Colorado state convention thread

[helmuth_hubener]

I know a way to prevent fake opposition slates in the future: use weird-colored paper. Either distribute at the last minute or actually print at the last minute. The opposition can get on their laptops and copy your title, your formatting, everything... but they will not have neon green paper (or whatever) because they will not have thought to bring colored paper, and even if they did they cannot have a supply of every conceivable possible color. And it will be too late for them to run to Office Depot and buy some. Then if there are two "Conservative Unity" tickets, a real one and a Romney one, you just tell everyone to vote for the neon green ticket.

[Thor]

So that pretty well covers it all (even includes the 2 Santorums by directing to the Unity slate, which the email I got did not include - see below). I am not sure how someone only getting that would not have voted both. It might have been better to list all the names, but the reference was there.

Being upset over some people calling it "official" is nitpicking a little bit and not worth the energy.

Here was my email I got at 8:53 AM MST on Saturday:

SUBJECT: New RP slate additions for state, ok'd by the RP campaign

Grass Roots Liberty Slate: in addition to the Conservative Liberty Slate Please add these ten names only!

Athens-Barnekow, Marilou
Brehm, Keri Joy
Brown Dudley
Casetta Alexander
England, John James
Grantham, St. Sen. Kevin
Kuroiwa, Ted Charles
Nienburg, Charles Raymond
Ransom, Kim D.
Spady, Judith Diane
Woyte, Jospeph Christian
Arleen Schiffman
Joseph Breher
Jeremiah Patterson
Christine Collins
Randy Linnen
Quinn Harris
Robert Reginelli III
Chris Corcoran
Darrin Buttery
Mary Zesiewicz

We MUST vote together or we will hang separately

I know, it says "add these 10 names", but it has them all (less the 2 Santorum) in the message.

Less confusion would have prevailed in both cases (CD's and State) if the slates had enough names for all the votes we could cast, i.e. for Delegates AND Alternates. So 6 for the CD's and 24 for State, instead of just 3 for the CD's and 12 for State with last minute efforts to provide concentrated efforts for the remaining Alternate slots.

[sailingaway]

I know a way to prevent fake opposition slates in the future: use weird-colored paper. Either distribute at the last minute or actually print at the last minute. The opposition can get on their laptops and copy your title, your formatting, everything... but they will not have neon green paper (or whatever) because they will not have thought to bring colored paper, and even if they did they cannot have a supply of every conceivable possible color. And it will be too late for them to run to Office Depot and buy some. Then if there are two "Conservative Unity" tickets, a real one and a Romney one, you just tell everyone to vote for the neon green ticket.

I think that is a good idea, different colors and scramble them so the night before would have been a different color than the next day. A lot of places do that with tickets and entry bracelets, why not with slates, when fraud is occurring?

[libertythor]

How many delegates did Ron Paul get?

[Maltheus]

How many delegates did Ron Paul get?

It looks like 13 or 14 (of 36 total). Not sure about that St. Sen. Kevin Grantham guy. There was a rumor going around that he was a Romney mole, but then I heard that was a false rumor. The only thing I've found while googling him was that he was leaning Santorum back in February. If we assume that we have the full 14, then we need to convert 4 Santorum delegates to have 50%. That means getting Nancy McKiernanm, Sue Sharkey, Sean Conway, and Anil Mathai on our side, because we won't likely have any luck converting Robin Coran or Kent Lambert. If we can convert 3, with the others staying committed to Santorum through national (unlikely), then we will also have a plurality. I suspect that we'll be lucky if we can convert 2, with the rest flipping to Romney, once Santorum endorses.

If by some remote chance, this delegate promotion challenge, leads to an invalidation of the state results (leaving us with only our CD delegates 10/21), then we may only need to convert 1 to have a plurality (and I think we have one already), unless of course the other 5 flip to Romney.

[Monotaur]

....and in case anyone gets bored, someone uploaded the entire State Assembly to you tube (I haven't watched it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WiCA...ature=youtu.be

[dwinblood]

Being upset over some people calling it "official" is nitpicking a little bit and not worth the energy.

I agree with that. If people followed the instructions at the top we'd be good. I did not have a copy of this. All of the names were texted to me about an hour before that started circulating. So, by the time I was offered one (I was offered it about 3 times so, we had good coverage) I already had the names.