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Date Posted: 17:57:57 07/01/09 Wed
Author: No name
Subject: Re: How Copake Republicans Run a Caucus
In reply to: Republican Who is Sick of It 's message, "How Copake Republicans Run a Caucus" on 09:38:29 07/01/09 Wed

>Formula For How the Old-Boy Copake Republicans Run A
>Caucus:
>
>1. Have a handful of entrenched power mongers in town
>decide who they want their candidates to be.
>
>2. Make sure that you schedule the caucus for a
>weekday night, to make sure that weekenders,
>"perceived enemies of the old guard" are not in town.
>
>3. Use Intimidation To Control the Outcome: Load the
>room up with town and county employees who are afraid
>to step out of line, lest they might lose their jobs
>in a county where decent jobs are far and few between.
>
>4. Don't start the meeting with a Pledge of
>Allegiance. Too much of a waste of time when your
>Supervisor is more interested in going home as early
>as possible, then running a proper meeting.
>
>5. Do not allow nominees to address the caucus prior
>to the voting. Why poison anyone's mind with
>information?
>
>6. Allow your judicial candidate to second a
>nomination of another candidate, totally thumbing your
>nose on the ethical limitations imposed upon judicial
>candidates. Hey, they're above the law, they way they
>like their judges.
>
>7. Use Intimidation To Control the Outcome: Make sure
>the voting at the caucus is by a showing of hands. Be
>stared down by those in power if you don't cast your
>vote in the way they want you to.
>
>8. Have no controls over who voted more than once.
>Do not have any way of auditing those who voted, and
>how many votes were cast for each nominee, or if
>anyone voted more than once. Make sure those who do
>the actually counting of hands are under the thumb of
>the entrenched town power mongers.
>
>9. Treat your fellow Republicans like sheep, without
>a mind of their own.
>
>10. Have total disregard for voter's rights and the
>US Constitution.

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