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Committee meeting june 12th, had i signed that original affidavit. that s the third pledge. i gave it directly to the chairman of the committee who kicked me out and he sent me a letter signed with his name in ink three days later that said that romney for president ink had just cause and irrefutable evidence that i would not vote for mitt romney on the first ballot. i had a legally notarized pledge. i pledged three times to vote for mitt romney. i will be happy to represent the voters of massachusetts and vote for romney on the first ballot at the convention. why do you think they re doing? i mean, they re giving these legalistic explanations. what is your sense why they are doing this? you told the globe you feltd that you had been rudely waninged to the realities of politics. does that mean you think they are doing this for a reason other than what they are saying? maybe. i don t know i will say that this is the republican leadership in the massachusetts ....
There is not a single union hotel in all of charlotte. who thought that one up? republicans this year are holding their convention in tampa, florida, which is drag for lots of republicans because tampa is the strip club capital of america, and republicans and strip actually, i don t know, maybe that s a plus for them. tampa i should note is the also the death metal capital of america. they gave the world bans like morbid angel and obituary. that s got to be a plus for some republicans going to the convention. but probably not all of them. the last time around in 2008, it ended up being really important where the republicans chose to put their convention. the republicans in 2008 put their convention in st. paul, minnesota. remember? and that ended up being really important because st. paul is one of two twin cities. st. paul and minneapolis are two cities that butt right up against each other separated only by the mississippi river. and that was really handy in ....
It s reasonable. what if something happens between now and the convention, romney gets his name pulled for some reason. massachusetts would have these guys legally bound to vote for him no matter what? that doesn t even make sense. the dels proposed an alternate pledge that was less specific and changed it so it would pledge them to follow the party rules, not to follow mitt romney as a named person. apparently the alternate affidavit was not good enough. the state party threw these guys out, even the ones who did turn in the affidavit were told they were out. they didn t sign it quickly enough. evan kenny and 16 other officially elected delegates were disqualified by the state republican party even though they won fair and square. they were disqualified as dels for failing to deliver the i pledge myself to mitt romney affidavit or for delivering it too late. so their own rules, their own duly conducted election be darned, the republican party came up with a whole new rule after the fa ....
Embarrassing for the romney campaign. they had chosen a nice slate of romney supporting delegates who they thought would get rubber stamp approval and they would support him at the convention. these caucuses turned out not to be a rubber stamp an probable kind of deal. after the caucuses in april, the boston globe record less than half the delegates that the romney campaign had chosen actually won their spots on the delegation. the people won instead were in large part ron paul supporters enthusiastic high school kid and all. that is when things got messy. the party declared out of the blue in a way they never had before and in a way never mentioned in their rules that all the officially selected delegates from massachusetts this year would have to sign this affidavit. they would have to swarl under the pain and penalty of perjury that they would vote for mitt romney at the republican convention in august. some of the ron paul fans among the delegates balked at the affidavit. ....
And when they kicked out evan kenny, the high school kid, wouldn t you know it, they decided they wanted to give his spot instead to, the guy who ran for governor. who evan kenny beat pair and square. joining us now for the interview is evan kenny. he s a ron paul supporter. it s great to meet you. it s an honor to be here. you wrote an excellent e-mail when we first covered this little scandal. i m grateful to you for reaching out. how did it feel when you won, when you beat out some of these really bold-faced named republican in your state at that caucus? let me say first of all that charlie baker the speech that you just showed when i said that i m an 18-year-old newcomer to the party the first hands to clap belonged to baker. charlie baker and luke noble were very excited to see this enthusiasm in the party. they did try to send charlie baker to the convention but he said no, absolutely not, i lost. ....