Posted on 02/14/2010 7:34:23 PM PST by Steelfish
'Tea Party' Activists Filter Into GOP At Ground Level The conservative movement is urging its members to seek positions as local Republican precinct representatives. Their goal: Remake the party - and U.S. politics - from within.
By Kathleen Hennessey February 15, 2010
Reporting from Washington - First there was the "tea party" protester. Now, meet the Tea-publican.
Conservative activists who once protested the political establishment are now flooding the lowest level of the Republican Party apparatus hoping to take over the party they once scorned -- one precinct at a time.
Across the country, tea party groups that had focused on planning rallies are now educating members on how to run for local GOP precinct representative positions. The representatives help elect county party leaders, who write the platform and, in some places, determine endorsements.
"That's where it all starts. That's where the process of picking candidates begins. It's not from [GOP leader] Michael Steele's office down. It's from the ground up," said Philip Glass, whose National Precinct Alliance is among the groups advocating the strategy. "The party is over for the old guard."
In Arizona and Ohio, Republican Party officials report an increase in candidates running for precinct positions, which often sit open due to lack of interest. In South Carolina, a coalition of tea party groups has made a formal agreement with the state GOP to urge its members to get engaged at the precinct level. In Nevada, a group of "constitutional conservatives" working under the tea party banner has already taken control of the Republican Party in the Las Vegas area, gaining enough strength to elect six of the seven members of the county executive committee.
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Cool. I’m taking notes, as I want to do this. The timing seems right, even in my lefty neighborhood.
Cool. I’m taking notes, as I want to do this. The timing seems right, even in my lefty neighborhood.
About time - myself and several others have been banging the drum on this for a year now. YES to Teapublicanism, NO to third parties.
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Go man go!!!
Yes, take over the GOP from the inside. If we have to create our own fundraising and PR systems we should do that too.
It’s called getting active in the Party. Nothing wrong at all with this. Folks do it all the time!
He will replace Senator Joe Lieberman in 2012.
Great news!
3rd party will doom us to Obamao’s 2nd term 100% guaranteed.
smitty, buddy.
if people really wanna be precinct reps, it’s fine. But for some of us, getting bogged down in the trivia of town politics would keep us away from our primary purpose.
Please add me to this list. Thanks!
It's important for small government advocates to get in there and select small government candidates. Local offices are the places where state and national candidates start.
Great news!
3rd party will doom us to Obamao’s 2nd term 100% guaranteed.
Ok, lets just keep running that clip till we get it right!
From the article...
Conservative activists who once protested the political establishment are now flooding the lowest level of the Republican Party apparatus hoping to take over the party they once scorned -- one precinct at a time.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
2/27/10 the Ft. Lauderdale Tea Party celebrates its first year. Every Sat. its been on the corner of US1 and Oakland Park Blvd. from 1-3.
Please do it. I’ve been involved in taking the Republican Party from the inside for years, it can be done. I’ve been trying to encourage people to do it, now the reason to do it is obvious.
This is what happened between 1960 and 1964.
“Let’s grow up, conservatives. We can take this party back!” - Barry Goldwater, 1960 Convention
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