NEWSMAX: …[Tom White, editor of the Virginia Right! Blog] then called the very outcome that in the end spelled doom for Cantor.
“A majority of Dave Brat’s supporters voted for Eric Cantor in 2012. And there are quite a few Cantor supporters that are unhappy with Cantor’s stance on Amnesty, his failure to take away funding from Obamacare and Cantor’s lack of participation in the community. Many of Cantor’s supporters are angered and embarrassed by Cantor’s use of “slating” to disenfranchise Republican voters. And many of them feel Cantor does not deserve their vote. So they will stay home.”
“Slating is the process of taking away the votes of a large number of delegates and giving them to a handful of hand-picked individuals,” White explained to watchdog.org in May. “In the Virginia Beach [convention] case, more than 1,000 delegates had their votes stripped away and given to 34 people handpicked by the Cantor team.” … (more)
