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Before anyone crowns McCain as president, don’t you think his political team could do better than use cheap political tricks to prevent Ron Paul from winning convention delegates? Check out what happened in Nevada this Saturday. I copied from a blogger, Jason Southwell, who saw the whole sordid event unfold:
“The party of fairness today pulled a dirty trick to keep John McCain from losing the Nevada state GOP Convention.
After a speech by Ron Paul that was very well received and after the party platform was accepted, which illustrated overwhelming support for Ron Paul due to his multiple issues being represented, several McCain supporters began to leave. One woman came up to me to say that they were all leaving because Ron Paul was going to get most or all of the delegates and they were going to try to get enough people to leave in order to not have a quorum. Just before the vote for the remaining 22 delegates, the convention chair Bob Beers announced that we were going to recess and we were to resume some other day yet to bet determined. With one click of the gavel, Mr. Beers ran from the room along side all of the committee chairs. This obviously caused quite a commotion with many people yelling for an appeal.
Roberts Rules permits an appeal of the chair’s decision, however Mr. Beers permitted no opportunity for appeal. An appeal if offered certainly would have met the requirement of quorum, however to promote confusion, the GOP had the microphones cut off and turned out the lights. When we were finally able to find a microphone, security came to take it away. This in addition to the darkness made it difficult to maintain order and hard to advise people that they should stay. When the lights finally came back on, we were about 100 people short of convening with a quorum.
The actions of the republican party leadership and the McCain campaign were reprehensible. I can’t see how they expect to win over Ron Paul supporters with such actions. In addition the Nevada state GOP should be ashamed at their actions and the citizens of Nevada should seriously reconsider if they can support a party that supports such snakelike and underhanded actions.
Party chair Susan Lowden started the day stating that we were going to have a fair and orderly convention. She obviously had no intention of maintaining a fair convention unless it was ultimately going to favor McCain.
I’m really ashamed of my party. Shame on Sue Lowden. Shame on Bob Beers. Shame on the leadership of the Republican Party of Nevada.”
Zach on 27 Apr 2008 at 7:16 pm #
Where is the link to Jason’s blog? Did you even get his permission to post this?
Weaver on 27 Apr 2008 at 7:39 pm #
Incredible!
Some videos of Paul’s speech in Nevada are found here, along with additional commentary on this event.
I notice everyone gets quiet when Paul discusses the economy – they want to be sure to listen. And when he says the Constitution is meant to protect the people from the government, everyone cheers!
Weaver on 27 Apr 2008 at 7:41 pm #
Interestingly, Gottfried says:
That war mongering GOP is dirty, dirty.
Not to take away from Paul’s amazing success there.
roho on 28 Apr 2008 at 1:38 am #
It will get worse………The Neocon Brownshirts have no intentions of allowing what GWB call’s “A damn piece of paper”(constitution) get in the way of their agenda.
Patroon on 28 Apr 2008 at 3:02 am #
I took the Southwell post from Ron Paul Forums (www.ronpaulforums.com)
levotb on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:24 am #
For those of you who aren’t still clinging to the insane hope that RP will somehow win the GOP nomination (he may not even win back his seat in TX!), you might consider that Rev. Chuck Baldwin has won a huge victory over psycho Alan Keyes for the nomination of The CP. Rev. Chuck, though hue lauds RP every chance he gets, is a far more conservative, a better candidate and much tougher on Border and other issues than is the Libertarian RP. Rev. Chuck DESTROYED Keyes!
Bob on 28 Apr 2008 at 1:31 pm #
Until We the People start paying attention to the corruption in the GOP and DEM parties, this country will continue on this road to destruction. Continue to vote the same old way and we continue to get the same old thing.
roho on 28 Apr 2008 at 2:29 pm #
Good point Bob!………….Winning through deceit, manipulation, and cheating, is against all that our Founding Father’s fought for, and a disgrace to their principles and value system.
Andrew T. on 28 Apr 2008 at 3:20 pm #
Levot,
You’ve been an asshole to Ron Paul ever since you’ve come here.
Anthony De Ribas on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:25 pm #
Reminds me of the antics that went on in the CT Reform Party several years ago. All we can do is bow our heads and pray.
csason on 29 Apr 2008 at 1:35 am #
Zack, you’re embarrassing yourself with your lack of knowledge about
fair use and the internet…but moreover with your obvious control issues.
Have you rec’d adequate medication for your problem ??
James on 01 May 2008 at 3:53 pm #
I for one can attest to the attempt to appeal the ruling of the chair as I was the one shouting just that at Chairman Beers, who did a real good job of ignoring my existence. Point of Order…not recognized. Appeal the Ruling of the Chair….not recognized. Call for a vote on the recess…not recognized. What the Nevada GOP did was a disgrace and a total disregard for the rules of parliamentary procedure, and as Nevadans we should be ashamed of our party. I never knew before Saturday that “cut and run” was part of the GOP language!! I’ve seen walkouts before, but it has always been left-wing Radicals…never a so-called group of conservatives who were afraid to stand up to what may be a losing fight.
As the presumptive nominee, Senator John McCain should be especially ashamed of these actions…if our party leadership cannot stand up to a good fight in their own Republican convention, how can these folks be expected to lead us, as members of the Republican Party, to believe that we have any chance of holding off a Democrat challenger in November????
I will not single out Chairman Beers here, as this was a team effort produced by the huddle on the side of the stage that included all the powers that be in the Nevada GOP along with Beers during one of the overhead short movies immediately prior to the power play by the Nevada GOP.
I guess when a self-proclaimed “Maverick” is the presumptive party nominee (and nothing is settled for sure until September), this will create mavericks like the Ron Paul contingent in the party. Like the North Carolina Conservatives who created the anti-Barack Obama ads that Maverick Senator John McCain denounced. Memo to Senator McCain and the NRC: you reap what you sow!!
dan seaman on 09 May 2008 at 4:43 pm #
in all fairness all i believe that all of us who believe in america owe the “beer boy” a big round of applause. him and his corrupt gang of traitors to the constitution arrogant, clumsy display of a blatant disregard and contempt of rule and law can not help but to wake up all but the most appathetic to the need to stand up and rally to the cause of the constitution and true liberty. there can be only one! and mccain aint it!!
C_A_H on 11 May 2008 at 1:39 am #
I found this article and the posts very informative (and a tad entertaining). I just wanted to say, mainly in response to the ones who compared the actions of the GOP establishment to “cut-and-run” radicals, a similar comparison can be made to the Democratic members of the Texas House of Representative hiding in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Maybe when appealing the chair, you need to call our old “Hammer” (Tom DeLay) to hunt down Chr. Beers and make him hear the appeal
Now you know how frustrating it must have been for our Governor / Speaker of the House (here in Texas), w/all those disloyal House Reps seeking refuge among Sooners! Now, w/in our own party, to help McCain, our supposed leaders do the same.
I only attended my GOP Convention up to the county level, and I’m proud that – thou we agreed most of the time – any disagreements were civil, and we had a productive meeting w/an overall sense of comraderie. But let nobody lay the blame for this at Paul’s doorstep, for he wasn’t the one that broke the rules. Actively using the rules for your own advantage as you stand up for what you believe in is to be lauded over tyrants that would manipulate the rules for their own will. In fact, the quote that seems appropriate to describe the Paulistas in Reno would be:
Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice, and moderation in the defense of justice is no virtue! — Barry Goldwater
Robert Holloway on 16 May 2008 at 3:41 pm #
If you would like to help restart the Nevada convention, please go to my website for more information. The newspapers in Nevada have told very little of the story about why the convention was recessed. I hope by inserting an advertisement in the Las Vegas paper, that the party will be shamed into restarting the convention. I would appreciate even a small donation to cover the cost of the advertisement. The cost is approximately two thousand dollars.
Robert Holloway on 16 May 2008 at 3:42 pm #
In regard to the above post, the link for more information and to make a donation is:
http://www.nevadahomeowners.org/convention.html
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