runderwo
03-05-2008, 07:10 PM
BE ON COMMITTEES
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It has come to my attention that many people do not know what the Committees at your County and State Convention are. These are not the "executive committees" that the Committeemen and Committeewomen are elected to. These are the committees known as Platform, Rules, and Credentials (and some will have a Delegate committee). It is VERY important that you do the following:
1. Know how to get on these committees; is it done at precinct meeting, by calling GOP, by calling committee chair, etc? You may have to talk to several different GOP people to get a straight answer.
2. Once you are on the committee, find out the date/time/location of ALL Committee meetings, and disseminate this to your State coordinator and every RP supporter that can also attend
3. Other people can just show up and be on the committee!
The Platform committee is especially important to have the most numbers possible. Followed by the Rules committee, because if you need to vote some BS amendment down, you need the people there to do it. You should also make sure you are represented on Credentials, especially in a closed primary state, to make sure that would-be delegates are not rejected for bogus reasons.
Do not mistake the committee meetings for the committee REPORTS that are listed on the call to convention. At convention the committees will be presenting their reports, and the report as a whole will be voted up or down with little debate. You want to be part of the process that CREATES these reports, which always happens before the convention.
Most jurisdictions will only allow you to serve on 1 committee per cycle.
If you are on a committee, don't show up even 1 minute late because you may be kicked off.
Committee meetings usually start 1 week before the convention, so if it's approaching that time and you haven't figured the committee thing out yet, NOW is the time to do it. Only one person needs to find out the committee meeting information, and it can be passed around openly!
This is also a good thing to do because it helps you build relationships with party people who will also be there, and it will at the same time put fear in them about the numbers you bring to committee, while it also relieves their fears that we are a bunch of weirdo kooks who want to blow up the houses of the Republican Party.
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It has come to my attention that many people do not know what the Committees at your County and State Convention are. These are not the "executive committees" that the Committeemen and Committeewomen are elected to. These are the committees known as Platform, Rules, and Credentials (and some will have a Delegate committee). It is VERY important that you do the following:
1. Know how to get on these committees; is it done at precinct meeting, by calling GOP, by calling committee chair, etc? You may have to talk to several different GOP people to get a straight answer.
2. Once you are on the committee, find out the date/time/location of ALL Committee meetings, and disseminate this to your State coordinator and every RP supporter that can also attend
3. Other people can just show up and be on the committee!
The Platform committee is especially important to have the most numbers possible. Followed by the Rules committee, because if you need to vote some BS amendment down, you need the people there to do it. You should also make sure you are represented on Credentials, especially in a closed primary state, to make sure that would-be delegates are not rejected for bogus reasons.
Do not mistake the committee meetings for the committee REPORTS that are listed on the call to convention. At convention the committees will be presenting their reports, and the report as a whole will be voted up or down with little debate. You want to be part of the process that CREATES these reports, which always happens before the convention.
Most jurisdictions will only allow you to serve on 1 committee per cycle.
If you are on a committee, don't show up even 1 minute late because you may be kicked off.
Committee meetings usually start 1 week before the convention, so if it's approaching that time and you haven't figured the committee thing out yet, NOW is the time to do it. Only one person needs to find out the committee meeting information, and it can be passed around openly!
This is also a good thing to do because it helps you build relationships with party people who will also be there, and it will at the same time put fear in them about the numbers you bring to committee, while it also relieves their fears that we are a bunch of weirdo kooks who want to blow up the houses of the Republican Party.