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    Flap’s Links and Comments for March 31st on 11:41

    These are my links for March 31st from 11:41 to 11:56:

    • President 2012 GOP: S.C. Republicans Escalate Election Calendar Feud – South Carolina Republican Party Chair Karen Floyd today brought into the open the simmering tensions between the traditional early states and the others — particularly Florida — jockeying to break into the primary calendar. 

      Floyd's demand: If Florida won't step aside, the RNC should move its convention out of the state. 

      She writes to fellow RNC members:

      Unfortunately, our Party stands on the precipice of our hard work being rendered meaningless, with the very real possibility looming that Florida’s Presidential Preference Primary may be held prior to March 1, in contravention of Party Rules – a move that would precipitate numerous other states similarly violating Party Rules.

      As conservatives, we believe in the rule of law, and that rules are made to be followed. To that end, I am sure we all appreciate our state Party counterparts in Florida advocating for the RNC rules being obeyed. But what is disconcerting is the apparent recalcitrance of Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature, which is in effect thumbing its nose at the RNC – and feels emboldened to do so because of the 2012 convention location….

      Simply put, if Florida does not respect the process by which our primary calendar was set, the RNC should not be bound to the process by which the convention site was selected.

      If Florida refuses to move its primary date into compliance with RNC rules, I am respectfully requesting that the Committee convene a special task force to select a new site for the 2012 Convention outside the state of Florida…

      She suggests the labor battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Ohio, or Indiana, Senate battlegrounds of Virginia, Missouri, or Michigan, or the Democratic convention spot of Charlotte as possible alternatives.

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      Florida is > than South Carolina

    • The AARP America Doesn’t Know – An Investigative Report – AARP, formerly known as the American Association of
      Retired Persons, is a tax-exempt non-profit membership
      organization for those aged 50 years and older. As
      such, AARP has long been regarded as a protector and
      advocate of the nation’s senior community.
      What is less known is the extent to which AARP
      operates as a massive for-profit enterprise and how
      that conflicts with its legal requirements to “primarily
      operate to promote the common good and social
      welfare of a community of people.”
      This report highlights AARP’s increasing reliance on
      the “for-profit” sale of insurance, particularly health
      insurance, and the underlying implication for this storied
      “non-profit” organization. In conducting the research,
      one of the central questions became: Why would AARP
      aggressively advocate for the Democrats’ health care
      law last year which contained nearly one half-trillion
      dollars in cuts that independent analysts said would
      negatively impact seniors’ access to affordable health
      care services.

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