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RockEnds
01-31-2012, 09:53 AM
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/01/31/breaking-iowa-gop-chairman-matt-strawn-to-step-down-next-week/


Embattled Iowa GOP chairman Matt Strawn will step down at the end of next week, he said this morning, citing competing priorities in his personal, business and political life.

Strawn has come under heavy fire recently from presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s backers who think he deliberately refused to acknowledge Santorum’s victory in the caucuses. He said in a letter to Iowa Republicans this morning that Friday, Feb. 10 will be his final day.

“The party is strong and has the resources in place for victory in November,” Strawn wrote. “Now is the time to transition to new leadership.”

GOP party rules say that any vacancy in the chairman job is to be filled by the co-chairman – and in this case, that’s Bill Schickel, a well-liked former state lawmaker and former party secretary from Mason City. The next meeting of the GOP central committee, the party’s board of directors, is Feb. 11....

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Bruno
01-31-2012, 10:32 AM
Good! He doesn't know how to announce straw poll results in Ames or handle our state's caucus. Or at least that is the perception. I rather think he know what he was doing and was biased towards Romney and against Paul.

RockEnds
01-31-2012, 10:48 AM
Good! He doesn't know how to announce straw poll results in Ames or handle our state's caucus. Or at least that is the perception. I rather think he know what he was doing and was biased towards Romney and against Paul.

Yep. I don't know how people can defend him. It was kind of hard to miss the bias. Apparently some Romney supporters managed to ignore it, but most everyone else caught on pretty quickly.

Brian4Liberty
01-31-2012, 12:04 PM
If the Iowa GOP can't count the votes, it's time for a change.

Badger Paul
01-31-2012, 12:40 PM
"If the Iowa GOP can't count the votes, it's time for a change."

Agreed, they can't be blase about the vote count. Either get it right or don't do the straw poll. Iowa insists upon going first but they shrug their shoulders when they announce they've lost eight precincts? What's up with that?

Santorum made a huge mistake not screaming bloody murder about it, it let Romney claim a victory he never won.

Brian4Liberty
01-31-2012, 01:00 PM
Agreed, they can't be blase about the vote count. Either get it right or don't do the straw poll. Iowa insists upon going first but they shrug their shoulders when they announce they've lost eight precincts? What's up with that?

Santorum made a huge mistake not screaming bloody murder about it, it let Romney claim a victory he never won.

Yes, to make matters worse, they announced Romney as winner with a lead of only 8 votes, in a situation where they obviously have a margin of error in the thousands. That would be "too close to call". A winner should have never been announced.