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Greta: Is the Florida Primary NOT OVER?????
gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com ^ | Feb 1, 2012 | by Greta Van Susteren

Posted on 02/01/2012 4:04:58 PM PST by Jim Robinson

"See below what I received from FNC Carl Cameron! This is really wild! More possible Florida election problems?"

Tampa, FL — Florida’s primary might not be over just yet.

The Newt Gingrich campaign is gearing up to challenge the results of the florida primary based on the Republican National Committee’s own rules which state that no contest can be winner take all prior to April 1, 2012. (See attached RNC memo.)

The Gingrich campaign plans to challenge Florida’s winner take all status & demand proportional allocation of delegates.

Fox News has learned that Thursday, a Florida Gingrich campaign official will begin the process of trying to have the RNC rules enforced so that the Sunshine State delegates are proportionately allocated.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus warned Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry of the violation in a December letter quoting the rule, “…’winner-take-all’ states cannot hold a primary or caucus before April 1, 2012.”

(Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: arizona; delegates; elections; fl2012; flaprimary; flaprimaryresults; florida; gingrich; newt; primary; republican; rnc; rominee; rules; teapartyrebellion
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To: Jim Robinson

Poor Mittens. I’ll bet he blew out a “hanging chad” when he got wind of this! It’s been a bad day for Mitty what with his feet in his mouth about the poor and all.....

Newt, you da man!


101 posted on 02/01/2012 4:40:34 PM PST by MWestMom (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, But the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes10:2)
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To: Jim Robinson

Go NEWT!!!! You’re still the smartest guy on that stage even IF you did have an off night and trying to debate with a lying spoonful of jello!!!


102 posted on 02/01/2012 4:40:48 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Gingrich/West 2012)
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To: Vince Ferrer

In our conversation the other night, the fact that unless FL is specifically named as being exempt from the rule they must follow it.

Roberts Rules of order. Motion, Second, question, vote, passed. It’s a rule/the law.

Although they are filing in the FL court system, this also has federal implications since RNC is a federal group and crosses state borders.
If he gets a crooked judge in Florida it could go to SCOTUS. 9-0 ruling. They’re not going to mess with Roberts RUles of Order.


103 posted on 02/01/2012 4:41:20 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God: Newt, and Sarah will be right next to you.)
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To: Red Steel

Damn them time zones!


104 posted on 02/01/2012 4:41:52 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MWestMom

Mr. Gingrich reminds me of Inspector Gadget.


105 posted on 02/01/2012 4:42:11 PM PST by bvw
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To: Jim Robinson

“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!

See? We prayed and looked what happened.

Glad you found the article.


106 posted on 02/01/2012 4:42:15 PM PST by Marcella (Newt will smash Hussein in debates. Newt needs money.)
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To: Thunder90

Would like to know if Fla got the go ahead from the RNC to dock half the delegates and hold the primary early? don’t see how they could award all 100 to Romney since that is a clearly stated violation but bet the Romney camp looked into this BEFORE the election.


107 posted on 02/01/2012 4:42:27 PM PST by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
They were all run by hippies and people that looked like occupiers..
Yeah, what a bunch of occupackers.

Anytime I watch video of the occupiers gathered together, it always looked like a large gathering for a John Lennon look alike contest.
108 posted on 02/01/2012 4:42:30 PM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 ! We should take off and Newt washington from orbit.)
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To: who knows what evil?

The Trump news may force him to crank out another one...


What Trump news?


109 posted on 02/01/2012 4:43:24 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: Thunder90

How so?


110 posted on 02/01/2012 4:43:33 PM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: lonevoice

That would be what the POS deserves for spending that kind of money to do nothing but beat someone to a pulp and then say, it wasn’t me . . . it was my Super PAC.

I saw them mention it on FOX but then my Dad from TX called and I couldn’t wait to get here to read more details.


111 posted on 02/01/2012 4:43:38 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Gingrich/West 2012)
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To: Jim Robinson
Greta just posted this update by Serafin Gomez:

Snipped from:

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2012/02/01/republican-party-of-florida-fully-perplexed-it-just-got-hot-very-hot/

The RNC has already acknowledged that it is Winner Take All. The only place and time that Gingrich campaign can bring this up is during the RNC’ s Committee on Contests hearing which congregates 2 weeks before the RNC Convention in Tampa in August or have enough RNC delegates on the floor to challenge it. They are playing this down as perplexing and almost desperate.

112 posted on 02/01/2012 4:44:25 PM PST by Pebcak
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To: Jim Robinson
Can't be winner-take-all prior to April Fools PLUS Floriduh only gets 50 of its 100 delegates to the convention... oh, what a conundrum!

Well, there is ONLY ONE FAIR WAY out of this:

Raise the delegate count back up to 100 for Floriduh, award Newt the additional 50 for pointing out the problem, and then the 50 awarded on election night gets divied up proportionally.

Fair is fair, right?

113 posted on 02/01/2012 4:44:31 PM PST by C210N (Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy your votes")
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To: greyfoxx39

(Romney went to Florida and spent $25,000,000 and all he got was a couple of lousy delegates)

I just changed it from the original that was on the T Shirt

(Romney went to Florida and spent $25,000,000 and all he got was 50 lousy delegates)

since Willie Mitty didnt get all 50 etc

we dont know how many he will end up with

I bet hes been driven to coffee...

:)


114 posted on 02/01/2012 4:45:02 PM PST by Tennessee Nana (Romney went to Florida and spent $25,000,000 and all he got was a couple of lousy delegates)
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To: deport

Thank you. I did read that Fla has 99 delegates and they are a winner take all state. Also, it is clear that there is a violation of awarding ALL delegates if the primary is early BUT since Fla deducted HALF of the delegates...would that be a little loop hole the Romney camp was aware of? I dont underestimate the enemy


115 posted on 02/01/2012 4:45:11 PM PST by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: jiggyboy
"man what is it with Florida and elections

You ask a question like that and then you post this picture. Look at that guy he probably voted in the Florida elections. LOL!


116 posted on 02/01/2012 4:45:11 PM PST by Spunky (Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
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To: livius

Yes, and do recall that Gingrich is very good at these procedural moves (remember his stint as Speaker). I think he’s dusting off his old skills!

Yes, the Silver Fox has outsmarted them! Go NEWT!!!!


117 posted on 02/01/2012 4:46:12 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Gingrich/West 2012)
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To: humblegunner

OI, We’re up in N FL where men are men.
Well most of us anyway EEK.
It’s the middle and the south of the state which is the problem and has been invaded .

Is your lad back?


118 posted on 02/01/2012 4:47:10 PM PST by manc (FOX, DRUDGE, HAS BEEN DISGUSTING IN THEIR BIASED ATTACKS V NEWT. I HATE OUR BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA.)
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To: nascarnation

119 posted on 02/01/2012 4:47:17 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen!!! Go Newt!!!


120 posted on 02/01/2012 4:48:04 PM PST by StPaulRevert
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