Posted on 04/28/2008 8:39:28 PM PDT by writer33
The Nevada Republican party suspended its convention on Saturday night with no delegates elected to attend the party's national convention in September. The state party chairman, Sue Lowden says that the party will reconvene to nominate the state's 31 delegates in Las Vegas at a later date.
An argument over the delegate nominating process sent the party into disarray. The nominating committee put forth a list of candidates and called for a vote. Ron Paul supporters on the floor were unhappy with the list of candidates. Through a rule change, delegates were able to start nominating candidates from the floor of the convention.
The new nominating process more than doubled the number of candidates for Nevada's national delegation. Lowden says the convention was overwhelmed and did not have the capacity to process the number of ballots.
"Unfortunately, with the rule changes implemented this morning, we did not have time to complete the process. Our contract for the meeting space had expired, as had our budget, and ballots were unable to be physically produced by the nominations committee," Lowden said in a written statement.
Chairmen Bob Beers told the crowd that they were out of time to use the room at the Peppermill in Reno, and called the convention to a recess. He was booed loudly and left the convention with a security escort.
An argument over how to proceed swept through the convention. Delegates shouted across the convention floor.
"McCain people leave."
"Paul people stay."
"McCain people stay,"
"We're all here for the same reason."
Some delegates walked out. Others stayed to express their dissatisfaction with the process or to make sure party business didn't reconvene without them. Convention Chairman and state Senator Bob Beers eventually called a recess and left the building with a security escort.
Party member Mike Weber tried unsuccessfully to reconvene the convention.
"This is not what the Republican Party is about," Weber said.
In the end, there were not enough people left at the convention to continue with party business. Party leaders say the same people present at Saturday's convention will eventually come to an agreement and elect delegates to represent Nevada at the national convention.
"It is my intention to ask the Cox Pavilion to grant us the same accommodations as they did the state Democrat party- to let us use the building for one day to complete our election process. We will reconvene with the same state delegates and elect our national delegates," Lowden said.
The party has not yet determined when the second date of the convention will be held.
Rumors were going around on Sunday afternoon that Republican Party leaders were having a secret meeting at the Peppermill. We contacted the Peppermill and determined that those rumors were not true.
Yep. I’ll let you know what happens.
Other than “because they could,” whats all this about anyway?
McCain is the nominee, so whats the hubbub, bub?
I mean being nuttier than a fruitcake isn’t going to help conservatives at all, and although I am not supporting McCain, I don’t see any point.
Nothing, other than the fact that since they strayed from the primary system into a caucus, it showed that there is still disorganization within the state Republican Party. Nothing else really.
Ron Paul’s positions on war among others are of concern to me but of at least equal concern is the true nature of some of his *apparent* supporters, who may be supporting him to split the GOP vote first and foremost.
And to legalize the flow of illegal drugs that swift sure punishment for dealing would end.
By the way, I’d vote for your tagline. :-)
is that McCain
It reminds me of that movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers
:-)
I’d vote for your tagline...
hey, thanks ;^)
- bill
We are meeting next month in Virginia to pick delegates to the convention, and our biggest focus is making sure Ron Paul supporters to lie about supporting McCain to sneak in and disrupt the national convention with anti-war diatribes.
This is serious stuff. The media would love to show a large anti-war anti-mccain contingent at our convention, and our nominating process is very easily taken over by people who want that to happen.
BTTT
I do have to remember that this state was controlled by the rats for a long time, even if they were more conservative than our present crop of republicans. Solomon Ortiz seems to, at last, act like he cares about this country, which is more than can be said about some of the others.
It was the State Party who assailed us with long-winded speeches (twice) about contributing to the Patiot Fund (a worthy cause, but redundant after the same speaker came up to “kill time” while they counted the ballots). In fact, a lot of time was wasted by a party wholly unprepared for a contingency who was not going to be railroaded into accepting thier slate of delegates to the National Convention. Again, and I think it bears repeating: It was not only the Ron Paul people who were po’d about the State's attempt to strong-arm the convention.
Even though I'm going to be wearing full HAZMAT gear when I vote for McStain (I believe in party unity), what the State Party pulled was crap, pure and simple. I'm a conservative who thinks Ron Paul took a left turn off the reservation, but in this case, his people were not the bad guys they're being made out to be. Sure, they were vocal, but they weren't the only ones.
This convention was hijacked by the Nevada Republican Party leadership with their pre-determined ballot of delegates. When the Paul group AND OTHERS voted to open up the floor to delegates from the floor, the leadership realized they were not going to be able to load the slate with their pre-chosen people. It was their abuse of rules technicalities, including ending the meeting abruptly and without any kind of vote, that was wasting the thousands of dollars the convention delegates spent of their own money to go.
Now, contrary to RNC rules, they're going to reconvene in Las Vegas. Perfect. If you don't like the rules, break ‘em, or make your own up. How utterly typical. No wonder many Nevada Republicans are leaving the party and becoming independants in droves.
These are the kind of silly shenanigans that happen when our sitting President neglects his political responsibility by having a strong, personable VP in place for this year’s election.
I fault Bush for maintaining Cheney in the second term.
Then again hindsight is 20-20 and we are at war.
I love Dick Cheney. He’s strong, decisive and highly intelligent.
My post was not a personal reflection....I am talking about political considerations. We are doomed to McCain now.
Oh, I see where you are coming from. You would have liked to see a VP who could have run a presidential candidate.
Somehow, McCain and his band of MSM supporters would have found a way to marginalize any potential VP, before the primary people. Look how they attacked Mormonism to stop Mitt Romney. McCain had it all under control.
I was there too and your description of events is spot-on.
I can understand the party regulars were a little upset because this was such an atypical convention but they need to get over it. Nothing the Ron Paul supporters did was in any way devious or underhanded. I (and others) went through the same precinct caucus, county and state conventions everyone else did. I never concealed my intention to support Paul when I was elected a delegate to my precinct and I continue to support Paul as an active candidate just as I promised my precinct I would.
If anything should unnerve the party regulars it is the apathy of the alleged McCain supporters. This is not directed at the upstanding McCain supporters who came to the convention to do their job but at the many McCain supporters who, seeing the persistance of the Paul supporters at both the precinct and county levels, couldn’t be bothered to pay the lousy $50 and go to the state convention - 300 more McCain supporters would have been enough to stop the Paul supporters.
I hope they can find the energy to go to the polls and vote or we may see a Democrat in office. You can be sure I and MANY other Paul supporters will hold our nose and do our duty to support McCain in November.
The truth hurts but it is what it is: GWB cared not at all about what came after him. His conservative record is mixed, some good and lots bad. He did not use the bully pulpit well or at all and let the GOP be saddled with retreads and wannabe liberals. A strong dynamic VP could have brought the conservative wing unity and hope..now we are left with a dismal retread.
And Cheney gets to go back to placating OPEC.
Besides Ortiz, at least when he first ran, a lot of folks thought Silvestre Reyes would join the slender ranks of responsible Democrats (after all, he was a former INS border agent), but Reyes proved himself a moonbat in short order and not very well endowed in the brains department. No surprise the rodents would put a moonbat moron in charge of House Intelligence.
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