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Texas GOP to call an Emergency SREC Meeting to go back to Winner Take All. Texas has 155 Delegates
Texas Conservative Republican News ^ | 4/5/2012 | David Bellow

Posted on 04/05/2012 2:08:19 PM PDT by TexasConservativeRepublican

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1 posted on 04/05/2012 2:08:27 PM PDT by TexasConservativeRepublican
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

Texas would have already voted for the GOP nominee if it weren’t for redistricting issues.

So. Now instaead of 03-06-12, we vote on 05/29/12.

IMO.... Romney will have wrapped it up before then.


2 posted on 04/05/2012 2:11:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

LOL Mittens getting outplayed would be awesome.


3 posted on 04/05/2012 2:13:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican
Not like Mittens would have any room to complain. At least they want to change delegate allocation rules before the vote instead of after like Michigan.

The Michigan Republican Party (MRP) Credentials Committee voted 4-2 last night to give Mitt Romney both of the state's at-large delegates, State Policy Committee Chair Mike Cox told MIRS today.

Cox was one of two "no" votes on the committee which met via telephone, along with attorney Eric Doster The "yes" votes included GOP National Committeeman Saul Anuzis, a Romney supporter, and MRP Chair Bobby Schostak.

That would put the delegate split at 16 for Romney and 14 for Rick Santorum, after each candidate won 14 delegates apiece in those divided by Michigan's 14 congressional districts.

As MIRS first reported on Wednesday, the MRP was delaying a final decision on the delegate split until after consulting with attorneys.

Cox said that according to the MRP rules, Santorum and Romney should each get one of Michigan's two at-large delegates based on their take of the popular vote.

"I supported Mitt, but the vote was clearly wrong," Cox said of the Credentials Committee. "It's kind of like Third World voting. We published rules and then we voted to change the rules."


Because The Narrative Cannot Survive A Rewrite
4 posted on 04/05/2012 2:17:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The FACT that one of the most POWERFUL states in the Union has 0 play in selecting the nominee is LAUGHABLE.

It’s time the East Coast RINO’s where moved to the back...

#justsaying


5 posted on 04/05/2012 2:29:46 PM PDT by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

Oh, to be a fly on Leticia’s and Sheila’s walls today.


6 posted on 04/05/2012 2:31:47 PM PDT by bgill
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican
you beat me to the punch. I was just about to post this article that I wrote! haha

this is really going to shake things up.... hehe

7 posted on 04/05/2012 2:41:27 PM PDT by davidbellow
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

There is no reason to allow a candidate the winner take all rule if that candidate can not clear the 50% +1 hurdle of the total vote cast.

Thus far Romney hasn’t even come close to doing that.


8 posted on 04/05/2012 2:50:41 PM PDT by mosesdapoet ("The best way to punish a country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

Awesome post! Thanks!

Texas SREC have their thinking caps on at least.

I did post a comment to the blog report, rather in favor of the proportional arrangement.

I get it that Texas needs to make a difference at the national level to be a force, but with demographics changing rapidly and some risk of a future SREC run by liberals one day, I think I would appreciate having a protest block of delegates in the mix.

How else do we stop the GOP-E from ignoring conservatives and throwing RINOs at us, complete with jillions of dollars and DC support.

The little guy would have less of a chance, it seems to me.


9 posted on 04/05/2012 2:57:02 PM PDT by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT.)
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I am a little concerned that rule changing in a condition of justifiable rage with Romney could come back to bite Texas conservatives.

The changing demographics and the risk of a different SREC in the future is a risk when locked in to a winner-take-all arrangement, which leaves no room for say a conservative protest block of delegates to count, as in the proportional universe of delegates.


10 posted on 04/05/2012 3:05:24 PM PDT by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT.)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

Primaries are ridiculous and should be abolished.

If they MUST continue, I’m OK with winner take all, as long as “winner” is defined as >67% of the vote.

The idea that you can be a “winner” when 65% of the voters vote against you is so absurd, it doesn’t even bear discussion, except to point out - again - how stupid the stupid party really is.


11 posted on 04/05/2012 3:08:02 PM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican; humblegunner; Larry Lucido

Not giving your blog a hit


12 posted on 04/05/2012 3:13:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: mosesdapoet
There is no reason to allow a candidate the winner take all rule if that candidate can not clear the 50% +1 hurdle of the total vote cast.

Megadittoes!

I would also restore the 67% threshold to be nominated.

The PURPOSE of the nominating process is to produce the strongest candidate, and in a situation where 49% or 40% even of the party can't live with the choice, the choice will fail.

13 posted on 04/05/2012 3:13:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican; Vendome; Larry Lucido; davidbellow

It sure looks to me like we’ve got one person with two
user names pimping the same blog crap with excerpts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:texasconservativerep/index?tab=articles

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:davidbellow/index?tab=articles

Isn’t that curious?

Does anyone care to explain that? The pimping, the scumminess, the filth?


14 posted on 04/05/2012 3:19:16 PM PDT by humblegunner
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15 posted on 04/05/2012 3:22:43 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: TexasConservativeRepublican

They must think ORomney has a good shot of winning Texas now, so it’s safe to go back to winner-take-all, now that he’ll win it.


16 posted on 04/05/2012 3:42:53 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy
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17 posted on 04/05/2012 3:43:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

Is Rick Perry still on the ballot in Texas? ;


18 posted on 04/05/2012 3:45:52 PM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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Huh?


19 posted on 04/05/2012 4:07:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: cripplecreek

So, even in MIchigan the Mitbots have to cheat ~ just like in Virginia.


20 posted on 04/05/2012 4:20:18 PM PDT by muawiyah
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