California Secretary Of State’s Office: Too Late To Take White Nationalist Off Trump Delegate List
[guest post by Dana]
The head of a white nationalist political party was briefly slated to cast a ballot for Donald Trump this summer at the Republican National Convention after the campaign approved his application to serve as a California delegate.
The Trump campaign submitted the name of William Johnson, the head of the American Freedom Party who funded pro-Trump robocalls that talked of the white race “dying out in America,” to the California secretary of state. Johnson is one of 169 delegates — 159 from congressional districts and 10 at-large delegates — that voters in each of California’s congressional districts would send to the GOP’s nominating convention this summer by voting for Trump.
Johnson said he received an email from a California strategist with Trump’s campaign late Tuesday afternoon stating that he had been listed in error.
The Trump campaign blamed the mistake on a “database error,” and immediately took steps to remove Johnson’s name from the list:
“Upon careful review of computer records, the inclusion of a potential delegate that had previously been rejected and removed from the campaign’s list in February 2016, was discovered. This was immediately corrected and a final list, which does not include this individual, was submitted for certification.”
Unfortunately, according to the California secretary of state’s office, the campaign missed the critical deadline:
Sam Mahood, a spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office, told TheBlaze Tuesday night that Trump’s campaign submitted their revised delegate list to their office past the deadline.
“Their delegate list is still the same. We told them that in an email today,” Mahood said.
No comment from the Trump campaign.
–Dana
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: Supposedly the guy is withdrawing. Not sure how that works if California says he’s the guy. I suspect he can back out but I have no expertise in this area.
Yikes.
Dana (0ee61a) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:08 pmWorld class.
SPQR (a3a747) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:25 pmHe has a very good brain.
nk (dbc370) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:31 pmWhat happened with Ron Paul? I don’t remember that.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:33 pmAlso, as regards the post:
Perfect.
Discusses the white nationalist story, and adds a detail (that Trump is “stuck” with him) that I hadn’t heard yet.
Thanks.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:42 pmHere.
Dana (0ee61a) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:43 pmUnfortunate. Does this trump CPUSA’s support for Sanders?
Colonel Haiku (b0f43e) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:45 pmUPDATE BY PATTERICO: Supposedly the guy is withdrawing. Not sure how that works if California says he’s the guy. I suspect he can back out but I have no expertise in this area.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:48 pmInteresting. A little different in that the guy was never headed to the convention on behalf of the candidate, while it’s unclear here whether it will happen. But there are similarities in the lack of attention by the campaigns.
For what it’s worth, I have read two books by Ron Paul and while I used to be utterly dismissive of him, I am now a qualified fan. But I am annoyed at him these days for his shabby, lazy, and superficial rejection of Ted Cruz (likely motivated by his son having been a competitor).
He’s still generally a champion of freedom and 100x as smart and informed as Donald Idiot Trump.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:53 pmDoes this trump CPUSA’s support for Sanders?
Anybody here telling people to vote for Sanders? Anybody? Raise your hands.
nk (dbc370) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:53 pmso how is that statement true, or is just about repeating mother jones innuendo, what’s next raw story?
narciso (732bc0) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:56 pmNo hands? Whew! Had me worried there for a minute, Haiku.
nk (dbc370) — 5/10/2016 @ 9:58 pmJust sayin’, nk. You wouldn’t read about that around here, too busy kneecapping a potential nominee.
Colonel Haiku (b0f43e) — 5/10/2016 @ 10:02 pmI’ve been thinking that Ron Paul is the man to challenge Clinton/Trump.
Though he has many shortcomings, he’d hold some appeal for almost all those repulsed by the sanctioned alternatives.
ThOR (c9324e) — 5/10/2016 @ 10:44 pmThe following is amusing because it illustrates the way that ideological instincts and biases are running wild, in which squish-squish Trump — after being politically correct (and Trump has said he can play that game as well as anyone else) — gets reamed by a leftist Muslim, who most likely is far more indignant towards and wary of normative conservative Christianity than he is by truly reactionary Islamism.
Mark (a3bba5) — 5/10/2016 @ 11:06 pmCould you define “kneecapping”?
Is your issue that I am telling the truth about Donald Trump?
Or can you identify a lie you think I have told?
If you cannot identify a lie, what truths are upsetting you? Can you give me a style book that sets forth when I am allowed to tell the truth, and when (in your opinion) I should refrain from telling the truth? That would be ever so kind of you.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 5/10/2016 @ 11:28 pmIt’s clear we have to destroy Sanders, otherwise he will wrap up the nomination in approximately never give or take.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 5/10/2016 @ 11:30 pmI wish the democrats would start burning cities so the elite pos republicans can blame Trump.
mg (31009b) — 5/10/2016 @ 11:37 pmHe had a bunch of links to Stormfront, which could be termed a neo-Nazi/White Separatist group in 2008, and their leader.
Listen, not really defending Trump, but, let’s not forget that Hillary and her campaign, Bernie and his campaign, and the DNC overall have lots of links to Black and Latino nationalist groups, such as Black Lives Matter and La Raza.
William Teach (bceeb2) — 5/11/2016 @ 4:21 amI wish the pos mg would get hit over the head with an old school clue bat. Four score and eight times.
John Hitchcock (18adbf) — 5/11/2016 @ 5:55 amInteresting. Why were you originally utterly dismissive of him, and what in the books changed your mind? I’ve been a fan since before he was running for president in 2008. I actually met him back in 2004, and he was very gracious. He was the one politician who never wavered in his principles. It was tough back in 2008 and 2012 when it seemed the whole world hated him.
As for him running now, I’ve noticed a great many Paul fans flocking to Trump. Which greatly confuses me. Paul’s schtick was liberty liberty liberty and never wavering. But it seems that many Paul fans were more about “stick it to the establishment” than principles. Even Lew Rockwell and his site has become seemingly pro-Trump because of the stick it to the establishment. Writers there really hate Ted Cruz. Seems so strange.
Patrick Henry, the 2nd (ddead1) — 5/11/2016 @ 7:59 ampaul was solid on economics, greenspan and bernanke made that clear, some of his foreign policy and social views are problematic,
narciso (732bc0) — 5/11/2016 @ 10:53 amWhite Supremacist/Neo Nazi organizations have killed people (Google: Mulugeta Seraw); BLM and LaRaza are a bunch of loudmouthed knuckleheads, but no members of their organizations have killed anyone, as far as I know.
Mike Giles (3e9d7b) — 5/11/2016 @ 12:28 pmThe guy can withdraw by simply not attending. There are alternates.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 5/11/2016 @ 2:11 pmreally, just knuckleheads,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/31/exclusive-inside-a-cop-killer-s-final-hours.html
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