Witnesses Testify: ‘The Ayes Have it’ on the Teleprompter

UPDATE

Shown, 2 minutes in:

 August 29, 2012, 7:52pm CT, as published:

This is how the Speaker of the House of Representatives looks when he says, “adopted.”

 

Evidence Shows RNC Rigged Vote on Rule Change at Republican Convention 2012?

David Bellow
Texas Conservative Republican News

Witnesses say that Teleprompter scrolled “the ayes have it” even before the voice vote was taken. Also, video of the rule change vote at the Republican National Convention shows that the vote seemed to be a toss up with no clear winner and yet the ayes were immediately declared winners. This declaration was drowned out by loud booing. Also, before John Boehner called for the vote he asked if there were any objections and there were clearly people who objects and yet John Boehner said there were none.

Other witnesses say that they were purposely held up in the Convention Bus so that they would miss the vote in the rules committee. Also, news outlets reported that Romney had two of the rules committee delegates removed and replaced with delegates who would vote for the Romney Rule Changes. These committee delegates being held up ad replaced prevented a minority report because there were not enough committee members.

Why even have a convention and send delegates to vote if it is all just for show with no debate allowed and no roll call vote allowed to determine which side actually won the vote?

I am voting for Romney because Obama must be defeated, but these kinds of stunts are not acceptable and should not just be ignored. These kinds of stunts will tear the party in two and allow Obama to be re-elected.

A couple of days ago I wrote an article about some very bad changes that were trying to be made to the Republican Party Rules. These bad changes were an attack on grassroots conservatives and would divide Republicans and damage the Party at a time when unity is required. One of these changes would allow the Republican Nominee to pick who National Delegates are instead of the States. This would not only take power away from the state, but it would also allow the presidential nominee to decide what is in the platform by picking delegates that agree with him instead of the districts and States picking delegates to represent their values. Another of the rule changes would allow the handful of RNC members to change the Party Rules between conventions with no checks and balances and without approval from the delegates.

A compromise was offered, but then it was discovered that the compromise did not fix all of the issues and instead only addressed one issue. This compromise was being pushed as a way to distract conservatives from fighting against the other bad rule changes.

The compromise did distract some delegates, but even so, there were still many delegates who were going to vote against the rule changes because of bad changes like the power grab and centralization of power of allowing the RNC to change Party Rules between conventions. That brings us to the question of whether or not the vote was rigged in favor of the rule changes.

Below are emails I recieved from two witnesses at the national convention. Also below is the video showing the vite being too close to call but immediately called in favor the the rule changes…

What do you think?

From National Delegate Jeremy Blosser:

It was a complete and utter railroad on all issues before the convention. No votes were seriously taken–the teleprompter included “the ayes have it” and that’s how it was always read.  It was so obvious that by the end people were just laughing at it.

The VA bus was hours late, so Morton Blackwell missed the rules meeting entirely.  People on the bus reported it drove around the block and backtracked several times, until they told them to just stop and let them walk.

ND and IA buses were also late and were minority report states.

Repeated attempts to gain recognition from the floor to make any corrective motion whatsoever, let alone debate, were simply ignored.  That’s no real surprise, but many long time attendees were still surprised at the level this one went to.  It would truly not have mattered to the outcome if no one had been in the seats.

From National Delegate Janis Holt:

Unfortunately, we were not able to stop the rules from being adopted as is. There was no chance for debate. It wasn’t allowed.

Watch Video below of the rule change vote at the Republican National Convention 2012.
There are clearly objections to the vote and then it is clear that the vote was too close to call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYjRXNtcxU

Gulag Note – For further information and explanation:

h/t: @PolitiJim

Comments

  1. Update

    Via contributor @OhSuzyQz, the testimony of April from Wyoming, yesterday (8/29)

    I was there. From where I was sitting the nays and yeses sounded fairly equal but others told me that they thought the nays sounded louder. Either way, there should have been an official count. No surprise that there wasn’t though since every single detail was scripted on teleprompters, including who would make the motions, etc.

    The whole damn convention is scripted, controlled and fake – even to the point of making it appear that there are hand written support signs in the audience. They’re FAKE!!!! They were handed out by the RNC. In fact, we were told that no signs would be allowed through security. No one had these signs until they started to secretly hand them out during the roll call vote. They were only handed out on the floor and no one in the seats around the sides, had them.

    The whole convention was so fake (and so boring) that I’m surprised that the water that came out of the sink in the bathroom was real water or that the piece of pizza I bought at concessions wasn’t fake play food.

    I’ve never seen so much lunacy and pretend on the part of full grown adults. I don’t even want to go back tonight and I sure as hell don’t want to go back tomorrow night. Tonight Rand Paul gives a speech and there’s a video tribute to Ron Paul (it’s probably 30 seconds long). I just want to attend to see those 2 things then I want to leave.

    Getting trapped there yesterday for 9 HOURS of the most boring and uninspiring political speeches I have EVER witnessed, was torture. I know that the GOP favors indefinite detention, but THAT was ridiculous!!!!!

    • I am grateful to be able to read Arien’s summary on this site. Watching the convention on the Huffington Post video, I too, was surprised there was no official stand-up count of the yeas and nays. When later, on research I was led to consider that Governor Mitt Romney was “chosen” by the MSM and the global powers, who had initially “chosen ” Governor.Rick Perry as their candidate, I mourned for the future of our beloved country, deeply in debt and desperately in need of integrity and consistent good judgement by its leaders. I am not a sore loser. The candidate I supported and still support is Dr. Ron Paul and I know that this fine gentleman, because of his humanity and selfless spirit, genuine love of country and Texas brand of straight shooting in life, as well as his astonishing intelligence would never, ever be a sore loser. Dr. Paul and his supporters have won, There is yet another act to this play, for the cause of the limited government ideal of Thomas Jefferson and freedom from a police state. What was baffling was why,( with an alledged 220 million of Mitt Romney’s own and a 300 million contribution from the owner of the Sands Casinos in Las Vegas and Singapore) and like Obama, the backing of Goldman Sachs, was the Romney campaign so fearful of Dr. Paul? Possibly it was because the power which controls the printing press of money and the well-heeled war machine know he cannot be bought, that he says no to many bills because he reads them and consistently votes for the truth over personal gain.

  2. I just saw a glint of the story then scrolled quickly until I could find the reference to Ron Paul, knew immediately this is much ado about nothing but more paulpot nonsense and have moved on. You people have made yourselves a joke and laughingstock on the Nation and are going to jeopardize Romney winning. I know you don’t think there is a difference buy your wrong, Oh and by the way the earth is round and we don’t know that Iran wouldn’t be a threat to us had our foreign policy decisions been different. ta ta,

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