This one goes out to official Friend of the Brink Tom, as pertaining to our conversation about party politics and the fact that it has no direct connection with actual legislative action.
The article describes a new event to be held this summer and open to past participants in Republican State Conventions. These former delegates will gather, listen to GOP presidential candidates, and then vote on them in a completely meaningless election--except to the candidates, who will surely trumpet a positive finish in the "straw poll" to residents and media on other states to bolster their campaigns. It is an attempt by the Texas Republican Party to influence a national election.
Like the conventions themselves there is no legislative significance to this event, but there will be plenty of political significance if it leads to a change in the national perceptions of candidates jockeying for the highest office in the land.
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