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Mon Jul 18, 2016, 01:56 PM Jul 2016

The haphazard way Trump picked his VP is a sure sign this convention will be a total circus


Source: Salon

The Rules committee meetings were contentious, with accusations of the votes being “rigged” from the #NeverTrump forces. There were even reports of Trump associates strong-arming delegates who attempted to organize against their man, according to the Washington Post:

Kim Taylor Fralick, a delegate from Lousiana, said she received at least three emails from Carl Paladino, a New York delegate and close associate of Trump. He was responding to an email sent by Fralick encouraging convention delegates to join Unruh’s group.

“It’s like pissing up a drain pipe. You get wet. A revolt will never materialize,” Paladino wrote to Fralick.

He was downright threatening to a delegate from Utah.

“You should be hung for treason Stefani. There will not be a Republican Party if you attempt to replace Trump. I’ll be in your face in Cleveland.”

Lest you think Paladino is just some fringe right-wing functionary from an upstate dairy farm, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2010.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/07/18/let_the_madness_begin_all_signs_point_to_four_days_of_complete_insanity/


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The haphazard way Trump picked his VP is a sure sign this convention will be a total circus (Original Post) heresAthingdotcom Jul 2016 OP
If it's a circus Mendocino Jul 2016 #1
Let's step back and see what Wellstone ruled Jul 2016 #2
last night was a total F up napkinz Jul 2016 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Let's step back and see what
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 02:23 PM
Jul 2016

mega millions in Advertising and Free Network Promo's do. This is the million ton Elephant in the room. Comcast and Murdoch with the help of the Koch Brothers are seeing a real opportunity to install a hard right Government and later a Fascist State. Please look at the big picture. The Oligarchs are not going away,instead they are dumping huge piles of dollars in the State Races.

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