{"id":2209,"date":"2008-03-04T07:13:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2008-03-04T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T12:13:05","slug":"packed-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Packed House"},"content":{"rendered":"

At my precinct caucus – a month ago, now – we were pretty well mobbed with Ron Paul supporters.\u00a0 Many of them were utterly clueless about how caucuses worked (no biggie – we’re all about the education), although a few of them were pretty rude about it; they wanted to come in and vote for Ron Paul and leave.<\/p>\n

So while Romney won by a landslide across Minnesota, in my district, which is pretty well glutted with college kids, the Paulbots were out in force – they tipped Romney by a single vote in my district, and won by significant margins in other precincts.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s a method to the madness.\u00a0 The Paulbots packed the convention for a reason.<\/p>\n

From the Paul\/Minnesota website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re on to Step Two: election of delegates from the local conventions to the Congressional District and State conventions.<\/p>\n

If you were elected delegate or alternate from your caucus, you need to attend your County or Senate District convention, for which you have already received a convention call, or soon will.\u00a0 These will be held as early as February 23 and into March.<\/p>\n

We will be going through much the same process as with the caucuses.\u00a0 You will receive a list of fellow supporters also elected delegate or alternate, and you need to coordinate amongst yourselves (with our help) to elect a full slate to the next conventions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I got this email from an east-Metro GOP activist:<\/p>\n

I just want you to know, and to publicize it without naming me, please, that there are a LOT of Ron Paul moles out there getting Delegate spots. I have at least two of them of my six slots that got elected; I only know me and [redacted] of the six, so two more are suspect as well. There is a 4th District coordinator for the Ron Paul campaign, going to conventions as a \u201cguest\u201d to \u201clearn about the process\u2019, but actually coordinating all the Ron Paul flying monkeys to vote a slate, and its very effective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve noticed that a few of my own precinct’s delegates (I’m a precinct chair) didn’t leave valid addresses or phone numbers.<\/p>\n

This rankles, for people who’ve been working in the party for a while:<\/p>\n

I will never see these morons again after this November, and they\u2019re taking up delegate slots for true party activists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this was the same complaint you heard from people two years ago in the Sixth District – disgruntled by Michele Bachmann’s ability to turn out votes at the caucuses and conventions.\u00a0 Of course, Bachmann was a Republican<\/em>, which is something most of the Paulbots can hardly say with a straight face.<\/p>\n

You may want to remind the BPOU chairs that while guests are allowed, they are NOT allowed on the floor at any time, and are not to interfere in the business of the BPOU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BPOU chairs?\u00a0 Consider yourself on notice.<\/p>\n

This guy, Jeff Hagen<\/strong>, was walking all over and [name redacted] and I could see him talk to people and then they\u2019d look our way and just GLARE at us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am so angry that good delegates are now second alternates because of these frauds.\u00a0 This guy, for example, is a self-proclaimed member of the Libertarian Party, but basically running a coup of the Republican Party. I can guarantee you the reason we had such a huge turnout at caucus was in part because of the Ron Paul group.<\/p>\n

Okay, I feel better.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we head into District Convention season (my own, 66B, is tonight, although I’m not a delegate), remember – we’re a big tent, but there are some basic principles this party is supposed <\/em>to follow.\u00a0 And while there are some libertarian ideals that the Party could stand to (and, in many cases, does) embrace, the Paulbots are pushing some lines that Republicans should <\/em>find noxious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At my precinct caucus – a month ago, now – we were pretty well mobbed with Ron Paul supporters.\u00a0 Many of them were utterly clueless about how caucuses worked (no biggie – we’re all about the education), although a few of them were pretty rude about it; they wanted to come in and vote for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}