westminster. Just got 500 slim jims to pass around carroll county, hopefully I'll get some good response.

The mdgop website did have a pdf explaining delegate selection, but they seem to have taken it down. I'll poke around and see if I can't find it.

[Marshall]

In pdf format here (http://www.mdgop.org/images/MD/RNC2008DelegateSelectionInstructiveMaterial2.pdf).




Maryland Republican Party
INSTRUCTIVE MATERIALS
RELATING TO THE DELEGATE SELECTION PROCEDURES
FOR THE 2008 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION


WHEREAS, National Party Rule 15(e)(1) requires each Republican state committee to adopt rules, procedures, policies and instructive materials governing the selection of delegates and alternate delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention and to certify true copies of the same to the secretary of the Republican National Committee; and

WHEREAS, by Resolution dated June 30, 2007, the Maryland Republican Party’s Executive Committee passed a Resolution directing the State Chairman to cause to be prepared and delivered to the Republican National Committee instructive materials on delegate selection, consistent with the June 30, 2007 Resolution;

THEREFORE, as State Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, I hereby certify that the following instructive materials set forth the procedures to be followed in Maryland for delegate selection to the 2008 Republican National Convention:

(1) Election of District Delegates (a) Pursuant to National Republican Party Rules 13(a)(3) and 13(a)(7)(b), three delegates and three alternate delegates shall be elected by the Republican voters of each of Maryland’s eight Congressional Districts to represent such Congressional Districts at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Such delegates and alternate delegates shall be elected in the 2008 Republican Primary Election. Each candidate for delegate and for alternate delegate representing a Congressional District shall be a resident of and a qualified voter in said district and shall be registered as a Republican. All certificates of candidacy must be filed with the State Board of Elections not later than 9 p.m. on the Monday which is ten weeks or seventy days before the day on which the 2008 primary election shall be held. A candidate may only run for the position of delegate or for alternate delegate, but not both positions.

(b) Each candidate for delegate and alternate delegate may have placed adjacent
to the candidate’s name on the ballot the name of a presidential candidate, provided that the written permission of the presidential candidate has been
received by the State Board of Elections not later than 5 p.m. on the tenth day after the filing date for certificates of candidacy. If a candidate for delegate or alternate delegate has received permission from a presidential candidate to have the presidential candidate’s name placed adjacent to the candidate’s name on the ballot, and such candidate subsequently withdraws as a candidate pursuant to Section 5-502 of the Election Law Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, another candidate for delegate or alternate delegate, as the case may be, shall have placed adjacent to the candidate’s name on the ballot the name of that presidential candidate, if the written permission of the presidential candidate has been received by the State Board of Elections not later than 5 p.m. on the fifth day after the deadline date by which candidates for delegate and alternate delegate may withdraw their candidacies before the Primary Election.

(c) Only registered voters in the State of Maryland who are affiliated with the Republican Party shall be eligible to vote in the 2008 Republican Primary Election. In each Congressional District, the three candidates for delegate and the three candidates for alternate delegate who receive the most votes shall be elected.

(2) Election of At-Large Delegates

(a) Pursuant to National Republican Party Rule 13(a)(2), the National Committeewoman, the National Committeeman and the State Party Chairman from Maryland shall automatically be delegates. Pursuant to National Republican Party Rules 13(a)(1) and 13(a)(7)(b), ten delegates and ten alternate delegates shall be at large delegates and at large alternate delegates and shall be selected by the Republican State Central Committee of Maryland at a convention of its members duly called in accordance with such Committee’s Constitution and Bylaws. All persons selected as at large delegates and at large alternate delegates shall be residents of and duly qualified voters in Maryland and shall be registered as Republicans. The Nominations Committee shall make recommendations on any question of candidate eligibility on this point.

(b) Nominations for at large delegate and for at large alternate delegate must be received in writing at the headquarters of the Maryland Republican Party at 15 West Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401 by no later than 4:00 p.m. on the Friday two weeks prior to the morning of the Spring 2008 Maryland State Republican Convention. Nominations may not be made after this time. A person may only be nominated for the position of delegate or for alternate delegate, but not both positions. Each nomination must be signed by three members of the Maryland Republican State Central Committee (not mere proxy holders). Each signer must reside in a different county.

(c) At the Spring 2008 Maryland State Republican Convention, there shall be no nominating, seconding or candidate speeches for candidates for at large delegate or alternate delegate. All nominations shall be placed on printed ballots, in alphabetical order by last name. Withdrawals should take place prior to voting; votes cast for withdrawn candidates shall not invalidate any ballot.

(d) No member, nor his or her proxy, may cast more than one vote for a candidate on the ballot, may not cast more votes for at large delegate than there are seats to be filled, and may not cast more votes for at large alternate delegate than there are seats to be filled. Ballots not conforming to these requirements shall be void.

(e) Election shall be by plurality vote, pursuant to the “LCD” voting method. At the conclusion of ballot computation, the candidates for at large delegate having the highest numbers of votes cast shall be deemed elected, in descending order, until all seats are filled, and the candidates for at large alternate delegate having the highest numbers of votes cast shall be deemed elected, in descending order, until all seats are filled.

(3) Candidate For Whom Delegates Bound To Vote


(a) Each of the delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention representing a Congressional District shall be bound to vote for the candidate for the office of President of the United States who receives the highest number of votes within the delegate’s Congressional District in the 2008 Maryland Republican Primary Election.

(b) All of the remaining delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention shall be bound to vote for the candidate for the office of President of the United State who receives the highest number of votes in the State of Maryland in the 2008 Maryland Republican Primary Election.

(c) The delegate shall be so bound until the candidate for President of the United States is nominated by the 2008 Republican National Convention, receives less than 35 percent of the votes for nomination by the Convention, or releases the delegate, or until two Convention nominating ballots have been taken.



Respectfully submitted,
James Pelura, III, DVM MS
Chairman, Maryland Republican Party

[Marshall]

oops

[katlizard]

Waldorf in the house :)
I have not seen any Ron Paul signs of life around here YET :(