Comments on Advance Indiana™: Is This Any Way To Run A State Convention?

The county chairman phoned in to the credentials c...

2012-06-06T18:53:35.358-05:00

The county chairman phoned in to the credentials committee today just before my hearing and withdrew all of his challenges based on alleged non-payment of convention delegate fee, so the committee denied the challenges and we get to attend the convention.

There are at least 3 of us duly elected delegates ...

2012-06-05T04:54:54.367-05:00

There are at least 3 of us duly elected delegates in Bartholomew County who paid our fee as specified, well in advance of the deadline given by the county party, who were told yesterday that our county chair is challenging us for non payment of the fee. The state party told us late yesterday that we need to go to a hearing in Indianapolis tomorrow (Wed, 6 June 2012) to present our evidence that we paid our fees on time.

The election was May 8, I received a letter on May 10 from the secretary of the Bartholomew county GOP central committee stating that I needed to mail a check for $80 to PO Box 1723 by May 20. My check went out in the mail May 11.

On May 29, I heard that the county chair had e-mailed a couple of other delegates whose payment also went out in the May 11 mail, advising them that he had not received their fee. They went to the Columbus post office and were advised that the envelope containing their fee was still in the PO box.

I also went to the post office and was also advised that the envelope containing my payment was still in the PO box as well. A fourth elected delegate was also advised that his payment was still in the PO box, but the county chair has told him that he will not be challenged.

Pretty strange. I've attended conventions in 1996, 2008, and at least one or two others in between and never encountered anything such as this before.

I do not know either why you bother with either pa...

2012-06-04T10:52:17.311-05:00

I do not know either why you bother with either party. Re the Republican one, today Micheal Snyder posts at The American Dream site:

"1.6 Trillon Dollars More Debt: Fiscal Conservatives Have Been Raped by The Republican Party".

He starts: "What the Republican Party has done to fiscal conservatives over the past year and a half has been a betrayal so vast that it is difficult to find words to describe it." and,

He ends: "The greatest debt bubble in the history of the world is going to burst and America is going to be completely devastated."

It's hard to figure out what the $80 covers. W...

2012-06-03T22:47:07.952-05:00

It's hard to figure out what the $80 covers. Who knows how much the CIB is charging them to host it at the convention center.

I wonder why the fee is $80. As I recall not long...

2012-06-03T21:00:07.617-05:00

I wonder why the fee is $80. As I recall not long ago it was $20. I think it is very dangerous to riase the price to $80 which will discourage people from being part of what should be a grass roots political event.

Thanks for sharing, Kim. I know that you sent your...

2012-06-03T20:55:33.701-05:00

Thanks for sharing, Kim. I know that you sent your notices to your delegates earlier than Marion Co. so they had a reasonable time to get their fee paid, unlike Marion County, which gave a last-minute notice. I also don't think you would have stripped an elected official as a delegate because she paid her fee one day late as our county chairman did to Christine Scales. The presumption is that she is being punished because she won't go along with all of the corrupt deals our Republicrat mayor tries pushing through the counsel all the time with little debate.

We have always had to pay for all delegates whethe...

2012-06-03T19:00:01.684-05:00

We have always had to pay for all delegates whether they paid their fee or not or whether we actually had a delegate to fill an empty spot or not. This year the state party changed the rules so that counties that have people who like to see their name on the ballot actually put their money where their mouth is. We only had 9 open delegate spots after the election. They were all filled. Then people started resigning or not paying. The deadline was May 22nd to pay, but those who were elected we gave some extra time especially if they had contacted us. We only have a couple unpaid/open spots and deadline is tomorrow at 10am I think to submit any further names....and this is Kim Krull by the way. I think it says unknown when I use a google account to post! sorry!

The Ron Paul delegates don't pose a problem in...

2012-06-03T16:30:29.059-05:00

The Ron Paul delegates don't pose a problem in Marion County. There weren't very many of them who even bothered to file to run. Ron Paul's effort in Indiana was very poorly coordinated. The woman who I spoke to early on didn't know the first thing about the process in Indiana, and she didn't want any advice from anyone who knew what they were doing. Christine Scales is not a Ron Paul person. How do you explain her being bounced when they were still looking for delegate spots that needed to be filled?

The GOP is trying to muddy the rules of the state ...

2012-06-03T16:16:16.141-05:00

The GOP is trying to muddy the rules of the state conventions to keep the Ron Paul supporters off guard.

They figure they'll have enough party stalwarts who are specifically guided through the process to conduct all business they need to run.

There have been rumblings that the county party ha...

2012-06-03T15:08:24.566-05:00

There have been rumblings that the county party has paid the fee of some delegates in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. The county party never had to account for the funds the receptionist embezzled a few years ago so it's not like any one is actually holding it accountable.

I wonder if the mummy dummies will have to pay the...

2012-06-03T14:46:03.907-05:00

I wonder if the mummy dummies will have to pay the $80.00 fee?