Paul's claim came three days before Washington's Republican caucuses on Saturday.
Kirby Wilbur, the state GOP Party chairman, said Paul's accusations are "baseless." A lawyer for Paul's campaign sent a letter to Wilbur and Lori Sotelo, head of the King County Republican Party. The Paul campaign said the King County GOP violated party rules by not revealing the names of certain party officials, known as precinct committee officers, who will take part in the caucuses.
"Their concern is that they appointed all these last-minute, anti-Ron Paul PCOs, but there's no proof," Wilbur told The Associated Press.
In the letter to Wilbur and Sotelo, Paul's campaign said precinct committee delegates who are automatic delegates to the state convention must have been appointed by Dec. 14, 2011. Paul's campaign has asked for a list of these officials. Wilbur said Sotelo will make them available to the Paul campaign, as well as to the other GOP presidential campaigns, on Friday. Other counties in the state have already given their lists of officials to the Paul campaign, Wilbur said.
The Paul campaign said it will contact the King County party officials in question, and if it determines they were offered the jobs after Dec. 14 it will fight to keep them from taking part in the state caucuses, as well as the national convention.
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