Louisiana: district 1 won 219 to 80 something

[btwilli1]

Finally a victory

[justatrey]

Great news, thanks for the update!

[Drex]

Sweet!

[Bern]

I'm not familiar with the Louisiana process. What does this mean, exactly? A slate of Paul delegates awarded for Tampa?

[growburn13]

I'm not familiar with the Louisiana process. What does this mean, exactly? A slate of Paul delegates awarded for Tampa?

The slates of delegates elected today will go to the state convention in June and elect the delegation to attend national. If we dominate today, we will vote our own people to go to Tampa. Pretty much it in a nutshell.

[PaulSoHard]

I'm not familiar with the Louisiana process. What does this mean, exactly? A slate of Paul delegates awarded for Tampa?
From what I understand a district win will send the slate of delegates to be represented at the Louisiana State Convention.

[Bern]

Thanks and congrats. Sounds like you overwhelmed them with a dominating victory.

[Darguth]

Here is some more hard data. I was the site coordinator in Gretna so I was observing the count-vote personally for that particular caucus location:

Congressional District #2, full slate votes (for my location):
Slate #1: 5
Slate #2: 2
Slate #3: 10
Slate #4: 0
Slate #5: 23
Slate #6: 1
Slate #7: 61
Slate #8: 0
Slate #9: 0

Congressional District #1, full slate votes (for my location):
Slate #1: 2
Slate #2: 0
Slate #3: 2
Slate #4: 0
Slate #5: 0
Slate #6: 0
Slate #7: 6
Slate #8: 0
Slate #9: 0
Slate #10: 0

Slate #7 is the official "Ron Paul" slate statewide...some of the others also have our people on them but I won't disclose that here specifically. I will say that slated #3 and #5 are Romney. Needless to say, we swept my location with about 2/3 of the vote. This doesn't account for "split tickets" where voters voted for individuals rather than a slate, but we did well in that regard too.

Here's some further soft data: I'm hearing from my counterparts across CD1 and CD2 and we are getting similar results everywhere in these districts. They look to be almost-guaranteed-wins based on what I'm seeing. Official tallies won't be available for awhile I assume.

To give you some perspective CD2 is likely our weakest area of support (as I understand it).

[sailingaway]

The slates of delegates elected today will go to the state convention in June and elect the delegation to attend national. If we dominate today, we will vote our own people to go to Tampa. Pretty much it in a nutshell.

how many vs how many were bound in the primary though? Or does the state convention also determine who fills the seats from those awarded in the primary?

[growburn13]

Official tallies won't be available for awhile I assume.

In Metairie they mentioned that the official results will be online between 3-5 this afternoon.

[growburn13]

how many vs how many were bound in the primary though? Or does the state convention also determine who fills the seats from those awarded in the primary?

Only 5 are bound to Mitt and I believe 10 are bound to Santorum. the 10 to Santorum may be unbound now that he has suspended. Looks like we will have delegates in those bound positions though if we sweep the state. It is only the at-large delegates elected at the state convention that are tied to the Primary

18 RNC delegate from CD's - 3 from each

20 At-large RNC Delegates. Alternates and delegates will be nominated to these positions at the convention. We will nominate our people and vote them in these 20.

The remaining 8 delegates we will assume will be Romney Supporters.

eidt: POST 300 woo!

[Darguth]

If we sweep the district caucuses, as we appear to be doing, I think we can seat 38 of Louisiana's 46 RNC delegates at the state convention. That includes the 5 that will be bound to Romney, but we can get our people in those seats potentially. A further 5 are chosen by the LA REC and 3 are LA's committeeman, committeewoman, and chairman.

Assuming all of the establishment people flock to Romney (I don't know if that's the case) plus his 5 bound delegates from the primary we could still potentially win LA with 33 of 46 RNC delegates.

And we appear to be well on our way to being able to do that from what I'm seeing/hearing.

[DonovanJames]

This is my face reading this thread.

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[sailingaway]

This is my face reading this thread.

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I'm really sorry!!!

:p

[Highstreet]

Is LA a bound or unbound state??

[Highstreet]

If we sweep the district caucuses, as we appear to be doing, I think we can seat 38 of Louisiana's 46 RNC delegates at the state convention. That includes the 5 that will be bound to Romney, but we can get our people in those seats potentially. A further 5 are chosen by the LA REC and 3 are LA's committeeman, committeewoman, and chairman.

Assuming all of the establishment people flock to Romney (I don't know if that's the case) plus his 5 bound delegates from the primary we could still potentially win LA with 33 of 46 RNC delegates.

And we appear to be well on our way to being able to do that from what I'm seeing/hearing.

AWESOME!!

[Darguth]

Is LA a bound or unbound state??

Except for the 5 bound delegates for Romney from the Primary all of LA's RNC delegates are unbound.

[Bastiat's The Law]

This is my face reading this thread.

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LOL! :D

[FSP-Rebel]

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[Jordan Liberty]

This is my face reading this thread.

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Best part of that pic, the Super Nintendo in the background :D.

But seriously what a great day for grassroots. First Massachusetts then Louisiana. We're also awaiting the results from the Alaska state convention. Hopefully there's more good news to follow.

[skyorbit]

If we sweep the district caucuses, as we appear to be doing, I think we can seat 38 of Louisiana's 46 RNC delegates at the state convention. That includes the 5 that will be bound to Romney, but we can get our people in those seats potentially. A further 5 are chosen by the LA REC and 3 are LA's committeeman, committeewoman, and chairman.

Assuming all of the establishment people flock to Romney (I don't know if that's the case) plus his 5 bound delegates from the primary we could still potentially win LA with 33 of 46 RNC delegates.

And we appear to be well on our way to being able to do that from what I'm seeing/hearing.

I'm confused.. Wouldn't it be 36 of the 46? Aren't 2 of those 38 are bound right?

Also
Can't we get people on the LA REC so we can get those 5 delegates? How difficult is that? Or, if our people are the only people at the State convention, is it possible they can only appoint people that are there?

Tracy

[Darguth]

I'm confused.. Wouldn't it be 36 of the 46? Aren't 2 of those 38 are bound right?

Also
Can't we get people on the LA REC so we can get those 5 delegates? How difficult is that? Or, if our people are the only people at the State convention, is it possible they can only appoint people that are there?

Tracy

5 of the 38 RNC delegates up for election at the LA State Convention are bound to Romney. 10 were also bound to Santorum but are now unbound because he suspended his campaign. So the State Delegation will elect the 38 CD and At-Large Louisiana RNC delegates, but 5 of those will be bound.

As for the LA REC positions I'm not entirely sure if we'd be able to get our people elected or not. Both from a technical and from a feasible standpoint. I just don't know how that works. But maybe?

[The Magic Hoof]

I think we just won all 6 districts! Waiting on final confirmation.

[Bern]

How do you say "holy sh*t" in cajun?

[The Magic Hoof]

Still waiting on confirmation but it may be 4 or 5 out of 6.

[Darguth]

How do you say "holy sh*t" in cajun?

I've no clue :) Though my last name is French, I'm not a Cajun. I'm a TRUE Cajun in the sense that my surname is French-Canadian which were the forefathers of Cajuns (Acadians) :D