GOP rejects call to back off gay marriage opposition

In the thick of the debates will be Peter Feamon, a Boynton Beach attorney, member of the Republican National Committee and one of 112 members of the rules committee. The document calls on a Republican Congress and Republican president to “enact legislation allowing law-abiding Washingtonians to own and carry firearms”. “It’s not necessarily what the final product looks like, but it’s the most intense fight, because that’s where you see some of the fault lines”.

All told, you shouldn’t be surprised if this year’s GOP platform doesn’t make any strides in favor of gay rights.

How does Unruh respond to the argument that she and other anti-Trump delegates would be rejecting the will of the people by voting according to their conscience instead of bound according the previously announced RNC rules? The American Medical Association and most other multi-national medical organizations have denounced the practice as well. “We’re not going to spend two hours debating rules”.

“There’s a lot of concern among, not only the delegates and party members but among the people who are looking at the few choices in November and they’re not really happy either one of them”. Republicans who chose not to support Trump would consequently be electing Clinton, he said.

A Republican gun control bill in the wake of the Dallas and Orlando shootings has yet to materialize, but Ryan said House GOP members are working on measures to reform mental health treatment and stop waste at the Veterans Administration.

“I highly doubt it”, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a brief interview of the prospects that the rebels would succeed.

Many convention regulars are skipping Cleveland altogether.

“In the balance of things, the good clearly outweighs the things I don’t agree with”, Ryan said.

Also of note is the number of Republican leaders who have taken themselves out of the convention proceedings – neither former presidents George W. Bush nor George H.W. Bush are planning to attend. “We’re not a democracy, and our Founding Fathers were explicit that they wanted a representative form of a government”, she says flatly. “The platform is not your marketing tool or your advertising manual”.

“I’m sure she’d lose”, said Steve Duprey, a Republican national committeeman from New Hampshire who’s on both rules committees and is opposing the rebellion.

Its platform committee, in its first day of drafting a blueprint to guide GOP policy and principle in the years ahead, agreed that children from outside “traditional” families are more prone to violence and drug abuse.

Critics of the effort say that plan lacks the votes it needs and would thwart the will of about 13.3 million people who voted for Trump in the party’s primaries and caucuses.

“I’ve asked him to embrace the platform and I believe he will”, Barrasso said of Trump.