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RNC Rules Committee Passes "Ohio Plan"
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I'll have more on this tomorrow, but know, for now, that the Republican National Committee's rules committee has passed the "Ohio Plan," which is the first step in changing the party's calendar for 2012.
The calendar revision process is just beginning, though. The full RNC, in August, will mark up the Ohio plan and amend it or reject it. They might pass it, in which case the rules committee of the convention gets to mark it up and then, if it passes a vote, it goes to the full RNC for a vote.
Despite the Ohio in the "Ohio Plan," big states don't like it. The plan would carve out exemptions for Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. It would allow 15 additional states -- small states -- to hold contests in February... and then in March, there'd be a rotating series of big states.
Here's a PFD of the Ohio Plan.
The calendar revision process is just beginning, though. The full RNC, in August, will mark up the Ohio plan and amend it or reject it. They might pass it, in which case the rules committee of the convention gets to mark it up and then, if it passes a vote, it goes to the full RNC for a vote.
Despite the Ohio in the "Ohio Plan," big states don't like it. The plan would carve out exemptions for Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. It would allow 15 additional states -- small states -- to hold contests in February... and then in March, there'd be a rotating series of big states.
Here's a PFD of the Ohio Plan.
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