INDEPENDENCE,
Ohio — Lori Hack of Peoria, Arizona
who vowed to vote her conscience and vote against presumptive Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump at this week's GOP national convention so far
has been unable to get her yanked delegate credentials restored.
Graham previously
notified Hack that he considered her public refusal to pledge
support to Trump on the first ballot, as required by state law and party rules,
to be her de facto
resignation as an Arizona delegate.
She showed up anyway
at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in this Cleveland suburb at 9 a.m. to
claim her credentials along with the rest of Arizona's delegation. After state
party officials refused her request, saying her name was not on their list,
Hack demanded to speak with Arizona Republican Party Chairman Robert Graham.
"Can you get
Robert Graham, please?" Hack said. "Can you text him your phone,
please? Or call him? ... I need answers. I am a delegate from Arizona."
After several minutes
of back-and-forth questions about who compiled the Arizona GOP's list, Hack
hand-wrote a message to Graham.
Asked about what
happens now, Hack said she has a few more steps to take. She wouldn't
elaborate.
Later, Graham shrugged
off Hack's complaints in a brief interview with The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. He said he is confident
there's nothing she can do to get her credentials back.
"She is
misleading the entire nation by saying she went through some process to restore
her credentials," Graham said. "And I feel badly for her, because I
feel that the (so-called "Free the Delegates") movement is using her
to make some noise." Source AZ Central
