As Jack Tomczak wrote on Facebook on Saturday:<\/p>\n
Racist and sexist Republican party of Minnesota elects woman and black guy into leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s true. \u00a0The MNGOP State Central Committee elected Keith Downey as chair, re-elected Kelly Fenton as Deputy, and Chris Fields as secretary.<\/p>\n
Some of the races were, themselves, vastly more interesting than normal. \u00a0Fenton beat Ron-Paul-camp activist Corey Sax. \u00a0I’ve locked horns with Sax not a few times, but the guy had some useful ideas for “marketing” the MNGOP that the party could do much worse than look into. \u00a0I hope Sax takes his cue from the many “builder” Liberty supporters who’ve stayed involved in the MNGOP, and have improved it – if frustratingly incrementally – over this past year.<\/p>\n
The Secretary race was difficult, pitting as it did two fantastic candidates. \u00a0Ryan Love is one of the GOP’s sharper tacks, one its most incisive Tweeps, and one of the more notably excellent activists. \u00a0He ran up against former CD5 candidate Chris Fields, who ran a spectacular campaign against Keith Ellison last year, and has only stepped up his game since then. \u00a0Fields ran straight into the teeth of the DFL’s GOTV tsunami, but…well, more on that later this week. \u00a0 The only pity is that they both didn’t win.<\/p>\n
Of course, the new leadership – and the entire party – faces a stern challenge. \u00a0After a year of\u00a0grueling\u00a0work, sparse donations and activist fatigue, the party is still over a million-and-a-half in debt. \u00a0The task at hand – decrease the out-go, increase the income, and start making the party a contender on the state level – is herculean.<\/p>\n
More about that in the coming week.<\/p>\n
Anyway – congratulations Keith, Kelly and Chris. \u00a0And good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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