HOUSTON (ABP) – The host of a weekend gathering of religious
conservatives seeking consensus on an alternative presidential candidate
to GOP front-runner Mitt Romney denied charges that balloting was
rigged to give Rick Santorum the nod over rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick
Perry.
Paul Pressler, a former judge and architect of the
“conservative resurgence” movement in the Southern Baptist Convention in
the 1980s, disputed a Washington Times article
about a weekend gathering at Pressler’s ranch near Houston claiming
that organizers manipulated votes to guarantee that Santorum, a former
senator and Roman Catholic, would come away with the group’s
endorsement.
“It is people that did not have the meeting go the way they wanted to that are spinning it and lying about it,” Pressler said on The Michael Berry Show on KTRH news radio in Houston.
