Posted on 04/15/2016 2:04:05 PM PDT by BagCamAddict
Note to everyone shooting video with cell phones: TURN PHONE HORIZONTALLY, NOT VERTICALLY.
I really appreciate him streaming this live. I just wish he would turn his phone sideways, instead of vertically. I think he may be a FReeper! :-)
Btw, who was charging money for the folks who wanted to get involved, who were then denied a vote?
LOL!
Gotta be less than 100 people there if you count the camera crews.
“Vote of the people.”
Okay - then one can hope that those 1500 people can work in the GOP party and get the rules changed. And yes, if the state wants a strict majority rule vote they can do that.
The Founding Fathers advised against it. But they also let it up to each state to figure out how they wanted to select Electors to go to the Electoral College.
Unless you want to get rid of that too?
BS, there were well over a thousand in front of that state house.
You’re a Cruz supporter right?
Thank you for participating in the process.
This video isn’t capturing anywhere near 1000.
Another Cruz supporter? You support a selection instead of an election?
Ya got hundreds of pissed off people who were denied a vote, and you defend this? Really?
In other words, anyone who is not part of the political "club" should not have a voice in the political process.
I used to be agnostic about the "Trump or Cruz" question, saying I would be happy to vote for whichever one came out the winner. My feelings now is that the Cruz camp has more than its share of totalitarians. I'm disgusted.
You’re a liar.
I was asked to give a $15 DONATION to offset some of the cost at my local precinct. I gave $30 and told them that is to cover somebody that couldn’t afford it. It probably went to the VFW Hall where it was held. But, even if I didn’t donate I still would have been able to vote. I’m not sure what the rules are in Colorado on the charging of a small fee.
At my district level I was CHARGED $15 to get in. Although I bet if I said I couldn’t afford it, I could have gotten a few small donations from a few of the people standing in line.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28700919/colorado-republicans-cancel-2016-presidential-caucus-vote
This article is dated AUGUST 25, 2015, not even a year ago. This also proves that the GOPe, seeing Trump's success purposely went this route to hurt the outsiders. See the bold red highlighting below. The GOPe Gods determined that they and only they would be the goal keepers of the delegates. Sure you and other peasants could go through the process. But the GOPe has/had the power to say no to anyone who was pro Trump. I cannot imagine not even having a straw poll to reflect the will of the peasants.
Colorado will not vote for a Republican candidate for president at its 2016 caucus after party leaders approved a little-noticed shift that may diminish the state's clout in the most open nomination contest in the modern era.
The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote.
The move makes Colorado the only state so far to forfeit a role in the early nomination process, according to political experts, but other caucus states are still considering how to adapt to the new rule.
“It takes Colorado completely off the map” in the primary season, said Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman.
Republicans still will hold precinct caucus meetings in early 2016 to begin the process of selecting delegates for the national convention — but the 37 delegates are not pledged to any specific candidate.
For Republicans, no declared winner means the caucus will lack much of its hype. The presidential campaigns still may try to win delegate slots for their supporters, but experts say the move makes it less likely that candidates will visit Colorado to court voters.
The Colorado system often favors anti-establishment candidates who draw a dedicated following among activists — as evidenced by Rick Santorum’s victory in 2012 caucus. So the party's move may hurt GOP contenders such as Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Rand Paul, who would have received a boost if they won the state.
Why are they charging people over $60 in Colorado for folks who want to get involved?
You think that’s legitimate?
Awhile back someone told him to pan the crowd and he did. I wonder how to send a message to him about turning the camera.
You’re blind.
Thanks
So you are in favor of We, The People, not having a vote? You are in favor of only those people who PAY money should have a vote? You are in favor of the only people who do get to vote are people who (a) pay money, and (b) can take time away from their jobs and families to "participate in the process"?
So a single mother who works two minimum wage jobs to make ends meet, and she can't afford the $65 to attend the local caucus, and she doesn't own a car so she can't drive to the state convention, and she can't afford a night in a hotel (and the babysitter to take care of her kids), and she can't get the time off work from her two jobs to attend the state convention.... She doesn't get a vote because she can't "put in the hundreds of hours and money necessary" ?
I see.
Denied a vote? I think Colorado has only had a few Primaries that actually counted for anything in the early 2000’s. The past few primaries have just been preference polls. Non-binding. So they have almost always been denied an actual vote in the “primary”. They can make their voice heard at their local caucus.
Part of the reason they dropped the primary this year is because the GOP in Colorado said that if they do a primary, it has to be an actual election and binding. But they changed that just last year, and not enough time to get all of the particulars in for a bug-free election process. I imagine that they will have that system in place for the next primary. Especially after seeing the clamor this election has wrought.
Here in Washington state I am guessing that most of the delegates elected on the local level will be Cruz supporters. However, we also will be having a primary, and on the first ballot, all of our delegates have to vote for the winner of that primary election. So that type of system is probably what Colorado will end up with.
Is that your best MSM impersonation Larry?
You sit there like some corrupt MSM hack and make frivolous mocking comments about the size of the crowd in a weak attempt to discredit?
No sale slick. Not this time.
Why don’t you give us the time spans in the video where more than 100 people can be seen?
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