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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Mr. Cruz is planning a Monday evening conference call..."
Senator Ted Cruzs supporters are mounting an effort to seize control of the Republican platform and the rules governing the partys 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 campaigns 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. Cruzs 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/
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 campaigns 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. Cruzs 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/
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"Mr. Cruz is planning a Monday evening conference call..." (Original Post)
Miles Archer
May 2016
OP
I've always heard the platform is not worth the paper it is written on????
patricia92243
May 2016
#2
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)1. Well, this should be interesting.
patricia92243
(12,607 posts)2. I've always heard the platform is not worth the paper it is written on????
malaise
(269,278 posts)3. He'll probably fall in line like most of the others
He'll make grovel bot look like a baby
Renew Deal
(81,897 posts)4. Meaningless consolation prize
Kingofalldems
(38,508 posts)5. Church lady has it figured: