MINNEAPOLIS -- Two representatives of the supporters of Ron Paul in Washington state addressed the Republican delegation this morning with a gesture of good will toward their party mates.

Washington elected four Ron Paul delegates to the national convention, accounting for ten percent of the total, and now that they have cast their votes for their preferred candidate, three of them have offered to give up their Thursday night floor passes so that McCain alternates could be present for McCain's acceptance speech tonight.

John Burke, an alternate delegate for Ron Paul, spoke on the Paul supporters' behalf this morning and congratulated McCain on his nomination, and later explained their thought process to PolitickerWA.com.

"It would be valuable for those people to be on the floor to hear their candidate give his acceptance speech," Burke said. "To us it would be not so valuable. We believe in economics and the allocation of scarce resources to their highest and best purpose. This is kind of the courteous equivalent of that."

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