Rule changes forced through by Romney campaign at RNC provoke grassroots backlash

[Blue State Bandit]

Source: Raw Story

That particular amendment was withdrawn, to cheers from the committee, but the others stood. According to a source who described the meeting to Business Insider, “the saga ended with former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, the committee chair, hightailing it out of the building before committee members could submit dissenting minority opinions, or ‘minority reports.’”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/26/rule-changes-forced-through-by-romney-campaign-at-rnc-provoke-grassroots-backlash/

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Ginsberg and Sununu piss off GOP Base in push to stifle Paulites. They might need a hurricane to put out the fire consuming the RNC. On the other hand... POPCORN!

[Panasonic]

1. The GOP should be learning from all of this - when they're bullies, and they get what they want...

and when they don't they whine..

And bitch.

and Whine some more.

Maybe Hurricane Isaac will take a hard right and smack the RNC out to the Atlantic Ocean.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. GOP reap whirlwind they sowed: they polarized USA, now their own party is polarized. nt

[freshwest]

3. +1, the gloves are coming off. They despise about dissent.

[reformist2]

4. It's a hostile takeover! How do you like vulture capitalism now, you GOP rank-and-filers?

[cstanleytech]

5. Ah irony!!

“He is systematically trying to prevent minorities from having even any remote opportunity of being heard,” longtime GOP operative Morton Blackwell objected. “This is wrong, it’s gonna hurt us, it’s gonna hurt our presidential candidate.”"
So, um....hows that different exactly from what the GOP has been trying to do in the varies states to voters?

[xxenderwigginxx]

6. This should concern the "little people" of our party as well.

The DNC has been just as bad lately at centralizing party power and pushing out true progressive voices. Many D politicians have no love for the grassroots either.

[Cha]

13. I see progressives running

for Office and the DNC supporting them. My Congresswoman Mazie Hirono is one who is running against former repub gov of Hawai'i Linda Lingle. Elizabeth Warren in Mass is another..and Shelley Berkley in Nevada is running for US Senator.

I'm hoping they WIN!

[xxenderwigginxx]

16. Progressives against repubs yes

But wait until there is a large movement of true progressives to unseat longterm DINO's

[a2liberal]

19. I stopped going to MDP conventions

(MI Dem Party) when I realized how much it was all just for show after a few incidents when the powers-that-be completely ignored rules of procedure to shut down objections to their agenda from grassroots delegates.

[clydefrand]

7. Liar, liar pants on fire

If Mitt didn't get an advantage from putting his money in Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Islands and Bermuda, then why the hell did he do it? Why not leave it in this country? He's such a big liar. Hope he gets enough water down there to wash the lies out of his mouth.

[LarryNM]

8. Sununu Liar and Coward. Ginsberg Worse. n/t

[wordpix]

12. Sununu was hightailing it out of the bldg. to go visit the strip clubs, no doubt

snip: “the saga ended with former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, the committee chair, hightailing it out of the building before committee members could submit dissenting minority opinions, or ‘minority reports.’”

[Ken Burch]

9. Anything that could lead to Ron Paul on the ballot in battleground states

Is something to be happy about.

[Blue Idaho]

10. Right Wing Criminals

Practing a little thuggery to get what the boss wants.

Typical republican behavior.

[wordpix]

11. "The process has always been bottom-up" - in your dreams, maybe

[Heather MC]

14. I don't believe this story it's an outright lie

I don't believe the Party that is trying to suppress the vote of over a million voters would ever suppress members of their own party. This kinda of thing has to be unheard of. How would a party who clearly doesn't believe in democracy anymore, seek to screw their own kind. Impossible no way no how this isn't happening. Romney is such a stand up guy. Why when he says there is nothing in his taxes, we need to believe him. Their is nothing that shows he has paid taxes, in his taxes, that's the truth. A guy that honest would never screw his own!


This article is incorrect that's all I have to say about it.

[sofa king]

21. That's Mitt's strong suit: "winning."

Romney consistently "wins" by gaming the system and taking the decisions away from the masses. All we're seeing here is the overture to a much larger planned theft. Worth taking note, though, because just like one of Rossini's overtures this theft will be structurally and thematically similar, with the same individuals involved.

We would be wise to watch closely and try to see exactly how Romney's people steal this, because We the People are next.

[MADem]

15. Sununu is a fucking pervert--I don't see how he could "hightail" it at all, though.

Waddle slowly and deliberately, maybe, like the slug he is...!

[starroute]

17. There's also an old Ginsberg-Koch connection

This goes back to the 1990s, when Haley Barbour was running the RNC.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/jphuck/BOOK1Ch4.html

Triad Management Services, a conservative consulting firm, billed itself as a privatized Republican national coalition. The agency had ties to Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback, one of the members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Triad may have acted illegally during the 1996 campaign when it acted as an intermediary during the 1996 election campaign. It coordinated political activity by tax-exempt groups and by laundering money from wealthy donors through PACs to GOP congressional candidates. Triad founder Carolyn Malenick admitted that GOP candidates occasionally funneled their donors to Triad which in turn advised the donors to contribute to PACs that were likely to support the candidate. Triad also coordinated attack ads run by tax-exempt groups against Democratic candidates. . . .

Ben Ginsberg, a former general counsel of the RNC, represented secret trusts that also contributed to Triad groups. The Koch family, which owned the Kansas-based Koch Industries, gave heavily to tax-exempt groups linked to Triad, using one of the trusts represented by Ginsberg. Senate investigators sent Charles Koch a letter in October 1997, asking to speak with him about their inquiry, but he has failed to respond. According to FEC records Koch brothers and Koch PAC contributed directly to more than a dozen of the candidates supported by three tax-exempt groups they had funded.

Koch Industries was investigated by a congressional committee for allegedly stealing oil from Osage native American reservations and federal property by intentionally taking more oil than it paid for. In a report that led to a grand jury probe, the committee concluded that Koch Oil, the largest purchaser of Indian oil in the country, illegally and deliberately stole the native Americans’ oil. No one was indicted, and Nickles nominated Koch to a federal judgeship.

[grasswire]

20. thanks nt

[bobthedrummer]

18. K&R n/t