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UNbeLIEVEable.
After all the gripes, demands, curve balls and chaos out of the Ron Paul camp here in Nevada this past 5 months…starting with the attempted overthrow of the GOP convention in April and followed by a long, hot summer filled with bitter accusations, a rogue convention, various court filings, angry refusals to negotiate or cooperate, and a formal appeal to the RNC….
AND after being granted four delegates by the RNC - the EXACT NUMBER earned by Ron Paul in the NV caucuses and that was agreed to by the NV GOP way back when…what do you suppose happened on the floor of the convention last night?
All four “Ron Paul delegates” voted for John McCain.
What a colossal waste of time, energy, and money, for all concerned.
4 Responses to “Nevada’s Stalwart Ron Paul Delegates…Voted for McCain”
September 4th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
The people of the Nevada Convention legally and by the rules changed the way delegates were selected to allow the grassroots more access to delegates than the politically connected establishment. When the establishment failed to stop this, the leadership illegally decided to adjourn the convention and never schedule a new one which required the grassroots to hold their own. This is a story of entrenched elites versus well motivated newcomers.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
At the end of the day, those “well motivated newcomers” folded like a cheap suit. All the grassroots got was the RNC ruling that Sue Lowden & Co. is inept. We already knew that.
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September 7th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Jeremy: NV GOP ineptitude aside, and perhaps there was some, why didn’t those four “well motivated” delegates honor the grassroots effort and VOTE FOR RON PAUL at the convention??? It’s hard to see the Movement as legit when such foolishness occurs.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Carl Bunce claims Gestapo tactics were used to coerce him into voting for McCain, but I found Lisa Mascaro’s article in yesterday’s Sun to be particularly revealing:
“Dyer said he and Bunce, who ran recently failed in congressional primary elections, want to run for office again. So they had motivation to play nice.
“When the roll call vote came, Bunce and Dyer forfeited their seats so two McCain supporters could fill the slots.
“Not all of Paul’s supporters are pleased. Wayne Terhune, the Sparks dentist who had helped lead the fight, said ‘they should have at least abstained’
“As party Chairwoman Sue Lowden announced Nevada’s 34 unanimous votes for McCain, Bunce and Dyer were at a concert a few blocks away.
“They were listening to Rage Against the Machine, the 1990s rock band that once offered a soundtrack for a generation of politically disaffected young fans.”
After all of the nonsense over the last 4 months to get these guys there, and when the vote finally goes down, two of the four delegates weren’t even in the building.
That’s frigging sad.
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