June 10, 2012

Texas GOP Convention Chair admits States' cannot bind National Delegates ~ RNC Rule 38

RNC Rule 38~


Texas State Convention votes all Texas RNC Delegates 

are unbound to the national Convention,

extending their voice in agreement with 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavnKfyHEJE&feature=colike


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If everyone knew all there is to know, they would not do half the things they do, including myself, therefore I must foregive them, including myself.~RGeorgeDunn

4 comments:

  1. Ron Paul's folks have been saying this all along.
    They hung around and hung around long enough to be appointed as delegates and of course ALL plan on committing to Paul. It's gonna get to be a lot more interesting than just Ordaining Romney I suspect.

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  2. Seems America is up for a ride, hope we have snow for the slippery slide..

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  3. “No delegate or alternate delegate shall be bound by any attempt of any state or Congressional district to impose the unit rule.”
    According to Fox19 Cincinnati’s Ben Swann, citing an article at FairVote.org, Rule 38 has already been interpreted by the RNC’s own legal council to mean that the national party rules do not recognize state laws or procedures that bind delegates to vote for a particular candidate, but that they are free to vote for their individual preference on the floor of the national convention. The issue came up in 2008 when a member of the Utah delegation wanted to vote for Mitt Romney instead of John McCain, to whom Utah’s delegates were bound. Several weeks before the 2008 Republican national convention, Jennifer Sheehan, Legal Council for the RNC, wrote a letter to Nancy Lord, Utah National Committee-Woman, asserting:
    “The RNC does not recognize a state’s binding of national delegates, but considers each delegate a free agent who can vote for whoever they choose, and the national convention allows delegates to vote for the individual of their choice, regardless of whether the person’s name is officially placed into nomination or not.”
    Another RNC rule that seems to indicate the primacy of the individual delegate’s preference at the nominating convention is Rule 37, Section (b), which states:
    “In the balloting, the vote of each state shall be announced by the chairman of such state’s delegation, or his or her designee; and in case the vote of any state shall be divided, the chairman shall announce the number of votes for each candidate, or for or against any proposition; but if exception is taken by any delegate from that state to the correctness of such announcement by the chairman of that delegation, the chairman of the convention shall direct the roll of members of such delegation to be called, and the result shall be recorded in accordance with the vote of the several delegates in such delegation.”
    If Ron Paul’s supporters outnumber the other delegates in Tampa, he seems to have the parliamentary grounds for a first ballot upset and a primary victory– no brokered convention necessary. If it comes to this, the Romney camp will, no doubt, challenge the convention result. It’s a fight that could end up in the courts. Legally, which would take precedent over the other, the RNC’s rules or state laws that bind delegates to vote for certain candidates on the first ballot of the convention?
    As IVN’s Kymberly Bays recently reported, this exact question has already been resolved at the US Supreme Court level: the national party’s rules take precedence over state laws because as a private organization and free association of individuals, a political party has the constitutional right to set its own rules and state laws interfering with that private process violate a political party’s First Amendment rights.

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  4. We need to remove Obama !!!

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