Delegates Quotes
In one of the most famous rebuffs of a politician to his constituents, the congressman sent the following message home to his constituents after receiving instructions from them which he did not care for. He went to Texas where he died defending the Alamo.
Then running for reelection as a state legislator.
Speaking then as a congressman:. those of the voters of a particular district
Referring to the fact that unpledged delegates tipped the balance against him in several states where he had won the majority of delegates in the 1988 Democratic Presidential primary elections:
This was the first official act of any state in declaring independence from England. On July 4th---almost 3 months later---Congress issued the Declaration of Independence. But North Carolina had taken the first official step.
After Russia's first open elections, when liberal delegates replaced many old-line Communists:
He was battling for delegates. Most Republicans favored Roosevelt as did many Democrats, but at that time Presidential candidates of the parties were chosen by the party delegates—not the people. Roosevelt was too reformist minded and independent for most Republicans of the day. So the party operatives bypassed TR and selected the unpopular William Howard Taft instead. Roosevelt then ran as a third party candidate (the Bull Moose Party) and outpolled Taft in the election, but Democrat Woodrow Wilson won as Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote.
In the 1912 Republican convention both the Taft and the Roosevelt camps claimed a majority of forty delegates. A reporter asked Depew what he thought of the situation.
