EXCLUSIVE
— Trump Campaign: Cruz Staged ‘Attack’ In Georgia to Steal Delegates…’Not
Grassroots Activism’ by Patrick Howley, 4/17/16
The Donald Trump campaign is accusing the Sen.Ted Cruz (R-TX) (CR 97%) campaign of staging a coordinated “attack” in Georgia that led to pro-Trump delegate candidates being challenged and deposed in every corner of the state, which Trump had won resoundingly in the primary.
“Private backroom
nominations committees producing ‘recommended’ slates, county delegations
voting in blocs, floor motions made targeting our supporters,” Trump national
delegate director Brian Jack claimed, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart
News. “This is the machine politics we read about in school, not the grassroots
activism our campaign encourages.”
Trump supporters walked out of the district
convention in Buford Saturday after a Cruz- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (CR 78%) alliance bumped all of the potential
Trump delegates off that district’s slate. But the chaos in Buford happened
everywhere at Saturday’s district conventions, with Cruz supporters isolating
and targeting pro-Trump delegate candidates in order to reverse Georgia’s votes
on a potential second ballot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
in July.
“Within an hour I knew
this had happened all over the state of Georgia,” Thomas Deen, senior data
analyst for the Trump campaign in Georgia, told Breitbart News. “I am aware of
instances in all fourteen of our congressional districts.”
“I was speaking to
someone in our third district and he said that they actually re-did the
committee and replaced the committee with Cruz members and then passed motions to
replace the Trump delegates with Cruz delegates,” Deen said.
“This is not an isolated
incident. I spoke to Jeanie Seaver, the grassroots coordinator on the Trump
campaign. She was kicked off being a delegate and replaced with an 18-year old
kid right out of high school because he was a Cruz supporter and there was
nothing she could do because the committee was just banging their gavels”
shutting down dissent, Deen said.
“This was an attack.
We’re not going to take it lying down.”
Breitbart News has obtained
an email that Ted Cruz sent out to his supporters on the eve of the district
conventions telling them to talk to the “Cruz team” at their respective
convention sites to figure out their strategy for voting for Cruz delegates.
(The Cruz Email) - Our campaign
was honored to have the support over 300,000 Georgians in the Georgia Primary
on March 1st.
If you supported our campaign, we humbly thank you. If you supported
another candidate, I invite you to unite behind our campaign because we are the
only campaign that can defeat Hillary Clinton and reignite the promise of
America.
The presidential primary was
just the first step in choosing the Republican nominee. This
Saturday, Georgians in the 9th congressional district will take the next
step by electing three delegates and three alternate delegates to the Republican
National Convention.
Here’s the information about
your convention:
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016
Registration: 9:00am, Convention: 10:00am
Dillard House Convention Center
768 Franklin Street
Dillard, GA 30537
Registration: 9:00am, Convention: 10:00am
Dillard House Convention Center
768 Franklin Street
Dillard, GA 30537
I urge you to vote for Cruz
supporters at the district convention who will be strong voices for Georgia at
the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Please see our Cruz team at
the convention for more information.
For liberty, Ted Cruz - (End of Email)
Disappointed would-be
Trump delegate Diane Putnam, 68, has worked in the Republican Party in Georgia
since the 1970’s. Still active in her local party, she campaigned for Reagan in
the ’80s, was an advance woman for George Bush’s trip to Dalton, Georgia in
1992, and helped to elect former Governor Sonny Perdue. But her Trump support
cost her a trip to the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, even
though she comes from a district where Trump beat Cruz two-to-one in bound
delegates on the first ballot.
“The two most important
things were the interview and the application to the committee with a political
resume. I went into the interview so excited and came out feeling so good about
it. I enjoyed talking about my experiences and how rewarding it had been to be
a participant over the years,” Putnam told Breitbart News.
“Today at the district
convention, that’s when the committees announced their slates. When they came
out to make their announcement they said the number one slot goes to Diane
Putnam. Then from the floor there was a challenge and the challenge was for me.
“She had to give a
two-minute speech, and I had to give a two-minute speech … then the floor voted
by raising hands. I lost by 15 or 16 votes … Well, I lost, and I lost to a Cruz
challenger, and I was the only Trump delegate on the slate, so I was the one
chosen to be contested.”
“They just wanted to
eliminate any Trump delegate that would continue to vote for Trump. Now the
slate is 2 for Cruz and one for Kasich.”
“I was told by every
member of the nominating committee, they came up to me afterward and hugged me
and were very sorrowful and regretful. Each of them told me that I was the only
one that had a unanimous vote from the committee. They all wanted me and there
was no question about me getting on the slot. They all told me they were so
sorry that had happened.”
There were other
examples from around the state. “Once again, the Cruz campaign showed that they
prefer the decision of who is the Republican Nominee be placed with Republican
Party insiders, instead of the millions of voters that go to the polls and vote
in the Republican Primary,” pro-Trump delegate nominee Debbie Dooley, who was
deposed Saturday, told Breitbart News. “They demonstrated they are more than
willing to overturn elections in order to elect Ted Cruz president. In Georgia,
the Cruz campaign systematically worked to disenfranchise the 502,000 Georgians
that cast their vote for Donald Trump on March 1st.”
“How can they override
the hundreds of thousands of Georgia voters? It was … outlandish and
asinine,” Thomas Deen of Trump’s Georgia campaign said. “That whole scenario
was played out in all of our districts.”
“It was all
pre-scripted, choreographed,” Deen said, referring specifically to Cruz people
overthrowing committee members. “It doesn’t happen that fast, that’s a process
that could take a whole entire day, with all the rules and ceremony. They just
flew through it. It showed so clearly how the Cruz supporters were working with
the established GOP committees. They put so much effort into it to make sure
that this happened.”
“It left a very bad
taste in my mouth,” Deen said. “I was livid.”
Despite Saturday’s
events, Trump campaign is optimistic heading into New York.
“It’s important to
remember that Mr. Donald J. Trump did not lose any delegates today. All of
Georgia’s delegates are bound to presidential candidates for at least one
ballot,” Trump national delegate director Brian Jack said. “As for the selection
of delegates, we did better than most expected in Georgia, earning a majority
of supporters within our delegate slots.”
“Based on the outcome of
today, we’re optimistic about our prospects at the State Convention in June,
where we will ensure the people of Georgia’s voice and choice for president are
heard, by sending supporters of Donald J. Trump to the Republican National
Convention.”
Comments
Yes,
Trump won the Georgia Primary because regular voters voted for him, not the
“Stockholm Syndrome stricken life-long GOP Politicos”. They supported the
“Establishment Candidates” as they always do, Rubio was second in Georgia,
because he was the Bush ‘replacement’ du Jour. Now that Rubio has dropped out,
the honor went to Cruz.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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