Lissa Lucas 🌈 - WV/BLM Profile picture
Associate Chair WVDP. Former Small Planet Institute. TWEETS=MINE. Love=love. Preserve democracy. Fight poverty. Smash kleptocracy. End corporate feudalism. 💪

Aug 25, 2019, 5 tweets

Witness how Republican officials are taking away WV Republicans’ ability to vote to choose their national convention delegates. 👉This will mean that only party-leadership-approved candidates will get chosen.👈 THREAD

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‘One of the big issues [WV] state party executive committee members decided [at their state meeting] was how to select delegates to the 2020 Republican National Committee Convention...

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‘Typically, [WV] Republicans wishing to be convention delegates file as candidates and are voted on during the party primary in May...

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Instead, party leaders and Trump campaign officials sought a change where instead of being voted on, Republicans wishing to be convention delegates would fill out an application and submit it to the state party...

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After the primary, the applications would be turned over to the Trump campaign, who would then choose the delegates...’

🔥For WV Republicans, if you’re not CONNECTED, you won’t be SELECTED. Good-bye Democracy.🔥

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