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2012 Republican National Convention

2012 presidential election
The Tampa Bay Times Forum will host the 2012 Republican National Convention
Convention
Date(s)	August 27, 2012 – August 30, 2012
City	Tampa, Florida
Venue	Tampa Bay Times Forum
Notable speakers	TBD
Candidates
Presidential nominee	TBD
Vice-presidential nominee	TBD
Voting
Total delegates	2,286
Votes needed for nomination	1,144 (50% of total + 1)
Results (president)	TBD
Results (vice president)	TBD
Ballots	TBD
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The United States 2012 Republican National Convention, in which delegates of the Republican Party will choose the party's nominees for President and Vice President, will be held during the week of August 27, 2012, in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.

Host selection

On August 14, 2009, the Republican National Committee named a 13 person Site Selection Committee to start the process of selecting a host city for the 2012 convention.

News reports in early 2010 indicated that Tampa as well as Salt Lake City, Utah, and Phoenix, Arizona, had been selected as finalist candidates for the convention site. The decision was announced on May 12, 2010, when Tampa was selected as the host city.

Host committee

The 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee is the official and federally designated Presidential Convention host committee for the 2012 Republican National Convention. The Host Committee is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation organized to fund, manage and implement various functions in connection with the 2012 RNC Convention. The Host Committee is charged with raising $55,000,000 to pay for nearly all aspects of the Convention. The Host Committee is composed of prominent Florida business executives, civic leaders and other community leaders. The Host Committee is chaired by Al Austin and Ken Jones serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer.

Policing

The convention is designated as a National Special Security Event, which means that ultimate authority over law enforcement goes to the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security. Convention security is funded—in the amount of $50 million —by a federal allocation. Much of the money goes to deputizing additional police. Other expenses include expanded surveillance technology and the purchase of a $296,496 armored SWAT vehicle. Tampa Bay has disclosed specifically that it has spent $1.18m on video linkages between ground police and helicopters.

Tampa police are still deciding how to cordon off areas of the city to maintain tourism while keeping protests limited. Police Chief Jane Castor has stated that although Harbour Island will not be off-limits to non-residents, "there will be some checkpoints." The city has announced an estimated force of between 3000 and 4000 officers on each day of the convention.

Impact

The city has already planned to cancel all trials occurring during the week of the convention, due to concerns about jurors moving in and out of the city. Various government operations will move to nearby suburban areas. One exception to this trend is predicted trials for arrested protesters, which will be presided over by "on-call judges." City officials say they are planning on fencing off some government buildings, but that it is the responsibility of businesses to defend their own buildings.

Protests

In October 2011, Tampa city officials began planning for anticipated protests, and discussions centered around small prior protests by the Occupy movement. According to former Tampa City Council member John Dingfelder, then the senior staff attorney for the mid-Florida office of the American Civil Liberties Union, the convention should expect to draw far more protestors and the city should plan on up to 10,000 protestors. Dingfelder encouraged the city to be proactive regarding where protests could occur and protestors could sleep. Tampa's Mayor Bob Buckhorn's response was "If they want a place to sleep, they can go home or to a hotel," "Just because they want to occupy something doesn't mean we are obligated to provide them with an opportunity to camp out in a public park or on a sidewalk."

Nominations

Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, clinched the Republican presidential nomination in the Texas primary on May 29, 2012 and became the party's presumptive nominee.

The traditional roll call of the states, which will will permit the state leaders to promote their homes, will take place on the penultimate day of the convention. To have a speech formally putting his or her name in nomination, a candidate has to show a plurality of delegates in five (5) delegations as § 40(b) of the rules of the Republican Party adopted by the last convention specifies:

"Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a plurality of the delegates from each of five (5) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination."

By June 29, this requirement was met by only two candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Ron Paul has shown plurality in three states and Newt Gingrich has done the same in two states, with three states (Montana, Nebraska and Louisiana) having either unpledged, disputed, or unallocated delegates.

See also

• 2012 Democratic National Convention
• 2012 Libertarian National Convention
• Republican National Convention
• Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012
• United States presidential nominating convention

References

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23. "RNC Rules 2012" (PDF). RNC. Retrieved April 29, 2012.

External links

• 2012 Republican National Convention official website
• 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee official website
• Rules for the 2012 Republican National Convention.

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