"Editor:
The 2012 Pitkin County Republican Precinct Caucuses will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at Aspen High School. Doors open at 6 p.m. for check-in and refreshments. The caucuses will begin at 7 p.m. Check-in will close at that time.
For those who are not familiar with the process in Colorado, the precinct caucuses feature a presidential preference poll and the election of precinct committee persons from each of Pitkin County’s 10 precincts. Although the preference poll is non-binding, the statewide results of the preference poll will attract national attention.
The caucuses are also the first step in selecting delegates to the Republican National Convention. At the caucuses, delegates will be elected to the Pitkin County Republican Assembly, which will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 29 in the conference room at the Pitkin County Library. The county assembly will elect delegates and alternates to the State Republican Assembly, which will take place on April 14 in Denver. At the state assembly, delegates and alternates to the national convention will be elected.
We urge all eligible registered Republicans in Pitkin County to attend the Feb. 7 precinct caucuses. To be eligible, a voter must be registered in the voter’s Pitkin County precinct by Jan. 9 and must have been registered as a Republican in any jurisdiction as of Dec. 7, 2011. To avoid lines at caucus check-in, we encourage pre-registration by going to www.caucus.cologop.org.
For more information, please contact me at frieda@pitkinpolitics.org.
Frieda Wallison
Pitkin County Republican chair
Old Snowmass
2 comments:
The reasons I burned my life long carrying republican card in '10 and became an independent is a fairly long list.
But the biggest reason after the shame of Wadhams, Maes, Tancredo and losing Buck comes down to how the Pitkin, Garfield and Mesa County gop's handle their organizations.
Do you really think times haven't changed, Frieda? Do you really think it's wise for all your groups to do nothing more than set up blogs and twitter and the rest of the time sit around on your laurels? With Obama in office and the lib's kicking butt all over the nation when it comes to the internet? Do you really think it's wise to not get on the horn and do some real election reform in this state?
Change the unaffiliated law so we don't have to jump ship on our principles just to be in a caucus or primary.
Where are you people in helping Marilyn Marks out? Too worried about social snobbery to stand up?
Where's the Colorado gop in major headlines nationwide when we're the battle state this time around?
Never been happier about changing my affiliation to unaffiliated than to see your silly, meaningless and inappropriate rules that are now keeping out a major contingency of conservatives.
Enjoy the refreshments and we'll keep your backs covered out here in the real world.
You'd think that 2010 would have blasted Colorado GOP enough that they would have made major change.
Apparently not because all they've verifiably done since is crawl off and lick the open wounds.
There is one thing that's going to run right over the top of Colorado's Republicans, especially Garfield County, that if they don't take this last chance in 2012 and get themselves gutted out.
It's name is John Hickenlooper.
He's loved and doing the best job in quite a few elected cycles. Colorado GOP needs a complete flush and turn around.
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