Sue Lowden, NV State Chairwoman on Nevada Newsmakers program

I listened this morning on KKOH radio to a repeat of the Nevada Newsmaker interview of Sue Lowden on July 22. Here is a link for a download of Sue's interview on July 22
http://www.nevadanewsmakers.com/ Perhaps a couple of you might want to listen to what she said and post your comments.
Interesting. In the future, I think we sure should have leaders within the party who understand and utilize open, parlimentary procedure and who are concerned about the delegates and the
vote of the people...not just the money and position of the party.

I thought for sure I heard her say she had no political experience (yet she was a NV State Senator from '92 to '96) and she also said she had little background in parlimentarian rules (although "some people really get off on it") and that they were involved in running things in the traditional ways of the Republican Party. She also stated that while the contractual time was up on the ballroom on April 26th, they would have had to have paid time and a half to stay and she had to keep the budget in mind. So, in my mind she rather indicated that arrangements could have been made to stay longer and complete the process in motion. What about the cost for everyone to return, not just time and a half, but more airfare, more hotel rooms, etc? She was also very losey-goosey in her reply as to who the central commitee appointed to a nominating commitee and really couldn't answer why that step was even necessary, other than it was traditional. The commentator pointed out that the Democrats always have nominations from the floor.

She was very, very obviously only interested in the money, her "donors", and "tradition," and she knows that what has transpired will result in a "contested" matter which will cost yet more money. She knew that all along. I have no idea how this would work, but can she be sued, and maybe Bob Beers as well as Zac Moyle as individuals? I do not understand in the first place how a person, for example, can sue a homeowners association, or even a neighbor, but cannot sue a private club, which is apparently what the political parties are considered? What if I had fallen down and broken my leg when those "suits" were running madly up and down the aisles shouting "get out, everyone out, McCain people out"...sure, I could have sued the Peppermill Casino for turning the lights down, perhaps the people running the aises yelling 'out'...but I'm sure an attorney would have advised suing the "leaders" on the podium for the actions taken. Just thinking here. The way Sue made it sound was no big deal going to the RNC with a contest, so somehow it seems as though we have to go about this by making the concern for one's own actions, not the party, but individual wrongdoing, perhaps?

Sue also stated that she wrote individually to each delegate to ask for RSVPs for the July 26th date...they were so concerned about them having to pay out money (it's always the money element as an excuse)...and yet are they concerned that there are possibly two slates of delegates spending money to go to St. Paul, paying all those expenses? At least one delegate I know of received no such letter. No, so long as it is out of their hands, they think they have past the goalpost, so I think we have to keep throwing it back in their laps and letting it cost them money, perhaps even personally. What about each delegate filing in small claims courts for expense of the original April 26th date and for travel expenses?

Sue did seem to indicate that the platform and some other tasks were completed on April 26th...but how can that even be (unless she is recognizing that we did it on June 28th)? Do partial convention results still count as complete parts, since they never concluded their convention and it is still in illegal recess if one wants to even count their convention at all instead of as a part of the final (our) convention? It seems to me she wants to discount our completing the convention for her, while counting certain elements of an imcomplete (in her mind) convention which she illegally recessed. Hope that made some sort of sense.