It’s not flattery. It’s precisely what we’re trying to encourage: hence, the promotion from diaries. – Moe Lane
Take the Holidays off, enjoy your family, and go to your January precinct or district meeting. Learn to organize a precinct or a district; it’s a lot harder but a lot more productive than philosophizing.
I’ve never done that sort of work as a Republican. By the time I switched parties, I was a fairly high level bureaucrat, worked mostly with Party officers and officeholders, and I was prohibited by law from holding party office. I did a lot of the grunt work and organizing as a Democrat many years ago, so I still know how!
Frankly, this and a couple of other blogs are pretty much as close to politics as I’ve come since I left the Murkowski Administration in disgust in ’06. Gave Palin the obligatory political appointee level contribution and put up a sign, but that was it.
After the occupation of Alaska by the FBI and the results of this election, I showed up at the District meeting last Thursday. My suburban Juneau district was the ONLY Republican pickup in Alaska.
Now, I’m going to turn my hand to the grunt work, probably at the precinct level first and I’m going to do it the old-fashioned Democrat way; I’m going to work with my new legislator and we’re going to be “fixers.” Got a pothole, give us a call. Having trouble with a permit? Give us a call. Need a job? We’ll help, though there’s not much patronage at the legislative level, you can “help.”
I don’t even want to speculate about who’ll be running for what in 10 or 12, but I’ll guarantee you one thing; they won’t be running without having been thoroughly vetted by the Republican voters of my precinct and district! I’ve had all I’m going to take of the failures of the largely self-selected leadership cohort of the Republican Party – NO MORE Bob Doles or John McCains!
Daniel Horowitz
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Jake Walker
Great stuff, Achance.
NightTwister (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 2:18PM EST (link)I’m right there with you. Much to do here in CO, but it can wait until next year.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
amen!
davidingeorgia Saturday, November 22nd at 2:27PM EST (link)n/t
Me too!
itsonlywords (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 2:28PM EST (link)I contacted my county Republican party on November 11th and as of today, I’m officially a part of the Membership and Communcation Action Team. I’m not sure how many other people will be on this team; five or six is probably a good guess.
Getting involved at the local level is astonishingly easy. Given the sorry state of the Republican Party in my state, I hope I can be productive and effective.
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audientor ito. ~Virgil
Do not give in to evil, but proceed evermore boldly against it.
AChance, I Am With You Here
Wubbies World (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 2:31PM EST (link)I live across the street from the Conservative Action League and down the street from the state Republican Party office.
I shook hands, talked to people and got to know the locals here. I am new to this part of the state, but I started getting to know people here.
I now have an offer for lunch with a state Legislator (if will be going in a few days) and few of my local contacts have now included me in the e-mail circles that include other state legislators and a former governor. Knowing people isn’t going to get the job done, but it finally has me pointed in the right direction here on what work needs to be done.
Like everyone else, I am still mostly standing down for the post election let down and holiday schedule with the family, but come January it will be time to get things rolling along.
Next step is the county party meeting. I will be there.
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Political action data call?
Uma Richie (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 2:44PM EST (link)I have no intention to threadjack here, but my question is somewhat related.
Right after election day, there was anticipation (I think by Erick) of a data call to determine to what degree RedState readership translated into political action. Did I miss that request, or is one still forthcoming?
County Website
Alan Bryant (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:05PM EST (link)Since the election, I found out that my county has a domain name registered for the republican party, but no website. I have talked with the county chair and will be helping them get a website going. I will also be doing whatever else my limited time & funds will allow.
Check out San Patricio County GOP in a few weeks.
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Promoting a new book about Stalinism
kowalskil Sunday, November 23rd at 3:23PM EST (link)I suspect that some at this website, especially history teachers and sociologists, would be interested in my new short and easy-to-read book. Excerpts are at
http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/excerpts.html
Do not miss the ending (in red, at the end of the above webpage). Thank you in advance.
Ludwik
KowalskiL@mail.montclair.edu