1 The January 25th
meeting was attended by 704 of the 1658 elected state committeeman representing their districts, Arizona
Republican Party spokesman Tim Sifert told Politico.
According to party rules
20 percent of the
state’s committee members from at least four counties had to sign off on the
measure to bring it to the floor.
Signatures
were being collected in parking lot, without asking if you were a voting
member. It was a voice vote with the possibility of non-voting members lending
their voice to the vote.
2 A resolution passed that's not worth the paper it was written or the time it took to bring it to the floor. A very small group of Republicans that cast a negative shadow on all Arizona Republicans are responsible.
No One knows if only those with legitimate voting rights were the only
ones in the voice vote, were there non-elected state committeeman in the room?
No One knows for sure.
Bottom line AZGOP Chairman Robert Graham could have stopped the voice vote of the
resolution with parliamentary procedure by asking for a paper ballot. By not
using parliamentary procedure he allowed the fiasco to incur.
Timothy Schwartz is Chairman of LD30 DOES NOT represent all of the AZGOP. Watch Chris Matthews tear Schwartz apart on Hardball.
Info on: The January 11th meeting was the Maricopa County Republican Committee, which is the
Precinct committee of each legislative district. 935 of approximately 3,000 attended the meeting and carried 711 proxies. The McCain censure vote was 1,150.
