If Mr. Morden considers it more appropriate, I have no problem with him merging this thread with the pinned one about the primary calendar.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/SC_Republicans_escalate_calendar_feud.html?showallSouth Carolina Republican Party Chair Karen Floyd today brought into the open the simmering tensions between the traditional early states and the others -- particularly Florida -- jockeying to break into the primary calendar.
Floyd's demand: If Florida won't step aside, the RNC should move its convention out of the state.
She writes to fellow RNC members:
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Simply put, if Florida does not respect the process by which our primary calendar was set, the RNC should not be bound to the process by which the convention site was selected.
If Florida refuses to move its primary date into compliance with RNC rules, I am respectfully requesting that the Committee convene a special task force to select a new site for the 2012 Convention outside the state of Florida...
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It is, in other words, on.