…where we will, hopefully, pick a State Chair that’ll lead the party back to solvency and effectiveness, I was thinking about writing an article with a challenge to the new Chairman.

But then I thought about it for a while; the real challenge isn’t for the Chair; it’s for all you grassroots members across the state.  You’ve got the real work to do.

It’s time for the grassroots to stop taking leadership for granted; we don’t do it in Washington, we should not do it with our party.

So this February, when we start the series of conventions, from precinct all the way up through your Congressional district, that send the next flight of delegates to the State Central Committee with the ability to vote for things like “state party budgets” and “State Chairpeople”, it’s time to make sure that we send people who are committed to making sure that things change for the better and stay that way.

It won’t change anything for this coming Saturday – but it’ll be the group of people who run the party going into the next gubernatorial election, in 2014, when, once again, it’s for all the marbles in Minnesota.

So all of you Ron Paul fans out there?  The point is, if you want to affect how a major party works, you have to show up – and keep showing up, until you actually start having an effect.  The Caucuses in February are just the beginning.

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