Saturday is the first time in years that Missouri Republicans have used the caucus system to help determine which presidential candidate will receive the state's 52 delegates.
It will likely take a week to learn the results of Saturday's caucus across St. Louis County and the entire process won't be completed until the congressional district-level convention in April and the state GOP convention in June.
Queeny Township Republicans gathered at the Saturday morning. You can see the event in the above photo slideshow.
According to Peg Koch, Committeewoman for Queeny Township Republican Committee, Queeny has been allotted 14 delegates, which breaks down to a total of 28 names for each of the District and the State Conventions.
The delegates selected Saturday do not need to declare for a presidential candidate, although they can do so.
Ninety-seven registered voters attended Saturday's caucus. Koch was elected caucus chair and Erin Brown was elected caucus secretary by those in attendance Saturday.
While Republican Presidential Candidiate Rick Santorum made is way around West County Saturday, his wife, Karen Santorum, was initially expected to stop by the Queeny Township Caucus. Koch said she learned that morning that Karen Santorum would not be able to visit the Manchester caucus.
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I was most shocked by how Peg Koch sneakily admitted that in anticipation of being elected chair, she had already written up rules and submitted them to the rules committee! They included big issues, like whether the delegates would be winner-take-all or proportional.
They conducted a mostly fair & unbiased meeting. Thank you Peggy Koch & all. The fairly elected Caucus Chairwoman Peggy Koch did every thing in her power to run a somewhat fair and not to biased caucus. It is normal for the candidates to prepare a caucus chairman on how to run the meeting and to have everything, including the rules, prepared in advance. You also must have the delegates already chosen & their permission. It is normal for a meeting where 3 or more candidates are in contention for the minorities to seek a Proportional Apportionment of the delegates rather than a winner take all. At the beginning, neither Romney or Santorum had a majority (50 % PLUS one vote). So, compromise was in the best interests of Romney, Paul & Santorum voters but the Santorum people didn't understand as this was their first time doing this & probably never had training like the Paul & Romney voters did.
I would like to extend my heart felt thanks to Peg Koch & the other elected/selected people on the panels. They conducted a mostly fair & unbiased meeting. Thank you Peggy Koch & all. The fairly elected Caucus Chairwoman Peg Koch did every thing in her power to run a somewhat fair and not to biased caucus. They did their best. I know for a fact that it is hard to be unbiased when you have a favored candidate yourself. But Peg Koch did a very good job of remaining unbiased. Most decent human beings want to treat others fairly and be treated fairly themselves. Most people in the Western World believe "Do unto others as you would have done to yourself". Peg Koch did a very good job in that also. Thank you all again.