GOP Convention: Audio, links and some final thoughts
Click here for the story from Sunday's paper.
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Previous posts on this Saturday's GOP convention are here, here and here.
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From the working lede of my newspaper story on Saturday's GOP convention:
RALEIGH - The plain-spoken and sometimes controversial former chairman of the Guilford County Republican party lost his bid to head the state GOP Saturday afternoon.Marcus Kindley took roughly 35 percent of the votes cast during the Republican's biannual convention in Charlotte. Coming out on top was Linda Daves, a Mecklenburg County woman who has served as state party chairman since December.
Kindley polled competitively in the state's rural counties. But Daves was overwhelmingly the choice of the large urban delegations from Mecklenburg, Forsyth and Wake Counties.
Guilford County's delegation split its votes, 43-30 in favor of Kindley, a result that sent murmurs throughout the room when it was announced.
"In Guilford County, there's been people who didn't like my style, basically it's been a lot of women in the women's group and they came today and voted for Linda (Daves). I found the women tend to vote for other women and that's okay," Kindley said.
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Click here for Marcus' full explanation of how the votes went down.
And click here to listen to him talk about what's next.
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In her acceptance speech, Daves reached out to Kindley supporters, saying it was okay that the vote was split. The audio isn't quite as good, but click here to listen to Daves accept her new job.
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As the afternoon session was kicking into gear this afternoon, party officials were trying to make sure that everyone who was supposed to vote could vote. So they played a music video that basically talked up the involvement of religion in public life.
"There is no separation - we're one nation under him," went one lyric that I jotted down.
The song got a big round of applause at its end.
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For those of you into numbers, Guilford County's 74 delegates represented 8.4 percent of those in the room. Mecklenburg's 113 represented 12.9 percent of the room.
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Comments (5)
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One nation under him? All I can say is, "He" must pretty damn disgusted then.
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Thanks for covering the coven meeting. And also for changing the Magic Question. Much appreciated.
Posted on June 2, 2007 10:41 PM
Hi Mark.
I know I'm a pain in the butt sometimes, but I want to take this opportunity to applaud you - and thank you - for your great coverage of the NCGOP convention this weekend.
I read every newspaper in North Carolina every day, scouring for useful reports on state politics. You're consistently the top dog when it comes to substance and insights. What's more, and you dig up fresher and more interesting angles than anyone I've found.
So thanks for all you do, even when some of out here on the Intertubes are getting uppity and bothersome.
Cheers!
Posted on June 4, 2007 8:42 AM
Thanks for the kind comments.
Re: the magic question - apparently it was supposed to have been changed ages ago and fell off someone's to-do list.
Posted on June 4, 2007 9:50 AM
Mark,
Did they GOPers open their convention to the press?
Posted on June 4, 2007 10:28 AM
They did and I'm not sure why, although I'm happy about it.
Posted on June 4, 2007 10:42 AM