January 28, 2008

Did Ron Paul win the Louisiana caucus?

Posted by Tex MacRae at January 28, 2008 11:40 AM

Of course, it takes a student newspaper to actually investigate and interview the people involved while the establishment MSM parrots party hack press releases. From the Louisiana State University's Daily Reveille:

[Louisiana Field Director Andrew] Axsom said the complaint against the party consists of three parts.

The first includes a claim of a violation of party rules in failing to alert the general public two months prior to the registration deadline.

"The first time the Republican party mentioned anything to the public about the caucus was Dec. 17," Axsom said.

The second part of the complaint is that the party pushed back the original Jan. 10 deadline to register as a delegate.

Paul campaigners registered 15 delegates in each district so voters could choose a full slate of delegates who supported Paul to vote for him at the Republican state convention.

Axsom said he submitted a full slate of Paul delegates to the party on Jan. 8. He said the list included 105 delegates and 70 alternates.

Axsom said six hours after he handed in the slate, Louisiana Republican Party communications and political director Jason Doré sent out a news release extending the deadline to register delegates until Jan. 12. Axsom said extending the deadline gave supporters of other candidates the opportunity to fill up their slates.

Doré was unavailable to comment.

Phillip Joffrion, Republican Party office volunteer, said the deadline was pushed back because of complaints that there was not adequate notification of the delegate registration deadline. He said news releases sent out to major media sources were not published in time to advertise the deadline.

"Jason Doré did not amend the rules. He decided to arbitrarily take authority into his hands that we believe he did not have," Axsom said.

Axsom said the only way to push back a deadline would be through the Rules Committee at the state convention or the Republican State Central Committee.

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Thanks, Brad!


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