In the first four months of 2015 we get MT, WY, UT, ND, and SD — getting us to 29. Utah and South Dakota are looking better, so I’m including them. Then South Carolina — 30. Then Kentucky — 31. Then Wisconsin — 32. So just as the Republican nomination fight begins in earnest, toward the close of 2015, Virginia legislative elections are held in November. An issue in these elections is Article V — will Republican legislative candidates in Virginia support an Article V BBA?
At this point any Republican strategist who is paying attention will realize the impact a successful Article V move toward a BBA will have on the 2016 general election. So the Presidential campaigns (or most of them) embrace our efforts, and help us in Virginia. And they help, and fund, our efforts in Arizona (33), Oklahoma (34), Idaho (35), Virginia (36) and West Virginia (37).
I don’t know where the drama of the 34th state passing the reso will take place — Phoenix? Boise? Richmond? But it will be a national story. The whole issue of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution will generate a lot of stories. Article V will have to be explained to the low information voter.
Then Congress aggregates the 34, and sets a time and place for the Amendment Convention, and also chooses a means of ratification — by special ratification conventions, or by state legislatures.
Drama in each state as delegations are selected, and delegate limitations are debated.
Drama over the election of the Convention Chairman, and then all of the deliberations and votes of the Convention.
And, if the timing works, elections to the ratification conventions take place in November 2016, coinciding with the Presidential election.
If I’m a Republican running for President, this is the dream scenario.
And it could happen.
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