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Ron Paul in Maine: Delegates in hand, but trouble afoot?
By Steve Mistler / Portland Press Herald, Maine
Monday, May 7, 2012
AUGUSTA, Maine -- Chaos. Turmoil. Insane.
Those were just three of the words attendees used Sunday to describe the Maine Republican State Convention, a two-day unity event at the Augusta Civic Center that morphed into a divisive slog between the party establishment and the highly mobilized, energized and organized supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.
The discord is likely to continue: The Mitt Romney campaign sent a lawyer to the event and Romney backers are contemplating launching a challenge to the results.
By the time the convention was over, the Paul campaign’s takeover of the parliamentary proceedings and its numbers advantage delivered the Texas congressman 20 of Maine’s 24 national GOP delegates. Each will represent the state at the national convention in Tampa, Fla.
Romney supporters, however, said the delegate election was illegal. Supporters of the presumptive GOP nominee repeatedly maneuvered to challenge the delegate election and claimed that ballots had been tampered with. None of the challenges was successful.
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This weekend, the Paul campaign took over the Nevada convention. The result there was nearly identical to the one in Maine: Paul emerged with 22 of the 25 delegates.
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Paul’s supporters said Maine would become the sixth state to elect a majority of Paul supporters to the national convention, assuring the libertarian-leaning congressman a prime-time podium at the gathering.
More: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120507ron_paul_in_maine_delegates_in_hand_but_trouble_afoot/
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