To Rand Paul, Sarah
Palin, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich,
Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Allen West, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker,
Donald Trump,
At the 2012 Republican National Convention held in Tampa, FL,
there were several egregious changes made to the RNC rules, an action which is
described as a “power grab.” As they stand, the rules will have a detrimental
impact on future attempts at grassroots participation within the Republican
Party and future presidential candidates.
It is well-known that there are millions of people across this
nation who consider you a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential
primary and would love to support your run. It would be in the interest of
grassroots Republicans everywhere for you to make a strong statement of support
for a bottom-up power structure within the RNC by rebuking the 2012 rule
changes.
The egregious rule amendments were added in committee at the
heavy hand of Ben Ginsberg, who was later appointed by
Obama to serve as co-chair of his Commission on Election
Administration. This fact indicates that Obama would like to bring ‘2012
rules’-type of oppression of the people’s voice to precincts across this
nation. In order to make a statement that we do not consider opportunistic
power-grabs to be acceptable within our party nor individual precinct
elections, it is vitally important that the Republican Party take effort to
reject these rule changes, which include some of the following transgressions:
New Rule 12 gives the Republican National Committee
the ability to make amendments to the Rules of the Republican Party without
National Delegation approval, something that the democrats have seen fit to do
within their party, but that the republicans have always prided ourselves that
we do not.
New Rule 16(a)(1) presents a problem for many caucus states by
binding the vote of caucus-chosen delegates to the results of the state’s
preference poll or straw poll. Simply stated, rule 16 turns the caucus states
into primary states. This means that campaigning in these states will be even
more expensive for the presidential candidates and their supporters, but more
profitable for the consultants.
New Rule 40 raised the requirements for the presidential
candidates to obtain ballot access at the national convention. It has been
noted that under the new requirements, Ronald Reagan would never have become
president. At the convention of 1976, Reagan was able to obtain ballot access
by the lesser requirements and received floor time in order to make a speech,
which in turn raised the amount of support that he had among the delegates.
This also paved the way for his popularity at the 1980 national convention, in
which he won the nomination and went on to become POTUS.
The RNC needs to rebuke these rule changes and make a clear statement
that the Republican Party does want to provide an environment that is welcoming
to grassroots participation and that the Republican Party does not consider the
2012 rule change power grabs to be acceptable for precincts across this nation.
There is a resolution to address these aspects that is being brought forward by
committee members next month at the RNC summer meeting. If passed, the RNC
would be expected to revert to operation under pre-Ginsberg rules. Would you
consider signing the petition of support for the resolution and giving your
personal endorsement to this effort to restore the voice of the grassroots
within the Republican Party?
Link to petition: http://tinyurl.com/restoreourvoice
Sincerely, Nicole Revels – North Carolina Grassroots Republican,
Bryan Daugherty – Maine Grassroots Republican
Source: http://libertyroll.com/2013/07/open-letter-to-2016-republican-presidential-candidates/
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