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Roy Roberts, Victoria County Republican chair for Precinct 16, will attend as an alternate delegate for September’s national convention in Minneapolis.
The Texas GOP met for three days at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston to choose the 141 delegates they would send to the national convention to adopt a party platform and to unify efforts to elect Arizona Sen. John McCain president in November, Mary Ann Wyatt, Victoria County Republican Party chairperson, said.
Roberts has been in the Victoria County Republican Party for eight years, attending the biannual convention regularly, and was chosen to be an alternate delegate for Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Wyatt said.
Huckabee, the last top contender to drop out of the Republican presidential primary race after McCain clinched the nomination in March, has not released the delegates he earned from Texas’ primary, which was 20 percent of the vote. He most likely will let them go at the national convention in St. Paul, Wyatt said.
Each congressional district chose three delegates and three alternates to attend the national convention.
“No matter who you voted for in the primary, I think everybody will vote for McCain in the fall,” Wyatt said.
Texas Republicans also unified around a platform.
The 25- to 26-page document is used by Republicans to lobby the state Legislature, Congress and as a basis for candidates’ campaigns.
“It’s pretty much a consistent platform with that in the past,” Wyatt said.
Energy, domestic drilling and releasing national oil reserves were hot topics for the convention’s committees, who met in Austin Monday to begin preparing for the convention’s kickoff on Thursday.
More than 12,000 Republicans attended the convention.
“Overall, it was a good convention. I felt a great spirit, and the people left pretty energized,” Wyatt said.
Texas Republicans wrapped up their state convention Saturday after three days of debate over party leadership and the adoption of a platform calling for a ban on abortion, opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor and support for staying the course in Iraq.
Former presidential candidate Ron Paul, who had been expected to receive a warm welcome because of the large number of his supporters who attended the convention, did not attend.
Paul’s supporters tried to oust the current state party leaders during the convention, but failed.
The platform – a broad statement of principles that isn’t always followed by GOP elected officials – incorporates many of Paul’s positions, like U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations and elimination of the federal income tax.
Brandon L. Leonard is a reporter for the Advocate. Contact him at 361-574-1286 or bleonard@vicad.com. The Associated Press contributed to this story.