RonBots Still Marching, Trying to Take Over County Conventions

While Ron Paul has long since given up on the Republican presidential nomination, his supporters have not. In an email sent out Saturday, Restore the Republic, an organization of Ron Paul supporters, makes the following charge:

At the Nueces County Republican party convention, March 29th, in Corpus Christ Texas, Ron Paul supporters walked out in protest and held their own emergency convention in the parking lot. Republican party Chairperson Mike Bertuzzi grossly violated party rules by announcing new delegates to the morning’s roll call who were never elected as precinct delegates on the night of the Republican primary, then again by ignoring repeated objections by party delegates, which he is required to recognize.

They claim that local newspaper reports were one sided, indicating that party chair Mike Bertuzzi was a hero for thwarting the attempt to take over the party. Interestingly, however, a successful takeover occurred April 9th in Missouri’s 5th congressional district. In that country convention Ron Paul supporters won all three delegates to the Republican Convention using similar tactics to the events in Texas. According to the Kansas City Star:

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