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1. The RPUSA Constitution Article III, Section 3 states: The National Convention shall be composed of the following delegates: a. The Executive Committee, b) Three Statewide Delegates from each State Party Organization, c) One delegate from each U.S. Congressional District. Obviously IN THE LEAST the Mo. at large delegates sent by the recognized SPO and chaired by Marvalene Pankey had to be seated and could not be removed by the delegates WITHOUT changing the status of the SPO. The fact none of the at large delegates certified by the SPO state committee and submitted by the RPMO State Chair were allowed to vote renders all actions taken by the National Convention body null and void. 2. Only the U.S. Congressional District delegate could even be challenged unless the SPO recognition were removed. RPUSA Constitution Article IX, Sections 4, 8, 9, 11. 3. Delegate seats could only be challenged by party members from valid SPOs. Allowing people who had chosen to form new parties, refused to recognize the officers and governing body of the SPO invited chaos and certainly spit on state laws and the sovereignty of SPOs. See Article IX, Section 11 and Article X, Section 6. b) of the Constitution of RPUSA. Opening the door for renegade groups to take over in spite of an organized group that had followed the state laws and By Laws and RPUSA Constitution being present could only serve the purpose of demolition of the party as a whole. If some reformers went to the Democrat or Republican Party convention and tried the same thing obviously they would be sent home quickly. a. Although some of those finally discovered on the list as seated as delegates had never been heard of nor from by the state chair or the RPMO state committee elected to govern the party in Missouri, some had indeed removed themselves from the party and formed their own party by their own admission and/or violated state and federal laws. b. None of those seated had filled out the revised membership form or asked the state committee or state chair if they could be certified as a delegate. The RPMO By Laws require the state committee to govern the party in Mo. and to also provide a membership form. Aside from knowing Dennis Carriger and Richard Kline had been candidates in the 2000 election the state chair had no evidence the others were ever party members or were registered voters in Missouri or of the district they claimed to represent. c. Apparently neither the Credentials Committee nor the National Convention delegates had any evidence those seated as the Missouri delegation were properly elected to represent The Reform Party of Missouri nor that they were members of the SPO or even registered voters in Missouri or their districts. Indeed there was evidence that some of them certainly were not members of The Reform Party of Missouri. 4. Delegates representing the SPO could only be removed by a 3/4 (three quarters, that's 75 per cent) vote by the registered delegates at the National Convention. Certainly the tiny voice vote forced through before lunch was not 3/4 and was a doubtful majority of the doubtful quorum. Article III, Section 7 of the Constitution of RPUSA "The removal of a Delegate shall be such that: a) Any delegate may be removed by three-quarters vote of the registered Delegates of the National Convention. a) The seat of a Delegate so removed shall automatically and immediately become vacant upon such removal. b) Any delegate may be removed in accordance with the Rules of the applicable State Party Organization, except for a person who is a Delegate as a result of being an Elected National Party Officer." Certainly the RPMO State Chair did ask to remove those illegally seated as delegates, who were not representative of the SPO and had not been elected. The Rules of the SPO were being totally ignored and all those contacted with complaints ignored the challenges. |
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