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272 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

At CPAC this weekend:

We brought TWO busloads of College Republicans out to CPAC to take part in the action!!!

Senator John McCain is clearly the presumptive nominee…the talk at CPAC was should the party rally behind him sooner rather than later and get our campaign against either Senators Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama going?!?

Governor Mitt Romney “set aside” or suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination and all but committed to work on behalf for Senator McCain…his reason…for the good of the country. We can’t afford Clinton or Obama!!!

ROMNEY DELEGATE….now “UNCOMMITTED”: according to our state party rules, all delegate that were to be assigned to Mitt Romney MUST now run as uncommitted and are not “bound” to anyone at the national convention. A detailed memo was sent to district and county chairs yesterday afternoon…. see below.

I wish we could make it Senator Romney or even Governor Romney - again…from Michigan!?!

Thousands of conservatives gathered from across the country to discuss various policy issues, meet political leaders and hear some great speeches by the leaders of our party and the conservative movement.

WJR survey here: http://wjr.com/#survey More info below.

Sheriff Mike Bouchard’s brother who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident died yesterday. Please keep the Bouchard family in your prayers.

THE REST OF THE STORY:

As you are most likely aware, Governor Mitt Romney today suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. Governor Romney was allocated 45 of Michigan’s 60 delegates to the Republican National Convention as a result of winning 13 of Michigan’s 15 congressional districts and receiving 40% of the total statewide vote in Michigan’s January 15, 2008 Presidential Primary Election.

In accordance with Rule 19E(2) of the Republican Party of Michigan Rules for Selection of Delegates and Alternates to the 2008 Republican County, State and National Conventions, the 45 delegates that were previously allocated to Governor Romney will now be deemed “uncommitted” delegates and are therefore not bound to support any particular candidate at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Pursuant to the Rules, the Credentials Committee of the Michigan Republican Party will today submit notification to Governor Romney’s campaign informing them of this action. Governor Romney has the right to appeal the Credentials Committee’s determination within five days, but it is our understanding from the Romney campaign that he has no intention to do so.

Individuals residing in any congressional district previously committed to Governor Romney who wish to seek election as a congressional district delegate or alternate to the Republican National Convention, or individuals seeking election as an at-large delegate or alternate for one of the six positions to which Governor Romney was previously allocated should file a presidential preference form (as required by Rule 7) indicating they seek election as an uncommitted delegate or alternate.

No actions taken today have any impact at all on the delegates previously allocated to Senator McCain or Governor Huckabee. The updated Michigan delegate allocation is as follows:

Uncommitted 45
McCain 10
Huckabee 2
RNC Members 3*

*Michigan’s Republican National Committee Members (State Chairman, National Committeeman and National Committeewoman) are automatic delegates to the National Convention and are not bound to support any particular candidate.

- Recently, Attorney General Mike Cox unveiled a "Transparency in Government" Initiative in which he made public - all the expenses of the entire Department of the Attorney General. He urged that the Granholm Administration to do the same and make all state government spending public.

The State of Missouri has a website where citizens can see how their tax dollars are being spent for all of state government. Governor Granholm's office says that the State of Michigan currently makes this information available, too.

Compare the two websites - and see for yourself.

http://wjr.com/#survey

Vote in the poll on which website you believe allows more transparency for citizens to see how their state tax dollars are being spent.

For complete post go to: http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/02/articles-of-i-7.html

Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
Chairman
Michigan Republican Party