Posted on 02/05/2010 5:18:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers
Edited on 02/05/2010 5:34:22 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A few months ago, the East Valley Tea Party group did not exist. On Saturday, January 30, 2010, they held a “Superbowl of Conservative Candidates” at a high school in Mesa, Arizona from noon to 8 p.m. Any candidate for elective office professing to be a conservative was given the opportunity to spend the day in a class room fielding questions from interested citizens. Many, many candidates were there, including former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who is running to unseat John McCain in the primary. There were hundreds of citizens there. Lots of campaign signs were posted around the parking lot. Volunteers helped direct attendees to available parking spots. It was a well-run affair.
I only had a short amount of time to mingle, but I did see a lot of candidates for the state legislative positions, for Congress, and for state executive offices. I had been invited to speak for an hour about the need for conservative Republicans and independents to take the next step: to become politically relevant by fulfilling their civic duty to engage in the actual ball game of politics — party politics — at the grass roots level as a precinct committeeman and beyond.
It relates to thie earlier piece, I think:
Rebuilding the GOP: The Committeeman Project
Any comments?
Worthwhile, or a waste of time?
That’s great!
Worthwhile. Lots of places are in need of energetic, motivated precinct captains.
At the same time we should be going through the voter rolls and getting all the ACORN dead, imaginary, duplicated and out of state voters off the rolls.
Clean up the shells the nuts left.
Your thoughts ? (and if worthwhile, please do pass it on.)
Cheers!
The local news is covering the convention and showing the speakers. They are even giving a bit of the schedule and all of it was normal fare. The affiliate was CBS. I was surprised. (This of course is during the news hours)
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks grey_whiskers.
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