fREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

While I respect for the work done under the current leadership, Ellis County Republicans deserve innovative strategies to build on that foundation. Inspired by President Trump's success in assembling broad coalitions, I believe it's time to modernize our outreach, boost informed voter turnout, and unite conservatives to elect even more Republicans up and down the ballot.

Currently the following are "Standing Subcommittees" as required by the Ellis County Republican Party Bylaws:

1. Budget & Finance

2. Precinct Chair Vetting & Development

3. Communications & Marketing

4. Headquarters & Volunteers

5. Events & Fundraising

6. Victory

7. Legislative & Political Priorities.

Subcommittee chairs are selected by the Chair (confirmed by Executive Committee).   

If elected, I will actively recruit subcommittee chairs who best fit each role.

I will seek changes to the Bylaws to include splitting "Events & Fundraising". This is appropriate since not all events are fundraisers and not all fundraisers are events.

In addition, I will add a logistics team that will be responsible for managing all physical assets of the organization. Currently we often find ourselves unsure of what we have or where it is located.

I will expect a detailed Financial Statement monthly that includes line item revenues and expenses. I will require the Finance Subcommittee to have multiple members so as to create checks and balances that do not now exist. We will also follow requirements under IRS 527 guidelines.

I will also recruit an IT specialist to guide us through best practices for software, hardware, email, and telephone systems. I will modernize our assets to make us as effective and efficient as possible. 

I believe the primary purpose of the Ellis County Republican party is to assist Republicans in winning general elections. We can't count on the majority we've had in the last 40 years to carry us into the future. There has to be a solid strategic plan that incorporates multiple steps and innovative tactics to lead us to victories at the ballot box. 

#1 COMMUNICATION: This is the very cornerstone of all we do. As a candidate and if elected as the chair I will communicate through multiple channels. These include:

     Personal Appearances: shake hands and engage in one on one conversations, complete with eye contact, voice inflection, and body language. I will attend all community gatherings and visit classrooms where allowed.  If elected I will maintain an online schedule of office days where I will be at GOP HQ and available to meet with Ellis County residents.

     Calls and Texts: I setup 415-VOTE-GOP [868-3467] several years ago as a precinct chair. If elected, I will maintain this and publicize it as county chair.

     Social Media: Voters can see I personally post and respond on social media, I refuse to depend on surrogates to speak for me. If elected I will continue this practice.

#2 LEAD: While I truly appreciate conflict avoidance, there are times as a leader you have to address wrongs from within. As the leader of any institution (company, team, military, etc...) you have a fiduciary responsibility to make every effort to maintain the reputation of your organization. Most of the time this can be done by leading by example and when required, a private conversation with fellow members of your organization.

#3 RECRUIT: By this I mean bring in all who will vote Republican in the fall. We can expect to often disagree in the primary and not always agree 100% on platform planks or policies (complete 2024 TX GOP Platform available below) but we must come together when it counts to prevent waking up November 4th with Senator Elect Crockett (not Davey). We must welcome those moving to Ellis (top 10 fastest growing) county and the young people who are reaching voting age and are energized like never before as a direct result of the efforts of organizations such as Turning Point USA and the Young GOP of Ellis County.

#4 INFORM: Everyone has the God given and Constitutionally confirmed right to endorse and campaign for the candidates of their choice in the primary. Endorsing in a Republican primary by the Party should be a very rare event. This is specifically covered in the Article III, Section 4 of Bylaws of the Republican Party of Ellis County (complete Bylaws found below). Instead the party should focus on informing the voters during primary season. The party should assist with organizing and promoting candidate forums, streaming interviews, and actual debates where the voter can hear directly from the candidates. We don't need to "Get Out The Vote". We need to "Get Out The Informed Vote".

#5 ORGANIZE: This may seem rather mundane but it is necessary. We have to do a better job of asset and time management. This includes inanimate objects owned by the party and the valuable volunteers who dedicate time a the office but often find themselves underutilized. This includes the structure of meetings where we do a disservice to guest speakers by only offering our rather "pre-sold" group to speak to. If elected I will actively seek guest speakers and then make every effort to host these apart from our monthly meeting in a public forum where we can expand outreach. I will also focus on engaging subject matter experts to assist with specific operational needs.