If you really want to change the country, start by becoming a Republican Party Precinct Committeeman! The most powerful office in the world because Precinct Committeemen determine who gets the chance to be elected to office at every level of government.

1. To change things, we must change the laws.

2. To change the laws, we must change the people who make them.

3. To get elected, your candidate must be on the ballot.

4. To get on the November ballot you must win the Primary.

5. To win the Primary, you must get the support of people who make endorsements in the Primary, who reliably vote in the Primary, and who get out the vote of others in the Primary. Those people are the Precinct Committeemen.

Do you want to get involved in politics and advance the conservative agenda? I do. One thing I recently found out is that the Maricopa County GOP has over 4,000 openings for precinct committeeman and my Legislative District has only 32 per cent of its Precinct Committeeman positions filled. I also understand this situation exists all across the country. Imagine if we could fill those openings with conservatives!

Most importantly, Precinct Committeemen get to vote in the Party elections that determine the leadership of the Party. The more conservatives who become Precinct Committeemen, the more conservative the Party, and its candidates, will become. The Party again might appear to the voters to offer a clear choice from the Democrat Party, rather than an echo of it.

Some of the duties of the precinct committeeman are:

1. Registering new voters.

2. Helping local candiates build canvassing lists and canvassing the neighborhood.

3. Get Out The Vote efforts. Calling party members to make sure they can get to the polls or get an absentee ballot.

4. Finding election judges for your precinct.

5. Becoming a poll watcher.

On doing some internet searching, I also found several copies and variations of this fantastic article by The Eagle Forum:

The Most Powerful Office in the World is NOT the President of the United States. ( http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/brochures/precinct-committman.shtml )

While the claim in the title is a bit exaggerated, it does make some fairly good points. If you want to make a difference in politics, the precinct is the place to start.

Each of you want to get our country back on the right track. How BEST to do that? Through DEEDS, not just words. Calling talk radio stations doesn’t really DO much. Twittering and ranting in chat rooms about what’s happening doesn’t really DO much. Going to rallies and protests are great, but the media ignores them. Priority Number One should be changing the candidates that are on the ballot.

The only reason I’m posting this here is in hopes YOU, who are reading this, will consider DOING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL to change your government back to its Constitutional limits. To DO that, we need to strengthen and change the Republican Party back to its Reagan era strength.

How do WE do that? The BEST way to strengthen and change the Republican Party into one that once again clearly advocates conservative principles is to . . . drum roll . . . HAVE MORE PEOPLE IN ITS RANKS who accept, understand and advocate conservative principles. I’m not talking about just registering as a Republican, I’m talking about YOU, yes, YOU, who’s reading this, not “the other guy,” but YOU — becoming an A REAL, ACTIVE MEMBER of the Republican Party by becoming a real, live, functioning Precinct Committeeman. That’s the bottom rung on the leadership ladder in the Party.

By becoming a Precinct Committeeman, you get to ACTUALLY VOTE for the Party leadership. YOU GET TO CAST A VOTE FOR YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN LEADERS UP TO THE COUNTY LEVEL, AND THEN GET TO ELECT ELECTORS WHO ELECT THE STATE AND NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS. If those who accept, understand and advocate conservative principles become a majority IN THE PARTY RANKS, guess what? The Party leadership voted in will be those who accept, understand and advocate conservative principles. This just happened here in Arizona.

It’s not hard to find out how to become a Precinct Committeeman. Do some googling to find your county Republican Party web site.

Find out which Legislative District you live in. Find out when the next meeting of that Legislative District Committee takes place. Then go to the meeting and tell the chairman you want to volunteer to be a Precinct Committeeman. Or call the Chairman before then. You’ll have to gather a few signatures to get on the ballot. Once the election comes around, you’ll be elected. Meanwhile, volunteer to DO SOMETHING in support of your conservative values and principles WITHIN THE PARTY. You will be leading by example. Many of the moderates are moderates because they don’t know how to think and be conservative. You can show them by your DEEDS.

Now get to it!

P.S. “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

Thomas Paine, Dec. 23, 1773, The Crisis.

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Could you please use the opportunity of the Tea Party to implore, beg, etc. the attendees to take their time and energy one step further and explain to them the most important thing they should be doing is joining the Party as active voting members of it as precinct committeemen?

Thank you, and please let me hear from you.