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Submitted by John P. Slevin on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 11:21
Ron Paul 2012
Missouri

UPDATE: "I was there, and Ron Paul did SWEEP the Saint Louis City caucus, securing all delegates to both the Congressional and State conventions with 153 votes out of 291 attendees." from the comments to this post

In KC it's ongoing. We got Caucus Chair---vote 596-374.

Photo from inside St. Louis Caucus



Live Blog on the Kansas City caucus.

For the St. Louis caucus Live reports via twitter, check out this other post here at DailyPaul.

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Liveblogging the Jackson County Missouri Caucus

Posted by Lorien on Mar 24, 2012 Comments (33)

Throughout Saturday, 24 March 2012, I’m live­blog­ging the Jackson County, Missouri GOP cau­cus with reports from atten­dees. Keep check­ing back for updates! If you pre­fer, I’m also updat­ing Twitter @lorienjohnson!

CONFIRMED:
Paul wins major­ity of del­e­gates in Jackson County, Missouri. Paul 80% Romney 20%!

03:31 PM CST — Beat Obama Slate wins 531 to 237 and wins Jackson County.03:17 PM CST — Limited Paul sup­port­ers abstain­ing to fight the deal. Paul camp doesn’t believe a deal is necessary.03:13 PM CST — CONFIRMED: Combined Paul/Romney slate pro­posed, Paul with over­whelm­ing major­ity on the slate.03:10 PM CST — CONFIRMED: Paul did not have major­ity. It was Deal or Nothing…03:02 PM CST — Ron Paul Constitution slate with­drawn. Sounds like a deal in progress. Liveblogging the Jackson County Missouri Caucus | Lorien Johnson02:56 PM CST — Romney and Paul camps made deal to shut out Santorum camp, one per­son reports.02:51 PM CST — Voting on Slates is next. Some peo­ple are leaving.02:45 PM CST — Rules accepted, 589–100. Many have left accord­ing to some reports.

02:34 PM CST — Debate on rules closed, 581 to 204. Multiple Santorum peo­ple are try­ing to pri­vately address Chair.
02:30 PM CST - Attendees are report­ing feel­ing like the Santorum crowd is delib­er­ately draw­ing out the process.
02:14 PM CST - Santorum and Gingrich sup­port­ers increas­ingly loud. They clearly lose every voice vote, but for fair­ness at their request the Chair has held stand­ing votes. To ensure accu­racy and fair­ness, Chair agreed all votes should and will now be strictly by Standing vote. Every motion.
02:11 PM CST — NAY on Proportional del­e­gates, 411(yea) to 531 (nay).
02:00 PM CST — Loud Nay vote on Proportional del­e­gates. Chair holds stand­ing vote to be cer­tain. @Rakundig reports that the Chair is being very fair.
01:56 PM CST — @TracyWardForKC says: “Now vot­ing on pro­por­tional slates out win­ner take all. This crowd is get­ting antsy.”
01:55 PM CST — Sounds like all of the cam­paigns are angling at the moment. No sub­stan­tive news.
01:35 PM CST — Analysis from a Platte County res­i­dent and cau­cus orga­nizer, Darrel Drumright: Each dis­trict has it’s own con­ven­tion. If you live in the 5th dis­trict you would be nom­i­nated for del­e­gate to the 5th dis­trict con­ven­tion. If you lived in the 6th dis­trict you would vote for del­e­gates to the 6th dis­trict con­ven­tion. They should make a motion to vote on the stage con­ven­tion del­e­gates first and then divide by dis­trict. The cau­cus today votes for del­e­gates for three dif­fer­ent con­ven­tions. The 5th dis­trict con­ven­tion, the 6th dis­trict con­ven­tion and the MO state con­ven­tion. All three send del­e­gates to national.
01:29 PM CST — Some peo­ple are so angry that del­e­gates might be divided that they are leaving.
01:21 PM CST — Mark Seitman (sp?) motions to amend rules to divide into 5th and 6th dis­tricts instead of vot­ing as county.
01:15 PM CST — Rules Committee now reporting.
01:13 PM CST — All singing God Bless America while wait­ing for Rules Cmte.
01:08 PM CST — Motion made and passed to sus­pend the read­ing of the call to con­ven­tion to save time.
01:05 PM CST — Munyan elected Secretary, 587 to Finch’s 281. Munyan is a GOP Committeeman and local attor­ney. Very hon­or­able rep­u­ta­tion, and I have met him and heard him speak. Good choice.
12:55 PM CST — Voting on Secretary. Had to iron out minor count­ing error. Good accountability!
12:51 PM CST — Voting still very slow, peo­ple are impa­tient. Downside to a big metro caucus!
12:37 PM CST — Chair dou­bling Tellers to increase speed. Secretary Nominees: Ralph Munyan & Jennifer Finch.
12:34 PM CST — Chair called order, appoint­ing com­mit­tees. Nominations com­ing in.
12:25 PM CST — To answer your ques­tions, yes, Mark Anthony Jones sup­ports Ron Paul. However, more impor­tantly he is com­mit­ted to fol­low­ing Robert’s Rules of Order and has met with Parliamentarians to learn the processes. He will hon­estly and hon­or­ably Chair as a neu­tral entity as required by Robert’s Rules.
12:19 PM CST — 10 minute Bathroom Break agreed amid some lim­ited dispute.
12:16 PM CST — Mark Anthony Jones elected Chair by 596 to 374.
12:01 PM CST — Voting for Kraus for Chair is now being counted. Kraus is the Santorum Chair. This is Will Kraus: Will Kraus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Will Kraus for Missouri Senate 8th District
11:55 AM CST — Will Kraus’ motion was removed. Voting con­tin­ued. Waiting for report on vote.
11:52 AM CST — 1 sec­tion being recounted. Will Kraus is angry and object­ing. According to @rakundig, “He was object­ing to some fool mov­ing between sec­tions while votes were being counted.”
11:41 AM CST — Voting for Chair… looks like Mark Anthony Jones may have it. Votes are STANDING votes, which is good for accountability.
11:35 AM CST — Kraus motioned for only 2 peo­ple to count votes in crowd over 1k. Crowd dis­ap­proved so strongly he with­drew the motion.
11:30 AM CST — Tellers elected for each pres­i­den­tial can­di­date. Erin Dunn is the teller for Ron Paul.
11:26 AM CST — Nominees for Chair are intro­duc­ing themselves.
11:21 AM CST — 834 atten­dees in 5th District, 178 in 6th District. Credentials Report passed. Now tak­ing nom­i­na­tions for Chair.
11:13 AM CST — Still only a tem­po­rary Chair, Shirley Simmons. Waiting for Credentials Cmte to present report.
11:10 AM CST — Candidate Reps just fin­ished speak­ing. Jason Greene gets huge applause for Paul.
10:32 AM CST — Drawing seat­ing lines. Many more 5th dis­trict than 6th.
10:17 AM CST — Doors still not closed. Registration started 30 mins late so meet­ing will also be late.
09:19 AM CST — They’re up to 640 atten­dees in line now.
08:10 AM CST — Approximately 300 atten­dees in line.

Liveblogging the Jackson County Missouri Caucus | Lorien Johnson

Ron Paul supporters dominate GOP caucus in St. Louis

Ron Paul supporters dominate GOP caucus in St. Louis

BY JOEL CURRIER • jcurrier@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8256stltoday.com | Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2012 1:35 pm| (9) comments.



Delegates wait to have their votes counted during the St. Louis Republican caucus held Saturday at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. (Photo by Joel Currier / Post-Dispatch)

ST. LOUIS • Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul dominated the Republican caucus in St. Louis on Saturday with a majority-vote victory over two other slates backing other Republican nominee hopefuls.

The slate backing Paul cast 158 votes in the non-binding caucus Saturday. The purpose was to choose representatives to a round of Congressional district meetings in April and June that will repeat the process to send 52 delegates from Missouri to the August convention in Tampa, Fla.

The slate that primarily backed Santorum had 74 votes, while the Romney slate mustered 50 votes.

Some 300 people packed the cafeteria at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park for today's caucus. Each caucus is run like a mini-convention, with participants electing a chairman and voting on rules, which determine if delegates are selected individually or in a slate, if they are bound to a particular candidate, or if they move forward uncommitted.

Paul, a Texas Republican with a fierce libertarian streak, has polled low nationally but he has been able to pick up delegates thanks to scattered successes in states, like Missouri, using the caucus system.

Most of Missouri's 142 caucus gatherings were held March 17, but St. Louis and Jackson County, which includes Kansas City, were given special permission to hold them this weekend, so as not to interfere with last week's St. Patrick's Day's events. Official results will not be known until next month.

A caucus vote was also being held today in Jackson County.

-Jake Wagman of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.

Ron Paul supporters dominate GOP caucus in St. Louis