tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post6095895333096152614..comments2024-03-27T09:59:12.302-05:00Comments on Texas Conservative Republican News: Texas Precinct Conventions will be OPTIONAL under New 2012 Republican Delegate Selection ProcessDavid Bellowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08389464829952869881noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-35159224787097721432012-02-21T23:18:27.259-06:002012-02-21T23:18:27.259-06:00Mr. Bellow: you are on notice that there will be f...Mr. Bellow: you are on notice that there will be far more scrutiny of the Texas Republican primary and convention this year than there has been in our lifetimes, and any attempt on your part or any other member of the Texas republican party leadership to deny or impede the participation of Ron Paul's supporters in the nomination process will not go unchallenged.<br /><br />The long and short of it is, if you pull a fast one on us, we WILL end your career.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-86010115929468376802012-02-21T16:43:15.847-06:002012-02-21T16:43:15.847-06:00So if the senate district conventions end up elect...So if the senate district conventions end up electing all the delegates to State through their nominations committees, and it excludes all Ron Paul supporters--I propose the Ron Paul supporters vote third party in the general Presidential election and vote for the Democrat in every down ballot race. Maybe 4 more years of Obama is what the GOP needs to purge their Fascist pro-Bankster, anti-Liberty, Pro-warmongering leaders out of power. 20 years as a Republican party activist-I used to be proud to be a Reagan/Pat Buchanan conservative. Now I'm embarrassed as the party seems more like a bunch of fascist Orwellian Trotskyites hell bent on permanent war, national bankruptcy and the resulting revolution and social disorder which will inevitably follow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-71716997391388374412012-02-21T15:53:50.248-06:002012-02-21T15:53:50.248-06:00Absolute tyranny if you boys let this go through. ...Absolute tyranny if you boys let this go through. Texas is important, especially in this Republic. If Texas goes the way of the DC RINOs, then I can assure you that establishing the proper format & decorum for our country will no longer be possible in a peaceful process. Be weary RINOs, though you may have the old coffers full of money & a stronghold...eh-hem...chokehold on the media, you cannot force the red-blooded freedom out of our veins & pump the Kool-Aid in. Do NOT follow through with this. We are following the proper process & changing the rules since you can't win will not be accepted. You have been warned.JMitchell1967https://www.blogger.com/profile/12929826717328774753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-88243440749239721332012-02-21T15:44:12.545-06:002012-02-21T15:44:12.545-06:00This reeks of Nevada 2008. "We're going f...This reeks of Nevada 2008. "We're going forward, we just don't know when," then delays, obfuscations, rule changes, right up until the moment that they could hijack the system. Strange, there have been lots of reason why I never wanted to live in Texas, but corruption was never one of them. Now I'm wishing I was a Texan so I could help participate in bringing a lawsuit against this now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-88253682362754887532012-02-21T15:44:04.562-06:002012-02-21T15:44:04.562-06:00I wish Ron Paul would just announce a blockbuster ...I wish Ron Paul would just announce a blockbuster running mate and go third party now. Damn the GOP! They have done nothing but shaft him since day one.Flochuckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04715445747654601779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-49848198118304105672012-02-21T15:29:44.692-06:002012-02-21T15:29:44.692-06:00I see no reason to continue to be a repubicrat or ...I see no reason to continue to be a repubicrat or a dimbulb. Ol' Stalin said it isn't who the people vote is important, it's who counts the votes. This is all commmunist bullcrap just like in DC....boyz are scared Ron Paul just might pull it off, and they are ruining what was ruined anyway (repubicrat party). I'll guarantee you one thing, if Ron Paul isn't the nominee, I won't vote for any of the neocons, commies and such the banksters want including Sarah who made herself irrevelant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-64439897116415815522012-02-21T14:41:47.390-06:002012-02-21T14:41:47.390-06:00And the beat goes on ....
Vote Ron Paul 2012
Win ...And the beat goes on ....<br /><br />Vote Ron Paul 2012<br />Win A Free Country!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-38946644917869663952012-02-21T14:07:32.748-06:002012-02-21T14:07:32.748-06:00Can't win the game? Change the rules.
Nice......Can't win the game? Change the rules.<br /><br />Nice...straight out of a S. American dictators handbook. Congrats on reading history for once GOPers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-5294358285533691492012-02-21T12:46:46.360-06:002012-02-21T12:46:46.360-06:00You guys crack me up. Talk about Third-World natio...You guys crack me up. Talk about Third-World nation politics...,you GOP'ers take the cake. Ron Paul smokes the GOP field, so you cretins try to change the field (and rules) in order to MAKE SURE he doesn't gain a foothold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-39403675721775339332012-02-21T12:44:49.473-06:002012-02-21T12:44:49.473-06:00Why bother with voting at all, why don't you j...Why bother with voting at all, why don't you just tell us who the elites in the party prefer. That way at least it will be honest, instead of some made up poll of the few people left who give a spit about this farce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-38062390570154513512012-02-21T12:10:11.106-06:002012-02-21T12:10:11.106-06:00Burn baby, burn! Good bye GOP and HELLO Obama for ...Burn baby, burn! Good bye GOP and HELLO Obama for another four! You have failed us AGAIN!sausages1955https://www.blogger.com/profile/18357364954765779198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-84123930721515293922012-02-20T12:49:34.417-06:002012-02-20T12:49:34.417-06:00"the reason they cannot just go ahead and hav..."the reason they cannot just go ahead and have the precinct conventions now is that it has to be voted on by the srec at the end of this month and then has to pass doj approval which might take many weeks. there is no way to know when it will be approved"<br /><br />State law which has been precleared by the USDOJ ***requires*** precinct conventions to be conducted on the general primary election date, or in the 5 days that follow (Tuesday March 6, 2010 through Sunday March 11, 2010).<br /><br />No court has ordered a change in the general primary election date. The San Antonio court has fiddled with certain procedures that would preclude holding the primary on the general primary election date, but that just means that the primary can not be held on that date.<br /><br />The conventions and primary are separate activities, that are only related in that a political party conducts both.<br /><br />The Republican Party should simply inform the SA court of their intent to comply with State law.Jim Rileynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-48671772708071967562012-02-20T00:10:28.129-06:002012-02-20T00:10:28.129-06:00Esteban, not having a precinct convention will mak...Esteban, not having a precinct convention will make the Texas Convention process more open to all Republicans who want to be involved. With no Precinct conventions to select delegates, anyone will be able to go to the county convention and be involved. At the county convention we will be able to weed out who we wanrt to go to the state convention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-90677863057000069372012-02-20T00:06:57.182-06:002012-02-20T00:06:57.182-06:00If anyone reads my blog posts, I am completely in ...If anyone reads my blog posts, I am completely in favor of standing up to the DOJ and telling them what they are doing is unconstitutional. I have been advocating that for months! The problem is that I am only one person and the majority just wanted to play nice hoping to get a good deal. We have not stood up to them and now we are in the position we are in and have to wait for their approval. If we stood up months ago we might have had the supreme court rule in our favor on the voting rights act already. Now there is not time between now and the conventions to try to get the supreme court to rule against section 5 of the voting rights act. After this redistricting mess, we need to join together with all of the other states and push for section 5 of the voting rights act to be done away with. Who is the Attorney General that he gets to determine the voting lines for Texas instead of the elected officials in Texas? That is CRAZY!David Bellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08389464829952869881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-45508152058958368592012-02-19T21:22:46.869-06:002012-02-19T21:22:46.869-06:00Why do you all think that the DOJ must approve Par...Why do you all think that the DOJ must approve Party rules and processes?<br />They have no business approving or disapproving our rules, they only are to provide preclearance to the maps. The party can choose to go back to old maps if they want to, or draw their own, or anything inbetween, without the DOJ being involved at all.<br />If you SREC members don't get that maybe it is time to clean house.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-80617464412311910112012-02-19T16:33:21.323-06:002012-02-19T16:33:21.323-06:00Absolute horse biscuits!!! Leave it to the SREC to...Absolute horse biscuits!!! Leave it to the SREC to determine that the "grassroots" however painful it is to the elite of this party to make "optional" their own bases participation in the process...I guess getting a room in Fort Worth will be easier now for the hob-nobbers who go to the conventions to rub elbows with the imfamous and feckless leadership we now have in the party, and those elected to office from this party...<br /><br />Give the grassroots a marginal need to participate in the process, and offer little incentive to participate, and you assure Texas' moderate participation in the whole national election process, and assure Obama another 4 years, especially if the Republican Parties elitist anointed one (the liberal Romney) somehow gets the nomination...<br /><br />And no, I am not a Paul-bot supporter, I will just have to deal with their nonsense (and the Occupoopers) at the Precinct Convention level, like we did back in 2008...they are a little better orgqnized now, and I am sure they are prime to take up delegate positions and really do some significant damage to the Texas platform...Thanks Texas GOP and the SREC for marginalizing Texas in the 2012 election cycle!!! (that was a lot of sarcasm there folks!!!)Esteban Currasco (Harris County)http://freerepublic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-80838149469741854412012-02-19T14:28:51.610-06:002012-02-19T14:28:51.610-06:00the reason they cannot just go ahead and have the ...the reason they cannot just go ahead and have the precinct conventions now is that it has to be voted on by the srec at the end of this month and then has to pass doj approval which might take many weeks. there is no way to know when it will be approvedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3054567554927707479.post-44814052671565081622012-02-19T10:52:36.566-06:002012-02-19T10:52:36.566-06:00Texas law permits consolidation of election precin...Texas law permits consolidation of election precincts for primaries and runoffs, and the two parties regularly use different consolidations for each of their primaries, and between the primary and the runoff. There are even explicit provisions for separate paper ballots for electing precinct chairs when precincts are consolidated for the primary.<br /><br />State law now permits precinct conventions to be held through the Sunday following the day of the primary.<br /><br />Why not hold the precinct conventions under the schedule in State law (March 6 through 11), and use a broader consolidation than will be used for the primary. <br /><br />For example, use house districts in more populous counties, commissioners precincts in medium counties, and countywide in the smallest counties. The conventions could be held on Saturday (March 10th) and perhaps use local high schools.<br /><br />It may be necessary to break things up into election precinct caucuses, and it is easier to do this for a few 10s of precincts rather than 100 or more.<br /><br />The only thing to do at a precinct convention is to elect delegates to county conventions and "conduct party business". So conduct a straw poll of presidential support, and give people a reason to attend.<br /><br />The county conventions could then be held on schedule on March 24.Jim Rileynoreply@blogger.com