TX Woman gets over 3000 signatures for Texas Presidential Debate (w/ Mitt Romney & Ron Paul?)

Texas Conservative Republican News ^ | 4/27/12 | David Bellow

[davidbellow]

This past weekend at my County Convention in Hardin County, TX, I was pleasantly surprised when a young woman from my county,
Chelsea Willis, approached me and said she had a petition with over 3000 signatures on it. The petition was to try to persuade Mitt Romney to come to a Texas Republican Presidential Debate. The petition is titled "Potential Nominees, attend the GOP Debate (Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012)"

In recent years, Texas has had little say in the Republican Presidential Race. The Texas GOP tried to put Texas on the map by getting together a debate on May 24th in Houston, TX. Mitt Romney was the only candidate to snub this Texas debate.

Even with Santorum suspending his campaign (dropping out of the race), Chelsea knew that the race was not over and many states still have not voted, so on April 14th Chelsea sprang into action by starting an online petition in support of this Texas debate with Gingrich, Paul and Romney. The petition specifically urges Mitt Romney to attend.

Since the start of the petition, Gingrich has also announced he suspending his campaign (dropping out)

Although it now seems unlikely that any other Presidential candidate other than Mitt Romney will get the Republican Nomination, it is encouraging to see that even regular voters in little Texas counties are standing up and trying to make a difference. Getting over 3000 signatures is pretty impressive for this rather low-key controversy.

Even with just Ron Paul and Mitt Romney left in the race, the point is to show Romney that Texas does not like being ignored, so I encourage everyone to go to this link and sign the petition http://www.change.org/petitions/mitt-romney-debate-ron-paul-houston-tx-on-may-24th-2012

Who knows, if she gets enough signatures maybe Romney will actually take notice. I hear that a major news outlet would be interested in a debate with just Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. That would be interesting!

Below is a personal letter from Chelsea Willis regarding her petition:

I created a petition titled "Potential Nominees, attend the GOP Debate (Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012)" because I care deeply about who becomes the GOP nominee.

I understand that the SREC has received a commitment from a major television network to televise the debate, and that the remaining GOP nominees, except Romney, have pledged to be at the debate. In addition, it is my understanding that the SREC passed a resolution that intensely urged the uncommitted nominee to attend the Texas GOP Presidential Debate. In response, I have created an online petition to encourage Romney to debate Gingrich and Paul. The ultimate purpose of the petition is to gather constituent support for the debate, and I could really use your assistance in getting out the word. A substantial number of signatures will convince the uncommitted nominee that attending the debate is in the best interest of his campaign.

To read more about what I'm trying to do and to sign my petition, click here.

It will just take a minute!

Once you are done, please ask your friends to sign the petition as well. Grassroots movements succeed because people like you are willing to spread the word!

Sincerely,
Chelsea Willis

[TheGunny]

Dear Chelsea Willis,
Get over it.
R/S
TheGunny

[SnakeDoctor]

Debate what? Race is over. Too many debates already anyway.

SnakeDoc

[An American!]

Maybe they can discuss the idiocy that is the EPA ala “If I wanted America to fail”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CZ-4gnNz0vc

Check out THEN (1977) vs NOW (2006)
http://i45.tinypic.com/2dadb9y.jpg
Time magazine Ice Age vs Global Warming

I am so frustrated that TX with 155 delegates had no say in the nomination and neither did over 50% of the states and delegates!!!!

GOP nomination process stinks!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ingtar]

A slight correction: about 34% of the delegates remain.

Here in Tennessee, I felt as if we finally had a chance to have our say. Alas, it was futile. The GOP-E has too much practice stacking the process.

[An American!]

Yeah...you are right. But Newt effectively announced he was dropping out prior to last Tuesday. That is where I got the approx 50% from...I think this distribution is right

Month	Delegates	Percent of Total
January	28	1.3%
Feb	157	7.3%
March	804	37.6%
April	381	17.8%
May	431	20.1%
June	339	15.8%

So lets guess who really selected our nominee...check out the drop out dates
Rick Santorum - April 10th 2012.
Rick Perry - January 19th 2012.
Jon Huntsman Jr. - January 16th 2012.
Michele Bachmann - January 4th 2012.
Herman Cain - December 3rd 2011.
Pretty clear that the media picked winners and losers and got rid of the choices before the voters hardly got started...
GOP nomination process is BROKE!

[Ingtar]

A good source:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/ccad.phtml

Tuesday 24 April 2012 1,516 66.32%

[SoothingDave]

If she wants Texas to matter, she’s better off circulating a petition to move their primary.

[An American!]

Nice. Thanks for sharing.
So as of April 23rd... 56.21% had been awarded.
Got to move some more contests earlier in the process...what is the point of spreading them out?

[Ingtar]

They moved most of the South into the early primaries that had to be proportional, except Florida where Romney was expected to win, and made most of the large liberal states winner take all. The course was slanted toward ORomney from the start.