EMAIL from
stopthemigopcorruption@gmail.com
March 1, 2012
Subject: Third World Voting?
BREAKING MI PRIMARY NEWS . . . .
In what was actually a middle of
the night, smoke-filled backroom, Team Romney and the Establishment of
the Michigan Republican Party voted to ignore its own Rules (which were
submitted to the Republican National Committee on February 7, 2012) and
to ignore the results of Tuesday's Primary Election.
While the math is very clear, Rick
Santorum and Mitt Romney won 1 at-Large Delegate based on Tuesday's
vote, this BACKROOM BAND met in SECRET, late last night, and voted to
award both at-Large voting Delegates to Mitt Romney.
How could they do this you ask? How could they IGNORE their own
RULES?
Simple.
They're the Establishment, and
since the voters didn't vote the way they wanted, they're just going to
pretend the vote never happened.
Maybe it was said best by Policy
Committee Chairman Mike Cox: "I supported Mitt, but the vote was
clearly wrong. It's kind of like Third World voting. We published rules
and then we voted to change the rules."
No matter who you supported, the
RULES that were in place for this Election should be followed. And they
should never be changed AFTER THE FACT.
Contact the Establishment today, and let them know they're not
going to get away with this!
Bobby Schostak
Saul Anuzis
MI GOP
PRESS RELEASE from Rick
Santorum for President
March 1, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Matt Beynon
SANTORUM CAMPAIGN COMMENTS ON MICHIGAN BACKROOM
DEAL
Verona,
PA - The Rick Santorum for President Campaign made the following
statement upon the delegate ruling from the Michigan Republican Party.
Hogan
Gidley, National Communications Director, said: "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 manage a tie Rick
Santorum.
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."
To learn more about former Senator Rick Santorum, please visit
www.RickSantorum.com.
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STATEMENT from RNC Committeman Saul
Anuzis
March 1, 2012
Statement by
Saul Anuzis
Republican
National Committeeman from Michigan
Member of the
Michigan Republican Credentials Committee
At the February 4th
State Committee meeting held in Lansing, the Credentials Committee
unanimously passed the procedures for allocating Michigan’s delegates
to the National Convention in the event that the RNC imposes the 50%
penalty on our delegation.
We
agreed that if only 30 delegates would be designated as voting
delegates, the Michigan Republicans would send 2 from each
congressional committee and 2 at large. We agreed that the two at
large delegates would be taken from the top of the slated delegations
as submitted by the candidate who received the most votes statewide.
Last night the Credentials Committee met via teleconference and voted
to apply the rules as passed unanimously on February 4th which results
in the 2 at large delegates be awarded to the statewide winner, Mitt
Romney.
There
were no changes in rules or procedures, the Credential Committee only
ratified the existing rules as previously passed after some made
erroneous claims to the media that the at-large delegates would be
split.
There
is no disagreement amongst the members that this was the intent of the
Credential Committee and there is email traffic between the committee
members and counsel discussing the same.
Regrettably,
there was an error in the memo drafted and sent to the respective
campaigns. There were questions raised at the time the memo was
drafted as to whether the legal language used was accomplishing the
goal of the committee and we were advised that it was, but now it is
clear that the memo did not properly communicate the intent of the
committee. The email traffic surrounding the drafting of the memo
in
early February makes explicitly clear what the intent of the committee
was.
The
committee convened again last night to affirm that the intent was clear
and that the memo was inaccurate. That affirmation came in a 4-2
vote.
While we all regret the error in the memo, it does not change
what was
voted on by the committee, which was to award the two at-large
delegates to the statewide winner. It was premature for any
candidate
to be declaring the delegate count prior to an official announcement by
the Michigan Republican Party
This
is much to do about nothing. The rules were set in place, in
advance,
by a unanimous vote. A press conference should not force Michigan
Republicans to change the rules.