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Caucusing in Travis County Sucks Balls

When my wife and I went to our precinct (330 in West Lake Hills at Valley View Elementary School), we were told by an election official to return at 7:00 p.m. for our caucus.

We made it back around 7:10, and spent the next 15 minutes trying to get into the parking lot to find a spot.

There were already several hundred people standing around outside the tiny gymnasium waiting for the later voters to finish voting and for the caucus to start.

There was nobody outside giving any information, but someone mentioned to us that the Republican caucus wasn’t slated to start until after the Democratic caucus.

My wife shoved her way to the front door of the gym and found an election official who told my wife that the Republican caucus wouldn’t start until an hour after the Dem caucus, or until the Dems had all signed in.

In other words, it would be hours before we might get to caucus.

So we left. Bunch of bullshit idiots running our caucus site. It was specifically designed to exclude and dissuade Republicans from being able to caucus.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | Trackback |

7 Responses to “Caucusing in Travis County Sucks Balls”

Republicans don’t caucus in Texas.

Left by Jim Howard on March 5th, 2008 at 12:27 am

Yeah, Jim, that’s what I thought, too.

Left by no2liberals on March 5th, 2008 at 12:30 am

The Republican Caucus ticket that I was handed when I voted in the primary begs to differ.

The GOP system doesn’t allot any presidential delegates through the caucus system, unlike the Democrats, but the Republicans still caucus to elect county party officials.

Which is what we were there to do. And what we were disenfranchised from doing by the Democratic caucus officials at our precinct.

Left by Robbie Cooper on March 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am

You should file a complaint with the Election Board just for GP.

[Editor --- I'm considering it. However, it sounds like Hillary's campaign has much, much better grounds for a complaint (and possible lawsuit). Obamamaniacs are a bunch of kool-aid drinking fanatics.

Allegations reported by the Dallas Morning News include Clinton voters being locked out of caucuses and Barack Obama supporters illegally obtaining caucus packets.

Nobody who has witnessed Obamania! should be surprised by this. It's a true mob-mentality when they start gathering en mass.]< ./font>

Left by dianne on March 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am

Robbie, that must be a Travis County procedure, as I chatted with my precinct reps for several minutes when I went in to vote, and no mention of a caucus was made, and no documents were on the table, other than ballots, or were any offered to me.

Left by no2liberals on March 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

I assumed it was done this way in all Texas counties.

Precinct conventions select delegates to the county conventions, which select delegates to the state conventions, which then select delegates to the national conventions.

Because of my precinct’s shenanigans, I have no chance of being selected to either the state or national convention.

More here:

For the GOP, it’s simpler. The precinct conventions will not serve as a presidential caucus. They will only serve to choose delegates to the conventions. So, if you’re looking to go to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in the first week of September as a GOP delegate from Texas, this is where you have to start (8 p.m., Tues. Mar. 4, at your polling place). On the GOP side, if you want to have as much impact on the Texas vote for the party’s nominee, all you have to do is vote in the primary.

On the Republican side, Texas will send 140 delegates to the Republican National Convention to participate in the nomination process for president. They will be chosen as follows: 96 delegates will be chosen according to the vote in each congressional district by virtue of the ballot breakdown; 41 at-large delegates will be chosen on the basis of the statewide vote; three delegates are reserved for the RNC representatives and the state party chair. Each Texas congressional district will select three delegates.

How does your precinct decide who gets to go to the state convention?

Left by Robbie Cooper on March 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

It’s called participatory democracy. Smarter people than you woke up earlier and already got that worm. Get educated, get involved, change the system. Whining gets you squat.

Left by Pat on March 5th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

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