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Nueces Co. Republicans Take Fight To Texas Supreme Court
(Since the Advocate didn't see this as a viable story, I decided to post it myself. I guess there is too much excitement over the new trash cans and sketching to fit this into the paper. The article below is crossposted from: http://www.caller.com/news/... ) Nueces Co. precinct conventions fight goes to Tx. court
Woman believes delegates at a March 29 county convention were seated improperly
By Jaime Powell (Corpus Christi Caller Times)
Originally published 05:31 p.m., May 19, 2008
CORPUS CHRISTI — A Corpus Christi woman has asked the Texas Supreme Court to make the Nueces County Republican Party chairman turn over the minutes from local precinct conventions that she believes will prove delegates at a March 29 county convention were seated improperly.
Local party chairman Mike Bertuzzi said Monday he is confident no rules were broken.
Vanessa Cahill, 30, filed a petition with the Texas Supreme Court on Friday asking for a writ of mandamus that would compel Bertuzzi to turn over the minutes, which she believes are public record.
Cahill said Bertuzzi seated delegates at the March 29 county convention even though they weren’t elected at precinct conventions March 4. She said that violates party rules and state law, and it prevented her from being elected to a delegate position at the state convention.
“I am seeking copies of the precinct minutes to compare them to the seated delegates at the county convention,” Cahill said Monday.
Bertuzzi disputes Cahill’s assertion that the minutes are public record, saying the Republican Party is not a governmental body and therefore is not subject to open records laws.
According to the state election code, the list of delegates from precinct conventions is not a public record, said Secretary of State’s spokesman Scott Haywood.
Precinct conventions serve to elect delegates to county conventions, according to the Texas Election Code. But the choice of delegates by political parties is governed by individual party rules, Haywood said.
Texas Republican Party executive director Eric Opiela said that according to party rules, a delegate to the county convention does not have to attend the precinct convention.
“Our attorneys are looking at all of the claims made in Cahill’s petition and we will make an appropriate response if necessary,” Opiela said of the 60-page petition. “But a precinct convention can nominate delegates from their precinct regardless of whether they are present at the convention.”
The Nueces County Republican Party Credentials Committee cleared Bertuzzi of wrongdoing.
Cahill is the ad hoc leader of about 40 people who left the county convention in March over what they called rules violations and held a rump convention.
A rump convention is a separate meeting conducted by a group that feels it has been disenfranchised. Local participants formed their own committees and elected their own delegates, which they have asked the state party to recognize at the state convention next month.
Cahill, a delegate from Precinct 65, previously had filed a challenge still under review by the state party charging that Bertuzzi had not released precinct convention minutes and committee members or meeting times to her in violation of party rules.
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