Nevada GOP Convention Part Deux First Hand Account

Posted by James Smack For... on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 22:29 in

2008 Elections

This has little to do with my campaign, yet it has everything to do with why I chose to run at this time. I have seen several accounts on the internet, but wanted to give a first hand account as someone who was not only there, but helped to implement many of the actions taken this past Saturday:

To all my fellow Patriots and other interested parties: This is a first hand account of what happened at the Nevada GOP Convention that took place this weekend. Pretty much what we did is followed the rules and had the Convention, elected delegates to the National Convention, affirmed much of the work done on April 26th as much was accomplished that day illegally, and closed the Convention Sine Die Adjourned. This was, in my humble and parliamentary opinion, the one and only continuation of the Republican Convention from April 26th.

We started with challenging the Credentials Report from April 26th that Credentialed a number of Delegates totaling around 1300 as illegal according to the rules set down by the Republican National Committee. The rules state that the Credentials Committee must provide the body of the Convention with a copy of all the Delegates by name, which was never provided despite promises by Party officials to provide said list to all Delegates. I made the motions to put this into motion, reading directly from Robert's Rules for the benefit of the RNC and potential legal challenges to make sure we did this by the book.

Once challenged and Reconsidered, we adopted Credentials for the 327 courageous Delegates that came to the Convention gathering on June 28th, being this past Saturday. This was all done according to the rules that were in place at the time, which was Robert's Rules of Order (as ruled on by the chair with two appeals of the prior chairs' rulings). Since Credentials was never adopted properly according to the rules of the RNC, we were well within our rights to do this, and so it was done!! This move also forced us as a convention to affirm the business of the day from April 26, since everything done after Credentials was done wrong was legally out of order. We affirmed the business of the day with relatively little dissent, including the Platform, Bylaws, National Committeeman and Committeewoman elections, and Resolutions.

The results of the CD elections were affirmed in CD1 and CD3. Since the party would not let us have access to the ballots to complete counting CD2, I was the chair when we elected delegates to the convention for CD2. The winners were all uncommitted delegates as per the Nevada Bylaws, but all are believed to support Ron Paul.

We then held the long-awaited at-large delegate selection, in which 22 uncommitted delegates were elected to the National Convention, including yours truly!! Of those delegates, 20 are believed to support Ron Paul.

The final count of those who are scoring at home is we are bringing 27 out of a possible 34 Delegates to the National Convention that are believed to support the Constitution and Dr. Ron Paul, with 7 Uncommitted Delegates whose beliefs are not known, but likely support Senator John McCain of Arizona.

I want to take this time to thank a couple of folks who took the most courageous of stands: Dr. Wayne Terhune and his family, who donated tireless time, money and energy to get the Convention completed. Also, special thanks to Mike and Bonnie Weber, for standing up for what was right regardless of potential cost to themselves. Bonnie is a Washoe County (Reno and suburbs) Commissioner, Mike is a State Assembly Candidate, and both have suffered a political cost for this brave stand. None of this is possible without the help of these great Patriots!!!

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