Pretty sure Trump’s filled with something else.
Yeah, since when has this place been about facts or knowledge?
It’s not going to be fact or knowledge until someone actually challenges the electors selection. Until then it’s just somebody’s tweets. Somebody who got fired over a sex scandal in the State Senate and plead guilty for a single car accident while intoxicated, according to a quick look at his wiki page.
What on earth would either of those things have to do with Trump’s alternate electors? Why is your response here to start trying to dig up dirt on the guy who noticed that the MN GOP never even got their paperwork filled?
Dig up dirt? I looked at his Wikipedia page and that is the extent I am willing to investigate this blip. Feel free to dive in and explore how this will matter at all to anyone.
Its Minnesota. Sex scandals in Minnesota tend to be wholesome and hygienic.
What the huh? Some guy notices that Trump wasn’t on the ballet, the Trump campaign backhands their way onto the ballet and you’re response is to attack the guy who alerted the campaign that they were being idiots?
Why would you do that?
Yeah, we were having a fun little party here, and you kind of dropped a deuce in the Dom Perignon fountain.
I don’t even want to think about Trump in a tutu.
I wouldn’t even want it to work. I don’t want to be the guy who squeezes some technical legal point to stack the deck, vote-wise. If they find some loophole or procedure to fix that, more power to them. Maybe not strictly correct, but I don’t want to listen to that peckerknob whining about how unfair it all is.
The fact that he has just about no chance of winning here has no influence on that. OK, maybe just a little.
Not exactly. Here’s an article from the Twin Cities Pioneer Press where Minnesota Republican Chairman Keith Downey explains that the alternate electors were chosen at the August state executive committee meetin yesterday - 24 Aug 16.
The article also quotes the state rules governing the selection of electors and alternates. The rules say that:
Brodkorb is saying that last night’s meeting doesn’t meet that requirement. He’s also saying in his Twitter feed
https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb
that a number of the electors (he names names and gives links) were appointed, not elected via delegate convention.
I personally have no opinion about the legal issue and anyway, it will probably all blow over, but the fact that all these people are openly talking about what went on means it’s not “just some dude on Twitter”.
Hee.
Ooops.
Where are the Republicans speaking out in Trump’s defense after Hillary’s speech today?
It really is though. Electors are almost purely ceremonial anyway, it doesn’t really matter how they’re chosen. Minnesota has a specific law on the books that voids the vote of a faithless elector. Also, Minnesota is assuredly going Democrat in the election, so all these guys are going to be home picking their nose election day. Given those two points, nobody but a nutjob is going to spend any real time challenging these appointments.
I’m too drunk to do a search, but has anybody posted this yet?
The sad thing is, there are people who would take that literally.
If the actual chosen electors are willing to confirm personally that they were appointed, in violation of Minnesota law that specifies that they should be chosen by vote, then that is potentially a real problem and not just one dude’s ravings.
What Minnesota law says they must be selected by vote? Isn’t it a party decision?
I don’t know if this is the right thread but am I the only one who cannot stand Kellyanne Conway’s voice? I don’t know why, but it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me and I’m not usually bothered by voices that seem to bother most people.
Unless you want to start a whole thread about it, sure, I’d say you can post that here.