Ron Paul

So where is the revolution?

Is the revolution dead? Are they full steam ahead? Are they just making a statement?

To answer the questions, it is easiest to individually look at the things that make up the RPR:

In regard to the White House, even Dr. Paul is saying that there is no real chance at this. So why bother?

LAS VEGAS -In this YouTube video, Republican 1st Congressional District candidate Chris Dyer attacks Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden on the controversy surrounding the state Republican convention.

Dyer, a supporter of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's (R-Tex.) defunct presidential campaign, believes he was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention at the previous attempt at a state convention.  He will be attending a Jun. 28 event in Reno that some other Paul supporters and disaffected Republicans hope to use as a vehicle to seat their own slate of delegates to the national convention.

Dyer is one of seven Republicans who hope to unseat U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Las Vegas) in November.

LAS VEGAS-With the announcement last week by the Nevada Republican Party that it has chosen Jul. 26 to reconvene its first, unsuccessful convention, controversies remain for Ron Paul supporters and previously voted-on delegates that could lead all the way to the Republican National Convention in September.

Supporters of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) hope to host a form of make-up convention on Jun. 28 and believe that if they achieve a quorum of the previous Apr. 26 convention attendees they may be able to elect a slate of delegates that could be seated at the national convention. 

The effort, which is thus far being bankrolled by Reno dentist and Paul supporter Dr. Wayne Terhune, is sanctioned by the Ron Paul campaign and is being organized largely over Web sites like Meetup and Digg.com.

In order for their Jun. 28 date to have any chance of electing delegates that will actually be seated, however, Paul supporters will have to overcome enormous strategic and legal hurdles that will test the burgeoning power of netroots-fueled movements like Paul's.

The Nevada Republican Party will hold their do-over state convention on July 26 at the Peppermill Hotel Casino in Reno.  The convention was originally slated for April, but had to be postponed after supporter of presidential candidate Ron Paul derailed the process.  The Paul forces are trying to hold their own convention, which could cause a credentials battle with the state GOP.

Politickernv.com's Joseph Cooper has the latest on the official GOP convention now slated for July 26th at the original scene of the crime, the Peppermill Hotel and Casino in Reno.

So what of the other convention? Remember, there is the unofficial convention for the Nevada Republicans (aka Ron Paul Revolution) that is slated for later this month in Reno.

LAS VEGAS-Meeting tonight behind closed doors, the Executive Board of the Nevada Republican Party elected July 26 as the make-up date for the state GOP's aborted convention.  Like the previous convention Apr. 26, this will be held at the Peppermill Hotel and Casino in Reno.

The Apr. 26 convention was recessed following the election of several Ron Paul supporters as delegates to the national convention. Paul is the only remaining Republican candidate against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

So what do you do if the state GOP won’t finish the state convention? Host your own.

The Ron Paul campaign has decided that the easiest way to get the Nevada GOP to finish the state convention is to finish it without them. They are hosting the Ron Paul version of the Nevada GOP convention in Reno at the Grand Sierra Resort on June 28th. Punch and pie.

I’m sure the RNC will honor a slate of delegates from a Nevada GOP convention convened without the Nevada GOP. No question.

Just as Ron Paul Republicans are getting their way, the political future of Assemblywoman Francis Allen looks dim. Check out Nevada's weekly Winners & Losers for May 23, 2008.

Continuing with the intellectually Lilliputian theory that "all press, even self-inflicted really, really bad press is good press," Ron Paul's Regional Director Jeff Greenspan has launched another snippet war with the author of the blog. Scroll down to the comments at the bottom for the good stuff.

Ron Paul has found an angel in Nevada who is offering to sponsor the state GOP convention, part two.

This is an interesting problem for the Nevada Republican Party. If they don't host the rest of the convention soon, odds are lawsuits will start to fly from disenfranchised Revolutionaries.