By the time the committee gaveled out of session Tuesday evening, Matheson’s proposed minority report had garnered nearly 40 signatures. ), co-chair of the platform committee, also sounded confident the report would not move forward once the full GOP convention convenes next week. The 2012 GOP platform, for example, had grown to a lengthy 33,000 words. “It seems clear the RNC put the screws to Matheson and his own language,” one GOP platform committee member, who declined to be named, told The Huffington Post. Ben Marchi, a GOP delegate from Maryland, claimed LGBT-friendly delegates tricked some of their colleagues into signing the minority report.

Source: Huffington Post July 13, 2016 03:00 UTC