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Let’s Take Over the Georgia GOP

By: Change Jar Conservative (Diary)  |  February 2nd, 2011 at 04:34 AM  | 

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Introduction

Most of you are familiar with ColdWarrior’s push to fill the Precinct Committeemen slots of the Republican Party with conservatives and push the GOP to the right in all facets of the party platform.

To me, this should be especially true in our most conservative states, where we should be putting forth strong, Jim DeMint type conservatives.

Georgia is such a state and now is the time to take it over.

The precinct level meetings

This website will get you started on what you need to know on how to become a precinct committeeman and a delegate to your county and perhaps the state GOP convention.

Along with using that page to find out your precinct, you will need to search for your county or precinct meeting site (Cobb County where I live is having a massive meet up in one location and then having breakouts by precinct and I suspect many other counties are as well).

Here are the important dates:

  • Saturday, February 12th — Counties larger than 80000 residents meet for precinct level elections
  • Saturday, March 12th — Counties meet for county level elections (small counties combine this with their precinct level elections).
  • Friday/Saturday May 13th/14th — State GOP convention in Macon

Keep in mind that the May dates are likely optional for you since not everyone will be able to be a state delegate.  However, even a two Saturday commitment will offer you the opportunity to help push conservative candidates higher up both your county and the state GOP.

Looking for some help

ColdWarrior (since he’s being a driving factor here), Erick (since he knows Georgia), and any others, I’m looking for some advice to be posted in the comments both on known conservatives in Georgia whose names I should be looking for on the above dates as well as some good questions to ask to be able to distinguish “true” conservatives from those who will turn into squishes moving forward.

Any advice from others who have taken this journey would also be appreciated in the comment section.

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  • eburke

    Thanks for becoming truly part of the Republican Party. I’ve been ‘in’ for almost 3 years now and being one of ‘them’ has been the most impactful thing I’ve ever done to influence the direction of my Party, and thus my country.

    Thanks for your service!

  • Brian Hibbert

    Get on committees to run parades, breakfast meetings, fund raisers, help candidates, etc.

    In other words, become the “go to” guy or gal and get others to help you. You’ll be running the party before you know it.

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

    and for the link, which I just added to my little blog.

    I hope you will touch base with bens, who is also in Georgia and will be embarking on the same journey.

    He has posted about it here:

    http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2011/01/31/vermont-strategy-update-this-morning-i-couldnt-pronounce-republican-party-national-convention-delegate-now-i-are-one/#comment-1060

    I hope the two of you will connect and compare notes on respective party committees, the candidates for leadership, etc.

    Also, in terms of seeking advice and information about “how it works” in Georgia, you may want to consider calling in to Erick Erickson’s radio program later today. Erick is moving into Herman Cain’s old time slot and will have on as a guest none other Mr. Cain, whom you undoubtedly know has formed an exploratory committee for running for president, an endeavor he is, in his words, “prayerfully considering” carrying out.

    Here’s the link to Erick’s article about his program today:

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/02/01/herman-cain-me/

    Thank you again for getting into the real ball game of politics where you live. I hope you’ll post additional Diaries about your experiences.

    For Liberty,

    ColdWarrior

  • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

    I hope it encourages others from GA reading this to follow your lead.

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

    IF GA is like many other states, the PC (Precinct Committeemen) are going to discover that they have far more power than they anticipated. In other states, the PCs either select, or furnish the list from which vacancies like prosecutor, sheriff and judges (along with lawmakers) are filled.

    Wanna be a voting delegate at the national nominating convention? If you’re not a PC, you probably won’t be considered.

    On our national conference calls, we have learned that there is a definite vacuum at the state level – good workers at the precinct and county level are quickly drafted upward to serve at the state level and choose your state chair and RNC committeecritters.

    I just shot the folks at the web site you linked: http://gagopconvention.info/how_to.php and got a reply within 5 minutes!

    So together you are doing God’s work.

    Keep it up CJC, we need more folks like you.

    PS: the link you provided to http://gagopconvention.info earned Georgia teh ‘Certified Authoritative’ seal for authoritative information over at PROCINCT.net – you are helping more than you know.

  • bens

    Change Jar,

    Thank you for the excellent work you are doing.

    I share your perceptions of Mitch Daniels and Mike Huckabee :)

    Let’s keep in touch.

  • Change Jar Conservative

    Just a reminder if you live in Georgia to be there and to post a link to this article on your facebook so we can make a change in Georgia.