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National Committeeman Curly Haugland
From: Curly Haugland
Date: December 3, 2015 at 9:19:06 AM CST
To: Reince Priebus
Subject: Fwd: Call of the 2016 Convention
Hi Reince,
As you know, I attended the conference call meeting of the Committee on
the Call which met November 30 and voted to approve the Call of the
Convention, a copy of which is attached. Chairman Gleason, in
presiding over the meeting, delivered comments and led
a discussion of the meeting.
At one point in his comments, Chairman Gleason stated that once the
call has been issued,
"States
and territories will then proceed to elect, select, allocate and bind
their delegates based upon their process certified to the RNC by the
October 1 deadline
required under Rule 16(f)".
Reince, that statement is in conflict with Rule 13 where it says "The
Republican National Committee shall issue and promulgate the call in a
manner consistent with these rules". (Rules 13-25)
As I pointed out in my email to the RNC members November 25, the Rule
16(f) filings of the states and territories contain many provisions
that are contrary to many of the Rules 13-25.
So, while I did not provide specific examples of violations in the
earlier email, I will do so now to make my point with respect to each
of my allegations.
1. Numerous states plan to allow non-Republicans to participate
in
delegate selection events. They are NH, SC, AL, AR, TX, VT, VA, MS, PR,
OH, IL, AS, UT, WI, RI, IN, NE, and NJ.
2. Numerous states plan to allow the "winner" of their primary to
hand-pick the delegates. NH, CA, CT, OH FL and several others.
3. Some states allow alternate delegates to be selected at a
completely different time and in a different manner than the delegates
are selected.
4. Numerous states plan to assess fees as a condition of standing
for
election or serving as a delegate. CA, $900; AR, $250 to RPA for
each
candidate filed under; and several others.
5. Some state plans allow the chairman of the delegation to cast
a
delegate's vote contrary to the wishes of the individual delegate.
AL,
FL
Reince, Chairman Gleason's statement FUNDAMENTALLY
CHANGES
THE RULES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
Under Rule 13, the Republican National Committee shall issue and
promulgate the call in a manner consistent with these rules. That
would be Rules 13-25, Reince. Further, Rule 13 says the call
"shall
include the text of the rules relating to the convening
and the proceedings of the national convention..." Rules 13-25
deal
with the convening of the convention. It certainly must be
reasonable
to assume that compliance with the rules is expected and assumed.
Reince, it is the duty of the chairman to see to it that the rules are
complied with. Obviously, Chairman Gleason's directive that States and
territories may now proceed to select delegates base upon Rule 16(f)
filings is a complete substitution of rules!
As I have pointed out, there is substantial deviation from the rules in
many of the Rule 16(f) filings.
Also, as you know, I have been a member for a long time. The
Committee
on the Call is the one committee of the RNC that all members are to be
a part of, by the terms of Rule 13, which says the "Republican National
Committee shall issue the call...". This
time, for the first time that I recall, you appointed a sub-committee
to act for all of us.
It is interesting to note, as well, that
the only rule to draw a "statement of intent to enforce" in the RNC
Press Release on the call, is the one "binding" members of the RNC that
were not bound
by state rules. That is obviously to support the
desire
to be able to increase the "hard count" in an attempt to get a
"presumptive nominee" prior to the convention.
Just let the record show, I vote Nay!
Please take immediate steps to correct this mistake!
Curly
Haugland
National Committeeman, North Dakota
Curly Haugland
March 11, 2016
Here is something I recently discovered that most of us did not know,
including me!
Binding delegates to the results of presidential preference
primaries first appeared in the Rules of the Republican Party in 1976.
I write about this in the next chapter of my “Owner’s Manual for
Delegates” entitled “Spinning Straw Into Gold”.
“Select, allocate and bind. The fraudulent addition of these
three words to the Rules of the Republican Party in the 2008
Convention, as detailed in Chapter One, is the political equivalent of
"spinning straw into gold".
Without the use of force to bind the votes of delegates
to the results of the primary process, primaries are nearly worthless
"beauty contests".
This chapter explores the history of "binding" in the
Republican presidential nomination process, and reveals some stunning
facts.
Delegates have been bound only once in the history of the
Republican Party.
In 1976, the Ford campaign, afraid of losing "pledged"
delegates to Reagan forces and having the strength of delegate numbers
needed, forced the adoption of the "Justice Resolution" which amended
the convention rules to bind the delegates to cast
their convention votes according to the results of binding primaries.
This historic event was the first convention in the history of
the Republican Party where the delegates were denied the freedom to
vote as they wished in the nomination vote for President. And, 1976 was
also the last time delegates have been bound by
convention rules to cast their votes according to the results of
binding primary elections, since the 1980 convention rescinded the
Justice Resolution entirely restoring the prohibition of binding.
This history has huge implications for 2016, since it calls
attention to the fact that the convention rules of the Republican Party
do not bind delegates to cast their votes according to the results of
binding primaries.
Therefore, as "spinning straw into gold" is to
primaries, "Rumplestiltskin" is to
conventions. Delegates to the 2016 convention are
not bound.”
Before you rush to ask “what does the Counsel”s Office say
about this” I offer this statement from that office:
“One of the important rules changes over the last 50 years has been the unit rule prohibited…that change was made so that an individual delegate can vote his or her conscience.” (transcript, RNC Standing Committee on the Rules, January 19, 2006 pp 93-94)
That statement was made by Tom Josefiak to the members of the RNC Rules
Committee as part of an orientation session for Rules Committee
members. Mr. Josefiak was part of a panel of expert presenters
that
also included Ben Ginsberg, Mike Duncan, and Morton
Blackwell. The meeting was presided over by David Norcross,
chairman
of the RNC Rules Committee.
And, the rule Mr. Josefiak referred to is current Rule 38, Unit Rule.
That’s right. Every delegate to the 2016 Republican National
Convention is a completely free agent, free to vote for the candidate
of their choice on every ballot at the convention in Cleveland in July.
Every delegate is a Superdelegate!
In Chapter One, I discussed the fraudulent process that was employed to
insert the words “select, allocate and bind” into the section of the
Rules of the Republican Party that deal with the election of delegates
to the national convention.
The rest of the chapter, Spinning Straw Into Gold,
will provide much more detail to expose the actors and the methods that
have been employed over the past several presidential nominations to
Spin Straw Into Gold by stealing the right to choose
the party’s presidential nominee and transferring that right to the
Political Industrial Complex who have turned primaries into gold.
We are the Republican National Committee, this has been done on our
watch and there is nothing we can do about it until the 2016 convention.
What happens then is an open question that can only be answered by the
delegates that will constitute the highest authority of the Republican
Party of the United States, the Republican National Convention of 2016.
Curly Haugland
Republican National Committeeman for North
Dakota