We’ve been covering the extraordinary means by which the GOP establishment has been going to shut out the voices of the organized and well-numbered supporters of Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul at caucuses and delegate conventions, of late.
Here’s our recent coverage of the extraordinary scenes (and, thankfully, video) of what happened at the Missouri Caucuses in St. Charles County over the weekend and in Athens-Clarke County, GA the weekend prior. (You can watch all the videos referenced in this broadcast at that link.)
Here’s my appearance on RT TV Tuesday night discussing the entire fine mess, and charging that the “GOP establishment hates democracy”. (That video has been viewed more than 13,000 times in the 24 hours since being posted by RT after its airing on the satellite/cable channel.)
Today, on my KPFK/Pacifica Radio show, I was joined by two of the key players at both of those of remarkable scenes. My guests were Brent Stafford, the Paul organizer seen, incredibly enough, being arrested while trying to reconvene the aborted caucus in St. Charles after pandemonium had broken out inside, and Lori Bone of Athens, who was seen (also on video, thankfully) trying to demand an explanation from Republican Party officials in GA after they’d rammed through a slate of delegates at the Clarke County GOP convention, and then ended the proceedings, ignoring the Paul supporters majority — all in blatant violation of the official rules.
Stafford told us the St. Charles County GOP is likely to be forced to hold a new caucus (since they didn’t even get to vote on delegates before everything broke down, as police were called to the scene). That ought to be interesting.
And Bone explained how Paul supporters in Clarke County took it upon themselves to reconvene the caucus the next day in order to elect their own slate of delegates for the upcoming district and state GOP conventions. Thought ought to be even interestinger.
After my conversation with Stafford and Bone, we finished things up with a bit of Green News Report with the always lovely and very wise Desi Doyen….
Download MP3 or listen online below (appx 58 mins)…
[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/KPFK_BradFriedman_BrentStafford_LoriBone_032112.mp3]
Please edit “interestinger”! It’s more interesting! It’s burning my brain!
Jesse @ 1 said:
That had been my hope. Mission accomplished. 🙂
As a Conservative Republican it bothers me very much how the GOP elite seem to be trying to force their guy on us with dirty dealings. The caucus is an example of this by demonstrating the very thing Obama is criticized for, transparency. Buy forcing blocking recording devices and using police to spy on delegates transparency was being blocked. In fact, the Central Committee appears to have acted in a totalitarian way, another thing we accuse Obama of. I don’t expect this story to get much coverage where it is most needed, on FoxNews and certain talk radio shows. This is not ok at all in any party behavior.