One thing I would like to see happen; is a structured way to get more conservatives in those offices. I had hoped the Tea Party would have more staying power; and get people into these long term, non sexy positions.
As you said; the unions have all kinds of time and resources to do this.
We are busy working.
We need to do better at getting people involved.
Around here the organized tea party effort is quite clearly leftist but the true tea party sentiment though un organized is rock solid. We actually got a couple of good tea party people elected to the school board. This fall we even stopped a millage that the school hoped to pass on voter apathy.
Our tea party group doesn’t have a roster or set meetings, just a growing group of people who always have a few members having breakfast at the local diner and talking about politics. Very informal and virtually untouchable.