More Evidence of the weakness of the Crank Campaign

Jeff Crank was unable to get a majority of voting delegates to agree to vote him onto the Republican primary ballot by acclimation at the fifth CD convention last Friday.
Delegates asked the chairman (Bob Balink) to allow them to vote "abstain" or "non of the above" on their ballot.

Fearing their boy Jeff would lose to "none of the above" I suppose, They were told such a vote would not be counted since no other candidates name was put into nomination.
Hearing no other nominations, the chairman called for a vote to declare Jeff Crank be the nominee of the assembly by acclimation.

Some cried, "yea", but the majority loudly cried, "NO."

This caused a problem for the chairman who then recognized the parliamentarian (Wayne Williams) who offered a substitute motion that nominations be closed.

This was the motion that eventually passed, which then required the chair to declare Jeff the nominee of the assembly without a vote of acclimation by the delegates of the assembly.

When you can't get a vote of acclimation against NO opponent, there is a problem.

NEWSMAN
The Conservative Voice of CD-5.

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