Sunday Morning Futures (FBN), Maria Bartiromo, the one and only game in town. Worst...Chris Wallace (FNC)....useless from A-Z!!!
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Here is a piece I have been working on this morning as I drove from Key West back to Islamorada.
ANATOMY OF A REAGAN DINNER
Last night the Fla.Keys GOP held it's biggest and best ever Annual Reagan Dinner Fund Raiser in Key West Fla.The annual fund raiser began at 5:30 pm at the Marriot Beach Side Hotel and lasted until about 9:00 pm. In between was the greatest event we have ever had. We raised in excess of 100K to be used to keep the party in office in almost all elective offices in the Keys.
Our headliners were North Fla. Congressman Matt Gaetz and Chief of Staff to President Trump Mick Mulvaney.
The story of how it all unrolled is below.I use it and print is so others who also hold fundraisers might get a tip or two on how we proceeded and how it all wound up.
The keys are 125 miles long but extremely narrow we rotate events between the Upper, Middle and Lower Keys.
After Trump was elected we knew that it was going to take some serious bucks to keep our elective offices in Republican control.We had a super successful initial fundraiser some months ago with Fla. Attorney General Ashley Moody raising almost 30k.
More important we laid a foundation of about a dozen or so key people who would make the next event happen and headed it all by two superior guys from Key West who went beyond the pale and performed better that ever expected.
Our initial problem was to get a guest who could draw big money and lots of people.The Moody event was sold at $125 and we had around 150 in attendance.This time we wanted to ask 150 with at least 200 paid.
Our goal was to have 60 or 70k to distribute to our candidates running for everything from mosquito control to the dc House.We needed big headliners.
We tried to get several Fla. big names but kept failing due to schedule problems with those we were after. Finally we had two great things happen neither of which we had anticipated. First at a luncheon attended by local politicos in Islamorada we had a visitor from North Fla. sit in with us. I sat next to him and casually asked "hey do you know Matt Gaetz is he in your area?"
Ironically, he knew Gaetz and had known him for years! Naturally, I said: Wow! "Can you get him to speak at our function in Jan or Feb." Two months later we had a commitment.
The other ironic happening was that we learned that Mick Mulvanely visited the Lower Keys on a regular basis since he had relatives there.
Didn't take long and we have another commitment from Mulvanely.
Now to sell it all.
One technique we used by a member, who was so good we could not believe it, was to go to a local airport,get the tail numbers off the private planes and fund raise from there! It worked with thousands coming in some joining us other just donating.
Amazing!!
Finally, the big night came after a dozen or so conference calls lasting up to 2 1/2 hours detailing every possible problem that could happen and organizing every detail to it's finest tune. All this helped enormously and made the entire event go basically flawlessly.
Mick Mulvaey spoke first and was terrific with so much knowledge it's impossible to impart it all here. I'll give two examples he gave us that really drove home what the President is up to.
Mulvaney had been asked by the President whether or not he should go to Davos. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-announces-presidential-delegation-switzerland-attend-world-economic-forum-3/ Mick told him in no uncertain terms should he attend.He gave numerous reasons. The President then said: you are wrong and I'm going anyway.
President Trump went to Davos. He gave a speech that had to be delivered on a world wide basis an it will now go down in the history books.
When he returned to the White House he happened to see Mick and told him: "see Mick you were wrong! Mulvaney laughed and said yes Mr. President I was."
On yet another story the president told Mulvaney at 5:00 pm one day that he wanted a full briefing on some intricate dealings with changing the way the US does business.
Mulvaney told him he had just the guy and would contact him. The President said good. I'll see you in 20 minutes!! Mulvaney said uhhh....Ok.
Mulvaney contacted the new guy who was young in his late 20's and told him that the President wanted to see him in 20 minutes and to be ready with a huge area of detail on govt. business that was extremely intricate.
The young fellow said I'll be there. Mulvaney told the guy: "the President will interrupt you after about 30 seconds and start with an array of complex questions so be ready.
The young guy said OK.
The presentation on changing govt. methods began in 20 minutes and for the first seven minutes the young brilliant guy was not interrupted. Finally, the potus said to the young guy what you said is all well and good but here is my question:
If you were Tiger Woods would you be just as interested as you are now in what you just told me? The young man took his glasses off looked at the President and told him:
Sir if what I just told you comes true Tiger Woods will want to be me!
What a moment! Mulvaney went on to explain that there are dozens of brilliant guys working on every possible problem that occurs in govt. and this guy was one of many.
Meanwhile a few moments later Matt Gaetz was also brilliant an both he and Mick got standing O's before and after their presentations.
Gaetz is so charismatic that you can barely follow what he says since he's all over the place from terrorism to why the dems will fail in Nov.
His presentation was flawless and went so well he was interrupted by applause as was Mulvaney many times.
All in all it was flawless night and I got photos of both guys and will share as soon as they are computer read.