Lately we’ve heard a lot of chatter about the silence of the ORP on the matter of the weaponization of our Justice system against political rivals. Contrary to these criticisms, the ORP’s first statement was March 30th and there have been regular statements and posts about this topic on social media since that time. The communication team is working to get these up on the website so you can find them easier. We’ve also made a number of statements about the weaponization, corruption and failures of the current administration, IRS, banking system, FBI, department of education and numerous federal agencies. Daily we are speaking to you on social media and keeping you informed about issues. If you are not following us already please do, so you will no longer miss these important announcements.
However, more than releasing statements that the mainstream media will never publish or post, we have been hard at work going about the business of bringing order to the ORP. We have been developing an app to improve communication across the party. This takes time but is on the horizon. We released our first newsletter on August 10th. If you didn’t receive it, sign up for it on our website at www.oregon.gop. We opened and staffed a new office 2 blocks from the capital to make it easier for all of us to lobby legislators about issues important to us. We published a PCP legislative guide and 2 more PCP legislative days are already being planned.
Several of you have stepped up to help us keep the office open for petition gathering for things like fighting taxes, school choice, constitutional carry referring tolling to the voters. We have put together teams who are hard at work tackling issues and developing plans for candidate recruitment and training, human trafficking, election integrity, GOTV, ballot harvesting, education excellence, parental rights, fighting ranked choice voting and other opposition research to help us defeat bad initiatives while fighting for one’s that promote real choice for Oregon citizens. Choices like what school your child attends, parents being in control of what their children learn and where you build your business.
Behind the scenes we are developing a strategic plan for how we partner with donors to turn our state around by making sure every Republican who runs for office has the resources they need to win. We are reaching out across the nation to enrich our donor pool. We are partnering with conservative think tanks and training organizations to train our candidates to win. None of this will be possible without the hard work of Republican PCPs, who are the backbone of our party – the grassroots. In this vein we are working on a PCP engagement initiative. Keep an eye out for the rollout of this program in the next few weeks.
ORP leadership has been traveling the state attending county fairs, picnics, central committee meetings and other functions to engage with PCPs and let them know how valued they are, talking to them and county leadership about the importance of messaging and unifying our party behind the common goals that will help us win in 2024. Most recently, we had a booth at the state fair, and thoroughly enjoyed our interactions with everyone who stopped by.
We are reaching out to recapture those who have lost hope in the party after 40 years of defeat, to show them how Republicans can win in Oregon. The 2023 platform convention is coming up – are you going? ORP leadership is hard at work making sure that the convention is not only successful but a fun and useful experience for PCPs, electeds, candidates, and all others who attend. Organization of the National Convention next May is also underway.
Republicans made important wins in 2022 at the city, county, state and federal level. We must build on that success. That is the goal of the Oregon Republican Party, and that’s how we will take this state and this country back: one precinct at a time. It’s easy to get distracted by the flash of the big national campaigns that come around once every four years, but we’re focused on the local and state races that don’t get covered on Fox News. Please join with us in implementing these programs to ensure their success. When the party wins, we all win, but a house divided against itself will fall.
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