"Mass. Republicans oust Ron Paul delegates; They did not deliver affidavit in support of Mitt Romney on time" by Stephanie Ebbert | Globe Staff, June 24, 2012
In Massachusetts, Ron Paul’s Liberty Slate swept the Republican
caucuses in April, stealing delegate spots that were expected to go to
Mitt Romney’s friends and allies, whom he had selected (AP/File).
Yes, even when Ron Paul does things to the letter and by the rules he still "steals" things.
Evan Kenney had just turned 18 and registered to vote for the first time when he campaigned to be an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. Lauding Ronald Reagan’s principles and blasting Keynesian economics at the Lynnfield caucus in April, the Wakefield High School senior beat out several well-known Massachusetts Republicans, including the party’s most recent nominee for governor, Charles D. Baker Jr.
But earlier this month, Kenney was one of 17 delegates and alternates disqualified by a Republican committee deciding who gets to represent Massachusetts Republicans at the national convention in Tampa. Kenney and others had failed to deliver in time an affidavit swearing, under the penalty of perjury, that they would support Mitt Romney’s nomination for president.
An affidavit is never mentioned in the Republican Party’s rules for selecting delegates and has never been required of delegates in the past, GOP critics say. Suspicions are steep this year because Kenney and the others are supporters of Ron Paul, the libertarian candidate whose quixotic campaign for president culminated in an effort to take over state caucuses nationwide.
Even the word choices bother me. Yup, he's taking over with his quixotic campaign.
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Massachusetts, Paul’s Liberty Slate swept the Republican caucuses in
April, stealing delegate spots that were expected to go to Romney’s
friends and allies, whom he had selected.
Yeah, he "stole" 'em because his people actually showed.
Makes you wonder -- or not -- how he lost the vote.
Massachusetts, a state dominated by Democrats and typically marginalized at national Republican events, could have an unusual share of the limelight at this year’s convention, since its former governor is the party’s expected presidential nominee.
Some libertarian-leaning delegates balked at the notion of signing legal affidavits pledging what they had committed verbally at the caucuses where they were elected. Many later submitted them, but not until after the deadline.
As a result, the committee disqualified them, winnowing the number of Liberty delegates and alternates to the convention from 35 to 19, said organizer Brad Wyatt. (One Liberty delegate was added due to the changes in the roster.)
“I’ve been rudely awakened to the realities of politics,” Kenney said. “I feel I’ve been cheated.”
Because you HAVE! Thanks for RUINING the POLITICAL EXPERIENCE for the kid, a**holes!
A spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party would not say why the affidavits were required of delegates this year, and the chairman of the Allocations Committee would not agree to an interview.
Oh, WE KNOW WHY!!!!
Instead, the chairman offered an e-mailed statement saying that the Romney campaign, through its representative on his committee, had the right to reject delegates for “just cause.”
Hey, it's Massachusetts and AmeriKa, where war is peace and injustice is justice.
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The actions by the GOP establishment in Massachusetts are further disenchanting some libertarians and conservatives who have traditionally been suspicious of the party’s top-down leadership.
I'm MORE than DISENCHANTED, I'm fucking ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a state where Republican registration has dwindled to just 11 percent of registered voters, the party can hardly afford to alienate enthusiastic activists, they say.
And I'm still one of them -- but not for much longer.
“I’m very disappointed and disheartened about the way we’ve been treated,” Wyatt said. “It’s almost unbelievable.”
Among the new activists is Carol Claros, a Worcester single mother and nurse who represents the first generation of her Colombian family to be born in the United States.
In the weeks leading up to the caucuses, Claros, who got interested in politics through Paul several years ago, worked with Wyatt and other activists to drum up attendance and support for the Liberty delegates. They did it “the old-fashioned way,” Claros said. “We reached out to our voters. We got a list of Republican donors . . . we must have called 2,000 people in the state. I was like a phone warrior.”
At her caucus, attended by more than 200 people, she was the nervous first speaker — but the second-highest vote-getter, she said. Even that day, though, she said, she heard that Romney’s chosen delegates were being advised they should plan to go to Tampa.
The Paul delegates were going to be challenged.
The party has decided not to count the provisional ballots provided to voters whose registration couldn’t be confirmed on the day of the caucuses.
Expect more of that in the fall, Democrats.
And a Republican challenged on a technicality the election of six Liberty delegates and alternates in Romney’s Congressional district. That challenge was dismissed by the Allocations Committee.
Oh, so the Globe didn't lie or distort, huh? That would be a first.
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Yes, even when Ron Paul does things to the letter and by the rules he still "steals" things.
Evan Kenney had just turned 18 and registered to vote for the first time when he campaigned to be an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. Lauding Ronald Reagan’s principles and blasting Keynesian economics at the Lynnfield caucus in April, the Wakefield High School senior beat out several well-known Massachusetts Republicans, including the party’s most recent nominee for governor, Charles D. Baker Jr.
But earlier this month, Kenney was one of 17 delegates and alternates disqualified by a Republican committee deciding who gets to represent Massachusetts Republicans at the national convention in Tampa. Kenney and others had failed to deliver in time an affidavit swearing, under the penalty of perjury, that they would support Mitt Romney’s nomination for president.
An affidavit is never mentioned in the Republican Party’s rules for selecting delegates and has never been required of delegates in the past, GOP critics say. Suspicions are steep this year because Kenney and the others are supporters of Ron Paul, the libertarian candidate whose quixotic campaign for president culminated in an effort to take over state caucuses nationwide.
Even the word choices bother me. Yup, he's taking over with his quixotic campaign.
The delegates must vote for Romney, based on
his strong primary win in Massachusetts, but Paul’s supporters hope to
use the convention to draw attention to his agenda, including auditing
the Federal Reserve and requiring wars to be declared by Congress.
Yeah, he "stole" 'em because his people actually showed.
Makes you wonder -- or not -- how he lost the vote.
Massachusetts, a state dominated by Democrats and typically marginalized at national Republican events, could have an unusual share of the limelight at this year’s convention, since its former governor is the party’s expected presidential nominee.
Some libertarian-leaning delegates balked at the notion of signing legal affidavits pledging what they had committed verbally at the caucuses where they were elected. Many later submitted them, but not until after the deadline.
As a result, the committee disqualified them, winnowing the number of Liberty delegates and alternates to the convention from 35 to 19, said organizer Brad Wyatt. (One Liberty delegate was added due to the changes in the roster.)
“I’ve been rudely awakened to the realities of politics,” Kenney said. “I feel I’ve been cheated.”
Because you HAVE! Thanks for RUINING the POLITICAL EXPERIENCE for the kid, a**holes!
A spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party would not say why the affidavits were required of delegates this year, and the chairman of the Allocations Committee would not agree to an interview.
Oh, WE KNOW WHY!!!!
Instead, the chairman offered an e-mailed statement saying that the Romney campaign, through its representative on his committee, had the right to reject delegates for “just cause.”
Hey, it's Massachusetts and AmeriKa, where war is peace and injustice is justice.
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The actions by the GOP establishment in Massachusetts are further disenchanting some libertarians and conservatives who have traditionally been suspicious of the party’s top-down leadership.
I'm MORE than DISENCHANTED, I'm fucking ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a state where Republican registration has dwindled to just 11 percent of registered voters, the party can hardly afford to alienate enthusiastic activists, they say.
And I'm still one of them -- but not for much longer.
“I’m very disappointed and disheartened about the way we’ve been treated,” Wyatt said. “It’s almost unbelievable.”
Among the new activists is Carol Claros, a Worcester single mother and nurse who represents the first generation of her Colombian family to be born in the United States.
In the weeks leading up to the caucuses, Claros, who got interested in politics through Paul several years ago, worked with Wyatt and other activists to drum up attendance and support for the Liberty delegates. They did it “the old-fashioned way,” Claros said. “We reached out to our voters. We got a list of Republican donors . . . we must have called 2,000 people in the state. I was like a phone warrior.”
At her caucus, attended by more than 200 people, she was the nervous first speaker — but the second-highest vote-getter, she said. Even that day, though, she said, she heard that Romney’s chosen delegates were being advised they should plan to go to Tampa.
The Paul delegates were going to be challenged.
The party has decided not to count the provisional ballots provided to voters whose registration couldn’t be confirmed on the day of the caucuses.
Expect more of that in the fall, Democrats.
And a Republican challenged on a technicality the election of six Liberty delegates and alternates in Romney’s Congressional district. That challenge was dismissed by the Allocations Committee.
Oh, so the Globe didn't lie or distort, huh? That would be a first.
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Also see: Boston Globe Endorses Ron Paul
I've supported the guy, but as it is I view him simply as another controlled-opposition distraction. All the time and energy going into a political race and candidate. Where has all that campaign loot gone? Maybe the limited hangout in his home district has gotten to me.
That's not to say I'm not for him. The rest of the crop was and is so piss-poor it really doesn't matter.
