Straight Talk from a Texas Meetup

I was voted precinct chairman and we had 6 or 7 out of 8 Ron Paul supporters in our group. I will be going to the state convention as an alternate delegate. I hope to raise that status to a designated state delegate in the up coming meetings before the june state convention.

If I do nothing else I will pound Ron Paul ideas into anybody I come into contact with along the way. I wish to take back my Republican party but most of all Take Back Our Country.

For those who are in the remaining states. Know this, It felt so good to vote for Ron Paul and to get involved. I want to encourage all to become Precinct leaders and make sure you are the one picked to be your state delegate.

Sincerely,
Don Preston

You guys are amazing, you need to pass this on to EVERY meetup group that is yet to go to convention.

Another Texan here to report we sweep many precincts with Ron Paul delegates!!! Concentrate on getting delegates !!

I sent this good news to a friend of mine, and this was his response:

"That is very encouraging ... It looks very similar to what I was a part of in Texas 20 years ago (switch out McCain for George H. W. Bush, same level of angst amongst the conservatives) at the Brazos County GOP convention but we didn't go so far as to have a "no confidence" resolution.

You might want to pass my observations on to Al and Jeremy. What happened was that we got suckered into thinking we were making progress (I was on the county platform committee and spent some number of hours helping craft a draft platform and resolutions for the county convention). By the time we got to the county convention we got Bushwhacked -- they shut down the convention with no action on the platform and resolution because the county party leadership said it was not amenable to 'our' presidential nominee. That's right -- from 1988 to 1992 the county had no party platform to protect the elder Bush's hide from being embarrassed. I'll expect nothing less this time around at county GOP conventions across the nation. If the Paul and Huckabee camps work together they will have ample opportunities to stop such foolishness if you prepare beforehand.

I must admit though that some of the resolutions do ring hollow. For instance on the taxation resolution, if they GOP of Texas is dedicated to the abolition of the IRS, the repeal of the 16th Amendment, and the repeal of other taxes that violate the intent of the Founders, then show me the actions by Republican elected officials at the state or federal levels (other than Congressman Paul) that have done something significant toward these goals. The GOP of Texas has given us two presidents and at least two governors since these goals have been state party policy, yet these elected officials have undermined every expression of party policy that the resolutions addressed."

The sheep came out and voted the way they were "supposed" to vote. They voted for McCain and went home. One McCain voter I was talking to told me I was "throwing my vote away" by voting for Ron Paul.

She did not go to the convention, she probably didn't know there was one. The polling judge at my polling place told me that there was no Republican convention. Nobody was getting their voter cards stamped Republican because they didn't think there was a convention.

I had to convince the polling judge that there would be a convention. He then found a room that we could have it in after I convinced him that I would be there.

All day the next day the right wing radio shows were laughing at the Democrats and their process of conventions after the vote (implying that the Republicans were oh so smart because they only had the vote and no precinct conventions).

I'm sure my precinct had about 1000 votes for McCain...I was the only one who showed up to be a delegate.

So...who's vote was wasted?

That things went well in KY and CO too

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison

Way to go! Its far from over people! Get on board!

This show is not over until we say it's over, and I better not hear anyone here say it is over! LOL :)

Go Ron Paul!

Go Paul's Patriots!

Thanks for that. Good read, and people need to realize that what is happening in real life is not on TV (is it ever?).

I was watching Glenn Beck last night, and I saw a crack in the armor.

The ticker on the bottom of the screen, after a Hillobama blurb, turned to McCain, and called McCain the "presumptive GOP nominee".

Presumptive?

The only GOP people I know that support McCain, also voted for Bill Clinton. Those are the staunch republicans in the McCain camp.

What could really work out, is that in the final primaries, the GOP voters stay home, or vote Dem for other reasons, and only Ron Paul voters show up for the GOP votes.

several resolutions passed in 3161 on march 4th

The following is one of the most important for texas:

NORTH AMERICAN UNION
Whereas the goals of "economic intergration" and "labor mobility" among the three North American countries are proceeding rapidly, following the pattern of the creation of the European Union, despite the fact that it has never been voted on by Congress or even discussed with the American people, and Whereas, wen President Bush met at the third summit of the Security and Posperity Partnership (SPP) in Montebello, Quebec in 2007, he was asked by Fox News "Can you say today that this is not a prelude to a North American Union, similar to a European Union," and he did not deny this but instead ridiculed and insulted the questioner, and Whereas, the prestigious Hudson Institute published a report called "Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership" which describes SPP as the vehicle for "future arrangements for economic intergration to create a single market for goals and services in North America" that is "designed to function within existing administrative authority of the executive branch," and Whereas the prestigious think-tank the Center for Stratigic and International Studies (CSIS) issued a taxpayer-funded report called "North American Future 2025 Project" revealing that the core of the plan is North American "economic intergration" and "labor mobillity" and Whereas President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act on October 26 2006, after it was passed by the U. S. House (283-138) and Senete (80-19), but 15 months later only a few miles have been built out of the 845-mile fence mandeated, and Whereas, Congress prohibited the admission of Mexican trucks onto U.S. reads by a House vote of 411 to 3 on May 15 and a Senate vote of 75-23, but the Bush Administration announced that it will continue with the Mexican crossborder trucking program anyway, Whereas there is no evidence that the American people want t be intergrated into any sort of North American Union, Therefore, be it resolved that_____________ call on all presidential and congressional candidates for public office to verify that they will use their best efforts to oppose all plans that might lead to a North American Union. Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the ______________Senatorial/County Conventions Comittee from Precinct#____ of the __________County Republican Party, with the recommendation that it be passed ant sent to the State Convention Platform Committee of the ____________ Party of Texas.

I share this with you to let you know that we can continue to fight on the small scale. We also Passed a resolution against the RealID, and a majority of the members (aside from us ronpaul republicans) had never heard that this chipped ID device was not only in the works, but scheduled to be implimented in Texas by May of 2008. Needless to say, our defense is not now to promote a specific candidate, but to continue our defense of the constitution by moving forward in the electoral process as the voices of reason.
I have hope that I will see a lot of you in the Freedom movement on the other side.
With Love,
Aimee

very true.... I was talking to my precinct chair yesterday.. she was a huckabee voter.. she is now voting for Ron Paul... no one likes McCain.
If the Romney people come over McCain does not have chance at the convention.. The media is socilist/communist.. they want either socialist obama or hitlery in office.. McCain is not even a speed bump for those 2 to run over. they know if Ron Paul gets the nomination that he would kill either of the 2 in a national debate where lots of people will watch and learn! they cannot have this.. this is why were getting the mccain BS about him winning the Nomination! Fight the good Fight my brothers and sisters.. BECOME A DELEGATE..there are still spots open in many states! THIS THING IS LONG FROM BEING OVER! I'm going to be giggling my ass off- hopefully in Minnesota as a colorado national Delegate, or sitting in my home watching from tv.. that old man scowl that mcmain gets like hes got a turd caught crosswise- when he loses!
God Bless Ron Paul!!

I agree with you 100% that McCain has nothing right now, I would estimate that at VERY VERY BEST he has around 800-900 delegates.
That being said, the Republican Party will be in a vastly different shape come September.
Here is the problem, it costs money to travel to St. Paul. Anti-McCain people are much less likely to take several days off from work, and spend the travel costs to vote against someone. As for the Paul Supporters, they would likely be willing to spend the money, but by that time many will have been indoctrinated that McCain has won and so may decide to cut their losses and stay home.
The only way this whole thing will be effective is if we can somehow finance peoples travel arrangements (a massive moneybomb) and somehow keep it out there that Paul is still in the race and that anything can still happen.
Remember that by August (convention) the Democratic race will have been settled which means that many of those Anti-McCain Republicans will see the need to embrace their "winner" so their party looks stronger than the Democrats. Its unfortunate, but true.

I really hope the Veterans against McCain gets their message out there in a bigway. I hope that a Republicans Against McCain group starts (and not by a bunch of liberal Rep. who are supporting Obama) and they get their message out there in a big way. We need lots of advertising on the Keating 5 scandal, his recent lobbyist scandal etc.

One thing that would be smart so as not to look partisan is commercials taking on the Democratic Front Runner(s), and McCain at the same time. This would be very effective to show that neither are worthy.

We got 5% and we got delegates, so big deal, Ron Paul will take the convention.

Could anyone from Texas please explain why Paul got 38,000 votes for congress in his district but only about 10,000 for president in the 10 or 12 counties that make up that district? Is this even plausible. I have called my Congressman, my local GOP hq, the Texas GOP and the TX state elections board and just got the run around. Thanks.... GO TEXAS.!!!!
GO RON PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will Weigand

McCain problems with the FEC could be why the GOP is jumping in there.
If he's the nominee, they can start spending money on his campaign, which
right now is under intense scrutiny by the FEC for his acceptance of public
funding and then that shady loan in Florida.

I've sent green papers' delegate count info to the DNC . It appears that McCain is still 50 or so delegates short of the 1191 needed. That includes his unpledged count.

RP just needs to hang in there, down to 2 now, whether they admit it or not.

Any word from our candidate or is he just hanging low for all this crap to blow up?

This news is great! I've been so excited to move forward since Huckabee dropped out.
I see 2 possibilities now - both wonderful! 1) The remaining states can force the brokered convention, which puts RP toe-to-toe with McCain. I live in NE and from what I'm hearing, we're saturating delegates very well (at least 80% in my county). With spring coming, we will be hoofing it from door-to-door.
OR 2) An unbrokered convention where every other bound delegate will express their regret for being bound. -- I think both scenerios will do well for our cause.
I am also anticipating a growing regret in our country for voting McCain as more events and information unravel in the months to come.
9 of the states remain, and now that neo-cons are letting their guard down, more truths will come out before their primaries and more people will begin to question neo-con ways.
The dems are sounding more and more like RP every day - even though their real platforms are socialist programs, they're fighting McCain with constitutional arguments. This can only help us, now. Full steam ahead!!

Now we just somehow have to make everyone else in the US know Ron is still in it and what his platform is...what else can we do?

We must persevere. There is no alternative. To quote Patrick Henry, It is nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.

"We don't have to start a brand new revolution...All we have to do is restore the original Constitution." -Ron Paul

From the reports i have received we did awesome in TX

by my numbers we have obtained 56% to 58% of the delegates in TX

Great job all.

I was the only delegate for my precinct (technically there was the old precinct chair and my wife but they didn't want anything to do with the process).

I passed unanimously 19 resolutions.

12 resolutions from Bexar county, 5 of the Lubbock county resolutions that didn't overlap the Bexar county ones. Two of my own. One against undeclared wars and one making all votes null and void for any _CANDIDATE_ who could not show a photo ID proving their Texas residency.

Al,

Have you seen my post about the delegate process in depth?

I have been pushing this for months and i spelled out a long explnation of how delegates and the nomination works.

If you have not seen this here is the link if you have seen it please send this to every meetup and email you have please.

link : http://www.dailypaul.com/node/36650#comment-373442

We had 8 attend, 9 R3VOLution resolutions passed, mostly unanimously, majority RP supporters.

Our friends in the area all attended their conventions and had similar numbers. At least 4 precinct conventions I know of that were dominated by Ron Paul supporters. There are many more, these are just the ones that I actually spoke to people who attended.

I just spoke with the campaign on the phone. Ron Paul is staying in the race..and collecting delegates. She said it did not look like there would be a brokered convention. That's not so good. She said MCCain doesn't have enough delegates but he is close. She said Ron Paul will stay in to give all Americans the opportunity to vote for a true conservative. If you have not voted yet...please CONTINUE THE FIGHT! We will collect more supporters! RON PAUL 2008 Jazzloversinc

I think many Texans who made the effort to attend their precinct conventions noticed the throngs of Democrats queuing-up to caucus for their chosen candidates. I hope that spectacle has helped others realize that our battle is still looming. All of our challenges have been simply minor skirmishes up to this point. After making major in-roads to the convention process on Tuesday, I think my fellow Texans are encouraged and eager to continue this fight to the next level. Let's do this!

Bump

All read this attachment.

IT IS OUR PLATFORM!

Way to go Texas!!!!! That's great news!

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=U9ukh_sDj6M
Watch and feel the power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, we may not have received much of the popular vote, but Ron Paul supporters are more active. I had 5 people in my precinct, 2 voted for RP, 2 for Huckster and one I can't remember. [may have been RP] he was kind of quiet.

However, we had 3 RP delegates going to the next level. You did not have to be there to advance if you were nominated.

Another Precinct next to me had several people, at least 2 of them were Ron Paul supporters and they had no problem passing there resolutions.

The RON PAUL REVOLUTION continues.

great statement about the events that transpired last night in Texas. In my precinct and 3 others I checked with the no confidence in McCain resolution was passed with flying colors. over 50% of the delegates were obvious RP supporters. Its now time to make it to nationals and stand in defiance of tyranny. Special thanks to all the other states who set an example for us Texans to clean house at the conventions. Lets not stop now, we have just begun.

GO RP!!

I lost precinct chair to the incumbent but i did get over 200 votes. that was cool.
It would be nice to compile a list of all the RP resolutions that passed throughout Texas last night. Our meeting lasted 2.5 hours. We passed 7 resolutions, of which 4 were specific RP Resolutions. we had 18 in attendance. We had for sure 7 RP supporters of the 18 present

Wow! Thanks!

good to hear