The Greater New Orleans Republicans call
for the resignation of the leadership of the Republican Party of
Louisiana in response to the debacle of today’s caucus.
“We
congratulate Ron Paul supporters for apparently capturing their first
state delegation in this Presidential election cycle through an
excellent get out the vote effort today,” stated GNOR Chairman Sarah
Roy. “However, the result of this ill-conceived and confusing caucus
clearly does not represent the will of the vast majority of Louisiana
Republican voters as Ron Paul recently received only six percent of the
vote in the Louisiana Presidential Primary.”
This
odd and undemocratic result unfortunately will embarrass and distract
Governor Jindal, as he labors to pass his Legislative agenda, and
presumed Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, as he clinches the nomination
and turns his attention to defeating President Barack Obama.
Several
members of GNOR ran in the caucus, and GNOR, along with the Romney
Campaign, attempted to motivate Republican voters to turn out. However,
sparse and obscure voting locations, morning voting hours, scheduling
during the Zurich Classic, Jazz Fest and Legislative Session, combined
with setting the caucus so late in the Primary season that all major
challengers to Mitt Romney had dropped out, made it all but impossible
to offer voters a rationale to caucus.
Further,
after Rick Santorum, who garnered the most votes in the Louisiana
Primary, left the race, members of GNOR proposed a unity ticket,
comprised of supporters of Santorum, Gingrich and Romney, allowing those
who would support the eventual nominee to run as one. However, state
party leaders, unwilling to share delegates with the Romney campaign,
vetoed the approach.
Today’s
debacle clearly lies at the feet of State Party leaders, who with
combined arrogance and incompetence, ignored warnings that the Byzantine
system they had conjured could be manipulated, ignored calls for unity
and common sense, and instead caused the State of Louisiana, Governor
Jindal and likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney embarrassment. They
should own up to their misdeeds and resign.
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