Proposed CT GOP State Central Resolution

Concerning Delegates and Integrity of Process at 2012 State GOP Convention

You may be unaware of this proposed resolution, (see below).  I have a strong opposition to this proposal and believe that the State Party does not have the right to tell town committees how to vote.  You may have another opinion.  

We will be discussing this at our next town committee meeting.

This Resolution has been proposed by Mark Pappa, Scott Veley and Martha Dean.

RESOLVED, that prior to selecting delegates to the State Convention, Town Committees shall ask appropriate questions of potential delegates concerning their paid involvement or business affiliation with any candidate’s campaign;

RESOLVED, that Town Committees should endeavor to avoid the appearance of impropriety by selecting delegates to the State Convention who are not on a campaign’s payroll or in a vendor or other business relationship with any candidate’s campaign; and

RESOLVED, that prior to selecting delegates to the State Convention Town Committees shall obtain the commitment of any prospective delegate to wear (if selected as a delegate) an appropriate disclosure, to be decided upon by the State Convention’s Rules Committee, in a conspicuous place at all times during the State Convention, which disclosure will identify the delegate as on the payroll of a specific campaign or in a vendor or other business relationship with a specific campaign.