GOP caucus leadership) E-mails capture drama

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. http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020706/news2.html

E-mails capture drama, uncertainty of the race By Jonathan E. Kaplan

From inside the Cannon Caucus Room on Thursday, House Republican lawmakers and aides traded scores of e-mails with colleagues, lobbyists and allies while electing Rep. John Boehner as their new majority leader and Rep. Adam Putnam as policy chairman.Boehner (R-Ohio) was the victor in a hard-fought contest against then-acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.).More than a half-dozen staffers and lobbyists shared e-mails with The Hill that were sent and received that day on the condition that the senders and the receivers remain anonymous. The messages include the time they were sent and the content.Limited changes to punctuation were made for the sake of clarity. Any information added to the e-mails appears in brackets. <snip>

Souder is shredding Blunt and establishment in Shadegg nomination speech.12:40: Just started leader voting.12:43: Voting for leader.12:56: Still counting.1:01: Holy S**T more ballots cast than were members. Re-voting now.1:01: Re-vote!!!! More ballots than Members!!!!!!!!!!!

<snip> Pryce using a floor-voting list that did not have Luis Fortuno on it, which may be the problem. No word yet on which ballots they are using.

1:18 PM: Chairman Pryce has ruled first ballot valid, and members seem to agree.1:19: Now entertaining parliamentary questions.

1:20: It was just announced that no one voted twice.

1:23: First ballot. The original one: Blunt 110, Boehner 79, Shadegg 40, Ryun 2.1:25: Shadegg just asked to drop out of second ballot. Here we go.

<snip>1:41, Spicer reemerged from the room to confirm that Fortuno’s vote was not counted and that Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) was absent.<snip>