Thread: La. GOP releases unofficial delegate results

Nearly 10,000 Louisiana Republicans voted for delegates and alternate delegates to the 2008 Louisiana Republican Convention at caucuses throughout the state on Tuesday.

The Congressional District 4 caucus — which encompasses Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Bienville, DeSoto and Red River parishes — was held at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City.

The 15 delegates who will represent District 4 are: Flo Alexander,Royal Alexander, Rick Edmonds, John Kay Jr., Bill Kostelka, Sandy McDade, Trent P. Newell, Barrow Peacock, Daniel Robinson, Alan Seabaugh, Evodna Springer, Deanna M. Wallace, Matthew L. Wallace, Ron Webb and Bryan Wooley, according to unofficial results released today by the Republican Party of Louisiana.

All 14 candidates on Tuesday’s ballot will serve as alternates. They are: Margaret P. Coates, Brad Craft, Lisa Debetaz, Buddy L. Edwards, Bruce Garrett, Bruce James, Sarah L. Logan, Paula Pinkston, Gary Pomraning, Bruce Wray, Steve Riall, Rick Taylor, Ronnie Touey, Harvey D. Werner.

Results were tallied on site late into the night and then reported to Republican Party Headquarters in Baton Rouge. Of the thousands of ballots cast, approximately 650 were cast provisionally, according to the state party.

Before provisional ballots are counted, the organization's staff must verify that those voters were registered Republican voters in his or her congressional district as of Nov. 30, 2007.

Prior to the tabulation of the provisional ballots, the uncommitted "Pro-Life/Pro-Family" slate appeared to win a majority of delegates in all seven congressional districts, the state Republican party said.

All candidates who ran for alternate delegate in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th congressional districts won after qualifying as there were 15 or fewer candidates for those positions.

The Shreveport Times

What is the "Pro-Life/Pro-Family" slate?

Louisiana Republican Caucus

January 23rd, 2008 Although Louisiana holds a presidential primary on February 9, the Republican Party chooses its delegates to the national convention with a two-step caucus/convention system. The first round was held on February 22, when approximately 10,000 Louisiana Republicans turned out to vote in eleven different cities for delegate to the state convention. Each U.S. House district chose 15 delegates.
It appears that Ron Paul supporters outnumbered the supporters of any of his opponents. But since this was predicted, the supporters of Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, cooperated to set up a “fusion” slate of unpledged candidates for Delegate. The “fusion” slate, labeled the “Pro-Life/Pro-Family” slate, beat the Ron Paul slate in each of the 7 U.S. House districts. Formally, the “fusion” slate billed itself as an “uncommitted” slate, and no one really knows how many supporters of each presidential candidate are on the fusion slate, except the campaigns themselves.

Convenient that the State the RP wins "surprisingly" is given to no candidates.

what utter bullshit.

What a catchy snaky name "Pro-Life/Pro-Family" None of those 4 gives a shit about either.