That’s the number to look out for at today’s State GOP Convention in Indianapolis.  It’s the number of Ron Paul supporters who are expected to show up and throw a potential monkey wrench into today’s nomination process.

The Paul supporters are mad that the state party changed the rules for selecting delegates to the national convention.  Instead of voting on individual candidates, the party changed the rules so that the national delegates will be presented as a slate and would have to be voted up or down by the convention.  That has the Ron Paul crowd crying foul and they may try to disrupt the convention.  One thing I am hearing is that is the Ron Paul group may throw their support behind AG candidate Greg Zoeller as a way to stick it to the state party.  We’ll see. 

I don’t think it will be Chicago 1968, but it is definitely going to be fun to watch today. I’ll be live blogging from the convention to check back later today.
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Scratch another name off the list of potential Democratic candidates for Lt. Governor. Former Speaker of the House John Gregg told me this morning that he has taken his name off the list of possible running mates for Jill Long Thompson.

Gregg is the second Southern Indiana Democrat to say no the the lite gov spot. Last week Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel put out a statement saying that he was staying put.

Two other names that are still being circulated are State Rep and former Posey County Prosecutor Trent Van Haaften and Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez.