With the conclusion of our endorsing convention, we now have a full slate of endorsed candidates. But this is just the start! Between now and November, each of our candidates will need your help to pull out a win on Election Day!
So contact each of our endorsed candidates to see how you can help!
Pat Hall - Candidate for Senate District 57
Tara Mack - Candidate for House District 57A
Anna Wills - Candidate for House District 57B
As was previously announced, we have an endorsing convention coming up. To help be prepared for everything going on, there are some materials you can download and review in advance.
- Rules & Agenda - Pretty simple, it's what we got lined up and the rules we plan to follow to make that happen. Of particular interest may be the thresholds for an endorsement.
- Comparison Chart for State Senate Candidates - All three candidates for State Senate completed the Nominating Committee Questionnaire. We've quoted excerpts from those questionnaires for all candidates to help you compare what they're all about.
- Anna Wills Questionnaire - To our knowledge there is only one candidate for State House, and we've presented the same excerpts for her questionnaire here.
There you go. If you have any other questions, please let me know.
The SD57 Executive Committee has announced it's upcoming Endorsing Committee to be held on Saturday, April 28th 2012 at:
Rosemount Middle School
3135 143rd Street West
Rosemount, MN 55068
Registration starts at 8:30 AM and gavel is at 9:00 AM.
There are two major agenda items, endorsing a candidate for the SD57 State Senate seat and endorsing a candidate for HD57B House seat.
We will soon publish several items for your review in advance. They include
- Agenda & Rules
- Excerpts of candidates responses to the Nominating Committee Questionnaire
Thank you for your participation!
Kevin Ecker
SD57 Secretary
The Senate District 57 Republicans held their organizing convention on Saturday, March 17th, 2012. Due to redistricting this was a very busy convention, but thanks to the hard work of many former SD37 leaders and current precinct chairs, it was a great success.
The delegates passed a SD57 Constitution, and elected new leadership. They also elected delegates to the Congressional District 2 and MN GOP State party conventions.
One major agenda item, however, was postponed until a later date...endorsing candidates. Due to the last minute retirement by Senator Gerlach and Rep. Bills choosing to run for US Senate, there wasn't much time for delegates to consider other options for endorsement. Instead the delegates directed the Executive Committee to set an Endorsing Convention within 45 days.
Despite this, we've begun preparing for the 2012 elections, and we're confident that once again all three seats will go to Republicans for 2013 and 2014.
As many of you have been notified, a convention has been called to form the new Senate District 57. Our convention will take place on March 17th, 2012 at:
Eastview High School
6200 140th Street West
Apple Valley, MN 55124
Registration will open at 8:30 AM. The nominations committee will meet with all candidates at 8:45 AM. We will be called to order at 9:00 AM.
Due to redistricting this will be a very busy convention, since we have a lot to do. To help things go a little faster, we ask you to download and review the following documents in advance.
Please review all the documents above. If you have changes you'd like to see made to the Constitution or Rules, please write them down in advance. For the resolutions, try to come to a yes or no decision on each one, otherwise if you'd like one pulled for further debate, be prepared to make a motion to do so.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!
As you probably know by now, the bulk of Senate District 37 will soon become Senate District 57. Part of that process is organizing a new BPOU from scratch and that process starts with a BPOU Convention. A Convention Committee has been appointed to start organizing that convention. If you'd like to volunteer to help with that, by all means let us know.
The convention itself will take place on Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at Eastview High School. Registration will begin at 8:30AM.
If you're a delegate you will receive a convention call in advance giving you the other necessary details.
This convention will be primarily tasked with forming a new BPOU from scratch. To do that we'll need to do the following:
1) Approve a new Constitution
2) Elect leaders to lead the new BPOU
3) Elect delegates to the Congressional District and State Conventions
But since this is an election year, we'll also need to do the following:
1) Endorse candidates for the SD57 Senate seat
2) Endorse candidates for the SD57 House seats
3) Vote on proposed changes to the MN GOP platform.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us. Updates will be available here as events progress.
In addition, a new SD57 website is in the works and will eventually be online.
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