April Showers Bring May Flowers

Mason Harrison's appointment as Chairman of the California College Republican occurs tomorrow.

Connecticut elects new leadership today.

Donald Trump called...

...he wants his self-promotion back.

CR TACTIC #3: Campus Tea-Party

"A tribe of red men, axe in hand,--
Behold the guests advancing!
How fast the stragglers join the throng,
From stall and workshop gathered!"

Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party"

As this blog has gained notoriety over the past few months, one certain e-mail from a reader has stuck in my head. The writer said that they were on the Exec board of a small chapter in Ohio. While their chapter received small donations from local contributors the liberals that run their campus student body are playing hide the ball with student funds. The campus body leadership had no problem giving funds to the Young Democrats, the Planned Parenthood student club, and Pirates and Ninjas club (yes, they exist). To the College Republicans they said "Take a Hike!"

My solution? Have a tea-party.

We're all active CRs in our chapter and we do the normal routine of going to meetings, having debates, and scrounging up enough money to bring David Horowitz to campus. If you're reading this blog you're probably a leader in your chapter or even a state federation. But why stop there? Every campus has a Student Government Organization (SGO). Theses SGO's set the pace for campus by hosting student-wide events. They host socials, dances, and everything under the sun. If your campus is anything like mine your SGO also brings speakers to campus and disburses thousands to student organization like the College Republicans.
As a College Republican you have the opportunity to take over these student-elected and student-run organizations. What? Take over you say?

You sure do. From the numerous campaigns you have worked on you are an operative. You know how to wage a GOTV effort to get friends and people you don't even know to the polls. You know all the little tips and tricks of grassroots politics that liberals have had a monopoly on for years.

Don't like the way your campus does things? Well, you got two choices. You can stay with CRs alone and live at the mercy of your SGO. Or, you can use the SGO for your own goals. Sure, you'll have to deal with liberals trying to block "Ann Coulter comes to campus and will make liberal cry Day". But that's just practice for the real world when we graduate. Might as well learn your craft at the next SGO meeting.

Get CRs in to SGO office.

Pop rocks + Bubblicious = You guessed it.

Say you're the former state chair of the New York College Republican federation. Over the past few months you have felt the squeeze of your political base in your native state while you are far away in California, diddling out statements for the California CR Federation. You're underworked. You're underappreciated. You need a break.

So what do you do?

Put in your CD of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and gallavant the town with the chairman of Tennessee Lindsey Moffett.

While We Were Away

Scott Strain was elected State Chairman of Nebraska, Ryan Brunner took control of Paul Gourley's old stomping grounds in South Dakota, Nick Pederson gained control of the other Dakota and Liz Lewis smoked out the competition in Maryland.

Congratulations!

After Texas' gamble the previous weekend, two other Southern states joined the resolution fray ...

Brandon Hembree's resolution in support of the CRNC's fundraising transparency passed in Mississippi. Hembree later boasted of a $2,000 bribe from Paul Gourley himself.

The College Republicans in Mississippi didn't like that too much and decided to throw Hembree out of office by electing Natalie Cole their new State Chairman.

Jon Thompson got elected in North Carolina, but only after the state had condemned every living organism known to man. New slogan: Don't Mess with North Carolina.

Suggestions for Reform

The Lonestar State, under the leadership of Eliza Vielma, passed this resolution at their convention on Saturday. Every state should pass their own resolution. It displays a great effort in attempting to bring about neccessary reforms that may make the CRNC a more cohesive political organization.


Texas Federation of College Republicans
Author: Eliza Vielma, State Chair of Texas

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

Whereas the College Republican National Committee would not exist without individual state federations; and,

Whereas, the College Republican Executive Board should fully disclose and inform state federations of all aspects of the official business of the CRNC; and,

Whereas, CRNC fundraising efforts take advantage of donors within individual states which should rightfully be shared with their respected state federations; and,

Whereas, the College Republican National Board has had a recent history of questionable activities, leadership, and elections;

Therefore, let it be resolved that the College Republican Executive Board must provide the Texas Federation of College Republicans, and other state federations, with full reports disclosing all detailed fiscal information, including but not limiting: donations, fundraising efforts, and budgets for the CRNC; and,

Therefore, let it further be resolved that the College Republican National Board must distribute 1/3rd of donations collected from all fundraising efforts to the state federation from which any donor is a resident; and,

Therefore, let it further be resolved that the CRNC approve a constitutional amendment that guarantees, in case of dispute of the result of a CRNC election, that if 1/3rd of the delegates or states dispute the result of the election, the CRNC must contract to the American Arbitration Association in order to assure that the election proceeded in accordance to normal election ethics.