Of all the places the GOP could learn a lesson they had to pick Obama and Alinsky? then use it on one of their own? They refuse to learn what we’re trying to teach them.

The Arizona deadline for submitting nomination papers for precinct committeemen is tomorrow at 5:00 pm at county Board of Election offices.

But that’s not our final deadline. And all these rules are published online and every conservative in every state should know theirs.

Tonight I’ll be attending a Tea Party to explain to the attendees that if they REALLY want to “do something” they’ve got to get INSIDE a political party, where they can UNITE and TAKE OVER the Republican Party.

As I told a fellow PC I recruited, and who is now working in the Tempe Tea Party to recruit conservative PCs, frankly, the Tea Parties function the way our Legislative District GOP committee ought to function. (They meet more often and have more energy — but don’t have any real political power.) Our Legislative District GOP committee would function better — IF — all the Tea Partiers — who OUTNUMBER the existing RINO PCs in our Legislative District GOP committee — would just become PCs. Then, instead of having a monthly LD meeting, we could have a weekly LD meeting filled up by all the conservatives in the Tea Party. The LD meeting basically would be the equivalent of the Tea Party. The difference is that the LD PCs have real POLITICAL power while the Tea Party non-PC members have none (other than the right to vote).

I see the Tea Parties as a place to recruit PCs.

So I’ll go there tonight and tell them that even if they don’t meet the deadline tomorrow they still have a shot.

The process is explained beginning on page 19 of the Candidates and Political Committees Handbook published at the Secretary of State’s web site here:

http://www.azsos.gov/election/2010/Info/Candidates_and_Political_Committees/Candidates_and_political_committees.pdf

The Write-In Candidate Packet is here: http://www.azsos.gov/election/candidate/writein.htm

The Write-in Nomination Paper, Affidavit of Qualification and Campaign Finance Laws Statement is here: http://www.azsos.gov/election/Forms/NominPaper_AZ_TRIP_%20Write-In.pdf

One piece of paper.

To be a valid “write-in candidate” for precinct committeeman in the primary, all one has to do is submit the affidavit of qualification by June 15 for the primary election. Assuming there’s a vacancy, you have to receive at least the same number of votes as you would have needed to qualify for the ballot. In other words, if you needed only 3 signatures on the nomination paper, then you’d only need 3 write-in votes (and one can be yours, so you’d only need two!). This is all explained at page 19 of the Candidate and Political Committee Handbook. If you needed to have the maximum number of signatures, 10, then you’d have to get 10 write-in votes (only 9, really, because, again, one of the write-in votes can be your own!).

I know at least one state legislator who got himself elected as a PC in this way.

This is the kind of stuff we conservatives need to figure out in every state and master and then CHANGE the Republican Party from WITHIN. This is just good old-fashioned basic American civics. And it’s our duty to engage in this. No?

For Liberty,
ColdWarrior, PC (that’s “precinct committeeman,” not “political child!”)
Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW!