Breaking: Oklahoma District 4 Ron Paul Revolution Delegate Sweep!

[flybeech]

Today, Ron Paul swept the entire Oklahoma District 4 convention! The Ron Paul R3volution continues in the Sooner State.

There was nothing the establishment could do to stop the surgical precision of the Ron Paul movement, as we swept the entire District 4 convention. Shock and awe was the order of the day and Ron Paul now dominates Oklahoma. The spirit of Ron Paul from Oklahoma District 3, 4 and 5 is going to Tampa. Next, we will fight to fill the slate in the upcoming election of the at-large Oklahoma delegates.

Ron Paul needs delegates, so the Sooner State delivers.

[PaulSoHard]

The Revolution is alive and well in Oklahoma!

[Titus]

This is good news. +rep

[wgadget]

Need tweetable link!

[RPit]

Nice... but Oklahoma delegates are bound, any possibility to unbound them like at State Convention or something by changing rules?

[Agorism]

What's the actual delegate counts in 3,4,5?

[flybeech]

Nice... but Oklahoma delegates are bound, any possibility to unbound them like at State Convention or something by changing rules?

Saontorum won the beauty contest, so we'll just worry about the at-large delegates in May and go from there. Yeeee Hawww!

[PauliticsPolitics]

flybeech:
So are all the OK district conventions done?
Can you give us a summary of how many we got out of each district?
Is there any chance that we will have a majority at the state convention so y'all can change the rules and unbind the delegates?

[flybeech]

What's the actual delegate counts in 3,4,5?

Each district sends 3 delegates, 3 alternates and 1 elector to Tampa.

[Agorism]

Each district sends 3 delegates, 3 alternates and 3 electors to Tampa.

Were they sweeps?

Also they are bound to Santorum anyways?

[tsai3904]

Nice... but Oklahoma delegates are bound, any possibility to unbound them like at State Convention or something by changing rules?

27 of 43 are bound to Santorum or Gingrich. More likely than not, they will not appear on the RNC ballot so those delegates will be free to vote for whoever they want.

[kathy88]

So plurality first round?

[PauliticsPolitics]

27 of 43 are bound to Santorum or Gingrich. More likely than not, they will not appear on the RNC ballot so those delegates will be free to vote for whoever they want.

Yes, but it is still potentially to our advantage to unbind the delegates at the state convention - some of the delegates which are bound to Romney are likely our people.

[RPit]

But Santorum didn't end campaign, he simply suspended it, so technically they are still candidates. Unless they change rules at State I don't think they can vote for RP the first round, thats what I understand from the rules personally.

[PauliticsPolitics]

So plurality first round?

It seems that we have 9 out of the 15 delegates elected so far. (RP friendlies, hopefully we can unbind them or Santorum/Newt decide not to go on the ballot at National.)

[Lafayette]

All your delegates are belong to us.

[sailingaway]

woot!!

[sailingaway]

But Santorum didn't end campaign, he simply suspended it, so technically they are still candidates. Unless they change rules at State I don't think they can vote for RP the first round, thats what I understand from the rules personally.

you are always such a little ray of sunshine.

If they want to throw their delegates to Romney, or try, they have to unbind them. They can't just unbind those going to vote for Romney.

[flybeech]

flybeech:
So are all the OK district conventions done?
Can you give us a summary of how many we got out of each district?
Is there any chance that we will have a majority at the state convention so y'all can change the rules and unbind the delegates?

We're figuring that out now. If we can repeat what we did in 3, 4 and 5 at the state convention, we'll get the at-large delegates, as well.

District 3 elected 3 delegates and 3 alternates, plus one elector and the alternate elector from the Ron Paul slate.
District 4 elected 3 delegates and 3 alternates, plus both the electors and alternate electors from the Ron Paul slate.
District 5 elected 3 delegates and 3 alternates, plus one elector. Rick Santorum picked up one alternate elector.

All that's left is the State convention in May, where we will try for one more sweep.

[flybeech]

All your delegates are belong to us.

YES! All the delegates ARE belong to us!

[sailingaway]

We're figuring that out now. If we can repeat what we did in 3, 4 and 5 at the state convention, we'll get the at-large delegates, as well.

District 3 elected 3 delegates and 3 alternates, plus one elector and the alternate elector from the Ron Paul slate.
District 4 elected 3 delegates and 3 alternates, plus both the electors and alternate electors from the Ron Paul slate.
District 5 elected 3 delegates and 3 alternates, plus one elector. Rick Santorum picked up one alternate elector.

All that's left is the State convention in May, where we will try for one more sweep.

thank you!

[PauliticsPolitics]

flybeech:
Do you know who won #1 and #2?
Are they Romney-friendlies, or Santorum-friendlies?

[tsai3904]

But Santorum didn't end campaign, he simply suspended it, so technically they are still candidates. Unless they change rules at State I don't think they can vote for RP the first round, thats what I understand from the rules personally.

If Santorum is not on the ballot at the RNC, how will they vote for him?

If Santorum does not appear on the ballot, those delegates pledged to Santorum are unbound. Santorum will make sure he does not appear on the ballot if he wants to save any face within the Republican Party.

[flybeech]

flybeech:
Do you know who won #1 and #2?
Are they Romney-friendlies, or Santorum-friendlies?

There are not too many Romney-friendlies here. We're the reddest state in the Nation and Romney is some shade of purple, depending on what day it is. Folks in these parts don't take too kindly to purples. I can't say for sure what they are likely to do, since the establishment here is the same as everywhere and will take whoever Fox News tells them to take. We'll be working on it though, you can count on that.

[flybeech]

My friend Jason won an alternate slot for Tampa. He's far from rich, so we'll need to raise some money to help him get there. There's talk of a Ronvoy to Florida and that will help, but don't worry...the money will be raised, somehow.

[Maximus]

Oklahoma is really kicking some @$$! Great work!

[sailingaway]

My friend Jason won an alternate slot for Tampa. He's far from rich, so we'll need to raise some money to help him get there. There's talk of a Ronvoy to Florida and that will help, but don't worry...the money will be raised, somehow.

we should get up a list of chip ins for delegates like we did for CPAC in years past.

[Bern]

Aw hell... Props to my north of the border brethren.

[Okie RP fan]

The Revolution is alive and well in Oklahoma!

Yea, even though he got dead last with less than 30,000 votes...

Excellent news, flybeech! Hopefully we can meet at the state convention.

[RPit]

If Santorum is not on the ballot at the RNC, how will they vote for him?

If Santorum does not appear on the ballot, those delegates pledged to Santorum are unbound. Santorum will make sure he does not appear on the ballot if he wants to save any face within the Republican Party.

You don't know, maybe they'll do that to take away a 'plurality state' from us if things get tight. So in any case if you end up with majority at State try to change the rules to unbind them to be safe.