Caucuses Tonight
By Mitch Berg
It’s precinct caucus night.
“But where’s do I go, Mitch?”
The MNGOP has it all right here.
You can also follow, and post on, your caucus on Twitter using the #MNGOPCaucus hashtag. You can also add an MNGOP Caucus Twitter Ribbon to your avatar (I refuse to call it a “Twibbon”, I’m sorry) at this link, if you’re so inclined.
It’s pretty simple; if you’re there, you come in, you vote for precinct officers (someone can feel free to don my mantel as precinct chair!), you vote for delegates, you vote for resolutions, and at the end you get to vote in the “preference poll”, the straw poll for Governor among other races. (Note; while the DFL lets you vote the preference polls and just leave, in the GOP the preference polls are the last event of the evening).
It’s going to be a fun year; the Tea Party crowd will hopefully turn up and continue the work the Paulbots started two year ago, reinvigorating and pushing the party to do better.
(And if you’re looking for a DFL “Assimilation Brings Joy” meeting, go here)
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
I went to mine. I volunteered to be an alternate, and my suggestion to amend the Republican platform passed. (Eliminate Section 4, sub H: Legislation to increase legal gambling age to 21. You can vote to elect your leader, you can pay taxes, you can enter into legal contracts, you can even be assigned a gun and directed by the gov’t to kill a person, but you can’t throw a quarter in a slot machine or play a scratch off ticket?)
I hold the same view for the drinking age as well.