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Republican stalwarts threatening mutiny if their grassroots rights are not respected? This sounds like democracy and empowerment creeping up on party discipline. It also sounds like the kind of fights that green and leftist organizations must also put up with. I like this! -KW

(excerpt from) Yahoo News
Texas delegates planning floor mutiny over RNC rules changes

TAMPA–On Monday morning, at a meeting of more than 100 Texan delegates and alternates at the Saddlebrook Resort 20 miles north of Tampa, one topic got the crowd more fired up than any other. Delegate Melinda Fredricks read aloud a letter condemning recent changes to the national Republican party’s rules that would allow the GOP presidential candidate to veto and replace state delegates.

“Our delegates are in shock that such an amendment even would be presented before the Rules Committee much less passed into rule,” Fredricks said. “Please know from the Texas delegation standpoint that the only way a floor fight can be avoided is for this rule to be stricken.”

At that point, the entire Texas delegation stood up and applauded…

While opposition to the rules began with Ron Paul supporters, it has spread to the entire Texas delegation and significant portions of those from South Carolina, Colorado, Virginia and Louisiana too. Mitt Romney’s campaign lawyer Ben Ginsberg proposed the rule last week, but even some Romney supporters are staunchly opposed to the changes. Indiana delegate and Romney supporter James Bopp wrote in an email to RNC members that it’s “the biggest power grab in the history of the Republican Party.”…

At 2pm on Tuesday, the Rules Committee members will debate whether the new rule should be struck down…

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