"Mr. Cruz is planning a Monday evening conference call..."

[Miles Archer]

Senator Ted Cruz’s supporters are mounting an effort to seize control of the Republican platform and the rules governing the party’s July convention, the first indication that Mr. Cruz will not simply hand his delegates over to Donald J. Trump.

In an email sent Sunday to pro-Cruz convention delegates, a top aide to the Texas senator wrote that it was “still possible to advance a conservative agenda at the convention.”

“To do that, it is imperative that we fill the Rules and Platform Committees with strong conservative voices like yours,” wrote Ken Cuccinelli, who was the campaign’s former delegate wrangler and a former attorney general of Virginia. “That means you need to come to the national convention and support others in coming, too!”

Mr. Cruz is planning a Monday evening conference call where, as Mr. Cuccinelli writes, Mr. Cruz’s former officials plan to “discuss what we can do at the convention to protect against liberal changes to our platform, and how we can right the wrongs in the rules from 2012!”

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/09/ted-cruz-backers-seek-to-control-convention-platform/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Well, this should be interesting.

[patricia92243]

2. I've always heard the platform is not worth the paper it is written on????

[malaise]

3. He'll probably fall in line like most of the others

He'll make grovel bot look like a baby

[Renew Deal]

4. Meaningless consolation prize

[Kingofalldems]

5. Church lady has it figured: