Bwahahahahaaa!!!
Honestly, the Michigan Republican Primary is the gift to Democrats that just keeps on giving. They are referring to the decision by the Michigan Republican Party to award two at-large delegates to Mitt Romney. As memiller writes at Blogging for Michigan, Santorum’s camp thought they should have split the two delegates and the decision goes against the MRP’s own rules.
The two at-large delegates awarded Tuesday in the Michigan Republican Presidential Primary were supposed to be split proportionately by Party rules, that is (given the results), one for Romney and one for Santorum. Given that each candidate also won seven Congressional Districts, that made the overall split 15 to 15 — a tie in delegate terms. And that is what all the media sources reported the next morning.But an MRP committee voted Thursday to award both at-large delegates to Romney instead, giving him a 16 to 14 advantage in the state’s delegates to the Republican National Convention.According to MIRS, the committee voted 4-2 to give Romney Michigan’s two at-large delegates. […]
[I]t is just amazing that these guys have the gall to complain about non-existent voter fraud.
And now, they don’t bother about fudging the results — they just decide to change the rules after the game is over.
Yesterday, Rick Santorum accused Mitt Romney of “political thuggery”.
Saul Anuzis, a former state party chairman and Romney backer who sits on the credentials committee, said in a statement Thursday that “regrettably, there was an error in the memo drafted and sent to the respective campaigns” about how the delegates were to be awarded and that the original plan approved by the panel earlier this month was to award the two delegates to the winner of the statewide vote.Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for the former Pennsylvania senator, said Thursday that “there’s just no way this is happening.”“We’ve all heard rumors that Mitt Romney was furious that he spent a fortune in his home state, had all the political establishment connections and could only tie Rick Santorum,” Gidley said in a statement. “But we never thought the Romney campaign would try to rig the outcome of an election by changing the rules after the vote. This kind of back room dealing political thuggery just cannot and should not happen in America.”
I loved this: “There’s just no way this is happening”. C’mon, Hogan, this is the Republican party we’re talking about here. They are the ones that complain about election fraud when they are the only ones actively engaging in it.
More from the Associated Press:
Anuzis insisted the committee members were clear on their decision to give both at-large delegates to the winner of the statewide vote, regardless of what the memo said. He denied the change was meant to help Romney specifically.He also complained about Santorum using automated campaign calls to invite Democrats to vote for him in the GOP primary. The roughly 100,000 Democrats who voted were enough to give Santorum victories in five congressional districts, Anuzis said.Credentials committee member [and Former Michigan Attorney General] Mike Cox voted against the change because he said the candidates went into Tuesday’s election thinking the at-large delegates would be awarded proportionally, not on who won the popular vote.
He agreed with Anuzis that the committee wanted to award both delegates to one candidate rather than awarding them proportionally, but said that isn’t what the memo ended up saying.
“I was a Romney surrogate. I’m firmly on his team, but a rule’s a rule,” Cox said Thursday.
Noted Brabender: “If the former attorney general of the state votes against it, that should speak for itself, especially if they are a Romney supporter. … That is the type of thing that happens in Iran but never in America, and somebody needs to get to the bottom of this very quickly.”
The state GOP’s lawyer, Eric Doster, drafted the memo and was the other “no” vote Wednesday night.
Besides Anuzis, those voting “yes” were Michigan GOP Chairman Bobby Schostak, party Co-Chairwoman Sharon Wise and former state Rep. Bill Runco, who endorsed Romney in a Feb. 20 press release. Neither Schostak nor Wise has endorsed a candidate.
Gongwer quoted Cox as saying, “It’s what happens in Zimbabwe and Syria, change the rules after the vote. That’s not how we’re supposed to do things”. Sheezo, hyperbole much? It’s just one delegate, dude. That said, it would be kinda funny if Romney won by only one vote, wouldn’t it?
The clown show continues…
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