La.’s GOP delegate count being challenged

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This one doesn't allow comments, but in general articles like these are great places to point out what happened, since they are local and the politicians involved care what people think.

http://theadvocate.com/home/3608358-125/las-gop-delegate-count-being


As state Republican leadership rallied around Mitt Romney for president, a battle continued Saturday over Louisiana delegates to the Tampa, Fla., nominating convention later this month.

A panel of the National Republican Committee late Friday rejected a challenge filed by supporters of Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who argued that Louisiana’s state party violated its own bylaws and the RNC rules to “handpick” delegates and alternates.

“It vindicates us,” said state Republican Party executive director Jason Doré.

Dore and state GOP Chairman Roger Villere said Saturday they hoped the decision by the broad-based committee would end the protest.

But Charlie Davis, Louisiana’s Paul campaign director, said the challenge will continue. He asserted the decision by an RNC contest committee was based on “fraudulent” information submitted by state party officials.

“We are going to take the fight to the convention,” Davis said.

more at link

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and this fact statement has been run by a state delegate who was there and says this is accurate:


Private security (off duty police) in Louisiana State GOP convention at the specific bidding of Villiers, the self appointed temporarty chair of the convention manhandled the rightful rules chair duly elected the night before by the majority of the rules committee to force him from his elected office at the convention, breaking his fingers in the process. This even though during the process the self appointed temporary chair was removed from his seat by a majority of the state convention. Thereafter, at the bidding of Villiers, other private security manhandled Herford, the newly elected chair of the convention, knocking him to the floor and injuring his newly implanted prosthetic hip, requiring that he be removed from the convention by ambulence, and preventing him from contiuing with his duly elected position at the state convetion, requiring the election of a new chair.


Supporting video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k884ZKUNwbo&feature=player_embedded#t=0s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgTpLOUxC6Q&feature=player_embedded#t=0s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnSb9l9rwQ&feature=player_embedded#t=0s

[AJ Antimony]

So is there anything else they can do or are they screwed?

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So is there anything else they can do or are they screwed?

This was the initial appeal and my understanding from the write up on Maine that no one expects that to be the end of the story, they just aren't allowed to omit it, you have to go to the contest committee before the RNC or they won't hear it. So that will be the main one.

and our spreading the video would help I think. The video is pretty clear they should find in our favor and I'd like us to do spread it around, to put media pressure on the credentials committee. The letter a Parish GOP head sent Is also good. It says he was never a Paul supporter but our delegates have to be seated, that the one in his Parish the establishment wanted to seat had 200+ votes while the Paul supporter being denied had over 700 votes, and the other two establishment people put in for his Parish hadn't even run as delegates. He felt this was transparent and disgraceful and bad for the party (that may not have been the exact language).

Plus getting the facts written up in the various fraud situations.

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I assume for this 'first appeal,' the Paul faction at some point was allowed to argue their case. Do you know if this is true? If so, I'd also assume that they would have collected and presented all of this information...