- Mitch Perry
- Pennsylvania delegate Brian Dougherty
Who said there would be no drama at the Republican National Convention?
The delegates inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Tuesday afternoon shouted down House Speaker John Boehner over a ruling the crowd vehemently disagreed with.
Party activists and Ron Paul supporters were angry about the rule change, which would require states to allocate delegates according to their statewide primary or caucus vote, and allow the RNC to change its rules without a full convention vote.
Before the final vote on the nomination — in which Mitt Romney got the preordained win — delegates from six states (Nevada, Minnesota, Maine, Iowa, Oregon, Alaska and the Virgin Islands) voted in the majority to put Paul's name forward. A handful of those states later circumvented the rules and voted the majority of their delegates to Paul.
