Capping a nominating process that began in January, delegates at the Republican National Convention took the next step Tuesday evening in choosing Mitt Romney as their presidential nominee.
As a representative from each state took to the microphone – in alphabetical order – they announced the number of delegates to vote in favor of Romney. The representative also noted the number of delegates for Republican opponent Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex. (Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich released their delegates to Romney so their delegates were not announced). Delegates from New Jersey officially pushed Romney over the top.
Even though the party is going through the roll call process to nominate Romney and his chosen running-mate Paul Ryan, they won’t officially be the party’s nominees until Thursday.
A Romney campaign official explained that they’re holding off on officially nominating the duo in order to take advantage of a campaign fundraising loophole and postpone spending their general election funds until as late as possible. The moment they are nominated, they are officially running in the general election in the eyes of the Federal Election Commission and that’s when they begin to dip into his campaign’s deep pockets – estimated to be upwards of $150 million – for the final stretch.
Controversy erupted during the adoption of party rules Tuesday. Supporters of Paul objected and caused a commotion over a rules change and the rejection of a motion to seat Maine’s delegates. Half of the state’s delegates, which unanimously backed Paul, were stripped of their seats and replaced with Romney supporters.
Chants of “let them sit” briefly erupted on the floor, but the presiding officers, including House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, ignored the protest and continued with proceedings. After Paul backers lost the voice vote over the Maine delegates and a rule change, applause erupted from the other delegates.
“I think the integrity of the process was destroyed. Opposition was blatantly ignored,” Maine delegate Ashley Ryan told CBSNews.com. The Maine delegates backing Paul walked out of the convention floor and some are boycotting the rest of the convention.
Source: CBS NEWS
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“Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich released their delegates to Romney”
Big big mistake! Romney/McCain will now turn hard left & throw the elections to Hussain!
The Ron Paul guys are making alot of trouble.
But I do agree with them that making a new rule that the winning candidate’s campaign gets to choose who the delegates are, and un-seat the ones that the people voted for – maked no sense at all.
Let’s all remember, Hashem is shaping history very intensly these days.