Couldn’t get it to take the first 4, but when it did, well, 5 it is. Glad t see the PC’s here at RS, and I hope to join the ranks soon!

your list. Plus, I got the Knox county Tea party involved. We have co-ordinated with Tea Party groups in Shelby County and the Nashville area. Local precinct committeeman elections are this Friday . We may have started to late to oust the current Rino crowd but we have plans and resources to spread this effort into all adjoining counties in the East Tennessee area. Thanks to Coldwarrior and Ron Robinson for all the inspiration. We never would have known without Redstate and your diaries !

Jackson County, Missouri, a blue haven in a red state. Repubs had been somewhat disorganized here but committeemembers are fired up to make changes. We’re going to try to get the local Tea Party together with the local Republican Party and perhaps we can make some inroads.

Here in Texas, we’re called Precinct Chairman, and I took over from our previous one early in 2010, inspired directly by what I read here at RedState.

guess what? The other side is organizing like crazy. And have been for years.

With web-based “Progressive Precinct Organizing” night school tutorials, etc.

Go to these links to get a flavor for what we’re up against. Watch the videos. Then ask yourself whether you have a couple of hours a month to get involved in your local Republican Party committee. Or whether you’re going to stand on the sidelines and let the likes of these progressives continue to hold the reins of power in the Senate and White House and try to regain them in the House (not to mention in your state and local governments):

http://uppo.progressiveprecinctproject.org/

http://www.facebook.com/ProgressivePrecinctProject?sk=info

http://www.facebook.com/TheUPPO

(Hat tip to a contact at American Majority for this information.)

We can beat these people, can’t we?

Are we going to let them out-organize us? Out-work us?

Time will tell.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

PC in Erie County, New York – a sometimes red blip on a very dark blue state.

I became a PC from reading your posts, CW. I also learned a lot about NY political parties from “Primary Challenge” – a group dedicated to getting new conservative PC’s for all parties, not just Republicans.

There is a small but growing number of us here in this corner of NY. We may never take over this state, but I’m proud of the efforts regardless.

Monongalia County WV, a rather violet county in an otherwise red state (yes, I meant violet the color). I think we’d be red if not for the blue-ness of the university.

which as you say, is incomplete.

Each time you post your update, we learn of a few more. Love it!

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several have made meteoric rises in the party. I’m just a lowly secretary of the county GOP. But I know of one person who is now on the candidate search committee for his state’s next senator. I know of several others who are state level delegates, county chairs, etc.

People, it’s not hard to get good conservatives back in charge of the party. All it takes is for people like YOU to just show up and DO SOMETHING.

i know the resorces are out there to get up to speed as a conservative republican PC, but this is not a time to learn on the job.
we don’t meet to finalize our delegates untill april 2. it would be a real help to get pointed in the right direction in as far as what to expect, what to beware of, and so on.

got any ideas?

Now a member of the Clark County Republican Party Central Committee and a “Precinct Patriot. Had a committee meeting last night. Listened to presentations by Las Vegas Mayoral candidates. George Harris really impressed. Victor, not so much. State meeting April 1st. We’ve been walking neighborhoods for John Simmons our City council candidate for Henderson in my district. Got a chance to talk to Sue Lowden. Impressive woman. We really screwed up the Senate race here.

In respose to CW’s constant prodding, I attended the local mass meeting in my area of Fulton County, GA last month. Since I was the only one from my precinct who showed up, I became the chairman. Last Saturday, I attended the Fulton County GOP convention. The main purposes of the convention were to elect the county chairman and select delegates to the state convention to be held in Macon in May. (At the state convention, the state party chairman will be selected). Roger Bonds, a local businessman, and the one who was expected to win, did indeed get elected county chairman, defeating Trey Kelly, a 38-year-old insurance and financial services executive, who is active in the Fulton Young Republicans and is credited with the dramatic growth in that organization. Charlie Wingo, who previously served as party treasurer, came in third. The race for chairman did not seem to be marked by much controversy, at least not openly. I witnessed Mr. Bonds and Mr. Kelly exchange cordial handshakes, both before and after the vote, and the victor graciously made a motion to name his two opponents as vice-chairmen. Among the dignitaries who spoke were Sen. Johnny Isaakson, who discussed energy and budget issues, and TV pundit Phil Kent from “The Georgia Gang”. Phil was pretty wound up — he really tones it down when he is on TV though. At the end, the list of delegates and alternates was revealed. I am on the list as an alternate to the state convention.

You might be interested in the results of the 2012 Presidential Straw Poll that was held. Results are incomplete – I managed to get the top 3 written down:

Gingrich 25%
Romney 17%
Cain 15.6%

…to hand out at the Mecklenburg County convention this weekend, listing me as Precinct Chair, with contact info. I’m looking forward to utilizing data about the voters in my precinct to contact them, get them energized, and see if we can do some grass-roots party recruitment among neighbors. I live in a largely minority (African-American & Latino) precinct and hope to partner with the local chapter of the Frederick Douglass society to reach out and increase the non-white GOP footprint.

ColdWarrior, thanks again for all of your encouragement and for highlighting the importance of precinct involvement!

I’ve been a county chairman among various other offices in our local party, but this year I’m chairman of my local precinct. I’ve been preaching to our local party that the key to the 2012 elections is activity on the precinct level, this is the real grass roots. I promise you that the democrats are focusing on the precincts for 2012. Our goal is to have structure in each precinct, chairman etc, sort of a mini party. Small counties have traditionally just had the party structure.

PC in Fairfax County, Virginia as a direct result of CW’s efforts…

Been a Precinct Committeeman for two years and am working to encourage like minded individuals locally to do the same.

I met CW here on Redstate about a year ago. Thanks to the information and guidance he provided, I became an elected PC last year. During the summer and fall I and another person who became a PC because of CW were able to pull together a team of 11 committed constitutional conservatives, some from the tea party but all PCs, who were successful in taking over the leadership of our Legislative District from the establishment, moderate, corrupt contingent who had run it for a long time.

We then helped in January to elect a conservative as chairman of the county GOP.

Two weeks after that, with CW playing a major role, the incredible energetic network of conservative Republican PCs, many of them tea partiers, that has emerged in the last year or so, elected one of our team of 11, mentioned earlier, as chairman of the Arizona GOP.

Actually, the events between last June and the end of January would make a pretty good movie. ‘Grassroots conservatives defeat establishment and take over the dominant party in one of the largest states in the U.S.’

Since we live less than a mile from each other, I ‘m lucky to know and collaborate with CW personally. He is widely known and respected, and is without a doubt a huge positive influence for conservatism in our state. One cannot go to any conservative meeting anywhere around here without meeting at least several people who have been recruited by CW. He has transformed politics in our state.

I met CW here on Redstate about a year ago. Thanks to the information and guidance he provided, I became an elected PC last year. During the summer and fall I and another person who became a PC because of CW were able to pull together a team of 11 committed constitutional conservatives, some from the tea party but all PCs, who were successful in taking over the leadership of our Legislative District from the establishment, moderate, corrupt contingent who had run it for a long time.

We then helped in January to elect a conservative as chairman of the county GOP.

Two weeks after that, with CW playing a major role, the incredible energetic network of conservative Republican PCs, many of them tea partiers, that has emerged in the last year or so, elected one of our team of 11, mentioned earlier, as chairman of the Arizona GOP.

Actually, the events between last June and the end of January would make a pretty good movie. ‘Grassroots conservatives defeat establishment and take over the dominant party in one of the largest states in the U.S.’

Since we live less than a mile from each other, I ‘m lucky to know and collaborate with CW personally. He is widely known and respected, and is without a doubt a huge positive influence for conservatism in our state. One cannot go to any conservative meeting anywhere around here without meeting at least several people who have been recruited by CW. He has transformed politics in our state.

I’ve been a Republican precinct chair since 2008.

Getting involved this way is a good idea, especially for those of us who want to reform the party.

Central Committee member
Committee Chair- Voter Registration
Delegate to California Republican Party

I attended my first precinct reorganization and signed up for county and state delegate.

We are poised here in our county to retake a vast majority of PC slots with conservatives. Our do nothing chairman is scared. I rewrote our by-laws for the party here and placed in the by-laws a provision that explicitly states the duties of a PC and that any PC can be removed that does not fulfill their duties. Most of the newbies will be our Tea Party members.

No more do-nothing,or empty PCs in our area after 2012. That’s the goal.

And don’t forget one of the most important roles a PC can play…deputy voter registrar!

Truth is that I’m so green with envy I can’t stand it. I’m without a vehicle for the time being and totally dependent on other people for transportation. Tough times end up that way sometimes.

I’m hoping that changes soon, because I really want to get in on this, CW.

Send some prayers my way if you think of it. And thanks for all you are doing. May God grant you many blessings of untold measures for your efforts.

Once becoming a PC, find out from your elections supervisor, the number of Democratics and Republicans that voted in the last election. Who ever had the most votes won. Where you a winner or loser?

Rocket Science made simple.

Ebone.

Found this “how to” buried in the GOP Brunswick County website. It’s the NC Precinct Operations Manual, dated 2009.

http://www.ncgopcca.org/PDF/Training/2009%20Precinct%20Operations%20Manual.pdf

It’s a start.

… I am the State Committeeman for my county (Muskogee County, OK), and I’m on the OKGOP State Executive Committee.

in Oklahoma Republican Party politics.

All I have for “how it works” in Oklahoma is this:

http://oksafe.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/the-precinct-the-most-powerful-office-get-involved-elections-212011/

With your involvement on the OKGOP State Executive Committee, can you track down, if one exists, a link to a “how to become an Oklahoma Republican Party precinct committee” guide that resides somewhere online?

Thank you,

ColdWarrior