sailingaway
04-11-2013, 10:46 AM
Grassroots conservatives from around the nation have traveled to Los Angeles for the Republican National Committee spring meeting.
A rules fight going back to the convention floor in Tampa, FL continues to rage on as many in a large minority are frustrated at the power grab and centralization effort going on within the GOP. Ben Ginsberg of the Mitt Romney campaign lead a rather successful effort in Tampa to instate rules that centralize the power of the party into the hands of an elect few and the presumed nominee. There was initial outcry as the Ginsberg team had got “too far” allowing nominees to veto and replace delegates for just about any reason they found. However, a compromise was found and the new committee rules modified just enough to pacify the opposition and still put the thumb heavily on the grassroots.
Staunch opponents say that these new rules castrate the grassroots and make the convention merely a stage show for the televised audience; a convention that would amount to nothing more than a tightly knit presentation of the GOP nominee’s platform and campaign launch. In many hypothetical scenarios these opponents may be right.
a lot more: http://www.rlc.org/grassroots-continue-rules-fight-at-spring-rnc-meeting/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
In case anyone doesn't remember, this vote to 'change' the rules included a retroactive change to the number of states needed to put someone's name in nomination for a speech at RNC, and the vote was read off a teleprompter saying 'the Ayes have it' when clear audio disputed that, and immediate calls for count of the vote were made, procedurally. This took away Ron's being put into nomination by the six states that had filed for him-- even after so many of his delegates and delegations were stripped, and it did it retroactively. Plus it tried to create a situation where not only could no one ever get a grass roots candidate opposed by central establishment leadership again, central leadership could change the rules between elections to stack the deck, more easily, once opposition and tactics were identified.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O248VaDpA
also, http://www.texasgopvote.com/comment/8425 -but there is tons on this, just google 'RNC teleprompter'. In fact there is so much on this that MSM ignoring it is blatant. But then, something similar happened at the DNC with a vote, so MSM wouldn't want to call into question the fairness of process in the two major parties, now would they?
A rules fight going back to the convention floor in Tampa, FL continues to rage on as many in a large minority are frustrated at the power grab and centralization effort going on within the GOP. Ben Ginsberg of the Mitt Romney campaign lead a rather successful effort in Tampa to instate rules that centralize the power of the party into the hands of an elect few and the presumed nominee. There was initial outcry as the Ginsberg team had got “too far” allowing nominees to veto and replace delegates for just about any reason they found. However, a compromise was found and the new committee rules modified just enough to pacify the opposition and still put the thumb heavily on the grassroots.
Staunch opponents say that these new rules castrate the grassroots and make the convention merely a stage show for the televised audience; a convention that would amount to nothing more than a tightly knit presentation of the GOP nominee’s platform and campaign launch. In many hypothetical scenarios these opponents may be right.
a lot more: http://www.rlc.org/grassroots-continue-rules-fight-at-spring-rnc-meeting/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
In case anyone doesn't remember, this vote to 'change' the rules included a retroactive change to the number of states needed to put someone's name in nomination for a speech at RNC, and the vote was read off a teleprompter saying 'the Ayes have it' when clear audio disputed that, and immediate calls for count of the vote were made, procedurally. This took away Ron's being put into nomination by the six states that had filed for him-- even after so many of his delegates and delegations were stripped, and it did it retroactively. Plus it tried to create a situation where not only could no one ever get a grass roots candidate opposed by central establishment leadership again, central leadership could change the rules between elections to stack the deck, more easily, once opposition and tactics were identified.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O248VaDpA
also, http://www.texasgopvote.com/comment/8425 -but there is tons on this, just google 'RNC teleprompter'. In fact there is so much on this that MSM ignoring it is blatant. But then, something similar happened at the DNC with a vote, so MSM wouldn't want to call into question the fairness of process in the two major parties, now would they?