Progressive Populist Caucus (PPC) endorses Boyd Ritchie for State Chair (?)

The official vote is in from the PPC caucus : a motion was made for the PPC to endorse Boyd Ritchie for State Chair.

Discussions were held on the motion: one person spoke in favor (Bill Baumbagh of Collin County), one against (Mike ? from the LaRouche caucus, who suggested that NO endorsement be made due to the closeness of the suppot percentages).

The motion was put to the vote.

The chair of the caucus received the vote count, and announced that the resolution passed; however, the vote count was not announced. There was a request for a roll-call vote, and the chair said "no".

I was sitting in the back of the room, and from what I could see the vote was very close. I (and other PPCers) is a bit torqued that not even the vote count was announced.

The chair said that it was necessary to move on to the next agenda item.

Ironically the item was "Verifiable Voting".

I guess "such is politics" .... but I was somewhat disappointed to have seen this happen.

The PPC MUST make sure to protect against this sort of thing in the future: to REQUIRE a statement of vote results (at minimum) and also to provide some sort of PPC credentialing so that PPC resolutions are *truly* only voted upon by PPC members.