A couple of issues were brought before the Convention as a whole based on petition.
The Social Security plank failed on a voice vote. The estimate I received was around 75% to 25%.
The Preamble was also brought before the Convention as a whole. This was news to me. I was aware that the SS plank was being petitioned out. The Preamble change lost 46-64. Virgil Goode and Howard Phillips voted against the change.
So was the Preamble kept entirely the same, or were there any kind of changes to it?
Plus what happened to the Pro-Life plank?
Aslo, the platform votes were pretty late in the evening. Many people had already left.
NewFed–from what I can gather, the economy and the Paul movement have pretty much sucked all the available money and activists out of the Constitution Party-room.
I am still surprised at the low number of delegates. I would have thought there would have been at least two or three hundred.
There were six different amendments offered to the platform by the full convention when the platform committee reported their work & a proposed platform. Three passed; three failed.
The first two amendments were offered to the Election Reform plank and passed pretty overwhelmingly by voice votes.
The third was a proposed amendment to the Drug Abuse plank. It failed 50 to 56 so that plank remained the same.
The fourth was on the Family plank. Cynthia Davis offered this amendment in the platform committee and it failed. She sought input from people who had opposed her original proposal and re-wrote it. It passed after some pretty intense discussion 69 to 28
The fifth was Joe Sanger’s “Towsend Plan” to fix social security being offered and a new plank calling for the implementation of this plan to replace the current social security plank. It failed in the platform committee. It was re-offered to the full convention and failed again (I did not get the vote) after some pretty good discussion — but no acrimonious debate.
Lastly, the effort to amend the preamble that had failed in the platform committee (and has failed every convention since 2004) was defeated 64 to 46.