Mitt Romney will challenge Maine GOP results

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

Organizers at the Augusta Civic Center on Sunday have released the unofficial voting results for the 15 at-large delegates that will go to the national GOP convention in Tampa, Fla, and all 15 are Ron Paul supporters. Paul also picked up three additional delegates from the 1st Congressional District.

Those victories are likely to be challenged by the Mitt Romney campaign, which has dispatched its top lawyer, Benjamin Ginsberg, to Maine. Ginsberg was President George W. Bush's lawyer during the 2000 election recount.

Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster said this morning that the Mitt Romney campaign will contest the results and attempt to have them thrown out. The Romney campaign will argue that the vote didn’t take place in an open forum, Webster said.

After Paul supporters were elected into power Saturday the convention was tossed into chaos.

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Read more: http://www.pressherald.com/news/Delegate-fight-Snowe-LePage-today-at-convention.html

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The monkey poo flingfest continues...

[Jackpine Radical]

1. How fun.

[Crow73]

2. Benjamin Ginsberg supports same-sex marriage

There is nothing wrong with that... But talk about ironic.


[bRepublican money for same-sex marriage]

Politico ^ | 10/31/10 | Ben Smith
Posted on Wed Sep 01 2010 09:39:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by BitterKlingon

Ken Mehlman's fundraiser for same-sex marriage will be, among other things, a gathering of some of the most high-profile -- and deep-pocketed -- backers of gay marriage on the right. The names of Bill Weld, Christie Todd Whitman, Steve Schmidt, and Mary Cheney's didn't surprise me. Other names did a bit: Bush aides Mark and Nicolle Wallace are on there, as is top GOP lawyer Ben Ginsberg.

Most notably, Mehlman's fundraiser extends the reach of same-sex marriage backers to the very top Republican donor pile: The private equity titan Henry Kravis (who's also Mehlman's boss at KKR) is among the hosts. And the event is at the home of Paul Singer, the hedge fund tycoon recently profiled in the Times as the embodiment of Wall Street's support for Republicans. Also, former RNC Finance Chairman Lew Eisenberg.

Politics sometimes follows the money, and there's a path here -- if Mehlman, in particular, chooses to cultivate it -- for pro-same-sex marriage Republicans to raise a huge pile of money.

[Old and In the Way]

8. That's an important excerpt and ought to be part of Obama's GE campaign.

Guys like Singer have a big investment opportunity riding in this election with Rmoney. There will be no further regulation/oversight on the crony/vulture/unethical capitalism that these bastards practice - Mitt's a pioneer in this breed of capitalism. They've made their outrageous profits under Republican oversight and targeted deregulation. They now have to pony up to get Mitt elected. Mitt sure won't compete, based on small dollar contributions only...this is the campaign, by and 5% Club. Campaign. Their bill is due and payable. Lots of money for Mitt's campaign. The rest of the 95% Republican ought to understand that - before voting for an administration enacts a financial agenda dedicated to continuing the drain of wealth from the bottom 95%.

They need to educate the voters as to who is financing both parties, in simple and concise ways.....and pound the message until the typical Republican voter makes the connection and 'gets it'.

[karynnj]

11. Then again, he was the lawyer for both Bush/Cheney and the SBVT

That he is for gay ,marriage does not remove that stink.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Just when Rmoney thought he had it in the bag.

[edcantor]

4. Republican Party = Circus Maximus!

No other way to describe this small group of conservative people in the state of Maine.

Total population of the state, about 100 times the number of people who actually showed up to vote in a caucus on a snowy day in March when most reasonable conservative people wouldn't drive 5 miles in Northern Maine just to cast a vote for some dumb ass or another.

Most people in Northern Maine are smart enough to get in out of the rain, or smart enough not to drive a few miles on snowy roads on a weekend when they don't have to.

Now, all of this foolish circus goes to some court? All this because the Republican Convention happens in one of the hottest states of America in one of the hottest months and Romney wants less people able to show up and vote against him? Give me a break! This isn't democracy, this is a circus.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Oh yeah, that'll win him some support.

Not.

[grantcart]

6. Nothing causes more problems at a convention than delegate challenges.

Romney will win the battle and lose the war, i.e. Paul supporters will be even more angry at him and will revolt to the Libertarian Party.

Nice job Mittsy.

[groundloop]

7. Good points. You'd think Mittnes would be smarter than that

If rMoney had any brains you'd think he'd invite Paul over to his sandbox, give him some candy and convince him to play nice. Then they could look like one big happy family at the convention.

[Posteritatis]

9. I think "compromise" is a four-letter word to either of those two. (nt)

[Iliyah]

10. Y'think since Mittens have been runing for prez for about 5 years

his advisors would have known such?

And this guy wants to be president of the US? Gawd forgive, he and his people are clueless.