Dr. Paul Agreed to Declare Write-in Status in Maine, Why Not Other States? Why Not Ask?
Submitted by Sue4theBillofrights on Sun, 09/30/2012 - 22:43Maine is one of the states which requires a candidate to sign an official "declaration" of write-in candidacy, whatever that is supposed to mean besides be just another hurdle to ballot access. Now that Ron Paul is an official write-in candidate in Maine, we know Dr. Paul has obviously agreed to this. We don't know why, or if Maine is a special case (they got screwed the worst at the convention?)
But this opens the obvious question, why not other states which have such a requirement? It would be a shame if next year at a Liberty Bar-b-q with Ron Paul, the casual conversation arose in which someone said, "So Congressman, why didn't you declare write-in status in Such-and-Such state too?" - and he answered as he munched down on a hotdog: "Nobody ever asked."
Most state deadlines for this are pretty closed to election day or even after.
State requirements summary:
http://www.anamericanvision.com/info/state_certifications_re...
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Did you try to file for him in your state?
Why rely on others? Find out for yourself for your own state.
Contact made
I emailed his office with the info from Maryland for his consideration.
Vickie
Good.
Good.
Southern Agrarian
Question?
How is writing-in Dr. Paul's name going to BREAK our corrupt two party system we have in this country, especially when the majority of the Ron Paul supporters around this country will never do it?
Do you really think your ‘write-in’ numbers are that big?
Many Paul supporters were very disheartened when he chose NOT to take on Mitt Romney after we had effectively eliminated all the other candidates from the race for him.
Doug Weed eventually let the cat out of the bag (after the race was over), and told us all why that happened (Romney's threat to discredit him.)
We also now know, this effectively happened a couple of months before the Rand Paul defection issue surfaced. His decision to do so, bitterly divided this board.
In fairness to Rand Paul, maybe he knew about the decision NOT to attack Romney, and decided what the heck; why I wasting my time here!
We will never really know for sure what really happened. But one thing is for certain, something more happened than we’ve been told that I can assure you. Human nature tells us this kind of behavior between a father and son during a Presidential run, is NOT normal.
For many, mainly non-Daily Paulers will not be throwing their support to Dr. Paul again, after all that's happened in this campaign. No matter how you want to spin it, this was the most poorly run campaign in recent political times.
Ron Paul has been a great teacher and awakener of the masses. But many do not think he REALLY wanted to be president. So I say let him continue to teach at the universities. Something he is very comfortable with, and which is very positive for this movement.
But it’s time we find a third party candidate, and break this two party system. And then support him as we did Dr. Paul.
The Winds of Change!
LOL like a 1% voTe for Johnson with it's muddled message is
going to "break" the two party system. You guys are delusional.
On the other hand a strong write-in vote for Ron Paul whose message is crystal clear will show that, no matter what dirty tricks the establishment resorts to, they cannot demoralize or defeat us.
Anybody else contact Dr. Paul's office about a write-in declaration?
Release the Sandy Hook video.
I am finding it
hard to believe that the threat came from Mitt Romney or his campaign.
What I noticed is that Ron Paul had breakfast with Bernanke on May 10, 2012.
Ron Paul said that the breakfast meeting was "mutual."
And "The Fed chief and lawmaker had “sort of an open discussion,” Mr. Paul said, while declining to provide any details of the conversation. “It was off the record,” he said. The Fed declined to comment on the meeting."
On May 14th, only 4 days after his breakfast with Bernanke Dr. Paul makes his statement about not actively campaigning
in states that have not yet held primaries. His campaign will continue to fight for delegates in states that have already held caucuses and primaries.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/stimulus...
Just short of a month later Rand Paul endorses Mitt Romney on June 7th, 2012.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/rand-pa...
Do you not feel that it was more something that Bernanke had to say to Dr. Paul which may have also been uses by the Romney campaign (via that creep of a lawyer Ben Ginsberg) that caused Dr. Paul to pull back?
I see a real red flag her between the Bernanke breakfast and Dr. Paul's announcement 4 days later. This was right when the Paul Campaign was building momentum too!
The Big time international banksters gave Bernanke a message to deliver to Dr. Paul is how I see it. I would love to know what their conversation was really all about that morning.
While Wead is personable and great at PR, he did work on the Bush campaign and is an old hand in politics. I do not believe he does not know the ropes the way he pretends. I feel he is just trying to blow smoke up my skirt! Not this gal's skirt .......sorry!
Any ideas as to what bens
Any ideas as to what bens message was?
No, it came from the Romney camp!
I personally watched the interview Doug Weed gave where he stated very clearly the Romney camp threatened to embarrass Dr Paul if he attacked him in any way.
He also said Benton advised Ron Paul not to take on Romney because of the threat, which Benton thought could embarrass and hurt the Liberty movement.
Doug Weed also followed up by saying he thought Dr. Paul should have gone for it, and let the chips fall where they may. But Ron Paul decided to take Benton’s advice.
Doug may have said more in this interview than he really wanted to!
The Winds of Change!
my feeling is
whatever got him to pull back isn't going away. So, should we really force him into continuing to run by making write-in campaigns? What will be the ramifications of that? What is he wins?
Although I do agree that it's
Although I do agree that it's a slightly better option to vote Johnson or a constitutional party candidate rather than Romney or Obama.. a write in for Paul isn't all that bad. Johnson could use the support to be in the debates.
Who knows? A 5-15% write in for Paul could have some Romney/Obama voters giving a second look. Although it would be too late, it would be somewhat of a positive change. Maybe a few will become interested in our ideas and run for congress.
Some say Paul should just give Johnson a legit endorsement to push him over the top to at least be in the debates. How would a Libertarian candidate being in the national debates change things? Not one person on this forum can say that having Johnson in the debates is bad.
"One man with courage is a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Over 120 million people voted
Over 120 million people voted in the last presidential election.
2 million voted for the doc in this year's primary.
Not sure how we get to 5-15% when the doc isn't even asking for votes.
In Maine, as in CA and some other places only electors have 2 OK
it.
We are working on it in California as well, and I expect he will be a certified write in candidate there as well, as he was in 2008
Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesnt want to hear -RonPaul
so which is true?
Did he or did he not agree to it? Is the poster just trying to sway us when in fact he didn't agree to it at all? Just curious.
I will believe it when I hear it from the horses mouth. And how many have already asked him and what were the responses?
Taking this point of confusion from RPF
From Maine Sec of State on write-in presidential candidates:
http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/2012/2012gewriteinreq.pdf
"HOW ARE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS NOMINATED?
Presidential Electors are the people who actually elect the President of the United States. When voters go to the polls on Election Day, they cast a vote for who they would like to see as President. This is called the “popular vote”. The popular vote is used to choose “electors” – these are the people who are nominated to cast votes for President and Vice-President of the United States. Voters choose the electors and the electors choose the President.
The number of Electoral College votes allotted to each state is determined by adding up the members of the United States Congress who are elected from that state. Maine has two U.S. Senators and two U.S. Representatives, for a total of four members of Congress. Therefore, Maine also gets four Electoral College votes.
A write-in candidate must name the candidate’s four electors when the Declaration of Write-in Candidacy is submitted. In the group of four electors, one must be from the First Congressional District, one must be from the Second Congressional District and two are chosen at-large. Each elector must file a written consent with the Secretary of State. "
Like the guy said in RPF maybe someone oughta call Maine elections and get it straight. I think a candidate declaration is needed.
Release the Sandy Hook video.
were you involved in
getting him to agree to it? or are you just making an assumption? For all I know Maine is doing what GJ was doing in Michigan and getting someone with the same name to run.
If Congressman Ron Paul did actually submit a Declaration of Write-In Candidacy then that should make the news. It would be big news I would think. We should be able to get a copy of the Declaration in fact. Someone must have it! Picture or it didn't happen!
Might be fun if he won some states
Can you read? We'll get it straight you just sit tight
It's called doing the work.
Ron Paul official write-in status in Maine:
http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/2012/writeinnov2012.pdf
Release the Sandy Hook video.
excellent
thanks. I missed the last line of the other post. If he did sign it, then maybe whoever convinced him will post here and tell everyone how. Or if he didn't actually have to sign maybe they will let us know that too.
I have written people in in the past in various states. I am in Oregon now and you can write people in but generally they won't specifically tally them unless they are close to winning. Otherwise it just says write-ins: 245 or whatever. Consequently I have never seen my write-ins in print here. For President you need electors so at some point they would have to fill in that paperwork declaring the electors.
thanks. sorry I was a bit snippy. please keep bumped.
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Release the Sandy Hook video.
Bump for Ron Paul over
Bump for Ron Paul over Johnson.
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Thanks Sue4 for that information.
Appreciated.
LOL Johnson-nuts voting this down, how dare we promote Paul
on the website with his name on it!
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