Backstage at the GOP Convention: Mitt Strong-arms, Sununu Has Left The Building

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Aug. 25, 2012, BusinessInsider.com: The GOP convention doesn't officially start until (Tuesday), but trouble is already brewing between presumptive nominee Mitt Romney and Republicans who are concerned by his campaign making an aggressive power play to control the party.

The drama...centered around a...meeting of the powerful Rules Committee...Romney's campaign lieutenants, led by his legal counsel Ben Ginsberg, pushed through several changes that would give Romney broad authority over the Republican nominating process. According to one source...former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, the committee chair, hightail(ed) it out of the building before committee members could submit dissenting minority opinions, or "minority reports."

Republican Party rules stipulate that people have one hour to submit a minority report after a meeting of the Rules Committee, and that it must have the support of at least 25 percent of the committee...Ginsberg and other Romney loyalists tried to neuter the threat of a minority report by raising the threshold of support to 40 percent...

So this is Mitt's management style -- Karl Rove meets Caligula in Don Corleone's parlor? And what does Sununu get as a reward, a cabinet post?


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[grasswire]

1. Ben Ginsberg!!

That thug!

He makes children cry just looking at him. Seriously.

THUG!!

[grasswire]

2. another coup coming!

Who's next to appear? Victoria Toensing and her hubby Joseph diGenova??

[DURHAM D]

3. lol

[avebury]

4. Is Romney's end game to set up a Dictatorship? nt

[central scrutinizer]

5. look how well he was able to control Todd Akin

up next, Donald Trump and Ron Paul. Plus it is likely that someone else will go rogue on the podium.

[LiberalFighter]

6. I thought it was going to say that the Mormons were going to infiltrate the convention

and take it over for MittWitt.