Utah Republican Convention tomorrow 05-10-2008
Posted May 9th, 2008 by LatinsforPaul
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Ron Paul supporters are anxiously preparing for the Utah State Republican Convention in Orem, Utah, now just two days away. Some will attend the convention as state delegates, some are running for National Delegate or National Alternate, and some will attend the convention to distribute flyers, etc. Lowell Nelson and others are coordinating the efforts of a number of Ron Paul people, and they need your help!
If you are a state delegate, and if you have not heard from Lowell, please send him an email message TODAY (at lowell@netdocuments.com ). He has a list of the Ron Paul candidates for National Delegate and National Alternate. We need everyone to vote for these candidates, and only these candidates, so our contingent at the national convention can be as strong as possible.
If you are not a state delegate, but can attend the convention to help, please let him know ASAP. We need people to distribute convention literature to delegates as they arrive at the convention at 7AM. Some delegates will have House or Senate caucuses to attend, so they won’t be free to distribute flyers. Your volunteering to help will make a positive difference.
If you cannot go to the convention, but can telephone state delegates tonight and Friday night (to identify like-minded, liberty-loving individuals), please email Lowell right now! He can give you a list of state delegates to call.
One of the most important things we can do at the convention is defeat the proposal to change the rules to unbind the Utah delegation from the winner of the UT presidential primary. The rule as it stands now, is that the UT delegation is bound to the winner of the UT primary. As you know, Mitt Romney won the UT primary and has earned and deserves the 36 votes on the first ballot at the national convention. The rules for the primary were in place and the voters knew what they were when they cast their vote and it is our responsibility to honor those rules. Changing the rule will require a 2/3 (super) majority.
And if the rule is changed, there will also be considered a resolution to bind the entire Utah delegation to John McCain on the first ballot of the national convention. Passing this resolution will require a simple majority. If the party rule is not changed, then this resolution would not even be considered. But if the party rule is changed, we must do everything we can to defeat this resolution.
Much will be happening today and tomorrow. We need your help to move forward the cause of Liberty. Get in touch with Lowell Nelson, and be a part of a team whose objective is to defeat the party rule change, and to get a bunch of Ron Paul supporters elected to represent Utah and Utah’s values of limited government, economic freedom and personal responsibility at the national convention.
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One of the most important things we can do at the convention is defeat the proposal to change the rules to unbind the Utah delegation from the winner of the UT presidential primary. The rule as it stands now, is that the UT delegation is bound to the winner of the UT primary. As you know, Mitt Romney won the UT primary and has earned and deserves the 36 votes on the first ballot at the national convention. The rules for the primary were in place and the voters knew what they were when they cast their vote and it is our responsibility to honor those rules. Changing the rule will require a 2/3 (super) majority.
When I first read this, I cringed. Actually, this is the proper course of action for Ron Paul supporters.
The most important task at this point is to deny votes to Juan McWar on the first round of votes at National. If the delegates are bound to Romney, then at National on the first vote those delegates can vote for Romney or abstain and sit out.
The next most important task is to fill the delegates with Ron Paul supporters. Get there and get elected!