As members of the Nevada GOP’s various Central Committees continue to bask in their relative irrelevance, party leaders in other states continue to provide leadership by actively screening candidates, evaluating them, and issuing pre-primary endorsements…all in an effort to boost the chances of nominating the best, strongest GOP candidate for November’s general elections.
And isn’t winning elections what the party organization is supposed to be all about?
Wisconsin Republicans endorsed candidates at their convention a couple weeks ago. And unlike in Nevada, Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, actually attended the confab!
Connecticut Republicans followed suit last weekend. Here’s a report from POLITICO’s Morning Score: "Republicans will endorse candidates for U.S. Senate and five congressional seats Friday at their party convention in Hartford. … Also Friday, Republican delegates will endorse a candidate in each of the state's five congressional districts.”
Similarly, Political Diary reported on Friday that “Rather than hold a primary, the (Minnesota) GOP selects candidates for statewide office via a nominating convention.”
Ditto Utah, where a Republican candidate automatically goes to the general election if he or she receives 60% of the vote or more at the state GOP convention…obviously making convention delegates EXTREMELY important and relevant. Just ask Sen. Orrin Hatch, who two weeks ago came up just short of the 60% needed at the nominating convention to avoid going to a statewide primary.
Seriously, Nevada Republicans.
How much more interesting and substantive and meaningful and relevant would your GOP convention in Sparks have been three weeks ago if, say, on Friday night there had been a debate featuring the Republican candidates for the state’s new 4th congressional district, followed by an endorsement vote the next day?
Ditto the various GOP primaries for state legislative seats.
Wouldn’t it have been productive to have state senate candidates Assemblymen Richard McArthur and Scott Hammond debating and competing for the official Republican seal of approval at the Republican convention leading up to the Republican primary?
How about Jim Wheeler vs. Kelly Kite…or Brent Jones vs. Mari St. Martin?
No. Instead you spent the weekend arguing over Rule 4-B and other Robert’s Rules of Nonsense.
Yeah, THAT’S the ticket. THAT’LL elect more Republicans. You go, girl!
Talk about stuck on stupid.
DON’T HEDGE, SIGN THE PLEDGE
If you don’t want your taxes raised, tell candidates if they don’t sign the Pledge, they don’t get your vote. Or your donation.
TAX PLEDGE SIGNERS FOR 2012
U.S. Senate: Sen. Dean Heller
U.S. Senate: Ed Hamilton
CD1: Charmaine Guss
CD 1: Bill Pojunis
CD 2: Rep. Mark Amodei
CD 3: Rep. Joe Heck
CD 4: Ken Wegner
CD 4: Mike Delarosa
CD 4: Kiran Hill
CD 4: Joe Silvestri
CD 4: Danny Tarkanian
State Senate 1: Gregg Hughes
State Senate 7: Trish Marsh
State Senate 9: Brent Jones
State Senate 18: Assemblyman Richard McArthur
State Senate 19: Janine Hansen
State Assembly 2: Assemblyman John Hambrick
State Assembly 4: Michele Fiore
State Assembly 5: Barry Keller
State Assembly 9: Victoria Seaman
State Assembly 9: Kelly Hurst
State Assembly 10: Tim Farrell
State Assembly 13: Leonard Foster
State Assembly 14: Amy Groves
State Assembly 15: Megan Heryet
State Assembly 17: Patrick Mendez
State Assembly 21: Swadeep Nigam
State Assembly 21: Les McKay
State Assembly 35: Tom Blanchard
State Assembly 39: Jim Wheeler
State Assembly 40: Assemblyman Pete Livermore
State Assembly 41: Phil Regeski
State Assembly 42: Robert McEntee
Reno City Council: S. Rowan Wilson
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UPCOMING EVENTS
June 8-10: 2012 Conservative Leadership Conference in Las Vegas
June 12: Nevada Primary Election
June 15-16: RightOnline blogger conference in Las Vegas
June 18-20: Campaigns & Elections “Art of Political Campaigning” seminar, Washington, DC
July 11-14: Freedom-Fest at Bally’s in Las Vegas
August 27-30: Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida
November 6: General Election
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