4/21 IOWA CONVENTIONS THREAD

[sailingaway]

Ajai Dittmar ‏ @sibzianna Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
#Iowa #RonPaul the delegate list for #LinnCounty has been messed w what an embarrassment Justin has caused

wtf?

[kathy88]

No updates yet. That is kinda torturous of the OT (original tweeter).

[The Northbreather]

Ajai Dittmar ‏ @sibzianna Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
#Iowa #RonPaul the delegate list for #LinnCounty has been messed w what an embarrassment Justin has caused


The hell?

[EndTheFed]

Who is Justin?

[sailingaway]

In reverse order, potentially multiple conventions:

Don McDowell ‏ @DonMcDowell Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
RT @EJohansen: Congressman @TomLatham rallying the crowd at CD 3 @IowaGOP convention. We need Latham! #iagop

1h LoriJ ‏ @Iowans_Rock Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Rule changed back to majority needed for election to committees and offices. #iagop

1h Eric Johansen ‏ @EJohansen Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Congressman Tom Latham rallying the crowd at CD 3 @IowaGOP convention. We need Latham! #iagop

1h Eric Johansen ‏ @EJohansen Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Vote to amend rules to require a majority of votes to be elected comes down to the wire. Those opposed lost, but called for division. #iagop

[kathy88]

my bad, started one here, can you merge?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?372994-UTAH

[sailingaway]

Eric Johansen ‏ @EJohansen Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Updated CD 3 credentials report: 562. Now voting for @IowaGOP CD3 SCC. #iagop

[Bruno]

We have four names on the Constitutional Conservative list for State Central Committee, 3rd District. Counting the vote now. Only four will be elected. Great speeches from them and support from the crowd. Fingers crossed.

Texts being sent to us from Paul delegate advising us how and who to vote for. It helped with the last rules vote we narrowly lost.

Hanging in there through the country music in the background.

[BKom]

You lost the rules vote? That does not bode well.

[Bruno]

We have the top two on the first ballot out of four. Whew! One more of ours goes on to next ballot.

[Bruno]

RT @EJohansen: The following were elected on first ballot @IowaGOP CD3 convention: Gopal Krishna and Joel Kirtinitis. #iagop

[Bruno]

Governor Branstad at the mic now.

Gov. @TerryBranstad addresses #IAGOP District Convention. http://t.co/KcFbjLme

[Bruno]

We got three of the four seats on the State Central Committee!

[Barrex]

We got three of the four seats on the State Central Committee!https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZhDKKqiXSp-FYNcKW_HOR5btD7q5AXCtV-pPUB-9VRtr8HdlALike you can see from my expression I am happy with that.

[Bruno]

Suspending the rules to allow the top two vote getters to be elected to the Rules Com ... and the people go crazy. #3CD #IAGOP


#IA03 #IAGOP dist convention elected 2 Paul backers (Kurtinitis & Kabitzke) + Bachmann supporter Enos to State Cent Cmte.

[EndTheFed]

sorry to be so ignorant... but what all does this mean...?

[wgadget]

Winning!

Right?

[Agorism]

Winning!

Right?

cheating

[sailingaway]

cheating

how do you get that?

[Agorism]

Suspending the rules to allow the top two vote getters to be elected to the Rules Com ... and the people go crazy. #3CD #IAGOP


#IA03 #IAGOP dist convention elected 2 Paul backers (Kurtinitis & Kabitzke) + Bachmann supporter Enos to State Cent Cmte.


Oops maybe i read this wrong as meaning Santorum and Romney auto won it.

[sailingaway]

Oops maybe i read this wrong as meaning Santorum and Romney auto won it.

I'm not clear what happened with Rules c'ee but the Central Committee looks like conservatives are maintaining control. Romney now that his people were all kicked out were saying people on that committee shouldn't favor particular candidates, mind you the old CHAIR who oversaw counting the votes wrong in Romney's favor would have been a Romney guy, but our guy took his place.

[Bruno]

Oops maybe i read this wrong as meaning Santorum and Romney auto won it.

That motion to suspend was to ignore the previous rule we lost the vote on. It now benefits us because we have a Paul supporter on top. But we lost the suspension 2/3rds vote by a hair.

[tsai3904]

Results of State Central Committee elections:

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/04/21/winners-of-the-iowa-gop-state-central-committee-elections/

[Agorism]

remind me why the central committee is so important?

[Bruno]

We were advised to vote for Gopal, so he is at least fair if not also an ally.


Results of State Central Committee elections:

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/04/21/winners-of-the-iowa-gop-state-central-committee-elections/

3rd District:
(Incumbents Monte Shaw and David Fischer did not seek re-election.)

Gopal Krishna of Polk County, who is a current state central committee member and has declined to say who he caucused for

Joel Kurtinitis of Polk County, a Ron Paul supporter

John Kabitzke of Warren County, a Ron Paul backer

Wes Enos of Polk County, who is a current committee member and worked for the Bachmann campaign

[tsai3904]

remind me why the central committee is so important?

From Iowa GOP Constitution (http://iowagop.org/constitution.php):


2. The general management of the affairs of the Republican Party in Iowa is vested in the Republican State Central Committee with appropriate direction by state conventions of the Republican Party.

3. The Republican State Central Committee shall have such officers and administrative personnel as it may determine and shall organize its operations to attain the objectives of the Republican Party, and shall have power to adopt Bylaws to carry out its duties and the purposes of the Constitution, provided such Bylaws are not in conflict with the provision of this Constitution or the rules of the Republican National Convention.

4. The Republican State Central Committee shall elect a Chair and Co-Chair who shall be the Chief Executive Officers of the Republican Party of Iowa. The Chair and Co-Chair need not be elected from the membership of the Republican State Central Committee.

Number 4 is very important as the Chairman of the Republican Party is an automatic delegate.

Also, if there is ever a vacancy for National Committeeman or National Committeewoman, the State Central Committee gets to elect someone to fill the vacancy.

[RPit]

Wasn't Spiker already elected Chairman like twice? (once when the previous came down, and then 'officially'?)

[sailingaway]

No, he was elected once.

[Agorism]

So we only got one out of district one


1st District:

Dave Cushman of Dubuque County, a Ron Paul backer

Loras Schulte of Benton County, a Rick Santorum backer

Tony Krebsbach of Mitchell County, who isn’t publicly revealing his caucus vote

David Chung of Linn County, who isn’t publicly revealing his caucus vote

2nd District:
(Two incumbents lost re-election: Trudy Caviness and John Ortega. The third incumbent, Emily Lofgren, did not run again)

Jeff Shipley of Jefferson County, who was a Ron Paul backer

Marcus Fedler of Washington County, who was a Ron Paul supporter

Mark Doland of Mahaska County, who worked for Michele Bachmann’s campaign

Bob Anderson of Johnson County, who remained neutral in the GOP caucuses because he’s the county party chairman

3rd District:
(Incumbents Monte Shaw and David Fischer did not seek re-election.)

Joel Kurtinitis of Polk County, a Ron Paul supporter

John Kabitzke of Warren County, a Ron Paul backer

Gopal Krishna of Polk County, who is a current state central committee member and has declined to say who he caucused for

Wes Enos of Polk County, who is a current committee member and worked for the Bachmann campaign

4th District

Results not yet available

[tsai3904]

Wasn't Spiker already elected Chairman like twice? (once when the previous came down, and then 'officially'?)

He was elected on February 11 to fill a vacancy. The next official election is in 2013.

[Bruno]

We approved these. The NASA plank was specifically about the keeping th shuttle program so not to rely on other nations.

Jr Delegates at #IAGOP 3rd District Convo propose dumping Federal Czars & #Obama Healthy Kids Initiative, while keeping @NASA space program

[sailingaway]

Ron wouldn't vote for it unless he could justify it for military reasons, but he loves space. He said he went into the Air Force as his branch of service when he had to choose because he liked the idea of being the first doctor in space.

[tsai3904]

So we only got one out of district one

We got two in the 1st District. Tony Krebsbach is a Ron Paul supporter. David Chung is not...he didn't support AJ Spiker for Chairman.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/profile.php?member=Kreban01

So far, we have 6 of 12 positions on the State Central Committee.

[Darguth]

Yeah, I'm not sure why with SpaceX less than 2 weeks away from the first commercial birthing with the ISS the retirement of the Space Shuttle program is of any real consequence?

[Agorism]

The four GOP district conventions are underway in Iowa today and delegates are electing the board members who will govern the Republican Party of Iowa. Each of Iowa’s four district gets four members on the state central committee. They serve two years.

1st District:

Dave Cushman of Dubuque County, a Ron Paul backer

Loras Schulte of Benton County, a Rick Santorum backer

Tony Krebsbach of Mitchell County, who isn’t publicly revealing his caucus vote

David Chung of Linn County, who isn’t publicly revealing his caucus vote

2nd District:
(Two incumbents lost re-election: Trudy Caviness and John Ortega. The third incumbent, Emily Lofgren, did not run again)

Jeff Shipley of Jefferson County, a Ron Paul backer

Marcus Fedler of Washington County, a Ron Paul supporter

Mark Doland of Mahaska County, who worked for Michele Bachmann’s campaign

Bob Anderson of Johnson County, who remained neutral in the GOP caucuses because he’s the county party chairman

3rd District:
(Incumbents Monte Shaw and David Fischer did not seek re-election.)

Joel Kurtinitis of Polk County, a Ron Paul supporter

John Kabitzke of Warren County, a Ron Paul backer

Gopal Krishna of Polk County, who is a current state central committee member and has declined to say who he caucused for

Wes Enos of Polk County, who is a current committee member and worked for the Bachmann campaign

4th District
(Incumbent Craig Williams lost his race for re-election. Drew Ivers didn’t seek re-election.)

Kris Thiessen of Clay County, a Ron Paul backer

Tim Moran of Woodbury County, a current central committee member who didn’t caucus this year but worked for Mitt Romney campaign in the past

Jamie Johnson of Webster County, a Rick Santorum supporter

Chad Steenhoek of Story County, who has declined to say who he caucused for

D4 is in now as well. Says we got one there?

[sailingaway]

Drew Ivers didn't run again?

[Agorism]

So we got 7 out of 16 no?

[tsai3904]

So we got 7 out of 16 no?

Yea, 7 confirmed and maybe up to 9.

Gopal Krishna in 3rd (supporters were told to vote for him) and Chad Steenhoek in 4th (Ron Paul held a fundraiser for him in 2010) are maybes.

[defe07]

Any news on the Iowa District Conventions and the national delegate allocation? Would like some info.

[tsai3904]

Any news on the Iowa District Conventions and the national delegate allocation? Would like some info.

The District Conventions are technically suppose to elect delegates to the National Convention one day before the State Convention. However, I believe they can change the rules and allow the election of delegates to occur today. I'm not sure if that's already happened.

[sailingaway]

Eric Johansen ‏ @EJohansen Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Monte Shaw and Nancy Bowery have been elected to the @IowaGOP CD3 Nominating Committee. #iagop

who are they?

[kathy88]

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/monte-shaw-mba/12/76/b65



Specialties
Six Sigma Green Belt, information technology background, financial analysis, financial statement analysis, credit analysis, negotiation, project management, decision making, detail oriented, reengineering, Sarbanes-Oxley, process management

[Bruno]

Eric Johansen ‏ @EJohansen Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Monte Shaw and Nancy Bowery have been elected to the @IowaGOP CD3 Nominating Committee. #iagop

who are they?

We were advised to vote for Nancy and someone else who didn't make it. 1 out of 2 isn't bad.

[sailingaway]

Reverse order

Pete Jeffries ‏ @petejeffries Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
To maximize last ballot sheet, #IAGOP 3rd Dist Conv Chair @wesenos has delegates rip slips in half in case a re-vote needed for final slot.

41m Eric Johansen ‏ @EJohansen Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Monte Shaw and Nancy Bowery have been elected to the @IowaGOP CD3 Nominating Committee. #iagop

54m Pete Jeffries ‏ @petejeffries Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
#IAGOP 3rd District Convo now voting on IA King/Queen-makers for Nat'l GOP Convo Delegates. #powerplayers

[IDefendThePlatform]

We got 1 out of 2 spots for the nominating committee that selects national delegates and I'm told we got 2 out of 2 in district 4 so that's 3/4 and there will be 8 total. That 8 person committee will choose 13 delegates for national with 13 more chosen at state next month.

Awesome job by all our candidates. Particularly satisfying was electing Joel Kuronitis on the first ballot AFTER he openly stated that he is a Ron Paul supporter and is trying to get more youth into the GOP.

It was a darn good day in district 3.

[RPit]

We got 1 out of 2 spots for the nominating committee that selects national delegates and I'm told we got 2 out of 2 in district 4 so that's 3/4 and there will be 8 total. That 8 person committee will choose 13 delegates for national with 13 more chosen at state next month.

Awesome job by all our candidates. Particularly satisfying was electing Joel Kuronitis on the first ballot AFTER he openly stated that he is a Ron Paul supporter and is trying to get more youth into the GOP.

It was a darn good day in district 3.

Does that mean if we get 2 more of them giving us 5/8 we could potentially take all 13 delegates that they choose :) If so, I love you Iowa ;)

[Agorism]

We got 1 out of 2 spots for the nominating committee that selects national delegates and I'm told we got 2 out of 2 in district 4 so that's 3/4 and there will be 8 total. That 8 person committee will choose 13 delegates for national with 13 more chosen at state next month.

Awesome job by all our candidates. Particularly satisfying was electing Joel Kuronitis on the first ballot AFTER he openly stated that he is a Ron Paul supporter and is trying to get more youth into the GOP.

It was a darn good day in district 3.

How many delegates does Iowa get? seems like too many if 13 and 13?

[PaulSoHard]

How many delegates does Iowa get? seems like too many if 13 and 13?
28 total delegates

[tsai3904]

Does that mean if we get 2 more of them giving us 5/8 we could potentially take all 13 delegates that they choose :) If so, I love you Iowa ;)

The Nominating Committee will prepare a slate of 13 delegates to the State Convention. The delegates at the State Convention can then approve or reject the slate. It will be very hard to reject a slate since many delegates will just agree with what's presented to them so yes, if we can control the Nominating Committee, we will have a good shot at winning a lot more delegates.

[IDefendThePlatform]

The Nominating Committee will prepare a slate of 13 delegates to the State Convention. The delegates at the State Convention can then approve or reject the slate. It will be very hard to reject a slate since many delegates will just agree with what's presented to them so yes, if we can control the Nominating Committee, we will have a good shot at winning a lot more delegates.

They updated the des Moines register blog:
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/04/21/winners-of-the-iowa-gop-state-central-committee-elections/

Out of 8 on the national delegate nominating committee I count 4 Ron Paul, 1 santorum, 1 Romney (shaw) and 2 unknowns. I think they meet and put together their slate of 13 national delegates in 2 weeks, so we should have a better idea of where we stand then.

[Karsten]

In order to do that, Paul must have a majority of support from at least five state delegations. With states like North Dakota, Minnesota and others on track, his supporters could then attempt to nominate him from the floor.

[Agorism]

North Dakota seems....NOT on track for that. Minn probably though.