1 Already did it. I'm thinking about becoming a Democratic Precinct Captain. That way I cover move the Dems right

2 Will there be graft available?

3 You, too, can stuff envelopes with 80 year old people who have nothing better to do at 2pm. On a saturday.

4 I am considering. I have a lot to keep up with already. But my wife loves politicing, and she's a hellova lot better looking than I am.

5 Better disposition too...

6

3 Lorien,

I've volunteered, if we don't do it the monbats and Ronulans will....

7

Honestly, I am not sure this isnt something that is just a sign-up to get on someone's email list. I signed up, dutifully gave them all my information and then waited. For DAYS. I then got an email that said they were redesigning their site and to contact a local coordinator and also STAY TUNED for their brand new website! NOT recommended until you actually SEE something these people have done via Precinct information. The information I got from them I could have easily googled via the RNC or TN GOP.  This smells fishy and I wont be responding to them further.

 

ALSO, the email they sent me had MISSPELLINGS in it. Enough said.

 

 

8 So, essentially, we become CIA-holes for the tea party movement?

9 Going to my town committee meeting this Sunday. Another Scott Brown victory party!

10 I'll go the Tea Party route.  Lindsey Graham runs the Republican party in this State.

11 labwrs, I didn't link that National Precinct Alliance site the NYT wrote about.  This is a do-it-yourself guide, with links, derived from the original suggestion of the idea last May.

You don't need some National Alliance to tell you what to do.  Just look at your state rules and contact your local GOP.

12 I was going to, but Arlen Special told me that politicking was for the menfolk.

13 The Tea Parties will never, ever be a third party.

"Lindsey Graham runs the Republican party in this State."

This is exactly the only way to change that.

14 will there be shwag??

15

Holy crap!

The precinct where I live is unfilled. I'm in.

It is in Travis county.

Avenge me if I disappear.

16 17 And, since I have been harping on it for a few days. If you don't want to be a precint captain, but hate election fraud, then sign up to be an election judge. The pay sucks (there isn't any) the hours suck (5 am to when the polls close) and you have to piss people off occassionally, but its the first line of defense against voter fraud.

Do I get to carry a nightstick/baton?

17

Posted by: someone at January 21, 2010 04:26 PM (njJQD

 

Thanks someone! I did that and got the correct info! The one that was mentioned in NYT was also promoted by local radio Conservative I listen to in the mornings..thought it might be information and linkage....oh well..live and learn! 

18 Boys! Avenge me! Avenge me!

19 Just filled out the app to be a precinct delegate and will mail it tomorrow.

20 13 I was going to, but Arlen Special told me that politicking was for the menfolk.

Posted by: Abby Adams at January 21, 2010 04:27 PM (pLTLS)

Bachmann and Palin will both be on Hannity today.  Lets hope they stomp on Arlen's shrivelled little nutsack.

21 um, as a registered democrat should i apply to be a gop delegate?

22 sven10077 at January 21, 2010 04:21 PM (Mhn4l)

I went down to the local GOP office during the 2008 election. I was amazed at how disorganized it was and how it seemed to have no set structure. Just people doing whatever they felt like doing. Which, while I was there, was listening to the radio.

23 "um, as a registered democrat should i apply to be a gop delegate?"

You either have to switch registrations or go infiltrate the Donks.

24

26 Lorien,

 

recall I was a volunteer in the Louisiana GOP and yes it was disorganized.....

 

the key is for people of vision to take the reins or at least whisper in the ear of those w/power.

We're PCSing again later this year and I will be far more active at the next town.

25 Mallamutt, I am a judge of election right here in Cook County.  A Republican judge, I might add.

It's true the pay sucks, but it's $125 for a fifteen-hour day, which is a little more than what you suggested.  I get to work with blue-collar Democrats as opposed to the overeducated nitwits - they're better company, and sometimes you can detect a glimmer of activity in the brain department. 

BTW it is now a lot harder to cheat here, or to vote in the guise of a dead person.  All signatures on the ballot applications are checked against the ones we have on record, and we keep careful record of who's voted that day, and who hasn't.  And the judges hold on to the ballot blanks - none of this grab-a-handful-of-ballots-and-stuff-the-box business.  The ballot scanners are electronic, so there's a printed record of the vote totals, so nobody can suddenly manufacture 1,000 Democratic votes in a precinct which only has about 800 voters total.
(The only way to have massive fraud in our precinct would be if everyone working there were in collusion, and that's not going to happen.)

We have occasional trouble with dimwits who want to vote even though they're not registered in our precinct (tell 'em to go vote in their own precinct and they look at you as though you've grown another head - it's all Chicago, so why can't they vote just anywhere?) but luckily we haven't had a lot of nasties to deal with.   Long may it last. 

26 3 You, too, can stuff envelopes with 80 year old people who have nothing better to do at 2pm. On a saturday.

Posted by: lorien1973 at January 21, 2010 04:19 PM (IhQuA)

Yeah, and sometimes you have to choose a nominee for a special election.

Like in NY-23.  That was the problem.

27 Do we get to handle money?

28 I like to see some activism at one of my favorite blogs.

Look, to get involved at the precinct level takes a bit more work and commitment than the linked website implies. To be effective at it, you will need to learn lots of parliamentarian rules, you'll be pressed into service as an election judge, you will get frequent phone calls at home, etc.

But the benefits are great. You will participate in regular meetings at the county level, interact with the candidates from local all the way up to state level, which is great, and get a chance to attend your state convention, which is a BLAST.

29 That website told me to stop reading it so many times, finally I just stopped reading it.  Hope I didn't miss anything!

30 Oops. name fix.

31 Sorry, tea party for me..

32

You, too, can stuff envelopes with 80 year old people who have nothing better to do at 2pm. On a saturday.

You know, if it got me away from a nagging wife and I had my IPOD handy...

Seriously, though, the future belongs to those who show up for it.

33 I decided to take the plunge and currently am collecting signatures in my precinct to put on the ballot as Republican Precinct Executive. We'll see what it brings.

34 My state gop website is such a cluster, nothing even comes up when you search for precinct chairman.  Unbelievable.

35

'You either have to switch registrations or go infiltrate the Donks.'

um, i actually prefer to be a democrat

##disclaimer##  okay, i know, i know, shut the hell up already, but this isn't the good old party of my parents, i don't know what it is

then again i'm a cubs fan, guess i like losing

36 I'm a chairman.  All power and glory are MINE.  MINE, MINE.  ALL MINE!

37 In the Spokane area.

38 I am doing it, just emailed the NYC GOP, I didn't know they existed ! Maybe its my job to make sure people know we exist.

39 You get a chance to help choose candidates and influence local, county and state politics. The whine fest is over. Put away the cheese and hunt hobos in your spare time. Put up or shut up time, folks.

40

My plan is to contact some of the local Republican politicos and see who I might offer up my meager talents to and how best I might be able to help...and help out the local tea party folks as much as possible.  Still pretty much like the concept of being an independent, but anything to stop the Dem machine in this state.

41 Thanks to all of you here who are, or will become, Republican Party precinct committeemen.  That's where the real political power lies.
Thank you.
ThePrecinctProject

42 I am not so sure that the GOP really has a dog in this fight.  Brown's victory was largely due to "party voters" essentially denying their party membership and moving into  more independent thinking.

Frankly, the Republican Party might find itself dead in the water given the influence of the Tea Partyers, Democrats moving into Independence, and Republicans doing the same in M'chussetts.

I am starting to believe that independent centrists are the real champions to depend on.  Of course, independents have no voice in Congress...yet.

43 Navycopjoe:

Do the same thing on the Demo side. Get motivated, get others motivated, join in the process and take back your party from the destructionists.

44 Hmm, well Grimmy, what if I became a community organizer?  I've often thought that might pay off some dividends down the road.  Kind of like a inside job type of person??

45 uj:

Just because Rules for Radicals was written by a cultural destructionist doesn't mean the same methods can be turned back on the scumbags.

Fight fire with fire.

46 While working on the Brown campaign, I hooked up with the local GOP committee. Step one.

47

Precinct committewoman since October

#11 Jim Greer and Charlie Crist used to run our state party, but they don't anymore! (Crist is toast for all practical purposes.) You and few like minded folks could do the same for Lindsey Graham.

You hook up with your county Republican Executive Committee to push them to the right and help promote conservative candidates that can win. If you can get your people elected, you can do without the greater population changing their voter registration (it would be nice, but the party is the means not the end). The website might look like crap. Organization may be nil. But chances are that some veteran there who can show you the ropes and will be delighted to have someone there who wants to work and not network.

The third party thing isn't going to happen. The Republican Party is there for the taking from the bottom up.

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49 OK, I did it, I signed-up with the local Republican office to walk precincts, register voters or play solitaire on their computers on weekends. I live in a hopelessly (D) district (CA-13) but what the heck, if it was easy it wouldn't be any fun.