Email proves RPV informed the Trump campaign in September that the party might have a statement of intent on the primary ballot. From BuzzFeed.com,
The Trump campaign has strongly objected to the statement in recent weeks, with the Donald himself taking to Twitter on Sunday to say that the RPV is “working hard to disallow independent, unaffiliated and new voters.”
But an e-mail dated Sept. 8 from RPV executive director John Findlay addressed to Trump national political director Michael Glassner says that requirements to participate in the Republican primary “may include, but shall not be limited to, the signing of a pledge by the voter of his intention to support the party’s candidate when offering to vote in the primary.”
The e-mail further states, “RPV is currently exploring having a statement of intent for the March Primary. It is a must that the statement be worded to allow for members of the military and federal employees to participate in our process.” It adds that part of the goal of the statement would be to “attempt to collect e-mail addresses of voters.”
So there. The Trump campaign has known for months this might happen and they did nothing until now. In other words, RPV goes on the defensive, again. More here.
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This is not going to stop The Donald. Nobody wanting to elect a Republican nominee will have an issue with admitting to being a Republican.
I’d be defensive too. This thing was put in place by the same folks who selected the Primary (if I’m not mistaken, by a higher vote tally) so there is really no big deal at all.
But the wicked smart Trump campaign is using this as one heck of a GOTV program. The Editorial Board of the TBE must now be lighting their cigars with $20 bills as a result of all the traffic being driven here!
Guess the RPV didn’t get the memo from the citizens. That’s going to be too bad come the next real election.
That doesn’t make it right. And if I refuse to sign a “pledge” and I not allowed to vote?
Agree. I’m not sure what difference it makes that Trump was ‘warned’. In 2000, when Republicans last had a pledge on their primary ballot, voters who refused to signed were not permitted to vote. That doesn’t sound legal to me, but I am not a lawyer. Perhaps a lawyer can better answer your question.
I’m not a lawyer currently licensed to practice in this state, but since the option for the Statement is part of the State Law, I’d go with it sounding pretty legal. And the last time I checked, you couldn’t throw a hatchet around the RPV without hitting a lawyer or someone connected to a lawyer.
Haha, all true!
The entire primary ain’t right, and the Statement is just trying to make the Primary Pill less bitter. As I understand it, signing the Statement is a requirement for voting, the phone/e-mail raffle ticket stub isn’t.
Of course, I don’t know what the rule is for scrawling ‘Go to Hell,’ or marking a Big X, or writing like a doctor — but since you have to show ID to vote, I’d probably guess the poll worker would file whatever you sign into a bucket and hand you a ballot so you can ‘Trump’ the opposition.
You are on a roll! LOL, literally!