On Jun 10, 4:43Â pm, 527_blue_collar_worker
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wrote:> On Jun 10, 2:32Â pm, Harry Hope
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>> Tuesday June 10, 2008
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>> Ron Paul planning parallel convention to send GOP a 'strong message'
>> in Minneapolis
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>> Nick Juliano
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>> After being denied a speaking slot at the Republican convention this
>> summer, former candidate Rep. Ron Paul, who is not supporting GOP
>> nominee John McCain, has decided to stage his own parallel convention
>> in Minneapolis.
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>> "There is a growing surge of people out there just craving" for a
>> return "to traditional American government, limited government that
>> places personal liberty first and places an emphasis on personal
>> responsibility and essentially gets out of the way after that," Paul
>> spokesman Jesse Benton told the Pittsburgh Tribune
Review.http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_571996...
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>> "The buzz we get from supporters is that they are very eager to come
>> to St. Paul and very eager to send a strong message."
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>> After being initially viewed as little more than a gadfly's revolt,
>> Paul's campaign picked up substantial steam during the GOP primaries,
>> when the libertarian leaning Texan raised about $35 million almost
>> entirely online and garnered more than a million votes.
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>> Paul's secured at least 35 convention delegates, but Republican party
>> big-wigs are denying him a speaking slot.
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>> The Tribune-Review has the details on Paul's parallel convention:
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>> Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in
>> Minneapolis for a "mini-convention" that could steal some of John
>> McCain's thunder just days before he accepts the Republican
>> nomination.
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>> A Paul campaign aide said the Texas congressman hopes to pack about
>> 11,000 supporters into the Williams Arena at the University of
>> Minnesota on Sept. 2, which coincides with the second day of the
>> Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in
>> neighboring St. Paul.
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>> Paul's supporters are really "looking to build a national organization
>> that is going to run at a grassroots level, be organized at a precinct
>> level, and to identify candidates to support," Benton said, "real
>> constitutionalist candidates."
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>> Paul camp expects to have about 50 delegates to the national
>> convention.
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>> They will attend the Paul convention and the campaign is encouraging
>> them to go to the official GOP convention as "active and positive."
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>> But, Benton added, Paul's supporters are independent-minded and aren't
>> going to be told what to do.
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>> There's some evidence that Paul's influence is beginning to stretch
>> beyond the presidential race already.
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>> Republicans gettin' ready to RUMBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE
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>> Harry
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> Get ready for the Democrat circus in Denver
I don't recall Gramps accepting the Republican nomination there, but
then I don't recall Michell Obama ever saying 'whitey' this and
'whitey that in a video either, like Festus claimed.
Hey Festus, where's the video?
S. Olson
