SD48 Fund Raiser & Rally for Michele Bachmann

Saturday, June 19, 2010

VIP Event 5:30PM - 6:45PM Tickets available through the SD48 Website  http://mnsd48gop.com/ for $100 each.

Rally  7PM - 8PM  with a dessert and mingle time to follow. Tickets also available at the SD48 Website for $25  (Children under 16 free if accompanied by adult)

Anoka County Fiargrounds, Anoka

Go to SD48's website for more info.

The 2010 Republican Party of Minnesota State Convention is coming up fast.

State Convention: Thursday, April 29, 2010 to Saturday, May 1, 2010

Minneapolis Convention Center
1301 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Delegates and Alternates can register here.

Former Alaska Gov. & 2008 Vice President candidate Sarah Palin will be joining Congresswoman Bachmann today for a rally.

You can watch the rally online here.

You can also follow a livechat here.

Here is the official Convention Call for the CD6 Republican Convention.

March 20, 2010 - St. Cloud Civic Center 9:00AM

We've added BPOU Convention and meeting info to our calendar.

If we missed any events, or to have your Republican events included in the future, please contact us or add the email at 'webmaster [at] mncd6gop.com' to your contact list.

Congratulations to Reps. Marty Seifert & Tom Emmer for their strong showing at the Precinct Caucus Straw Polls this week. Statewide, they received 50% and 40% of the Straw Poll votes.

You can find the full results and look up results by BPOU or Congressional District here.

CD 6 Results were:

CD6's turnout was a close second for tops in the state. CD8 had just 20 more votes then us. Thanks to our volunteers for doing such a great job preparing for Caucus and a special thank you to all of the Minnesotans who showed up on Caucus night.

Here's Congresswoman Bachmann's response to the SOTU.

"President Obama finally got the message- stop spending! But he’s a day late and a dollar short. Freezing non-security discretionary funding now will freeze it at the highest funding levels we’ve ever seen. This “freeze” only applies to 12% of the budget, disregards massive new spending programs enacted in the last year and ignores mandatory funding, which is where most of the changes need to be made. The President spent more money in his first year in office than any other president in history, and simply stopping now does absolutely nothing to lower the amount of national debt that gets passed to you and me, our children and our grandchildren in the form of increased and new taxes.

"We’ve maxed out our debt limit, scared off our creditors and burdened future generations with unnecessary debt. And the President has yet to come clean on jobs numbers, utilize our entire energy resources, or lower the cost of health care in this country.

"The bottom line is that we cannot borrow, spend and bail our way back to a growing economy."

 

by Andy Aplikowski,
This post first appeared on True North

We all know that the Republican party has been a little less than conservative over recent years. The 2009 Tea Party movement was created in the vacuum of leadership against the full throttle liberalism of Democrats in Washington. The Tea Party is not a Republican movement, and is rumbling about a 3rd party, but…..

The truth is that a 3rd party movement would take a generation to build up to a majority in order to actually accomplish anything (read: undo the wrongs going on with government now and in recent past). Trust me, I really do know how hard it is to consider joining up with the current Republican Party folks.

But, most of us here at True North believe that your time is better spent working to drag the GOP (kicking and screaming if need be) back to its fiscal sanity and renew its devotion to limited government, personal liberties, and free markets. The beauty is that in Minnesota with our Precinct Caucus system, those who show up, actually do run the party.

Showing up in 2010 and making sure good conservative candidates get endorsed is the number 1 goal. In the Spring of 2010, Republican Legislative Districts (BPOUs) and Congressional Districts will be holding conventions to endorse candidates. Showing up at Caucuses and being elected a Delegate to the subsequent conventions will mean you get to have a thumbs up or down.

Being a Legislative District (BPOU) Delegate is critical to helping reform the party as it is a two year term or commitment. These same Delegates meet again next year to elect local party leadership as well as elect State Central Delegates, who in turn will elect the State Party Leadership next Summer.

Trust us, we understand that putting all your eggs in the Republican basket may be tough right now, but if we all work together, we can transfer the power in the GOP from the people who screwed it up and put it in our hands. And that is what the Tea Party movement is all about. Putting the power back in the people’s hands.

We can take the party back and use it to return America to its freedom based roots, but - and this is important - we can't have a conservative and liberty based Republican Party if there is a minority of conservatives and those with libertarian leanings who show up to endorse candidates and become Delegates.

The party IS run by those who show up, so do your part to help get it back on track. Show up February 2nd at your local Republican Caucus and become elected a Delegate! Take a Precinct Chair or officer position. You will no longer have to sit around wondering what to do, you will have the power and resources to organize the like minded people around you in order to get conservative candidates elected this November.

It is not going to be easy. It is going to take some work. But if we don't try to get back to living under (not around) the Constitution, we never will.

So please go here for some tips and advice on what Caucuses are and how you can get involved in saving the GOP, our State, and Nation.

True North Precinct Caucuses Info

Daniel Hannan, a member of British Parliament, has a great perspective on what exactly America is in the midst of, or rather a mistake it is repeating. It is based on the Massachusetts Senate Race.

The Republicans must prevent America repeating the mistakes of the 1930s

Unbelievably, the Republicans are in contention for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat(hat-tip, Dan Hamilton). Scott Brown, an amiable state senator, has closed a 30 point deficit and is within striking distance of the Massachussetts Attorney General, Martha Coakley. Alright, the odds are still on a Democrat victory. Even so, the closeness of the polls, in a state which Obama took with 62 per cent just over a year ago is extraordinary. I can’t think what the British equivalent would be; the Tories winning Bolsover, perhaps.

Although I couldn’t muster any enthusiasm for John McCain in 2008, I strongly supported Republican House and Senate candidates. Indeed, one of the GOP’s mistakes, in retrospect, was to throw everything into the presidential contest. Republican attacks on Barack Obama might have served very slightly to reduce the margin of his victory, but the party paid a terrible price in Congress.