Plz pass on Apr 24, 2012
By Devvy Kidd Links are generally posted at my web site http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/821597554050/ ______________ Items you might have missed posted on my web site with links; www.devvy.com Lyme Disease: The Perfect Storm Is Headed Our Way • Read more on this disease for which there is no cure Tenth Amendment a Waste of Ink? Wall nearly 100 feet tall to be built underground at Fukushima Daiichi to prevent further spread of radioactive contamination - Construction begins tomorrow, ends June 2014 You might also find this of interest considering the media has now proclaimed Romney as the GOP nominee as a result of Romney's wins last night and Gingrich dropping out. Of course, if you have seen the election results from last night from the five state primaries, Rick Santorum allegedly received double digit percentage of votes in several states. How nice since he's no longer a candidate. Those votes mean nothing, but took away from candidates still on the ballot. However, it is the all important delegates to the GOP National Convention that pick the nominee. April 24, 2012 Romney Nomination in doubt - Brokered Convention likely ( I am not the author) April 24, 2012. Des Moines . Two networks yesterday, CNBC and MSNBC, broadcast a little known fact - Ron Paul appears to be winning the Republican nomination for President. When the popular Texas Congressman repeatedly assured supporters that the race was about delegates, not beauty contests, he apparently knew what he was talking about. Now, after three more states locked in delegates to the GOP nominating convention. CO, MN and IA indicators point to a brokered convention with a possible, even probable, Ron Paul victory. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appears to be piling up enough delegates to force a brokered convention. Mitt Romney in a panic. The only report announcing the news of another Paul victory yesterday was the Doug Wead Blog. That write-up, which included the headline, "Romney in a Panic" was picked-up and reprinted by a number of independent news outlets like RT News and The Daily Paul. Wead's conclusion is based on a number of factors. First and foremost, Ron Paul continues to win more delegates than Mitt Romney during each state's respective slating processes. Additionally, the writer points to drastic, last-minute changes to GOP procedure showing an attempt to limit the Paul vote. Some measures include a new poll tax in Washington and robo-calls in New York telling Republican voters that only Mitt Romney remains in the race. What has the GOP power-brokers and their candidate in such a panic? In three short words - Colorado , Minnesota , Iowa . Keep in mind that every major US news outlet continues to show Texas Congressman Ron Paul in last place for the GOP nomination and with only 75 delegates. View Politico's delegate tracker as an example. They show Rep. Paul winning 3 delegates in Colorado , 17 in Minnesota and 1 in Iowa . Those networks however, have based their numbers on which candidate each state's delegates are pledged or likely to vote for. The more important number is who they actually do vote for. And in that race, the only race that matters, Ron Paul is shocking the political world. Colorado As reported by this author last week in the article, Colo , Minn , GOP Delegates chosen - Paul Strategy Working, the local Colorado Ron Paul campaign teamed up with the remnants of former candidate Rick Santorum's supporters. Together, they created a fusion slate of delegates to take on front-runner Mitt Romney and throw their collective voting power behind the last challenger remaining, Ron Paul. Last week, the Paul campaign sent out a press release quoting the Denver Post's headline proclaiming, ˜Stunning Upset". The Post was referring to Congressman Paul's delegate haul in the state party's selection process. More importantly, the Colorado selection was the first to be conducted since former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum dropped out of the race, leaving it to the final two men standing, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. The result, and a possible indicator of things to come, was Colorado Republicans refusing to give Mitt Romney even half their state's voting delegates. If that trend continues, Mitt Romney cannot mathematically reach the needed 1,144 delegates, at least not on the first ballot. This author pointed out last week that most of the national media, as well as the Colorado GOP, refuse to acknowledge Rep. Paul's delegates in Colorado . The state party simply calls Paul's delegates, "unpledged". As the Paul campaign, as well as a small handful of other publications pointed out, Ron Paul actually took home 12 Colorado delegates, compared to 16 for Mitt Romney and 8 for Rick Santorum. Together, the anti-Romney delegates outnumber Romney's 20 to 16. Minnesota The independent-leaning state of Minnesota was one that many thought Ron Paul might win outright. While the candidate didn't win the "beauty contest" as Paul calls it, the libertarian conservative is cleaning up with regard to delegates. Minnesota's delegate selection process is one of those that happens over the course of a few weeks and occurs locally, as Ron Paul puts it, one precinct at a time, one delegate at a time. A few days ago, the Paul campaign and this author both announced the candidate's surprise delegate haul in Minnesota . At the time, three major Congressional districts locked in their delegates and Ron Paul carried all three. In the excited words of the candidate himself, Ron Paul exclaimed, "Have you heard the news yet? Yesterday, Minnesota held three district conventions. Our campaign swept all three - winning nine delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa . Again, read this author's April 16th column titled, Colo , Minn , GOP Delegates chosen, Paul Strategy Working for more information. Now, just a few days later and with another block of Minnesota GOP delegates being chosen, Ron Paul has guaranteed himself a victory in the state. As confirmed by Rachel Maddow last night and by Ron Paul himself while he was the special guest host of CNBC in the morning, Ron Paul has already locked in 20 of the state's 40 delegates. 16 of those 40 still remain to be chosen and will be awarded over the coming days. As Paul announced yesterday, and Maddow confirmed last night, 24 Minnesota delegates were chosen through this weekend and 20 of them are Ron Paul's. Iowa In the most stunning and unbelievable example of the Republican Party's dysfunctional Presidential nominating process this year, the state of Iowa now has its third official winner. As humorously noted last night by Maddow, Newt Gingrich is the only candidate not to have won Iowa . First, Mitt Romney was forced into the winner's circle in a crazed, midnight, backroom announcement, even though the votes didn't warrant it. Whiteout Press was one of the only media outlets in the nation to write about the faulty vote totals and was vindicated two weeks later when the Iowa GOP reversed its decision and awarded the victory in Iowa to Rick Santorum. Read the Whiteout Press article 'Sandorum Won Iowa and didn't say Black' predicting the reversal two weeks before the Iowa GOP reversed its ruling. As a result of the fiasco, the Iowa Republican state chairman resigned. Read the article, "Midnight Chaos at Iowa Caucus" for election night details. Nothing sums up this weekend's surprise results like Rachel Maddow's on-air announcement on MSNBC, " think Ron Paul just won Iowa ." www.devvy.com ______________ From: Devvy's Email Alerts<[email protected]> Date: Apr 24 Subject: Lyme Disease: The Perfect Storm Is Headed Our Way -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
