Ron Paul Straw Poll Watch: San Fran event canceled because too many Paulies show up
December 5, 2007 at 1:13 pm by Wayne GarciaHere’s the latest flap in the world of Ron Paul straw polling: organizers of a GOP straw poll in San Francisco pulled the plug on their voting when they were swamped with camera-weilding Ron Paul supporters.
A pro-Paul report from the pro-Paul LeeRockwell.com LewRockwell.com blog:
An on-scene report from Jerry Cullen: “The San Francisco Republican Alliance headed by Gail Neira held their pre election banquet at the Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco last evening, December 4th, 2007. The gathering was advertised as a gala affair of loyal Republicans to be followed by a straw poll to select the favorite Presidential Candidate. The featured speaker was Republican State Senator Sam Aanesta (CA 4th SD). The Senator treated the audience to an hour long election pitch for Fred Thompson that cured the insomnia of all in attendance. After endless delays of meaningless trivia the doors were opened to the late comers to the straw poll each of whom had paid $5 for admission. The flood of Ron Paul supporters entered the room to join an already substantial number of Ron Paul supporters that had attended the ‘banquet’.
“A shocked Gail Neira in consultation with the Fred Thompson Northern CA Coordinator cancelled the straw poll vote offering a series of fraudulent, incomprehensible and incoherent reasons. The result was chaos as more than one hundred Ron Paul supporters objected to the outright deception. Neira’s ratings reached a level of unreality beyond description. Security was called to evict the peaceful if upset Ron Paul followers. When I asked that a picture be taken to attest to security attacking the 79-year-old me, security turned and disappeared.
I can’t find any journalistic coverage of the event, so here’s the video, see if you can figure it out:
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December 5th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I think you mean lewrockwell.com.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Yer right, thanks. Correction made.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I paid $66 and was at the dinner along with my girlfriend (a democrat) and many other dinner attendees who were also Ron Paul supporters, and were, I would estimate, about 40% of the dinner patrons. We listened politely to a lengthy pitch for Fred Thompson, and no other candidates. We politely applauded the speaker who was supporting Thompson, and made respectful comments about him. One elderly gentleman tried to get up and talk about other issues, but was told to sit down. When the $5 participants, who had been waiting 2 hours, were let in the organizers looked shocked to see a crowd of enthusiastic, young, Paul supporters. The Straw Poll was abruptly cancelled. I’ve voted Republican my entire life; I never thought I would see local Republican officials behave in such a disgraceful manner. After the ensuing chaos we were walking to our car and my girlfriend was cackling at how stupid the Republicans were for disenfranchising so many young activists. She was very pleased to see the Republicans destroying themselves.