Become a Precinct Committeeman!

This is a reprint from: The Precinct Project

 Let's fill our Precinct Committees with 9.12/Tea Party Patriots!

This is the first step to revitalizing the Republican Party as the party of True Conservative Values!

It's up to us. There is nobody else. We are the New Founding Fathers...the ones the Future of Freedom is depending on!

Carol
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The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy, outlined below, entails a tried-and-true, peaceful, Constitutional, ballot box solution to our present political predicament. The procedures and system for this solution have been in existence for decades. Obama used them.

If you think you already have the solution for stopping the Democrats’ headlong rush to destroy our country, I don’t want to waste your time.

Stop reading.

Stop wasting your time and do not read any further if you will not go to a Republican Party meeting or walk a precinct on behalf of a candidate. If the future of your country is worth a few hours a month outside your comfort zone, read on.

Just one or two generations ago, our forefathers all knew their precinct committeemen. My dad did (I’m 53 and I remember, when I was knee-high to a howitzer, the Kennedy-Nixon contest – my dad was, alas, a Kennedy guy. But I still adored my dad. He was my “main hero.”) My dad was a precinct committeeman.

Obama Used The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy To Defeat Billary.

Need more recent evidence that the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy can work? Obama and his minions used this Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy to defeat Hillary and Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party establishment in the Democrat Party presidential primaries. Obama and his backers came out of nowhere to defeat the complacent “powers that be” of the Democrat Party. You don’t have to believe me – see the evidence with your own eyes. Search YouTube using the search words obama precinct captain. That search will bring back many videos of brand new Democrat Party precinct committeemen (also referred to in some states as precinct captains) explaining how they were recruited into the Democrat Party’s precinct committeeman ranks and how important their efforts will be for Obama to win the nomination.

This strategy has already worked in 2009 in Nevada and Minnesota. And Utah grass roots conservatives have united there to INVADE the Republican Party to vote in the upcoming 2009 Party primary elections at the GOP state convention.

Obama and those who write the speeches for his Teleprompter now want to further solidify their power through ACORN and by taking over the Census. All the more reason for conservatives to implement the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy in the Republican Party.

We need more than feel-good Tea Parties. Do not get me wrong; the Tea Parties are great for networking and for physically demonstrating our numbers and wrath to the existing officeholders. The April 15, 2008 Tea Parties affected Obama and his minions. They first tried to ignore them. After the Tea Parties received media coverage, Obama and those who write his teleprompter scripts started to bad-mouth them. Obama’s friends in the mainstream media ridiculed the Tea Partiers. But, we need more than rallies and choir-preaching on internet blogs and web sites. Let’s face it – no Tea Party on April 15, 2008, had the numbers that Obama had at many of his rallies. Not one of those Tea Parties would have even filled up half of a Major League ball park. Those are the facts. With Twitter and Facebook, etc., perhaps those numbers will increase, and I hope they do. The relatively small numbers who have turned out for Tea Parties, as compared to Obama rallies during the campaign, is not surprising – conservatives work for a living, unlike many of Obama’s supporters. We don’t have time to go to rallies. But, here’s the bottom line: unless those Tea Parties translate into election victories in 2010, they are worthless.

A Few Hours A Month Is All It Takes — And It’s Easy.

Rather than spending a few hours at a Tea Party, do YOU have a couple of hours a month to spend on a weeknight and, perhaps, on a Saturday, to take our country back? Is your, and your children’s, liberty not worth at least that?

Don’t Have A Few Hours A Month? Stop Reading.

If you can’t spare a couple of hours a month, don’t waste your time. Stop reading.

Where do the candidates on our primary ballots come from? An estimated 95 per cent of the candidates of the Republican and Democrat parties who win the primary election are those who are endorsed by the leadership of those parties.

Do You Know Who Elects The Party Leaders? Did You Elect Them?

Who elects the leadership of the parties? Do you know? Are you a registered Republican? Guess what? As a “mere” registered Republican voter, without more, you DID NOT have a vote in the election of the present leadership of the Republican Party. Sorry, but those are the facts.

Stop Reading Now If You Do Not Want More Information.

ONLY elected precinct committeemen get to vote for the leadership of the Party. Do I yet have your attention? Ponder the fact that ONLY elected precinct committeemen get to elect the Party leadership. Don’t you want to have a vote in those elections?

If not, stop reading.

About 3,141 counties exist in the United States. Each has a county party organization. And, those county organizations almost always endorse candidates in the party primaries. And, usually, those party-endorsed candidates win. Tired of the kind of Repubican In Name Only Republicans who are winning the primaries? Then DO SOMETHING REAL and become a Republican Party precinct committeeman! Guess what? About half of the Republican Party precinct committeeman slots, nationwide, are unfilled!

Do I yet have your attention? Has the light bulb above your head clicked on yet? In some counties, like the one where I reside, Maricopa County, Arizona, within which Phoenix sits, TWO-THIRDS of the precinct committeeman slots in the Republican Party sit unfilled.

Spend a few moments and picture this in your mind’s eye: thousands of conservatives flock to the Republican Party and join it as precinct committeemen. And, in the next internal party elections, these conservatives (you, me and others) elect NEW, CONSERVATIVE leadership. (Or, instead, these same conservatives (me, excepted) sit behind their computer screens and put first on their priority list, instead of second, writing that next, great blog post that is going to, somehow, save the republic.)

Exit your mind’s eye. Back to reality.

The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy CAN work. Now. I have seen it work first hand. Click on the Nevada and Utah links here for more proof. I was, just by chance, part of achieving this kind of outcome in my legislative district in the 2008 internal party elections. Somewhat by design, somewhat by chance (I was one of those “newbies” who just, by chance, came into the Party PC ranks), conservatives, in my legislative district, defeated the old-guard, moderate Republican candidates by electing conservatives to the leadership positions. Same thing happened at the county and state levels. (Don’t know what a legislative district is? Hang in there – an explanation follows.) But the margins were razor-thin. And we conservatives could lose in 2010.

But we won’t lose if conservatives will leave their keyboards and get into the REAL political ball game.

 So, I and others try to recruit more conservatives into the precinct committeeman ranks. We try to get people off the sidelines and into the ACTUAL, REAL ball game. The rough-and-tumble hard work of actually showing up – God forbid – at a Republican Party legislative district meeting once a month. Instead of typing away to the conservative choir on the internet. Egads! Oh, the misery! For example, on July 4th, 2009, I attended two Tea Parties in an attempt, with posters and flyers and conversation, to recruit conservatives into the Republican Party precinct committeeman ranks. Several other PCs, at my urging, committed to do the same and helped me.

Every county is divided up into legislative districts from which your state assembly and senate candidates are elected.

 Each legislative district is divided up into precincts. Precincts generally, in a city, are about the size of five or ten city blocks, depending upon the population density of the city. (My precinct, in suburban Tempe, Arizona, is about a half mile on each side.)

Each precinct is allowed a number of precinct committeemen. For example, in Arizona, each party is allowed one precinct committeeman, plus an additional one for each 125 registered voters of that party as of March 1 of the general election year. (My precinct is allowed to have 8 precinct committeemen, and three of the slots are vacant – I’m working on filling those vacant slots with conservatives.) Arizona has over 2,239 precincts, with 1,142 in Maricopa County. Two thirds of the six thousand Republican Party precinct committeeman slots in Maricopa County currently are unfilled. I, along with others, am working on that, too! (In my legislative district, LD 17, thirty per cent of the precincts have NO elected precinct committeemen!)

So, What Does One Have To Do To Become A Precinct Committeeman?

If you do not think being a precinct committeeman is important, stop reading. I do not want to waste your time.

The requirements vary from state to state, but Arizona is typical. One has to get 10 registered Republican or independent voters from their precinct to sign a nomination form requesting that their name be placed on the primary ballot. (In Ohio, for example, one needs only 5 signatures.)

Most precinct committeemen run unopposed. I was able to get my ten signatures in fewer than three hours on a Saturday. As suggested by the existing PCs, I got five extra signatures just to be safe (people move!). Before gathering your signatures, the Party will give you a computer print out showing where all the voters in your precinct live. And how often they voted in the last four elections. You go to the homes of those voters who ALWAYS vote. They will be happy to sign your nomination papers. It’s fun. I took my impressionable then-eight year-old boys along. A great, real-life civics lesson.

Because most precinct committeemen run unopposed, most counties, to save money, get the parties to agree that all non-contested precinct committeeman candidates be omitted from the ballot to save printing costs.

That’s one reason why most voters don’t know about the office of precinct committeeman. Another reason: public schools no longer teach Civics.

So, what to do? About 200,000 precinct committeemen slots nationwide in the Republican Party are vacant.

Hmmm. The NRA has about 4 million members. Think we could get some of them to become Republican Party precinct committeemen? Or Federalist Society members? Or other Constitution-loving folks?

If You Will Not Become A Precinct Committeeman, Read No Further.

Will YOU become a Republican Party precinct committeeman? If not, stop wasting your time. Stop reading.

If our existing elected Republican Party leaders will not respect our Constitution, then we must kick them out of office and replace them It’s a pure numbers game. The more Constitution-respecting conservatives join the precinct committeeman ranks, the more Constitution-respecting, and conservative, the leadership will be. And then, that conservative, Constitution-respecting leadership will endorse the candidate in the primary who is most faithful to the Constitution.

Is this all new to you? Why? Think about it. I was taught all of this in Civics in seventh grade in my public school in 1968. (I grew up in a rural county in the Midwest in the Sixties and early Seventies – we learned this stuff and saw its implementation first-hand.) Plus, I had the benefit of having a great dad (an Army veteran of Korean War vintage), who was a city councilman, county board member and county board chairman (among other public offices), and he taught me all of this early in life.

My 1968 school class photo shows me wearing a “NIXON NOW” button despite the fact my dad HATED Dick Nixon! We had great political discussions! God, how I miss him (my dad, not Nixon!). And I had a couple of uncles who were involved in party politics. One was a mayor of a small town (he drove a truck from Normandy Beach to Berlin and fought in the Battle of the Bulge), the other a dairy farmer and rural town clerk. Their highest academic degree was a high school diploma. Back when that meant something. They are at the top of my list of heroes.

What Will You DO?

But what about you? Is this new to you? If not, why are you not a precinct committeeman? And if it is new to you, don’t you think you should become one? I do.

Thank you.

I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican precinct committeeman. And trying to recruit more.

American first, conservative second, Republican precinct committeeman BY NECESSITY!