Washington State GOP Scams Ron Paul Delegates at Convention

By Rene' Holaday - Scammed Nat'l Delegate for Ron Paul

posted 06/03/08

Some of you have already been mailed the basics of the State Convention update, but below is a recap and also more details from higher up in the ranks, that none of us even learned about until this morning. I am passing them on to all of you. So that it is clear as to why Ron Paul does not get elected this year, and so you don't just think it was due to lack of support from the American people.

Hhere is how our Republican State Convention in Washington State went this past weekend of May28th-30th, and it turns out this is looking to be a rather common scam happening across America, as rigged by the professional parliamentarian debaters hired to come into these conventions.

First of all, I was an elected State Delegate for Ron Paul, that was supposed to be put on the ballot for the National Convention. I sent in my paperwork and my fee to the WA State Rep. Party. This was supposed to put my name on the list for the vote for Nat'l Delegates going to vote for the President. Conveniently, once the ballots were passed out with the Nat'l Delegate names list on them, my name wasn't on that list, and neither were many other Ron Paul supporters from my District.

The Chairman said they must have been "lost" if we did in fact send them. They told us they would put our names on the list if we had our receipt of mailing and proof of payment with us. Well most of us were blindsided by that tactic, and of course we didn't have those receipts with us, as they were sent in almost 2 months prior to that event.

So I stood up and asked the chairman if it was the official statement of the Republican party, that all they had to do to keep Ron Paul delegates from going to the Nat'l Convention to vote for Ron Paul, was to throw away or lose the delegates paperwork? And the Chairman said "Yes."

I was so shocked I stated "Are you REALLY sure that is the official statement from the Republican Party...that all you have to do to keep us from going to vote for the President, is lose our paperwork prior to the state convention?" and again he said "Yes, the burden of proof is on the challenger." Challenger being the person who's paperwork was "lost".

It is interesting to note that no McCain supporters paperwork was lost at all-of course. So the majority of the Ron Paul people weren't even listed on that ballot for the vote. How simple of a scam for the McCainers to keep Ron Paul from winning over him! Absolutely unbelievable. For the most part, we outnumbered the McCainers on the convention floor with a count of 685 people, where the McCain camp only had 618, yet the McCain Chairman, conveniently refused to do a vote vount even once, and always sided on majority with the McCainers.

The Congresscritter from my district #5, Cathy McMorris a pro-NAIS, pro Military Commissions Act, Pro-FISA, pro-National ID, Pro-NAU, pro-Torture, basically pro-everything horrible, was a McCainer at the convention. In the middle of the convention the McCainers got up in a mass exodus and filed off the convention floor while several of us were standing in line at the microphone to add resolutions against things like National ID, Torture, the Growth Management Plan, Actions against the NAU, actions against UN ruling over America, etc. The McCainers didn't want any of these resolutions passed, so they filed out, hoping to offset the number of the people enough to stop the whole convention, as there has to be a certain percentage of people on the floor to have a legal "quorum".

So, out they all went, including our slimey Congresscritter Cathy McMorris. So we counted the people, had enough to continue....since the Ron Paulers were apparently in the majority...... and we continued. We immediately went to working on the next resolution while they disappeared outside. Once we got our resolution of declaring a war, not just going to war without the legal declaration, the Chairman got on his cell phone and called them all back in asap.

You see, in Nevada, at their state convention, the Ron Paulers also had a huge amount of people, and what the McCain people did there was illegal as well. First of all, the Chairman simply got up and walked off the floor in the middle of some debate. Then all the McCainers filed out and actually went and hid in the bathrooms!! Then they turned the lights off on the Ron Paul poeple, and they eventually left the floor and started going home. Apparently, after the Ron Paul people went home, the MCCainers went back in and reconvened and wiped out all the progress made by the Ron Paul people.

So they attempted to do the same garbage here, only we had enough people here to continue. When they came back in, they flooded the microphones with superflous garble and voted to end the Convention. Asking for the typical 2/3rds vote, the Chair passed it and the Convention was over.

So if you are thinking Ron Paul doesn't get elected this year because enough people were not there to vote for him, think again. We have the people, and they are all getting illegally railroaded right off the National Conventions by illegal practices and professional parliamentarians brought in from other states that are so well versed in parliamentary procedure that they end up being able to railroad every convention.

McCain will get the nomination, but remember, he never got it legally, and he never followed any democratic process allowing the people to speak or vote. He has done everything as dirty as possible, illegal, whatever it takes, he's doing it. Just imagine what he'll do when we the people want him to listen to us! That would be a pipe dream! He is offering nothing but a scam, but all the Ron Paulers already were aware of that since he's a CFR guy.

Below are some of the inner workings that happened on the higher levels of the Convention, as reported by the different District leaders, that the majority of us knew nothing about until this morning-please check them out- they're appalling!

• Chris, We made a gentleman's agreement with the McCain leadership to hold our rowdier people in check and keep the proceedings peaceful and friendly, if they would stop directing their people with signs, and let them make up their own minds. We even supported their Soviet Slate of at large delegates without argument, and their McCain controlled Platform Committee resolutions, so we could get to ours that had not been allowed on the Floor. When it came time to let us present our ousted resolutions, the McCain people were directed by their leaders to walk out on us. Cathy McMorris was one of those robots that walked out. It was bad enough Cathy McMorris endorsed McCain, even though the 5th CD Caucuses were a substantial majority for Ron Paul, but she wouldn't even allow her constituents a fair chance to debate the issues. It just shows that her real loyalty is placed in the hands of the few good old boys in the GOP leadership, rather than to the people she is suppose to represent. Rob
• We got 4 delegates elected (2 from the 3rd and 2 from the 5th district) and 6 alternates. The Central Committee blatantly violated Washington State law by not allowing us to choose roughly 19 of the 40 delegates...we literally got soviet style ballots with one persons name on them so we were really at a disadvantage from the beginning. In fact Luke Esser did not even allow a vote on Jim's motion to amend the rules yesterday. A lot of our delegates were also excluded from the convention by a corrupt credentials committee...although I am sure others can rely those stories firsthand. They actually tried to replace Allison Anderson with another person named Anderson and actually offered to pay his way to the convention...luckily the guy was honest and told a neighbor who was a Ron Paul person. They also tried to bribe one of the 5th's delegates after the Convention with $500 if he would support McCain. The most notable win I think was we actually got AN ANTIWAR RESOLUTION passed!!! The McCain delegation underestimated our numbers and walked out on the resolution debate, thinking that there would not be a quorum and afraid that the more independent minded McCain delegates might vote for some of them. We got the quorum and quickly voted on the antiwar resolution (demanding a declaration of war, similar to the one passed at the Spokane County convention) while they were out of the room!!!! THEY WERE SHOCKED!!! Best moment of the Convention. By the way Cathy McMorris was one of the one's that participated in the walkout and also did not even both to stay around to vote for most of the delegates in the 5th Congressional district caucus because I guess she had better things to do other than represent her constituents. I was rather appalled.