More Delegates Want to Join Repub Revolt
More Delegates Want to Join Repub Revolt
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - In a revolt against Romney, at least 40 more national convention delegates asked to join 123 previous plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Republican National Committee, and their attorney said hundreds more may soon follow suit.
The first 123 delegates, all from the 9th Circuit, sued the RNC, its Chairman Rince Priebus, and every state party chairman in the 9th Circuit in Federal Court on Monday, demanding the right to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the Republican National Convention, including the first.
The delegates claim the party violated federal law by forcing them to sign loyalty affidavits, under threat of perjury, to vote for Mitt Romney, though he is not yet the official nominee.
They also claimed that state party chairmen are fixing elections at state conventions and changing ballots so that all votes cast count for Romney.
"When nominating someone for a federal office, all delegates must be free to vote their conscience," Richard Gilbert, of Gilbert & Marlowe, attorney for the delegates, told Courthouse News in an interview Thursday.
"They don't want to be bound to any candidate, or even be forced to vote for the nominee," Gilbert said. "To have a real convention, the delegates must have free will so that when they meet, they can persuade each other and then decide who to vote for."
Gilbert said that the public is unaware that the party is rigging elections and committing voting fraud. But he said he has more than 100 signed affidavits from delegates to support these allegations.
"Some campaigns act like organized crime syndicates - and I mean organized crime, no doubt about it," Gilbert said.
"In Arizona, the voting machines were rigged so that Ron Paul votes were counted as Mitt Romney votes. It was so intentional that a Romney delegate refused to certify the vote count, and for that he got thrown off the convention."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/15/47495.htm
Read the comments here. Pretty amusing.
GOP Delegates Sue To Ditch Romney
Not surprisingly, Ron Paul is behind this.
In a revolt against Romney, at least 40 more national convention delegates asked to join 123 previous plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Republican National Committee, and their attorney said hundreds more may soon follow suit. The first 123 delegates, all from the 9th Circuit, sued the RNC, its Chairman Rince Priebus, and every state party chairman in the 9th Circuit in Federal Court on Monday, demanding the right to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the Republican National Convention, including the first. The delegates claim the party violated federal law by forcing them to sign loyalty affidavits, under threat of perjury, to vote for Mitt Romney, though he is not yet the official nominee. They also claimed that state party chairmen are fixing elections at state conventions and changing ballots so that all votes cast count for Romney.
The lawyer behind the suit claims: "If the judge rules in our favor, I won't be surprised if three or four new candidates, say Sarah Palin, jump in and say they want to be considered."
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/06/gop-delegates-sue-to-ditch-romney.html
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I love it!
aren't the delegates supposed to vote for whoever the majority of the voters in their districts tell them to vote for? I mean, what is the use of even having an election? It would be so much easier for their party if the NRA just came into town and chose a candidate.
fraud. Come on ReTHUGs - eat one another in public
Tampa is going to be delish! 
They weren't forced to enter into this voluntary, private association. They could have refused to sign that contract and held their own convention. They wanted to hitch a ride on the GOP money train. Too bad they didn't get to have their cake and eat it, too. We'll see out the show plays out.
Mooselini Palin?
Crispy Creme Christy?
Vaginal Probe McDonnell?
Susan Collins?
In the rushpublican world Mittens IS about as "popular" a moderate this corrupt and inept party can run. Anything that distracts from the lies and buying of the election by turning the angst inward is a good thing. I'd love to see Tampa turn into a mudfight with the Paulbots creating all sorts of mayhem...so the more of 'em the better...
