We do not elect chairmen by convention delegates here in Iowa.
Carroll was elected by the former SCC to stick it to the new one, because he’s very controversial and a borderline theocrat. He should have never taken this position, and the old SCC should have never held the vote.
Iowa is a little different than most state GOP’s. Rather than being too Establishment, we have a tendency to go off the cliff at the other extreme. For example, and candidate recruited by the Ron Paul crowd suddenly, in the middle of her campaign, dropped out and declared herself a U.S. Senator in the real, constitutional United States that existed before it was ‘corporatized’ in the late 1800’s. Her and several others were going to form this new nation, separate but equal I guess, and be it’s self-appointed leaders.
True story. Google ‘Randi Shannon Iowa Senate’
Thanks very much for that back story. Rita