Sunday, March 13, 2016

Move GOP convention to Salt Lake City, Virginia Beach, home of SEALs

Call: Move GOP convention to Salt Lake City, Virginia Beach, home of SEALs | Washington Examiner:
With concerns growing in GOP circles that Cleveland is too friendly to protest mobs that will try to disrupt the Republican National Convention in July should Donald Trump be the nominee, calls are starting to be made to move the event to a safer city such as Salt Lake City, Utah, or Virginia Beach, Va.
A prominent former Reagan advisor and businessman, for example, has sent a plea to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus warning that riots could spoil the confab and ruin the nominee's election chances just like the 1968 riots by Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic National Convention helped to doom Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.

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"Riots in Chicago yesterday that shut down a Donald Trump rally confirm our worst fears. 
Cleveland will be the opportunity for community organizers to combine all their knowledge in an attack on the Republican Party's national nominating convention," said Richard J. Bishirjian in a letter to supporters.
"Reince Priebus and the GOP establishment chose Cleveland, Ohio in order to exert control over the convention in Ohio and assure that an establishment candidate is the GOP presidential nominee. 
Those of us old enough to remember the riots in Chicago in 1968 that destroyed the candidacy of Hubert Humphrey, believe that prudence requires that the Cleveland convention should be moved," added the former Reagan advisor.
"How about Salt Lake City or Virginia Beach, cities where organized groups can be contained, but not Cleveland that is very well suited for organized riots," added Bishirjian, currently the president of Colorado-based EDUCourses, which provides online courses.
T...rump's rallies have been plagued with protests, some of which appear planned to disrupt the candidate and draw in TV cameras.
Cleveland faced its own riots last May after a police officer was acquitted of murder. Other cities have been with similar and related protests from groups like "Black Lives Matter."
When the Cleveland clashes occurred, there were call for the GOP to consider moving the convention, among them one from Bishirjian.
Another key Republican advisor said that there are recent calls made to the RNC to move the convention, though that is highly unlikely because it takes over a year to organize one and secure hotels and venues.
"Let the movement grow to move to a safer place," he told Secrets.
Below is the full letter from Bishirjian:

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