Maine Caucus Results 2012: Mitt Romney Wins Contest
PORTLAND, Maine
Posted 12 February 2012 - 07:20 PM
Posted 13 February 2012 - 03:40 PM
Posted 01 March 2012 - 02:01 PM
Posted 08 March 2012 - 01:53 PM
No dude, it's deeper than that, it's a conspiracy maaaan.
It’s important to me that when I am quoted in any newspaper, any place where quotation marks are placed around words attributed to me, that the contents are accurate to what I had verbally stated.
Your article found at:
http://www.alaskadis...aul-lose-alaska
has some seemingly accurate quotes, and many important ones that are not.
In my phone interview with Eric, I only mentioned the reports I heard, and I did not claim that these incidents had actually occurred, but rather that people reported to me that they did occur. I was not a participant nor a witness to the events in question. We can further investigate the veracity of these claims by interviewing the recorded people at the relevant functions.
One paragraph where I am misquoted jumped right out at me because it was not consistent with what I had said or with the tone of our interview:
“"People were turned away at the polls that were registered to vote due to confusion among the poll volunteers. Voter registration databases were outdated. Younger voters, voters of a certain demographic were turned away," Cutler said, adding that the campaign had conducted exit polling across the state and that numbers reported by the state party leaders "didn't jibe."
While I discussed the topic of voter registrations, I did not say “voter registration databases were outdated.” I did state that the voter-roles the poll workers had were released last Tuesday and were only updated the previous Friday. Thus, anyone who had changed their voter registration in the past week would not be in the voter rolls database at the polling location, but that they should still have the right to vote and either have their ballot entered into “questioned” status, or rather, that they should have been given the opportunity to re-register again at the poll.
To misquote me and use words I didn’t say to imply a point subtly different from what I had stated is a violation of ethical journalistic conduct. Furthermore, the act of putting quotation marks around a misquote very likely constitutes libel, which potentially carries ethical as well as criminal consequences, as you are well aware of being a professional journalist. I can only assume that your recollection of what I had said was incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise incorrect and I wish to give you the best opportunity to correct this error in reporting.
Additionally in said paragraph, you make it seem that the second hand accounts of the incidents I relayed to you are things that I asserted as fact. As I previously mentioned, I was not at those locations. My District Convention was miles away and was actually conducted very professionally. There were perhaps 10 district conventions occurring that evening, and as a grassroots organizer, my responsibility was only to relay some of the pertinent reports I was hearing. The quoted section above makes it look as though I stated that I witnessed these alleged improprieties, when I actually told you we are investigating these claims and are trying to consolidate and verify the information we were receiving.
I think these are serious allegations; it is very important to investigate the veracity of these claims, for if they are true, this may constitute execution of unacceptable party practices and call into question the integrity of those parties responsible for these actions. Our intent is not to make unjustifiable accusations, but to determine what exactly happened, how we might improve on the process in the future, and furthermore whether or not any party is liable for fraudulent or unethical actions at the expense of the Republican process. My fear is that this seems to be a pattern, and if this continues in the upcoming district conventions, that the integrity and accuracy of the voting process is in jeopardy.
Rather than attempting to resolve this through legal recourse, and in order to preempt and prevent this from occurring in the future, we would like to work with you in a very detailed investigation as to what actually occurred by identifying and presenting these and any other allegations or claims in a written format or audio transcript. We believe that this will be the best way to handle the situation so that the integrity of the Republican primary process may be preserved. We also expect that as a professional journalistic enterprise, it is in your interest, and it is your primary and ethical duty to report the facts.
We at Alaskans for Ron Paul 2012 believe in good faith that all of these matters were simply a result of the fact that humans inherently fallible. We also believe in good faith that as a professional news source, you will cooperate with us to get to the truth and bring it to a public forum.
Given the late hour at which this article was drawn to my attention, I do not have time to dissect it line by line for accuracy and rebuttal. Recognize that our campaign effort is solely based on a volunteer effort, we have very limited resources, and any energy expended towards coming to the bottom of this issue will dilute our efforts. Yet we recognize the importance and seriousness of these allegations, so we would be happy to do our best to consolidate our concerns by quantifying, itemizing, and prioritizing the allegation and claims we see as legitimate and in need of rectification. Furthermore, we would seek to identify the individuals who are the actual source of these anecdotes, so that they may be quoted directly.
I hope for a timely response and the rectification of the misquotes still published on your website.
Evan Cutler, Organizer
Alaskans for Ron Paul 2012 (http://www.alaskans4ronpaul2012.org/)
https://www.facebook...laskans4RonPaul
(907) 529-5683
Girdwood, AK 99587
Posted 08 March 2012 - 01:59 PM
Posted 08 March 2012 - 02:01 PM
Independant run?
Posted 09 March 2012 - 05:25 PM
Posted 12 March 2012 - 02:02 PM
The Republican Party chairman in the U.S. Virgin Islands says Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has won the territory’s GOP caucus.
Chairman Herb Schoenbohm says Romney can count on seven delegates from the Virgin Islands. He already had three superdelegates before Saturday’s caucuses and he picked up three more in voting in St. Thomas and St. Croix. After the vote, an uncommitted delegate switched to Romney.
Ron Paul got one delegate, and one delegate remains uncommitted.
Residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands can participate in primaries but like residents of nearby Puerto Rico cannot vote in the general election.