to the folks at American Majority Action.

RHippie is referring to another project I had to raise awareness of the need for more conservatives to become precinct committeemen. I have been working with many of the tea party, 9.12 and other grass roots conservative groups here in the Phoenix area and came up with the idea for a button campaign. The idea is to come up with some very simple buttons, similar to the country code bumper stickers in Europe, that have two letter codes. PC = Precinct Committeeman, PW = Poll Watcher/Worker, CV = Campaign Volunteer, CD = Campaign Donor and DR = Doorbell Ringer. One of the grass roots conservative groups created some very nice ones and sold them for $3 a piece as a way to raise funds. The buttons also focus the grass roots conservatives on the fact that the “tea party movement” is starting to figure out that the mass rallies don’t do much politically — that the real ball game of politics is played inside the two major political parties, and if they want really do something politically, they’ve got to unite inside a political party — for all the reasons I’ve outlined in the past.

The buttons also allow anyone wearing them to point them out to the Democrat Media they might talk to, allowing them to mention that the “tea partiers” are more than just rally-goers — they are now moving into participation in party politics, campaign work, poll watching, etc.

Here’s the link to the Diary I posted about it:

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2011/04/17/some-redstaters-recruit-precinct-committeemen-others-not-so-much/

Thank you,

ColdWarrior