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I would like to extend my thanks and sincere gratitude to Susan and Drew for their willingness to stand for what’s right.
-Marshall D. Culpepper | The Jeenyus Corner-
TAMPA — The Republican National Convention Rules Committee voted 63-38 to approve a new rule allowing granting the Republican National Committee — and Mitt Romney — sweeping new powers to amend the governing document of the GOP.
The move came at the encouragement of Mitt Romney supporters on the committee, including Romney’s top lawyer Ben Ginsberg, who stressed that it would grant “flexibility” to Romney and the committee to adapt to changing political environments. The rule allows the RNC to amend the party’s rules without a vote by the full Republican National Convention. And it offers the Republican Establishment a new tool to keep at by Tea Party initiatives that threaten to embarrass or contradict party leadership and stray from a planned message.
Romney, as his party’s nominee, exerts significant influence over the RNC, which is made up of elected party officials from all 50 states, while the larger Convention Rules Committee is larger and has a more grassroots membership.
“This is necessary for the world in which we find ourselves in,” Ginsberg told the committee, adding that it is “important for the political survival of the party in the electoral context,” for the committee to be able to change the rules as it sees fit in the intervening four years between conventions.
Virginia delegate and RNC member Morton Blackwell strenuously objected to the proposed rule change, calling it “the most awful proposed amendments I’ve seen presented to this committee.”
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Reblogged this on Once Upon a Paradigm and commented:
There is a real split in the GOP party. Some of them are trying to tap down the control and idiology of the extreem wing. Interesting read.
Both left and right wings have their extremes, and yet both extremes lead to the same thing… BIG GOVERNMENT that is FRIENDLY TO THE PRIVATE CENTRAL BANK. Most Of the sane people in the middle were supporters of Ron Paul, who drew crowds from democrats, traditional and moderate republicans, independents and libertarians… a true movement of unity, and the GOP tries to squash it like a bug…