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On the Road to PC (Precinct Committeeman)

By: knitwit (Diary)  |  February 22nd, 2011 at 12:56 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Perhaps this should be just a simple posting, rather than a diary, but I did want to promote the ongoing volunteerism of becoming a PC, in this so-not-PC political climate we are facing.  I am following in the large and awesome footsteps of ColdWarrior and others who have been regular proponents of becoming a Precinct Committeeman.  I filled out and turned in my application this evening in LD-4 in Maricopa County, AZ, to become a PC for my area.  It will take about 30 days to wend its way through the system, shepherded by the leader of my district, and then I will be a newly minted PC.  I found out at tonights’ meeting of the LD-4 folks, that we have a huge 705 slots for PCs and only about 250 filled, here in this very voter populated district.  We have so much to do!  Many precincts apparently have no PCs at all, in an area which includes Sun City, Surprise, Peoria, parts of Glendale, out to Wickenburg, and small towns all around this Northwest greater Phoenix area.  Pray that leaders rise up to fill the open positions, so we can effect change in the Arizona landscape, and put old senile draft horses like John McCain to rest and pasture, with vital new blood to fight on for real conservative values.

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  • Brian Hibbert

    It is you and people like you at the lowest level of the party who will have the most influence on the future direction of it.

  • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

    I just started down the PC road myself last week (in Charlotte, NC). It’s pretty exciting. The local GOP does training here on the weekends, and I’ve also been looking around Ron Robinson’s site http://procinct.net/ (which others have mentioned too). It’s full of good info.

  • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

    I just started down the PC road myself last week (in Charlotte, NC). It’s pretty exciting. The local GOP does training here on the weekends, and I’ve also been looking around Ron Robinson’s site http://procinct.net/ (which others have mentioned too). It’s full of good info.

  • jimmyneutron

    will be attending our first BPOU meeting here in central MN this coming Saturday AM. We are both looking forward to learning the ropes and working to ensure that conservatives are elected in MN ( we already have a wonderful rep in Bachmann).

    • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

      It takes all of us to get this done!

  • http://www.800cart.com Ron Robinson

    You are embarking on one heck of an adventure, esp. in AZ. Congratulations and my most profound respect for engaging in this process.

    This is the one area where you can do your country the most good in the shortest time. And you are going to meet some great people.

    You also have a wealth of great mentors there in Maricopa, too. Some of the best in the country.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    To see Johnny McMaverick put out to pasture. He has done his service. It’s time to enjoy that brewery fortune!

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    precinct committeemen in LD 4 will go on a recruiting tear to fill up all those vacancies as soon as possible. Appointments to vacant seats come on a first come, first served basis. Once you are appointed, you will be eligible to vote for the five “at large” members of the county committee at the county meeting of the whole in January of 2012. After redistricting, all PCs, including those appointed 30 days or more before the legislature “blesses” the new legislative district lines, will be eligible to vote in the interim leadership elections that will be called after the new boundaries have been defined by statute.

    Seek out the conservatives in the LD 4 PC ranks, get to know the other PCs in your precinct, and learn the ropes (read and study the bylaws, read and study the bylaws, read and study the bylaws — your LD’s, the county’s and the states; they are not long and they provide a wealth of information and, unfortunately, sometimes the leaders ignore them to the detriment of all but them).

    I believe your example will inspire others to get into the real ball game — party politics at the local level.

    Bravo!

    For Liberty,

    ColdWarrior

  • nessa
  • bens

    Please keep us updated on your experiences and insights.

  • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

    and may good folks rise up to help alongside you in your fight in California! I was born and mostly raised there, but can’t afford to live there anymore; my heart breaks for all the burdens you carry there. Perhaps someday she will be restored to her former glory.

  • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

    conservatives in the PC process in the party, we can influence the nomination of a true conservative to replace Kyl, and eventually replace McLame. I tried my best to support a challenger in the primary process, but there were so many who thought McLame had changed and only saw negatives in his challenger, and the old guard won that round. Now we reap what they sowed. At the time, I said here on RS, that it would be better to take the new blood, and then replace it if it misbehaved, than to accept the old blood thinking that it had changed its spots…..and I was right.

  • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

    reading them through. As soon as I get a handle on the basics, and figure out how to locate all the registered Republicans in my neighborhood, I will be making some new friends! We have a long way to go, with only 35% of the PC slots filled!
    Hopefully I will run into you somewhere sometime in PCdom!

  • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

    nt

  • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

    and hopefully inspire others to join up and swell the ranks.

  • toothpick

    I’ve traveled a similar path over the past year here in bankrupt California. I’m a precinct committeeman in Santa Clara County (home of Silicon Valley, and source of some of the worst Congresspeople and legislators in the nation). I’d encourage you to link up with Ron Robinson and his group at procinct.net.