Romney And GOP Strike Deal With Ron Paul Loyalists Before Convention : It's All Politics : NPR - Liz Halloran::
August 22, 2012 — "GOP officials and the Mitt Romney campaign have cut a deal with Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign to allow some — though not all — of Paul's delegates from Louisiana and Massachusetts to be seated at the Republican National Convention. The status of Maine's delegates remains unsettled ... but negotiations were continuing.
"Pro-Paul delegations from Iowa, Nevada and Minnesota have already been credentialed, without challenge, for the convention.
"Romney and the RNC had been pursuing a legal strategy that appeared designed to prevent Paul from coming into the convention with 'the support of a plurality of the delegates from each of five or more states'.... Reaching that threshold, according to the party rulebook, would allow Paul delegates to place the longtime congressman's name into nomination during the convention and the candidate to make a speech. Paul has not sought to be nominated from the floor.
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August 22, 2012 — "GOP officials and the Mitt Romney campaign have cut a deal with Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign to allow some — though not all — of Paul's delegates from Louisiana and Massachusetts to be seated at the Republican National Convention. The status of Maine's delegates remains unsettled ... but negotiations were continuing.
"Pro-Paul delegations from Iowa, Nevada and Minnesota have already been credentialed, without challenge, for the convention.
"Romney and the RNC had been pursuing a legal strategy that appeared designed to prevent Paul from coming into the convention with 'the support of a plurality of the delegates from each of five or more states'.... Reaching that threshold, according to the party rulebook, would allow Paul delegates to place the longtime congressman's name into nomination during the convention and the candidate to make a speech. Paul has not sought to be nominated from the floor.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/08/21/159594780/romney-and-gop-strike-deal-with-ron-paul-loyalists-before-convention
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