George Keller Eric Gorney
Chuck Durand Mary Jane Westall
Sandra Bradbury Bill Lack
Frank
Nancy Day: 251-1988 Michelle Cox: 683-4620
Robin Ramsey: 628-3216 Renee Russell: 684-0037
Bill Porter: 252-4441 Bob Long: 258-9987
Frances Cosgrove: 254-1015 Matthew Hebb: 337-0728
Ron Dayton: 258-0807 Bill Reynolds: 686-9060
Jennifer Styles: 667-8511 Daniel Rodriguez: 628-0804
Jerry
Orr: 669-9279 Beki
Alice Keller: 252-4423 Bill Lack: 253-5709
Chairman George Keller called the meeting to order at
Sandra
Bradbury called the roll. A quorum was
present.
Minutes
of the last meeting were approved as shown on the website. The finance report is also on the
website. We are spending approximately
$250 per month for headquarters expenses.
We
will have no presence this year at Bele Chere or the Greek Festival. There is no information yet on Festiva
Latina. Eric Gorny has paid for a booth
at Goombay, August 25-27. The Mountain
State Fair is from September 8-17.
We
are planning a picnic for poll workers and judges. The Jarrett Farm has been reserved for
Saturday, September 12. Sunset on that
day will be at
There
was much discussion on how to set up booths.
R. L. Clark said the State GOP will be in the booth with local GOP at
the Fair and he wanted to know if they will continue their campaign to get our
money instead of giving contributions to local candidates. Chuck said we plan to make cards showing our
candidates that people can use at the polls.
We should have those in time for the Fair. George said the State GOP wants us to use
their cards that show none of our local candidates. There was some discussion about a color for
our cards. We will print 5,000 and hand
them out before elections and at the polls.
We
need to have representatives at Early Voting, which will be held downtown and
at four libraries starting October 19.
George got 28 responses about the draft platform. We still have no platform. In George’s opinion, the Republican Party is
being dragged down by
Ed
Osada noted our meetings are not well attended.
We seem to be getting away from the personal touch. He thought we should call people on the
phone. Eric said he tried that but did
not get any better response. George will
ask Carl Mumpower why people do not respond and do not show up at our
meetings. Bill Lack suggested putting
everyone on the postcard list. Kathie
Lack suggested firing those who do not participate.
George
asked if it was better to have an open job or someone who does not help. Chuck said we have 75 Precinct Chairmen and
generally 60% who do their jobs. They
usually do not come to meetings but do a good job otherwise. Don thought those people and Precinct Judges
needed to be recognized. We could do that
at the picnic. Chuck said Steve Starnes
is the best Precinct Chairman ever. He
is absolutely reliable, but will not speak in public.
Mary
Jane noted that volunteer participation is down all over the country. People are tired of doing things all the
time. We need to go with what we have and thank
those who help. The Bush campaign is
recognizing a lot of people. Eric said
at the State Convention they ranked all categories and
George
said he has not entered us in the Five-Star Campaign because there is too much
data to accumulate. Kathie volunteered
to have a home coffee for a candidate.
Suzanne Cole will do one for Eric on August 29.
George
noted that Carl Mumpower is in a terrible minority. He wanted to know if Republicans would do a
Top-A-Stop as a Republican activity.
George told Carl we are too busy.
Everybody who wants to be active is working hard right now.
Don
read the motion regarding unaffiliated voters passed recently at the Action
Club. Ed Osada said there are supposed
to be three Republican clerks, three Democrat clerks and one judge from each
party at the polls. If we have all the
Republicans we need, where is there room for unaffiliated people to work? Chuck replied he has used unaffiliated
workers for the Republican party for years. They would only work where we have
vacancies.
Chuck
said there are 8,463 unaffiliated voters.
They had worked the polls by exception only and will only do it
that way in the future. Chuck thought
the resolution did not have strong enough language. The idea is great, but we need a way to
discriminate.
Bill
Lack said the situation today is that many precincts only have two or three
Republicans on the list. One might not
show up, so the Chief Judge selects the replacement and will use a
Democrat. He felt it was better to have an unaffiliated
worker.
Don
moved to accept the resolution and the motion passed. George will read it to Matt Matan on his
show. Chuck said this is a non-binding
situation. We work from our charter and
this is a resolution. We are already
doing it. It will help us get workers
for the next election.
Lori’s
Pettit and her son, Aaron, spoke about the Republican Kids Club and said they
need projects. They have put together
signs for one of the judge candidates and plan to work at the Fair and at the
polls. Kathie arranged to have them make
“No Immigation” buttons.
Chuck
said Tim Peck bought a great banner for the Action Club. Chuck passed the hat to help pay for it.
Eric
said there would be a fundraiser tomorrow night at
The
meeting adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
Sandra
Bradbury, Secretary