Is the Cruz Campaign
trying to subvert the will of voters? By: Debbie Dooley (Diary) 3/21/16
On March 1, Donald Trump
overwhelmingly won the Georgia Republican Primary taking 38.8% of the vote and
winning 42 delegates. His nearest competitor was Marco Rubio who took 24.4% of
the vote. Georgia Republican voters sent a strong message that they wanted
Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee.
On Saturday the arcane process began
in Georgia to elect delegates to the Republican National Convention in
Cleveland where the Republican nominee will be “officially” selected. The
process had already begun for the larger counties in February with the “mass
precinct” meetings. The mass precinct meetings are open to all Republican
voters. Attendees sign up to be delegates to their Republican County
Convention, where delegates are elected to go to the Congressional District
Conventions and also the GOP State Convention. The District and State
convention actually elect delegates to the Republican National Convention.
In years past, the delegates elected
were party regulars or donors that could be counted on to cast their vote for
the candidate with a healthy lead in the delegate race-even if he had not
reached the magic delegate number of 1237. This year is quite different with
the talk of a contested convention and the organized effort of some to stop
Donald Trump at all costs. Unlike prior years, it is vital that the will of the
voters is respected and that the delegates elected can be trusted to fight for
the intent of voters that they represent at the Republican National Convention.
The delegate selection process in Georgia and other states with similar arcane
delegate selection processes is more important than ever. It is this delegate
selection process, that I believe the Cruz Campaign is attempting to take
advantage of to subvert the will of voters.
Disturbing reports surfaced in Georgia
in the week leading up to the GOP County Conventions that some in the Cruz
Campaign have an organized effort to thwart the will of voters by making sure
Cruz supporters are elected as delegates to represent Donald Trump in
Cleveland. A March 14th, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Political Insider column titled, “In Georgia,
the quiet effort to dump Donald Trump begins Saturday”,
confirms the effort. “Everybody is locked into their first vote.
Following that, it’s the wild, wild West. There’ll be a lot of action that
occurs for the subsequent vote,” said Scott Johnson, former chairman of the
Cobb County GOP and a grass-roots co-chairman for the Ted Cruz effort in
Georgia.
Which means that, as Trump delegates
from here and other states are selected, their secondary loyalties become very,
very important. Call it the hunt for double agents, or at least covert
sympathizers. Nominating slates are being drawn up this week, Johnson said.”
At the Gwinnett County GOP Convention,
which I attended, I witnessed no such efforts. The new activists were welcomed
and the process to elect delegates to the District and State Conventions was
very fair. I have, however, received reports that in some counties, the
process was not fair and people were excluded from being delegates based on who
they were supporting for President. Once Republican National Convention
delegates are selected at the District and State Conventions, we will have a
better idea if the will of voters was ignored.
What is really disturbing is that news
reports clearly show that this is a national effort by the Cruz
Campaign to thumb their noses at the will of voters by working to make sure
delegates pledged to Donald Trump on the first round, have their real loyalties
to the man that finished behind Donald Trump in many states – Sen. Ted Cruz.
They are more than willing to subvert the intent of voters in order to win,
while at the same time claiming to stand up for the grassroots.
Sen. Cruz can’t have it both
ways. Standing up for the grassroots isn’t subverting their votes…Debbie
Dooley @Crimsontider, Tea Party Movement Co-founder, Chairman, Atlanta Tea
Party
Comments
Calls for
unity at this point will be taken as code words for “dump Trump”. Delegates will have a split second to figure out
who is lying. They will not have time to “vet” the delegates selected for the
National Convention. We will need to do our homework ahead of time using lists
of GA GOP Elite.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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