"systematically trying to prevent minorities from having even any remote opportunity of being heard"
Rule changes pushed through by the Romney campaign that appear designed to prevent an insurgent candidacy like that of Ron Paul from mounting any meaningful challenge to the party establishment in the future are provoking a strong grassroots reaction.
One blogger at the website of the pro-Tea Party organization FreedomWorks complained on Sunday, “As you may know the Romney camp is pushing new rules that would strip grassroots activists of any meaningful ability to participate in presidential politics. The process has always been bottom-up, but Romney officials have rewritten the rules so that the nominee can stifle any dissent on the platform committee and even unseat delegates.”
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As described by Business Insider, the trouble began at a meeting of the Rules Committee on Friday, when leaders of the Romney campaign, led by lawyer Ben Ginsberg, forced through a series of changes designed to make it more difficult for insurgent candidates to win convention delegates..
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“He is systematically trying to prevent minorities from having even any remote opportunity of being heard,” longtime GOP operative Morton Blackwell objected. “This is wrong, it’s gonna hurt us, it’s gonna hurt our presidential candidate.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/26/rule-changes-forced-through-by-romney-campaign-at-rnc-provoke-grassroots-backlash/
MY COMMENTS:
The "Tea Party"
TM) is getting a taste of the same medicine the GOP is dishing out nationwide (via Voting roll purges, ID Requirements, reduced polling hours and rampant Absentee Ballot use) in disenfranchising Americans who happen to be minorities, elderly, and/or students who tend to vote Democrat.
