BREAKING: RPV State Central Cmte. Votes For A Convention
RPV State Central Cmte. final vote 47-31 for a convention.
Not the birthday present that LG Bill Bolling was looking for today.
Honestly, with Bolling trailing badly in the primary polls, he may actually be better off with a convention.
BOLLING ISSUES STATEMENT ON STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE’S DECISION REGARDING 2013 METHOD OF NOMINATION
Lieutenant Governor expresses disappointment in Committee’s decision to abandon primary and choose nominees for statewide office via a party convention, and pledges to aggressively restructure his campaign to successfully compete in the convention process
Earlier today, 47 members of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia voted to rescind the Committee’s previous decision to nominate our party’s candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General in 2013 in a statewide primary and instead decided to nominate these candidates in a party convention. In response to this decision, Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling issued the following statement:
“I am disappointed in the State Central Committee’s decision, which will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Virginia Republicans, and all active duty military personnel, from participating in the nomination of our candidates. If we want to grow our party we have to involve more people in the nomination of our candidates, not fewer; and I believe that we do that through primaries, not party conventions. This decision creates the impression that our party is an exclusive party, as opposed to an inclusive party, and that is not the message we should be sending to the people of Virginia.
“In addition, I am disappointed that the State Central Committee chose to change the rules in the middle of the 2013 election campaign. In October of 2011 the State Central Committee voted to nominate our candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General in a statewide primary. Since that time, numerous candidates, including myself, have hired staff, made strategic and tactical campaign decisions, and expended hundreds of thousands of dollars to put together primary campaigns in reliance on the State Central Committee’s decision. These decisions cannot be undone and these dollars cannot be unspent. To change the rules now, in the middle of the campaign, is unprecedented and unfair.
“Based on discussions with our attorneys, it is my belief that the Committee’s decision to change the mode of nomination in the middle of the campaign may also create significant legal questions. However, I have decided that it would not be in the best interests of the Republican Party to pursue a judicial remedy. Right now, our party needs its focus firmly fixed on electing Mitt Romney, George Allen and our Republican congressional candidates in November. I will not take any action that might further divide our party or distract our attention from the 2012 campaigns.
“In the days to come I will aggressively move to restructure my campaign and prepare to compete in the convention process. I have run and won in conventions before and I will do so again in 2013. My candidacy enjoys the support of hundreds of Republican Party leaders and activists form all across Virginia, and thousands of grassroots Republicans who share my vision of mainstream, results oriented conservative leadership for families and businesses in our state. With their help I am confident that we can defy the political pundits and win in a party convention, just like we would have won in a statewide primary.”
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If Bolling actually believes he would have won in a statewide primary against Ken Cuccinelli, he is delusional. He has never even been within double digits of Cooch in ANY public poll since it became a contested race for the nomination.
18 Responses to “BREAKING: RPV State Central Cmte. Votes For A Convention”
It’s also McDonnell’s birthday!
Actualy, it is AG KC’s birthday!
KC’s birthday is July 30, according to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_cuccinelli
I was making a joke, it was KC that got the gift.
He’s disappointed?
Any candidate who didn’t see this one coming many months ago needs to rethink holding public office.
That song almost killed me.
Picking the right nomination process at the right time … and reaching the wrong decision for entirely the wrong reasons. The old SCC screwed the pooch when it made the decision ridiculously early, and unreasonably created a reliance interest which I believe should have precluded THIS decision. We should bar such ridiculously early decisionmaking as part of the Party Plan.
And this seems to create a controversy where one need not exist. If this decision was made to advantage Cuccinelli — and that’s the way it will be sold in the media, true or not (for example, in 11th District member David Ray’s and his colleagues’ cases) — it appears to have been unnecessary, according to current polls.
Right on. We need to stop picking the nominating method 2 years out.
I wish Bill had shown this same fire in 2007-2008 or he wouldn’t BE in this mess to begin with.
Metro to Loudoun is headed down the same crash and burn path… and for the same simple reason Bolling lost: because they’ve ignored the conservative base in their decision-making.
Why do the powers that be continue to think that they can ignore conservatives, at the county level, the state level, and the national level? Did republicans learn nothing from the McCain campaign? Did they learn nothing when Ken Cuccinelli won, over and over again, and always with less money. Some republicans in Loudoun are headed down the same path they went down prior to 2007, when five of them were booted out of their jobs. Is my party incapable of learning from their mistakes? So it would appear.
Reblogged this on Citizen Tom.
McDonnell’s birthday 6/15/54
Bolling’s birthday 6/15/57
Cuccinelli’s birthday 7/30/68
Looks like Bill had the birthday … Ken got the present.
Virginia wants KC 4 Gov.
Not til 2017
And why do you think the SC made that decision for a Primary so early??? Cleary in order to try to dissuade Ken from running for Governor based on their flawed assumption that he would have trouble beating Bolling in a Primary. How stupid they were…
Was that their reasoning? Or was it simply because Bolling was their guy and he wanted a convention? Whatever the reason, it was not wise of them to vote on something so far out knowing that a new SCC would be formed in the interim.
Last time, after Bill finally acknowledged his polling numbers or the lack thereof, he quickly remembered that he had college-bound children who needed him, so he withdrew late in the game. That strategy wouldn’t work in a primary. The circa 15,000 municipally paid election officers would keep on counting those votes for the world to see.
SCC did Bill a favor, even if it does play out like this:
“Candy-Gram for Mongo.”
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