Thursday, March 17, 2016

Here is a VERY good sign for Republicans

Washington Times:

RNC weighs scrapping convention rule book to head off anti-Trump maneuvers

Switch to Robert’s Rules of Order would ensure more transparency
Top Republicans will try to force more transparency at the party’s national convention in July, aiming to scrap their 1,500-page rule book in favor of simpler procedures that they hope will head off arcane maneuvers designed to deny Donald Trump the presidential nomination.
The changes wouldn’t guarantee Mr. Trump the nod but would make it easier for all sides to see what sorts of changes anti-Trump factions are attempting.
Some members of the Republican National Committee want to ditch the massive rule book, which is based on the parliamentary handbook of the U.S. House, and instead use Robert’s Rules of Order to govern floor action at the convention. Robert’s is the standard manual used by entities such as civic associations, county boards and state legislatures.
Those pushing the change are not Trump partisans, but they want to make it hard to forge in secrecy what voters might see as backroom deals to “steal” the presidential nomination from Mr. Trump, the front-runner.

3 comments:

Always On Watch said...

1500 pages???

Epaminondas said...

Whenever I see something like that, 1500 pages, 2700 pages for Obamacare, 8 jillion pages of tax code, the only POSSIBLE motive= WE DON;T WANT ANYONE TO BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND THE FULL SUBJECT

ANYONE
EVER

Anonymous said...

Tempering that "VERY good sign for Republicans" is this NYT article which reveals the current-occupant-of-the-oval-office has no intention of calling Hillary to account ...
Obama Privately Tells Donors That Time Is Coming to Unite Behind Hillary Clinton

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL D. SHEARMARCH 17, 2016