Bullet Point Election News: Nevada GOP Recesses Convention to Avoid Paul Supporters

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Nevada GOP Recesses Convention to Avoid Paul Supporters

The Nevada Republican Convention convened April 26, 2008 to select 31 delegates for the national convention being held in St. Paul, Minnesota September 1-5, 2008.
Early in the convention state delegates supporting Ron Paul voted through a rules change with two-thirds of the vote that reportedly forced the party to abandon its ballot of potential national delegates and open up the vote the rest of the state delegates.
The convention, originally scheduled to end at 5PM still had not selected its first national delegate by 6PM at which point the convention chairman, Nevada State Senator Bob Beers, announced that the convention would be recessed due to budgetary constraints.
Beers told the convention the meeting hall had only been rented through 5PM however, Ron Paul's Southern Nevada chairman, Brian Kominsky, said that hotel officials agreed to let the convention keep the meeting hall for an additional three hours to 8PM.
Upon Beers's announcement the majority of McCain supporters left leaving the convention more than 100 votes short of a quorum.
Nevada Republican Party chairwoman, Sue Lowden said "Unfortunately, with the rule changes implemented this morning, we did not have time to complete the process, our contract for the meeting space had expired, as had our budget, and ballots were unable to be physically produced by the nominations committee. We had to temporarily recess the convention."
The date, time and location of where the convention will reconvene are expected to be announced this week.

Sources:

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080427/NEWS/252102622

http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080427/NEWS/804270360/1321

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/27/ron-paul-campaign-dominates-convention/