A whole new "Party" and way to look at it...

Had the opportunity to attend the Republican 6^th district Gala held at the Stonewall Jackson in Staunton Virginia this weekend to recharge the “Conservative Republican” batteries. Impressive attendance with over 210 attendees and got to see many good Conservative friends and activists.

Noted a few usual local party people and learned that several were not attending due to the ongoing petty BS power plays by those who once “Ran” the local party. Must say that I DO NOT MISS the political bickering and powerplays by these people and in fact it’s probably good that these people did not attend this celebration of conservative ideas and practices for they would have only been undermining the efforts of the 6^th GOP at every opportunity. So much time and effort spent/wasted on promoting themselves and their efforts to control the party and oppose the people working to return this unit to an effective and growing unit. Gone are the days were a select few influenced and ruled the local committees to obtain and control the local members to march in their direction without question.

 It was a great event to visit and talk with old local GOP “activists” friends who continue to be active in the party and have become active in building a new inclusive party that returns and promotes more control to the local units as it should be. The 6^th district now has a new Chairman in Scott Sayre that strives to build the units and help them to both coordinate their individual units as well as work in unison with other units to represent the 6^th district and its members. I have spoken with Scott several times and like the way he thinks regarding on how to build/re-build a strong conservative party in Virginia at the 6th district level. His ideas on how to build the local party database to coordinate the single voter regarding both local, State, and National issues is very impressive and needs to be installed all across Virginia. Sayre has brought much to the 6th district and it was evident at the 6th district gala...

   One of the speakers at this event was Dinesh D'Souza who I have heard talk several times at Americans for Prosperity events. I even brought one of his books with me to sign and it was his book on Ronald Reagan he wrote back in 1993. I have used this book numerous times to dispute & educate those who said Reagan only increased debt as they ignore the incredible economy resulting from his policies. 

I very much enjoyed his speech on this night for he said what many of us believe and have said for sometime. Simply he focused on how the Liberal Democrat party has manipulated the message over the years\decades to where no matter what the issue they convince the public\voters that "it's not there fault"  and they are the solution. Take the message and mold it in such a way, with the help of mainstream media and our education system, and prevent those who do not know better that in fact the Democrat party is responsible for many of the issues... 

But there is hope.

I saw that in many of the old friends at this event and the direction they are steering the local party. I was told there were over 210 attendees to this event and I saw many encouraging comments and actions to prove this.

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Do something at your local level and make that change grow and influence it all the way up the line...

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Where were the "College-crats" like in the years past?...

For the last 15 years that I have lived in Virginia I have made the pilgrimage down to Buena Vista Virginia for the Labor Day parade which has always been the kick-off for both the Virginia and national campaign season.

Here in Virginia there is some type of political election going on so each year both parties, and even 3rd or odd parties, gather in BV for the annual parade and "speechifying" that always goes on.

Buena Vista in the past was known for the "Sign Wars" between the major parties and there have been hundreds if not thousands of campaign signs along the parade route. If I get a chance I will post some photos from years past for you to compare.

 With the many signs in the past the Democrats also showed up with large groups of college aged "Kids" who "Volunteered" to help put the signs up and cheer whenever the democrat candidate said a approved "Talking point" during the speeches. Many times I watched as these "volunteers" looked towards their coordinators to signal when to cheer and shake their campaign signs...

This years parade and festivities were very much different with the lack of Democrat support & exposure. Instead of hundreds\thousands of campaign signs and massive democrat "Supporters" today we saw the small contingent shown in the first photo.                  Approximately 10-12 "Senior-crats" with two small "Hillary" placard signs and not a college-crat to be found. There were signs for Degner but as his elections have shown in the past no big deal at all and nothing to see here...

By far the most interesting thing was to see the lack of support for the Hillary\Kaine ticket especially with Kaine being a ex-governor of Virginia. With that NO elected Democrats showing up to support their ticket or platform.
Lack of college "volunteers" shows that without "Compensation" or "Stuff" results in no turnout from this voter bloc...

Did have a interesting conversation with one of the GOP workers regarding why they could not make a sensible selection of campaign signs when it came to set-up  and got a rookie response. Boy it's hard to find proper sign techniques and practice when you need it... 

Remember before when you said you would vote for a Garden Gnome before you voted for Hillary...

Back before and even in the early GOP primaries many of you said you would vote objects and even a garden gnome before you voted for Hillary...

Now we have a legal and proper presidential candidate in Donald Trump and many, including elected Republicans, who are saying they will rather support\vote Hillary instead of Trump.

Fine. Stand on your principles and devotion to the established Republican party that has for far too long forgotten the hard working people that they claimed to fight for while putting up weak candidates. Even those who were elected, including majorities in House & Senate, failed to fight\defeat Obama's Liberal & Progressive actions thus losing the support of long time Republican voters...

Many of us are just done with a "established" national party that claimed they were supporting smaller government but watched a debt that is now close to $20,000,000,000,000 even when this party "controlled the purse strings" in the House. We watched the Speaker of the House in Boehner who would cry in a heartbeat but failed to confront Obama and the Democrats. And there are so many things over the past 8 years and even decades that people from both sides and the "middle" are fed up thus the popularity of Trump & Bernie.

So go ahead and vote for Hillary with everything you know about her and what she has done over the decades. Ignore the lies. Ignore the theft and manipulation of the media and public. Ignore her actions, and lack of action in Benghazi as the Secretary of State. Ignore the Laws that she has broken and damage done to so many people. Ignore the many promises that she continues to make that will drive this country even further into the hole. Ignore her lack of integrity and honesty and history of intimidation.

So instead of supporting Trump who might not be the "Ideal" presidential candidate, go ahead and elect Hillary and live with that. Instead of working with a President Trump to correct what Obama & Democrats have done over the past decade and get us back towards a conservative and ethical government, go with Hillary...

How much support do you think you will get from the true Conservative and Independent (middle) voters next time after 4/8 years of Hillary?

Good luck with that... 

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D-day...

6th District Chairman Scott Sayre...

Well said by the new Chairman of the 6th district and exactly what the VA-GOP needs !!!

Where is the coverage in the 6th?...

As I search for coverage of the 6th district convention that recently happened I find nothing but crickets chirping from the old standby Valley bloggers such as LynnRmitchell & Bearing Drift when you would think they would report what was going on in the 6th? Turns out every day when I check I find "Nada" on these sites and can only imagine they are NOT HAPPY with the results from the convention...

What is up with that for both of these sites have been very vocal on other conventions in Virginia so I can only take that they are NOT happy with the outcome of the 6th convention...

Sad, for the results show that the population are tired of the politics of the 6th and the same old leadership coming out of the 6th. As with national politics we are looking for STRONG conservative leaders who will stand for the constitution and what the people believe in...

Identify the Problem(s)!!!

Grassroots Republicans grow in number and influence

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Ken Adams | Posted 7 days ago

Major events are occurring in the Republican Party of Virginia. This article will discuss some of those events and explain their significance.

Let’s begin with a brief description of the organization of the RPV. The base of the Party encompasses 133 local committees, such as the Waynesboro Republican Committee.

The next level encompasses 11 Congressional District Committees, which overlay the geographic areas of Virginia’s 11 Congressional Representatives. The 6th Congressional District covers the Shenandoah Valley and is represented in Congress by Bob Goodlatte. The members of the 6th District Committee are the Chairpersons of the local committees within the District.

The top level of the RPV is the State Central Committee which has 84 members who are elected at Congressional District Conventions in the Spring of even-numbered years.

As you may know, there are two main groups within the Republican Party, the Establishment and the grassroots. The Establishment is led by elected officials and funded by large corporations. The grassroots are local people who seek to elect officials who will accurately represent them. They receive no outside financial support and are staffed by volunteers, not employees.

Now, let’s look at the long-term trends and recent events.

Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the center of gravity of the Republican Party has been shifting from Establishment to grassroots. On a sustained incline, the influence of the grassroots has been increasing.

The tug-of-war between the Establishment and the grassroots continues today. Increasingly, the Establishment cannot depend on Republican voters to sustain them. That is why 33 State Republican Parties, such as Virginia’s RPV, use Open Primaries, which allow non-Republicans to choose Republican candidates for office.

But month after month, and year after year, the Republican Establishment is eroding like a sand castle. And month after month and year after year, the grassroots are becoming more numerous and more influential.

There is no better place to see that shift than right here in the 6th Congressional District.

The 6th District Committee has 32 members. Years ago, the majority of those members were supporters of the Establishment. Today, the majority of the members are grassroots people, or as they preferred to be called, Constitutional Conservatives.

A key member of the 6th District Committee has always been the Chairman. The current Chairman declined to run for re-election. To fill the vacancy, the Establishment enlisted Ralph Smith, a retired State Senator from Roanoke. On Tuesday, March 22, Smith announced that he was withdrawing from the race to be the Chairman of the 6th District Committee. With two months of campaign time left before the election, Smith quit.

In a published statement, Smith wrote, in part, “The outcomes of recent local unit chairmanship races and the degree of turnover within those units, make it abundantly clear that the gap within the Republican Party that I saw earlier has continued to expand rather than shrink.”

The most significant insight from Ralph Smith’s campaign is his inability to identify the cause of the gap within the Republican Party. Most people, even casual political observers, understand that the gap exists because the Establishment does not represent grassroots voters.

Here are two examples of the lack of representation. The Establishment funds Obamacare, and the grassroots want it repealed. The Establishment funds illegal immigration and the grassroots want it stopped.

For some inexplicable reason, the Establishment just does not get it. And because they do not get it, the grassroots of the Republican Party will continue to increase in numbers and influence.

Ken Adams is the Chairman of the Waynesboro Virginia Republican Committee.

Printed in the NewsVirginian

Maybe if Obama was a real Leader...

Obama and his crew continues to blame the Republicans for keeping him from completing his entire agenda...

Maybe if we had a real Leader who would unite the country to go forward asChurchill did?...

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The Conservatives are coming out in force...

Woke this morning to news that the Augusta County Republican Committee (ACRC) once again conducted and completed another successful mass meeting and elected a new Chairman to the committee. Depending on which media report you read, the meeting went off well with no problems or the "Established Political world" as some see it has gone to "H" "E" "double hockey sticks... 

Bob Stuart over at the NewsVirginian reported once again on this ritual mass meeting as he has done for years and wrote that Delegate Ben Cline came out in support of Curt Lilly who was the eventual winner of the chairman position. "Cline said it is important to capture as many of the 13,000 county voters who participated in this month's presidential primary as possible in November."

Strong Conservative candidates have been doing well recently and many committees are striving to get back to conservative values & practices and this has to have the "establishment" worried. As with what is going on in national politics and the run for the White house, the local conservatives are turning up in large numbers at political events not happy with the ever growing federal government and little reaction or action from their elected Republican representatives.

I also read elsewhere about the LARGE turnout at the Halifax mass meeting where over 300+ eligible voters attended and changed the leadership there also. The losing side noticed and appears to have issues with numerous busloads of church goers showing up and voting. Seems like the kind of people we want to show to help fix this mess to me...

Another report from the Augusta County mass meeting had the "establishment" world taking a beating from those crazy Tea Party people who continue to show up in larger & larger numbers looking to take back their government. This local "blogger" was present and providing cutting edge reports in a "Live blogging" format and did not seem happy with the changes or turnout. 

The "Live Blogger" Lynn R Mitchell was quick to point out anybody who was, or perceived to be, a Tea Party member as soon as they were mentioned and in a less than favoring manner. In fact this blogger even "Live blogged" that the husband of the ACRC Chairwoman who was replaced by Lily is the director of the Shenandoah Valley Tea Party Patriots. Boy, just Tea Party people showing up everywhere you look...

The "Live-blogger" then went on to identify and criticize those temporarily elected to run the mass meeting by the conservative republicans attending the mass meeting. Even to the point of wishing the temporary chairman (Tea Party) to know what was going on and then also identifying the Parliamentarian as a Tea-party'er. Even took a jab at the Chairman of the Staunton committee for supporting Lily for chairman in prior days...

The dialogue then continues to go on about and identifying those speakers who seem to favor nominating candidates by CONVENTION. This procedure endangers those in the establishment incumbent circle who like to call out for support from the Democrats in primaries because they are less conservative then stronger candidates that the Dem's fear...

To sum it all up both reports indicate that there were 181 eligible voters, 86 voters favored Georgia Long, but the majority went with Curt Lily producing 95 votes making him the new ACRC Chairman.

This to some appears to be a danger to the "establishment" GOP which needs to understand that there is a large number, and most likely a majority, out there that desires a change in the GOP game plan in response to the last seven years. But this would signal a change in the control of the local committees which obviously some have a problem with. The Live blogging session ended up with "This committee has just officially fallen into the Sayre camp".  This in RightsideVA's opinion is a good thing and is needed to organize and grow the Conservative Republican party to YES "Make America Great Again"!!!

Oppressive control by committee leadership has been a problem in the past and all of GOP needs to understand and utilize ALL of those on the conservative side of the fence to fix & better our government at all levels...

   

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