Light Posts from DC
The Chairman and I are in Washington for a few days for the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting. The party stalwarts assemble to learn about what the RNC has been doing over the last year, what they are planning to do in the next year, and how they can help. Its a heavy dose of political red meat.
As you have probably noticed, blogging has and will continue to be light while we are at the conference. We got a light dusting of snow earlier, giving DC a soft white glaze. I’ll try to take some pictures and post them up here later.
“Blogging by Blackberry”
January 17th, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Glad to see you are out and about.
My question is …
What is happening here at home?
I am a Town Committee Vice Chair and the information on the State GOP website is sorely out of date.
Is everyone with you or is somebody running the ship at home?
If we are to proceed out here in the field, we need current information.
Is there anybody working to update the State GOP website, especially the Town Chair’s Resource Page?
It seems that with the current state of our political party, both Statewide and Nationally, that you folks would be spending your time at home, or at least making sure someone was in the home office.
Sorry to put a cloud over the trip … but … Is anybody home at State Central?
Regards …
A lonely Republican in Salisbury
January 17th, 2008 at 11:36 PM
If we are to proceed out here in the field, we need current information.
Good point carp, and to inject new ideas and think outside the box, sometimes the state party staff needs to meet with their counterparts from across the country to share ideas and brainstorm new strategies for success.
There still are staffers in the office, have you tried calling them to ask these questions, or is it easier to sit online and semi-anonymously take pot shots from your keyboard?
January 18th, 2008 at 5:22 AM
I should hardly consider these ‘pot shots’ … I am simply asking questions that I cannot seem to get answered elsewhere.
My calls don’t seem to get responses … that is to say messages that are left go unanswered.
Furthermore, it seems that since we live in a digital age, where the distribution of information is best accomplished via the internet, we would have a current website to guide those of us out here who are trying to do the work of our party.
In frankness, to have to resort to the stoneage art of the phone call is troubling to me, anyway. Why is there no email connection to State Central?
I just seek answers and came here in hopes of getting at least some type of response.
Well … Guess that worked.
BTW … Why is it everyone takes everything so personal?
Regards …
Trying to be a good Republican in Salisbury
January 18th, 2008 at 7:26 AM
Suggestion: I am not a party apparatus so I don’t know what has been done and what has not or been planned.
An on line forum (bulletin board for the old guys) that could be secured and not viewable to the general public could facilitate the flow of information. When one asks and gets an answer to a question, the response would be avail to all with the login and password.
I don’t think it should be used for super secret information like the upcoming ****** attempt or the *****. But for general info it could help.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:56 AM
There are probably no email addresses on the site because spam bots read them and flood the email addresses with crap.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:59 PM
smallcarp:
You can find email addresses for Chris Healy and Heath Fahle at the “About” page for this blog.
http://www.everydayrepublican.com/about/
January 18th, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Thank you newlondoncalling … I will use those email addresses to make my comments …
As for Ichabod Crane … I respectfully disagree when it comes to email addresses … I have multiple addresses for the things I do … and … YES … I get lots of SPAM … However …
That is part of the internet. It is not acceptable to have a website with no email contact under any conditions.
As for your earlier comment about ’semi anonymous’ … If you click on my ‘Screen Name’ … you will link to my Talk Show website which identifies me and some of the things I do … Hardly Anonymous …
I am simply trying to get information that just does not seem as available as it should be … after all … we are all trying to bring this party back to life and into control of this state and country … let us work together and make that happen.
If we are to survive and become a political force, we must change and adapt to our world …
In the real world, that change comes from the grassroots and swells toward the top.
If we in the small towns are left out of the dialogue and planning, then a big hole is left in the party.
I came here because I was not receiving the info I was looking for … That should not have happened in the first place.
I should suggest that we work at home to make a majority in the State House, take the Congressional Delegation, and move all our Towns and Cities to Republican control.
I am hard pressed to understand why we are not working harder here at home … Sorry … But look at where we are at?????
I am a LIFE LONG Republican … I am concerned … and I have the right to question …
I await your response …
Still in Salisbury … Not hiding … Just wondering???
January 18th, 2008 at 10:15 PM
smallcarp,
Thanks for your comments. A couple of points that may be of help to you:
We are hard at work toward an ambitious set of 2008 goals. We want to capitalize on the interest of the 2008 Presidential nominating process in Connecticut to create new Republican voters and energize existing Republicans. To this end, we are hosting a Straw Poll in Middletown next Friday night, January 25, starting at 6pm. We want to advocate for Republican principles and ideas as effectively as possible, so we are overhauling our weekly e-newsletter to those that sign up, The Republican Heard, and doing things like going to Washington D.C. so that we can learn how to improve our website so that we can more effectively distribute information. And most importantly, we want to expand the number of Republicans in the State House of Representatives, the State Senate, and the U.S. Congress. We are already executing plans to this end.
We do run a very “cost-effective” office of four full-time staff members - CTGOP contributors rightly expect us to run a tight ship. This poses some restrictions on us, but it nothing we cannot handle.
Yes.