Nevada Republican Convention

LAS VEGAS -In this YouTube video, Republican 1st Congressional District candidate Chris Dyer attacks Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden on the controversy surrounding the state Republican convention.

Dyer, a supporter of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's (R-Tex.) defunct presidential campaign, believes he was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention at the previous attempt at a state convention.  He will be attending a Jun. 28 event in Reno that some other Paul supporters and disaffected Republicans hope to use as a vehicle to seat their own slate of delegates to the national convention.

Dyer is one of seven Republicans who hope to unseat U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Las Vegas) in November.

LAS VEGAS-With the announcement last week by the Nevada Republican Party that it has chosen Jul. 26 to reconvene its first, unsuccessful convention, controversies remain for Ron Paul supporters and previously voted-on delegates that could lead all the way to the Republican National Convention in September.

Supporters of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) hope to host a form of make-up convention on Jun. 28 and believe that if they achieve a quorum of the previous Apr. 26 convention attendees they may be able to elect a slate of delegates that could be seated at the national convention. 

The effort, which is thus far being bankrolled by Reno dentist and Paul supporter Dr. Wayne Terhune, is sanctioned by the Ron Paul campaign and is being organized largely over Web sites like Meetup and Digg.com.

In order for their Jun. 28 date to have any chance of electing delegates that will actually be seated, however, Paul supporters will have to overcome enormous strategic and legal hurdles that will test the burgeoning power of netroots-fueled movements like Paul's.