CNN REPORTS ON KIDNAPPED VIRGINIA GOP DELEGATION AT 2012 CONVENTION
CNN is reporting how the entire Virginia Delegation was "kidnapped" and re-routed in order to prevent key supporters of a minority rules report to get to the convention on time.
CNN REPORTS:
Meanwhile, some committee members suggested meddling was at play. A bus full of Virginia delegates arrived at the committee meeting - after it had adjourned.
"The bus that was supposed to pick up the Virginia delegation arrived an hour later than it was supposed to," explained Virginia delegate Morton Blackwell, a prime opponent of Rule 16.
Blackwell continued: "And then when we went downtown, we went around the same series of blocks repeatedly - twice. And then the bus took out away from downtown, went about a mile and a half, and then did a u-turn and came back. And did another circuit, of the same place where we had been before. And at that point, the Virginia delegates demanded, 'Stop the bus. And we're going to walk.' And we did."
Mike Rothfeld, a Virginia delegate also on the bus, went further.
"They pushed us around for 45 minutes and then we missed the meeting," Rothfeld said.
"We were in the security perimeter, they pushed us out of it three separate times. They moved us around until the meeting was adjourned."
Sebern claimed the snafu was "deliberate."
The full report from CNN and other sources at this link
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/28/rules-fight-sparks-drama-at-rnc/