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April 27, 2008
Nevada GOP's state convention shut down early
Posted: 05:16 PM ET

Rep. Ron Paul addressed the Nevada Republican Party's convention Saturday.
RENO, Nevada (AP) — Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.

Outnumbered supporters of expected Republican presidential nominee John McCain faced off Saturday against well-organized Paul supporters. A large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled Paul supporters to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected.

"I've seen factions walk out. I've never seen a party walk out," said Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator for the Paul campaign.

Delegates cheered earlier in the day as former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney urged support for McCain. Later, though, Paul got even louder applause as he delivered his message of individual freedom and fiscal responsibility.

State Sen. Bob Beers, the convention chairman, was booed loudly as he called for a recess Saturday evening. He said that the party's rental contract for a big meeting room at a Reno hotel-casino had expired and there was too much work left to complete.

State GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden said the rules change wasn't anticipated. She denied any anti-Paul bias, saying expected slates of national delegates were prepared through a fair and open process by the convention's nominations committee and the party thought the convention would accept them.

That is awesome.

The phenomenal thing is that all of Paul's popularity and support is almost exclusively grassroots. He has had virtually no coverage from the mainstream media. In many cases, his name was even deliberately removed from the primary results lists. CNN, for example, would show the results for Romney, Thompson, and Guiliani even if Paul got more votes than any of them.

Ron Paul should be the Republican nominee.


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That just rocks.

Why does the media have such an issue with Ron Paul?

I knew some of you would appreciate this

Google "Nevada GOP walks out on it's own convention" for youtube links.

By the way his supporters act, I would think he would be a better Democrat than Republican.

To a lot of people, the current-day Republican party might as well be the Democratic party. There isn't that much difference.

Paul is like Reagan incarnate - New & Improved With More Constitutional Bada** Action. He's what the Republican Party should be.


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Besides, there was no pie-throwing. This sounds like a well-planned and executed political move.


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That's pretty funny.

Would have been ten times better if the pie hit her!


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How often do you see Republicans doing that?

Not often enough!


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