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Subscribe to RSSAccording to a spokesman at the Texas Republican Party, a member of the Texas GOP’s executive committee drafted an email to call an emergency meeting to revisit its delegate-allocation rules.
And make no mistake: This effort is coming from Santorum world.
Santorum, in fact, commented on this subject yesterday while campaigning in Pennsylvania.
“After Pennsylvania, the calendar in May looks very, very interesting -- a lot of strong conservative states who are looking for the opportunity to tighten this race back up. There's talk now of maybe making the state of Texas, 154 [sic] delegates, a winner-take-all state. We would like that. That would be a good thing.”
And today on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Santorum spokeswoman Alice Stewart added, “Keep an eye on Texas, that’s going to be critical in terms of how the votes play out there, whether it’s winner-take-all or proportional. Texas will be critical in the primary election and everyone needs to pay attention to that."
Right now, Texas is set to award its 155 delegates -- on May 29 -- proportionally. But making it winner-take-all could help Santorum narrow Romney’s delegate lead, if Santorum remains in the race (and more importantly, if he remains competitive).
Per the Texas GOP’s bylaws, you need 15 members of the executive committee to call such an emergency meeting.
And it takes a two-thirds vote at that meeting to propose a rule change -- that would later be sent to the Republican National Committee.
But a Republican official says the RNC is "unlikely" to grant Texas a waiver to change its rules.
"If they succeed in changing the rules in Texas, then they have to come to [the RNC] for a waiver, and it is unlikely to happen."
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Sounds like Texas is trying to take the etch-a-sketch screen from Nitmit and use it to wipe the primary rules clean and use it to re-write them to help the escapee from the insane asylum. Wait a day or two and the teabagger repugs will always come up with something to entertain.
Most people hear Texas and just laugh anyway. Like they matter?
"winner takes all", the most undemocratic thing ever exist in those states, denying people's will to award their delegates to someone they support.
Hmmmm....Is Texas looking to change its delegate rules to help Santorum? To answer this question, you only have to ask yourself one other quetsion. Does this in any way serve to aid Governor Rick Perry financially or politically? Any time the answer to the second question is yes, then you have your answer to the first. Rick Perry ALWAYS does what is best for him politically and financially. It is one thing you really can count on.
If Texas can rewrite Histroy they can certainly rewrite the rules, no problemo. Both History and the Rules are whatever they want them to be.
You are all right, except that you are all wrong! Texas does gerrymander, does seek to suppress the vote, does vote democrat in its cities, and does vote republican in the outlying areas. Texas has many who will vote against Obama merely because of his ethnicity, and many who will vote against Romney because of his religion. Texas has a lot of jobs, but they are not all from the federal government (by a long shot) or for Walmart. Texas has a very large technology industry here. Ever hear of Dell or Samsung, for example?
This election will not be determined by those who want the healthcare bill repealed (those selfish folk), or by the economy, or by the deficit. It will be determined partly by latinos who are fed up with the growing anti-latino sentiment and the newly minted immigration laws. It will be determined by blacks who keep seeing new voter ID laws designed to keep them from voting. It will be determined by those who have become aware of A.L.E.C. and what horrid stuff they are up to. But mostly it will be determined by women who WILL NOT be shoved back into the days of blatant discrimination against them.
Women for Obama!!
St. Rick needs all the help he can get. He might start by actually reading the Bible instead of trying to rewrite it.
Never put anything past Perry and his Republican supporters. They all sell snake oil and grovel for money in the mud.
Nothing can energize the conservative agenda like changing to the rules when things aren't going your way.
Why not TX, all the other primaries and caucuses have. How come they can change the rules for Republicans (who have mega-millions/billions), but the American citizens who pay their taxes (through very little income) are subject to "strict" adherence to the mega-rich's made up rules.....which they don't even follow? Are they called: Pharisees in the "good" book? I have never in all my 60+ years seen anything like this year and a halfs contendees! Wow, smh.
The Republicans have their own playbook of rules and are on an erasure board. They will do whatever it takes to get their man in office. Look at the redistricting in Texas a few years back that created an even larger playground for the Republicans thanks to Tom Delay, and took away from the Democrats.
They are trying to do it again, so this does not surprise me at all. All's fair when the Texas repubs make the rules as they go.
If you think you have Scoundrels and Thieves in the US Congress you ain't seen nothing like Texas. Here politics is a blood sport.
Subverting Democracy is one of the first lessons they give you when you get to Austin.
These are the same people that say you can't change the US Constitution, can't have activate Judges
But the Republicans change the Constitution anytime they want, they appoint activate Judges to the Supreme Court to change laws and the US Constitution to suit their wants and needs
So what is a little change in vote allocation in the Republican party
They lie all the time, block votes, take away voter rights, women's rights, Union Rights,
They only want tax cuts for the Very Rich, more Defense spending for their Defense Contractors Buddies,
They want to kill the Middle Class, Health Care, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
They hate women, they want to take away their pay for same work, Health Care, voter rights
It appears politics likes to write the rules, as long as they aren't bound to play by the rules they write. Probably why our citizens have such little respect for rules or laws.
Corruption starts at the top.
Why won't the media report that Rick Santorum was considered on of the most corrupt Congressional representatives in 2006, by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington?
Wait til he (if) becomes significant and the media starts hitting him left and right. He won't be able to handle it... he was losing it over nothing just a few weeks ago. He cannot take the media.
He has already shown that he buckles under pressure when the media asks him ANYTHING. "Leave me alone guys, don't you have anything better to do? Give me a break. Whaaaaaa"!
Highly populated areas change ffrom one census to the next. Predominantly white areas change to hispanice or black after the homes become a little older, mainly middle income subdivisions. In Ft. Worth there has been a lot of this happening, Houston big time. This happened in Hous in the mid 1980's when the economy took a big dive.