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Breaking News : St. Charles Missouri Caucus Rescheduled For April 10, Video Taping Allowed

Submitted by emalvini on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 19:01
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Missouri

Breaking News : St. Charles Missouri Caucus Rescheduled For April 10, Video Taping Allowed

UPDATED at 12:45 p.m. with additional information
ST. CHARLES •

A second St. Charles County countywide Republican caucus will be held at 7 p.m. April 10 at the St. Charles Convention Center, the state GOP announced Friday.

GOP State Chairman David Cole will serve as temporary chairman instead of Eugene Dokes, the county GOP committee chairman.

The session will replace the caucus held last Saturday which disbanded without any delegates selected amid boisterous disputes over caucus rules.
Recording devices will be permitted, the state party said. A ban on audio and video equipment imposed by county caucus organizers Saturday was a major point of dispute.

"The state party has the authority to call a new caucus and we have chosen to do just that," Cole told reporters in a conference call Friday morning.

Cole declined to give his opinion on who was to blame for the problems at Saturday's event in the gym at Francis Howell North High School in St. Peters.

"We're not here to point fingers," Cole said. "We just want to make sure this process works" and St. Charles County has a voice in the delegate-selection process.

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Another Billionaire for Paul

Submitted by John P. Slevin on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 21:31
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California

On May 1st, acclaimed investor and hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel will host Ron Paul for a fundraiser at his beautiful estate in Bel Air, California.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb will speak. Taleb is a longtime friend and colleage of Spitznagel, and author of the non-fiction work The Black Swan, a book credited with predicting the financial industry collapse in 2008.

Spitznagel on Ben Bernanke: “easily the most significant market manipulator in history.”

Ron Paul doesn’t have as many billionaires as the other guys, but he makes up for it with quality. One Thiel or Spitznagel equals at least 10 Adelsons.

Maybe Jennifer Lopez will drop by. She used to own the place.

Tickets and Details at campaign website

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Report from Jackson County - A Lesson for ALL!

Submitted by Mohusk on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 21:07
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I was very proud of our Ron Paul Grassroots Team and of our success in Jackson County, MO - even though we didn't get everything. Everyone that showed up was great, stayed through the grueling hours. And, special thanks to those of you calling from other states to help get out the vote. I had one elderly woman tell me that I was the third person to call that night, and she wasn't even a supporter. But, she said after talking to a nice man from Tennessee, he talked her into the possibility!

But, after the euphoria at the end, as I was driving home I realized how close we were. We had to do a collaboration slate with Romney - quite simply we didn't have a majority and they would have bolted for a status-quo unity slate in a heartbeat with Santorum. We were able to take advantage of their desire to "stick-it" to Santorum so they wanted to work with us first.

In 2008, 2,400 people in Jackson County voted for Ron Paul.

In 2012, in a meaningless non-binding primary, Ron Paul got 1,400 votes.

Here's the thing. We barely had 400 people at the Caucus. Despite the phone calls in the many hundreds, despite all of our work, if 100 more people had gone to the caucus we would have ruled the day! After a couple hours, some Romney people started to leave which would have made it even easier to see a majority.

SHOW UP!! It is hard to believe Ron Paul people wouldn't come, but those of you that still have caucuses and primaries with caucus/convention selections need to really work hard.

Not to be a downer, I am very proud that for the second time in four years Jackson County Ron Paul Grassroots won the county! I just want everyone to understand how narrow the margin is. This is not over, many states to go.....

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Submitted by sovereignjanice on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 20:25 Illinois

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We’re Only 11 Weeks into a 9 Month Primary Cycle

Submitted by Allan Stevo on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 17:50

I know, it feels like these primaries have gone on forever, but you know what – it’s only been 11 weeks since the first in the nation caucus. I stood before three precincts in Iowa on a Tuesday night just 11 weeks ago and spoke about Ron Paul. I said some good things. Lots of people said good things about all kinds of candidates. One woman even cried as she spoke about Santorum. One man stood up and said something bad about most of the candidates. He cited lots of statistics and spoke as if he were some kind of expert on how Romney was the only electable option.

That was on January 3, 2012, before anyone in the United States had cast a ballot, even before any exit poll had been taken. Mitt Romney was nothing but a former governor who lost to the guy who lost to Barrack Obama. That doesn’t exactly scream electable.

And thirty minutes later straw poll results were tallied. Mitt Romney wasn’t really electable in that room. Ron Paul was – in all three precincts, in fact, he had the most votes in each of those three precincts (one was only a tie). It will be months before anyone will have a hunch about the all-important question “Who won Iowa?” After all, it’ll be the delegates selected at the Iowa State Republican Convention on June 16, 2012 who matter, not the results of the January 3 non-binding straw poll.

So, who won Iowa? The winner is the one who can control Iowa’s RNC delegation with his delegates, the one who the majority of the Iowa delegation is friendly to. That person is the one who will win Iowa. But the media loves an easy-to-cover horserace and the media reported differently. Lots of things can change between now and the August 27 start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Half Time?

This past week, we heard Newt Gingrich point out that we are precisely at half time. Only half the delegates have been apportioned. Those who read the last four paragraphs recognize that Gingrich’s statement isn’t really true. Half the delegates haven’t been apportioned. In such a hotly contested race, an honest person should wait until after state conventions are held before making such a statement. Not a single state convention has yet to be held - North Dakota, next weekend, will be the first. State conventions can turn the tables on much of what the media and GOP insiders tell us is binding.

This week we also heard the perennially astute, anti-machine journalist, John Kass of Chicago, point out that Gingrich and Santorum stayed in the race so that Romney would not have to feel the wrath of Ron Paul in a one-on-one debate and a one-on-one contest. He added some other pleasant barbs in an article about Romney’s inability to listen to Illinois voters on the topic of corruption:

There are two other pseudo-conservatives in the race who've done the GOP establishment's bidding by blocking U.S. Rep. Ron Paul from a one-on-one with Romney early on in the campaign. The establishment blocking backs are flawed beyond repair, but at least they listen to their audience.

The Two Contests Taking Place

From Iowa (January 3, 2012) to the first day of the RNC (August 27, 2012) is just one week short of 9 months. Right now we are 11 weeks into a 9 month election cycle. Soon states can become winner-take-all states. That doesn’t change an important fact however. As you might have heard from Sunday morning pundits, there are two races taking places, both of which are important.

There is the narrative of electability and there is the delegate count.

One is the process by which the general voter says to himself “that guy has a chance.” The popular vote plays prominently in that. Win enough states, be the media sweetheart for long enough, and you will be the only electable option. Everyone will fall in line behind you. Most years that’s how it goes in the Republican Party. After a point in that process, dissent becomes disloyal. From that perspective a convention is not really a business meeting of a party, but more of a big rally for the nominee in which every mouth must voice support for that candidate or be silent.

The other part to the process, the delegate race, is a different story. Winning the narrative of electability sometimes makes the rest of the delegate process a lot easier. Most years there’s no need to even worry about the delegate process, since, like sheep, the delegates just sort of get bumped into the chute ahead of them and move troublelessly from precinct level all the way to the state and sometimes national conventions, never once questioning who they might support. Delegates like that will support the popular choice, of course. They’ll support the name that gets whispered to them down the whisper-chain on the floor of the convention.

This year’s a little different. Ron Paul’s around and he’s done his homework.

He knows that the flash of the media can be overcome by the substance of the delegate process. March 10 in Nevada Ron Paul supporters proved that by just showing up to the Clark County Republican convention prepared. They just came and they dominated. They dominated the county convention where some 70% of Republican voters in the state live.

In Boone County, Missouri this weekend Ron Paul got 18% in a non-binding primary, but in the part of the election that matters in accumulating delegates – the caucus – 91% of the delegates that advanced to the next level were Ron Paul supporters. In King County, Washington delegates are chosen for the state convention in each state legislative district. One district had 100% of delegates chosen as Ron Paul supporters, another had 18 of the possible 20 delegates as Ron Paul supporters. There’s been lots of success in Washington, and Ron Paul’s proving himself a real standout in the delegate process. Ron Paul supporters are recognizing that if you learn the rules, show up, and follow the rules you greatly multiply your likelihood of winning.

I mention Ron Paul specifically, because he has a ground game. Ron Paul has hordes of supporters making phone calls, knocking on doors, circulating petitions. Mr. Romney too has a ground game, but tends to spend more effort and resources on things like big media advertising and robocalls through his campaign and related PACs.

Gingrich has no ground game to speak of, as can be demonstrated by his failure to get on the ballot in his own state of Virginia. Santorum was the odd man out in Illinois Tuesday, unable to get his delegates on ballots statewide. The reason being – Santorum also has a poor ground game. And that ground game is important in many aspects, and especially important in the delegate process in many states. Santorum, as a result of the media flash, was still able to pick up a few delegates. But, ultimately, he has no ground game – in Boone County, Missouri, where Santorum won 50% of the popular vote, he ended up with 0% of the delegates, Romney with 9%, and as you know already Ron Paul got 91%.

Roberts Rules of Order is how conventions are run. The RNC claims that its delegate process is set in stone, not so much. Much can be changed by state parties and the people who run those state parties. If enough people with a common opinion show up prepared, those people run their state parties.

As we roll through March, this increasingly becomes a race between Mitt Romney, who is winning the narrative of electability and Ron Paul who may very well be winning in the nomination process.

I won’t lie to you like the mainstream media does and tell you who the guaranteed nominee is. They’ve been doing that for at least a year. Names like Pawlenty, Gingrich, Perry, or Bachmann were the undeniable President-elect at certain times. The media sounded so certain one might doubt if it was even worth the time to bother voting for anybody other than those candidates. I see a clear path for Ron Paul to win that nomination. Mitt Romney too has a path.

Where I stand, the truth of the matter is no one knows who will win and in all likelihood, no one will know as we go into the RNC on August 27.

On the floor of that convention, almost nything goes and it’s up to the delegates to determine. The delegates are in charge. On the floor of many state conventions almost anything goes, and its up to you or me, or anyone else passionate about the future nominee to step forward and act.

11 weeks into this 9 months caucus process, it’s pretty unclear who the nominee might be and there’s lots of game left to play.


Allan Stevo is a writer from Chicago – author of the #1 Best Selling Book at LewRockwell.com for the month of February, the recently released How to Win America for Ron Paul and the Cause of Freedom in 2012, a book on how Ron Paul supporters can secure the GOP nomination and with certainty deliver a presidential win for Ron Paul in 2012.

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Doug Wead Update on the GA Caucus Scandal


Submitted by JohnPhillipSousa on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 16:46
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Georgia

An Update on the Georgia Caucus Scandal « Doug Wead The Blog

March 24, 2012
For the original story see “Corruption in Georgia“



Here is an updated analysis from Frankie Brown

A list of rules that we know were violated:
- Delegates of the convention attempted to nominate people from the floor yet were summarily ignored without vote by the chairman.
- The Athens Clarke County precinct delegates were disenfranchised (by Matt Brewster, Chairman) and the county convention was closed without majority and without the proper respect to the procedural process as outlined in our party rules and Robert’s Rules of Order.
- The initial “all in favor” request did not give a chance for the “ayes” and the “nays” to have a separate chance to vote. Instead, the chairman called for both “ayes” and “nays” to be voiced at the same time.
- The count of the “ayes” versus the “nays” was inaccurate. According to our count, 25 of the 37 people in attendance were Ron Paul supporters, and did not vote “aye” when a voice vote was called for.

The Rest here: An Update on the Georgia Caucus Scandal « Doug Wead The Blog

http://www.dailypaul.com/222822/doug...caucus-scandal

The Age Of Ron Paul Is Upon The World - Thank God!

Let’s Take it to $1 Million

Despite the party establishment trying to throw up every roadblock imaginable, Ron Paul and his supporters continue to battle forward at the grassroots with great success.

The MSM has already decided that Ron Paul just needs to go away. Well, today in Missouri and in countless other caucuses this simply isn’t going to happen. Paul supporters simply refuse to let it happen.

To keep pushing forward we need all the help we can get with this weekend’s money bomb. We’re already well past the halfway mark. This is amazing and again shows everyone just how serious this movement is.

Let’s take this to $1 million before the weekend is over. The headlines alone will be a fun way to stick it to our critics.
But far more important, if the establishment thinks we’re just going to go away, let’s show them that we have the resources and resolve to go the full distance.

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