At some county conventions, officials have been bringing out their own troops by warning of takeovers and hijackings; at others, they have gone so far as ejecting Paul delegates (see the Texas report below).

At some district conventions, delegates have been told to sign pledges to vote for McCain, and Paul backers stripped of their credentials if they refused.

In some states, mention of Dr. Paul and his candidacy has been purged from party websites. 

In the most egregious example of all, the Republican leadership shut down the Nevada State convention last night before it could elect any National Delegates, when it looked like Paul would win a majority.

What are they so afraid of?

For one thing, McCain's forces know that it is still possible for him to lose the nomination. As explained in Delegate Wars (II), not all of McCain's pledged delegates are bound (required by state party rules) to vote for him on the first ballot. Unbound delegates are free to vote for any other candidate; if enough do, McCain gets no majority and the race goes to a second ballot (for which he will have even less bound delegates). At which point, it becomes an open contest that anyone can win.

Which I think is why Romney and Huckabee, even though they have both endorsed McCain, have not released their delegates, and why I predict they will both be on the ballot. If McCain wins a majority on the first ballot, neither of them will have done him any harm. If he does not, though, either one suddenly has a chance at the nomination. On the other hand, if either one is eliminated, he can try to throw his votes to McCain to save him as the nominee (and give himself a leg up in the undeclared race to be McCain's running mate).

A convention full of unbound delegates supporting Ron Paul must give the RNC nightmares. Even worse would be what some radical Paul supporters are calling for, an open revolt of bound delegates. In the RNC world, conventions are a TV opportunity, free advertising for the party and its nominee; delegates no more than clapping, cheering, sign waving props. (Most definitely not "Ron Paul" signs, either.)

So the RNC/McCain camp battles to eliminate every vestige of dissent from the convention. Meanwhile, the Ron Paul campaign fights on to win largest possible share of delegates for its own good reasons.

Things are about to get nasty. No, that's not quite true: They already have.

Maine

Nolan chart columnist Gary Wood reported back on Feb. 4: "According to a press release by Jesse Benton, of the Ron Paul campaign, the Texas Congressman, with his message of liberty and freedom, has already picked up 215 of the total 608 Maine state delegates. This number could increase as results come in from the final 6 counties. 35% of the state delegates place him second behind Mitt Romney even though McCain has a slight lead in the popular vote....

"Although many major newspapers are giving all 18 Maine National Delegates to Mitt Romney that is not the case. State delegates in Maine are [unbound]. The actual allocation of the 18 national delegates will not be determined until May 2 when the Maine Republican Party State Convention is going to be held and the state delegates will then decide."

Oklahoma

From The Oklahoman of Apr. 20: "Paul supporters have won five of the 15 national GOP delegates already selected at Oklahoma's congressional district conventions, Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Gary Jones said." (Those delegates, though, are bound for the first ballot: 3 to McCain, 2 to Huckabee.) "They also won several of the 15 alternates selected at the conventions.... It's expected Paul's supporters will turn out to add to that count when state Republicans gather May 2-3 in Tulsa to elect 23 at-large delegates and 23 alternates to the national convention, he said."

Texas

On his blog, "The Paulist Papers -- Stories about the Ron Paul Revolution," journalist Patrick Brendel chronicles some gripping accounts of Delegate Wars battles. Here is his take on events at the Harris County convention:

Bob Fulkerson is in Houston. It's March 28, the night before the state senate district convention, the final step in the biennial ritual to determine delegates to the Texas Republican Convention.

There will be a strong Ron Paul presence at the Congressional District 18 meeting -- a subset of the larger state Senate District 6 -- he learns. Supporters will make up 40 percent of the CD-18 attendance. They will not have the majority, so they decide to keep candidate affiliation a secret. Instead of blimps, fliers and t-shirts, r3VOLutionaries will identify themselves by wearing Band-Aids on their hands....

They keep quiet and vote as one bloc. In CD-18, supporters sweep the six delegate spots, taking four of the alternates. In the larger SD-6, they comprise about one-third of the 45 selections to the state convention, according to Fulkerson....

"I didn't see any factions or anything like that. I saw a whole group of people, the entire delegation, that was supportive of Sen. McCain," the county chair says.

In Victoria Co., "Band-Aids aren't necessary... They contemplate wearing blue shirts or name tags to the convention, but reconsider. By the time the convention arrives, they know they have the numbers to take over by sheer force.... When the time comes to elect the permanent chair of the convention, the Paul supporters make their move ('an uprising of Young Turks,' [a] teacher says). The Turks comprise two-thirds of the attendance. It is a stunning, mostly bloodless coup. The deposed GOP leaders, to their credit, handle defeat with aplomb, Marek says. The supporters, in turn, let them retain one spot in each committee. They also allow them five delegates to the state convention, reserving a spot for the state representative of five terms."

Similar stories, from other counties, are appearing throughout the local media.

In Travis Co.'s SD-25 Convention, the "delegates elected Paul-majority committees to guide them through sorting resolutions and selecting delegates to the state convention in June." Paulunteer "Robert McDonald, an Austin CPA elected the permanent chair of the county's GOP SD 25 convention, said he won the post by about 17 votes."

However, "a similar challenge was tried by Paul supporters at the county's SD 14 meeting, but there was no roll-call vote after it became clear that the temporary chairman, Joe Pojman, and other temporary officers would prevail." (Pojman got out the vote by e-mailing the party membership with dire warnings of a Paul takeover.)

Open warfare broke out at some conventions. In Nueces Co., convention Chairman Mike Bertuzzi "did not recognize the [RPR] group to speak and some members were escorted out by the sergeant at arms. Then about 40 members of the faction convened in another room in what's known as a 'rump convention.' Rump conventions are a separate meeting conducted by a group that feels it has been disenfranchised. Participants can form their own committees and elect their own delegates, then send a report to the state party, which then decides which convention to recognize from that county."

In some places, though, peace broke out instead. At the SD-12 convention in Tarrant Co., "Convention Chairman Tom Quinones worked out a deal to give the Paul camp delegates based on their numbers. Chad Bishop, a Paul delegate, gave a speech seconding Quinones' nomination, saying the district's 'conservative heritage is not lost on us.' Quinones said later, 'I think the Ron Paul delegates will be well-represented on our state delegation list.'"

 (To be continued ...)

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Ron Paul Delegates Successes So Far!

By George Dance
(Libertarian)
Sunday, April 13, 2008

This is a story still in progress. It records an ongoing series of skirmishes being fought sporadically across America, with little publicity, under arcane rules that make it difficult to determine winners and losers. The final outcome will not be known for months. Yet it could be the most important story of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, and how it unfolds could affect that party's future more than any other single event this year.

That story is the ongoing struggle of the Ron Paul campaign to secure the largest possible number of delegates to the Republican Convention this Sept. 1-4. I have followed that struggle with interest since February, but have been discouraged from writing about it; some Paul supporters thought that it would reflect badly on the campaign for it to become generally known. However, now that some mainstream media are beginning to report on it, I think it best to start writing myself on this most exciting, if not most important, underreported story of the year.

Many Americans may think that the National Delegates have already been chosen. I used to myself: Before this year, I always thought that delegate slates were presented and elected on primary or caucus day. From following the Paul campaign, though, I have learned that that is not how it works.

How it does work varies from state to state; but the process generally follows this order: First, party members gather in local caucuses and choose delegates to county conventions. Next, the county conventions elect delegates to state and congressional district conventions. Finally, the state and district conventions elect the National Delegates.

Some National Delegates are bound to vote for the state primary or caucus winner through the entire balloting. Others must do so on only the first two ballots; others on only the first ballot. In still other states, delegates are not bound to vote for the winner at all; the primary or caucus result counts as no more than a straw poll.
The Paul campaign has remained focused on securing delegates, rather than on primary or caucus vote totals. "Our goal has always been to walk into the national GOP convention with as many delegates as possible," said Ron Paul 2008 campaign manager Lew Moore. "The number of delegates we [win] could very well be the difference in a Convention where no one has a first-ballot majority."

Even though McCain now appears to have a first-ballot win clinched, the Paul campaign continues to pursue the same goal. There are good reasons to do so. For one, Paul needs to be nominated by five states in order to appear on the ballot, and have a chance to speak at the convention. For another, delegates will determine the 2008 election platform; for the Paul campaign, which is about ideas rather than personalities, the platform is as important as the nominee.

Thus the Delegate Successes continue, state by state, county by county, delegate by delegate.

Alaska

Alaska (where Paul came in third, with 17% of the caucus vote) held its state convention Mar. 13-15, in Anchorage. Ron Paul Alaskans reports that, thanks to efforts at the district conventions, Paulunteers "were to be able to secure 105 delegates to State, or roughly 30% of the total." At the convention, the Ron Paul Republicans (RPR) managed to pass several platform resolutions, calling for repeal of the Patriot Act, opposing Real ID, and advocating abolition of the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Education. Another resolution, opposing the Iraq war, lost; author Chris McGraw notes that "we were simply unable to pull support from anyone outside of the Ron Paul delegates for this purpose".

The RPR also lost a heated battle to reapportion Alaska's National Delegates among the two remaining candidates, Paul and Sen. John McCain. That would have given Paul 14 delegates, and McCain (whom Paul beat in caucus) only 12. That motion died in Rules Committee, in part because "both the Romney and Huckabee campaigns sent letters to the convention explaining that their campaign "suspensions" were intended to reserve delegates rather than release them."
In return for dropping their delegate challenge, the RPR won a resolution calling for Ron Paul to be allowed to address the National Convention. "The motion was proposed by the chairman and co-chairman of the rules committee," Ron Paul's website notes, "who were so impressed by the conduct and ability of the Ron Paul delegates that they felt it was the right thing to do."

However, the battle for delegates continues. Heather Saarella reported, on Nolan Chart Mar. 31, of a successful project by the Alaska Ron Paul Delegates Meet up "to send our own media, in the form of a DVD, to every single registered delegate and alternate in Alaska." Organizer Ewan Cutler is now working to replicate that success nationally, organizing "a campaign that sends a DVD each month for four months to the national delegates and alternates going to St. Paul."

Colorado

Nolan Chart correspondent Jahfre Fire Eater reports that at the Jefferson County convention in Colorado (where Paul received 8% in caucus), "there was a line of people at the Ron Paul table. Everyone at this convention is a [state] delegate. Those people in line are looking to sign up as Colorado Ron Paul delegates. They are former Huckabee people and Romney people and Fred people and Tancredo people.... The major topic of debate at the GOP breakfasts this week was how to hold your nose and vote for McCain. I'd say about 50% say absolutely no way in hell will they vote for McCain."

On Apr. 8, the Daily Paul reported that "The Colorado State Republican convention isn't until May 31st and no National delegates from the State have been selected. Nor will those delegates be bound to a candidate."

Florida

Though Paul took only 3% in the Florida primary, some party honchos see the RPR as a major threat. The Sarasota county Herald Tribune reports that local "party leaders are doing everything they can to block new members from joining the Republican Executive Committee. That has included freezing its membership and adjourning a monthly meeting early to prevent Paul supporters from speaking." "They want to take over the REC," county GOP chairman Eric Robinson told the paper.

Nolan Chart correspondent "Paul from Clearwater, Florida" recently reported on his local caucus: "I got about 30 Ron Paul meet up members to join and become Committee Members for the Local Republican Party.... We get there, roll call is taken. We each individually introduce ourselves. The Chairmen of our county and surrounding counties are there. Voting time comes around and THEY DO ALL OF THE VOTING. No one else. And of course they vote themselves in and it is over"

The Orlando Sentinel reports that "similar struggles are occurring in other Florida counties and states." In Orange County, party chairman Lew Oliver led a move to block Paul supporters from becoming precinct captains at this month's party meeting. In Pascoe County, Paul supporters were asked to publicly pledge their loyalty to the GOP.

Louisiana

Paul received just 5% of the vote in the Feb. 9 primary. However, as no candidate won a majority, by state rules the primary results are non-binding: All National Delegates from the state are officially uncommitted.

At the Jan. 22 caucuses, party officials violated several of their own rules in an attempt to freeze out the RPR. First, they held off calling the original caucus until Dec. 17 - ten weeks after the legal deadline, and two weeks after the deadline for registering Republican. Second, the deadline to file as a delegate was arbitrarily extended after Ron Paul supporters were the only ones to file a full slate in each congressional district. Third, officials used an out-of-date party membership list, to challenge Paul supporters and force them to cast provisional ballots.

Reports Ron Paul 2008: "Had the LA GOP followed its own rules, Ron Paul would have won 5 of the 7 state congressional districts, giving the campaign a majority of the state convention delegates, resulting in at least 35 delegates elected to the national convention in St. Paul."

By George Dance
(Libertarian)
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Ask Ron Paul why he remains in the Republican race for President, and he will speak about giving true conservatives someone to vote for. Ask him what he hopes to accomplish, and he will mention adopting a conservative platform, winning the battle of ideas, rallying a new generation to the cause, and the like.

All noble and worthy objectives. However, there are hints that something else may be afoot.

One big hint comes from an unlikely source: Hillary Clinton. Last month, Clinton told Newsweek magazine:

I have a very close race with Senator Obama. There are elected delegates, caucus delegates and super delegates, all for different reasons, and they're all equal in their ability to cast their vote for whomever they choose. Even elected and caucus delegates are not required to stay with whomever they are pledged to. This is a very carefully constructed process that goes back years, and we're going to follow the process.

Clinton is right. There is a difference between "pledged" delegates and "bound" delegates. Some pledged delegates are bound: that is, they must vote as per the primary or caucus results for their state. Others, though, are unbound: they are free to vote for the candidate of their choice. The Clinton campaign has been taking advantage of that, encouraging delegates pledged to Obama to defect. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign does the same thing: For instance, though Clinton won the Texas primary, Obama now claims the majority of Texas delegates.

On the Republican side, the Ron Paul Republicans (RPR) -- the part of Paul's grassroots rEVOLution that has stayed with him in the Republican Party -- pursues the same tactic. There the odds are much steeper: Officially McCain has a majority of pledged delegates, while Paul has won just 21. However, the RPR -- as Paul calls them, the "true believers" -- are not simply giving up. Their goal now is to deny McCain a first-ballot win, forcing a brokered convention.

Indeed, there are many such videos on You Tube. In the face of all media and public scorn, a surprising amount of true believers are convinced that Ron Paul can still win, and have dedicated themselves to making that possibility a reality.

Paul himself says nothing to encourage such talk. But he enthusiastically continues his own campaign for the remaining delegates in the 10 states yet to hold primaries. He has spent most of April in Pennsylvania, which votes Apr. 22 (the first primary since the GOP contest became a two-man race). Meanwhile his campaign continues to open new offices and launch new ads, most recently in Idaho (which holds its primary May 27).

Thus the true believers continue the rEVOLution by fighting the Delegate Wars -- scoring some big wins along the way, as this week's featured states show.

Minnesota

On Feb. 5, Paul netted 16% in the Minnesota caucuses and won four counties: Lincoln, Meeker, Red Lake, and Blue Earth. The vote was non-binding.

That achievement represented only the RPR's first effort in Minnesota. In their latest, as reported by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune Apr. 7, "they captured six of a dozen GOP national convention delegates elected at congressional district [CD] meetings in the 4th, 5th, and 6th Districts."

So far, the Star Tribune adds, "Delegates have been selected in six of the state's eight congressional districts, with Paul supporters winning seven of the 24 seats chosen to date. Six more delegates will be selected in the remaining two districts, and [eight] will be chosen at the state party convention next month."

Marianne Stebbins, the Paul campaign's State Co-coordinator, told the paper that "If we get enough delegates, we'll be able to get [Paul] speaking time at the convention." She described the RPR as "just a bunch of disorganized people who happened to get lucky. At least that's the impression we want to leave."

In the 6th CD, Chairman Andy Aplikowski became almost apoplectic on finding that two of the three elected delegates (and all three alternates) were Paul supporters, and moved to bind them all to vote for McCain. According to the Minnesota Monitor, the motion passed after "RNC officials contacted during the event said that party rules dictate that delegates to the national convention must endorse John McCain or see their votes tossed out." (However, the state party constitution forbids CD conventions from binding delegates.)

In contrast, a delegate reports that in the 5th CD, "Three Ron Paul supporters were elected to the three National delegate spots at our convention. Our convention was orderly and the party leadership ran our convention with class, showing respect for everyone in the room. I know that our story isn't as sexy as the CD-6 story which seems to be generating more heat than light, but I feel it's one that should be reported alongside it."

Missouri

Paul took only 4.5% of the vote in Missouri's Feb. 5 primary, which was won by John McCain. However, the RPR did much better at the county conventions the following month, winning between 1/5 and 1/3 of delegates to the state convention on May 31.

In St. Charles Co., Paul supporters organized a Conservative Values coalition, which dominated the convention and filled 111 of 137 state delegate slots. The convention also passed several amendments to the state platform, plus a motion to give National Delegates an option to not vote for the primary winner.

In Jackson Co., the RPR passed a motion to unbind Missouri's national delegates, and voted in a full slate of 175 Ron Paul state delegates after County Chairman Bunk Farrington led a walkout of Party regulars.

In Greene Co., Paul supporters elected 72 of 112 state delegates.

The RPR also dominated the Boone County convention. A 61-year-old grandmother, attending her first convention ever, had this to say of the experience: "Although I was concerned about the intentions of the Ron Paul supporters in the room, everyone was very polite and civil to one another, and I am convinced that those young supporters of Ron Paul would be the first ones to step up and volunteer to defend this country if we were threatened in any way."

Nevada

Ron Paul came second (beating John McCain) in the Nevada caucuses, and won Nye County outright. At the Mar. 9 Nye Co. convention, "Of the 65 delegates elected to go to the Nevada State Convention, 42 were Ron Paul supporters (64%)! We also got three planks added to the county platform regarding: Opposing a National ID card, Eliminating the Federal Reserve System, ... and Repealing the McCain-Feingold Act." Party unity was a key theme. Says Republican Central Committee Chairman Fely Quitevis: "The Ron Paul people, we gave them enough time on the floor and they were heard. It came out good."

Party unity was also a major theme at the Clark Co. convention, Mar. 8, in Las Vegas. State Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden "got big cheers" when she announced that Ron Paul would speak at the state convention Apr. 26. Lowden told the RPR: "I welcome you to join our Republican Party, to stay a part of this engaging conversation." Reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "A record number of state delegates volunteered, 895.... Since that is less than the number allowed, they were all made [state] delegates without an election."

North Dakota

North Dakota (where Paul received 21% in caucus on Feb. 5, and won 5 pledged delegates) held its state convention in Fargo on the weekend of Mar. 28-29. On Mar. 30, Josh Whitford filed a terse report on his blog: "What a week and weekend it has been here in Fargo, ND. Leading up to this weekend I have been preparing and helping Ron Paul to organize with the state convention for the Republican Party.... I am happy to report that Ron Paul will be receiving 11 of the 23 delegates up for grabs at the National Convention this September in St. Paul, MN."

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ELECTION 2008
Ron Paul Supporter's 'Win' delegates

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Posted: April 06, 2008
5:24 pm Eastern

Andy Barnett
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Don't Quit!

BLAINE, Minn. – Ron Paul supporters shook things up in at least three of Minnesota's congressional district conventions yesterday when they captured nearly all of the national delegates and alternates for the Republican National Convention this fall.

There was controversy at Minnesota's 6th Congressional District Convention. The district covers part of the Twin Cities metro area and extends to the west and into nearby St. Cloud, Minn. Paul supporters were accused of dirty tricks. 

"They hijacked the convention," said Jeff Johnson who serves as Minnesota's Senate District 15 co-chairman. 

Two out of three national delegates elected were Ron Paul supporters and all three of the alternates supported Paul. After the election results were announced at the convention, they were immediately disputed when it was discovered that the candidates had agreed to support John McCain in pre-screening questions.  

"I had people coming up to me saying that they wanted to ensure that Ron Paul has a chance to speak at the convention," said Andy Aplikowski, the vice chairman of the 6th District in Anoka County, "These people hid what their intentions were and that's deceptive." 

Prior to the voting, candidates running to be national delegates were screened by a nominating committee and asked two questions.

"We asked them if they were Republican and then asked if they would support John McCain at the national convention" said Aplikowski. "They had the option to answer yes, no, or maybe." 

The answers to these questions were then presented to the body of congressional delegates to take into consideration in the voting process. When it was discovered the elected national delegates were Paul supporters despite saying they would support McCain, the convention erupted in debate.

(Sounds Like The Founder Father's To Me, You Know, Voice Your Opinion And Stand Up For What You Believe In!  Chris Johnson, RonPaulFlags.com)

A motion was made to ensure the delegates supported McCain at the national convention.

"I moved that we bind the national delegates and alternates to what they told the nominating committee which is what was reported to the voters," said Aplikowski.

A heated debate lasting more than an hour followed the motion. Eventually, the motion passed by a slim margin, but not without harsh words and harsh exchanges.

The feeling among many of the congressional delegates who voted was that the Paul supporters had been dishonest. Ron Baert, one of the elected national delegates and a Ron Paul supporter disagreed.

"I don't recall the exact wording of the question (about McCain), and so I wanted to clarify it," he said. "So I said that the endorsement hasn't even taken place yet, but that if McCain were endorsed I would support him, however I did not say I would vote to endorse him at the national convention."

Could the wording of the pre-screening questions have been confusing? Aplikowski who helped in the process didn't think that was likely.

"There were 98 people who went through the questions and it was explained very thoroughly at the time the nominations report was given to the voters," he said.

The 98 candidate names, and their answers to the pre-screening questions were displayed on an overhead projector as well as on a handout available to voters.

Some Paul supporters wanted to know why the pre-screening questions were asked in the first place, and Baert said he and other Paul backers felt intimidated. So what was the purpose of the questions?

"The intention was to identify people and who they were going to support," said Aplikowski. "It wasn't to keep out Ron Paul supporters but to present that information to the body of delegates to vote on, which is one of the purposes of the nominating committee."

The RNC was contacted by phone while the debate was going on, and, according to party rules, the national delegates must endorse John McCain or their votes won't count. That left some angry.

"If they intended to bind candidates to vote for the presumptive nominee (John McCain), they should've announced this at the beginning," said Paul supporter Jim Sutton. "This convention has never bound delegates to a candidate before. It was a torpedo job against us!"

The Ron Paul Revolution also struck Minnesota's 4th and 5th districts where Paul supporters also won spots as delegates and alternates to the national convention. Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey said that the delegates' decision to not unite behind McCain only hurts the Republican party.
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Texan Ron Paul backers grab delegates in Minnesota

04/08/2008

Associated Press

Minnesota supporters of presidential hopeful Ron Paul hope the Texan will win some speaking time at the GOP National Convention in St. Paul.

Paul backers won six of a dozen Republican National Convention delegates elected at congressional district meetings in Minnesota over the weekend.

Marianne Stebbins heads the Texas congressman's Minnesota campaign. She calls it a tactical victory aimed at bringing Paul's libertarian message to a wide audience, and says his supporters hope to win Paul speaking time at the convention in September.

Party spokesman Mark Drake says the Paul supporters will be national delegates, but adds that it doesn't change anything, because Arizona Sen. John McCain is going to be the Republican nominee.

Paul won only 15 percent of the vote in a nonbinding preference ballot among Republicans attending Minnesota's precinct caucuses in February.

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Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com

April 02, 2008 - Texas Update

Ron Paul supporters, undercover?

Don't Quit!

They never mentioned Ron Paul's name, but they knew one another by their Band-Aids.

Buried under headlines pertaining to Saturday's Democratic conventions were reports that supporters of the Lake Jackson congressman/presidential candidate were trying to take over -- successfully, in some cases -- Republican county and state senate district conventions in Fort Worth, Austin and elsewhere.

Unlike the Democrats, the Republican delegates elected to the state convention do not have any say in their party's presidential nomination. Texas' delegates are already committed to John McCain.

The r3VOLutionaries fought to a draw in Tarrant and Travis Counties, electing delegates to June's state convention, and in some cases, passing resolutions that could become part of the state party's platform.

In other cities, including Houston, Paulites left their yard signs, blimps and "Google Ron Paul" bumper stickers at home, choosing instead to swoop in beneath the radar of mainstream Republicans.

Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfill said he didn't see much of a "Ron Paul presence" at the convention, saying the event went very smoothly despite it being the largest Harris County convention ever, with 5,000 attending.

This was either because the Paul supporters did a good job of blending in; there were too few to be noticed; or, stripped of their campaign regalia, Paul supporters look pretty much like other Republicans.

But they were there, assures supporter Bob Fulkerson, claiming that a significant number of Senate District 6 delegates normally Fly the Ron Paul Flag.


When will you Fly A Ron Paul Flag?
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Ron Paul Supporters Set Sights on Influencing Texas GOP