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Join us on Saturday morning, March 7th to hear the two candidates, Ryan Call
and Steve House, running for Colorados State GOP Chair, lay out their vision for
Colorado Republicans and their plan to win elections. Former State
Representative Don Beezley is the moderator and will be asking your submitted
questions to them. There will be no audio or video recording during this Forum
but photographs are allowed.
This meeting has been moved up one week earlier since the State Organizational
meeting is March 14th. The doors open at 8:30am with the meeting from
9:00am-11:00am. The itinerary is listed on the next page.
Admission is $3 for NSRF members and $5 for non-members. Plus, you can pay your 2015
yearly dues of $20 ($30 for a couple). If you want to pre-pay for every 2015 meeting with
your dues, its $56 for one person or $102 for a couple.
We meet at Horan & McConatys Community Room, 9998 Grant St in Thornton from
9:00am-11:00am. Doors open at 8:30am.
Were working on scheduling a forum this fall on PERA with State Treasurer Walker Stapleton
and a PERA Board member. Stay tuned!
Here are the candidates running for election at the State Organizational Meeting on Saturday, March 14th.
Chair: Ryan Call (incumbent), Steve House
Vice-Chair: Mark Baisley (incumbent), Debra Irvine, Eli Bremer, Derrick Wilburn
Secretary: Lana Fore (incumbent), Brandi Meek
NSRF March 7th Itinerary:
8:30 Doors open
9:00 Welcome, Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance
9:03 Announcements & Recognition
9:13 Moderators Don Beezley & John Lefebvre with Forum Rules
9:15 3-minute opening statements by each candidate
9:21 First question with 90-seconds for each candidate to respond. Moderator has
leeway for additional time or for rebuttals.
10:00 5-minute break for food & beverage refills and bathroom break,
10:05 Forum restarts
10:40 3-minute closing statement by each candidate
10:46 Closing remarks by NSRF Moderators
There will be no audio or video recording during this Forum but photographs are allowed.
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Republican Forum may impose any rules they wish regarding their meetings, including
but not limited to the prohibition on recording devices. A simple web search of the
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Heres the articles that have been posted on our website: www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com since
our last newsletter:
http://www.northsuburbanrepublicanforum.org/calendar/
Heres the articles that have been posted on our website: www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com since
our last newsletter:
By Ernest Luning
More than 75 die-hard conservatives braved a blizzard on Wednesday night to hear Colorado
Republican Party chair Ryan Call, who is seeking a third term heading the party, and his
challenger, former gubernatorial candidate Steve House, discuss their visions for the GOP at a
forum in Greenwood Village.
We all agree that either one wed be blessed to have to lead us forward in 2016 for a very
important presidential election, said the forums organizer, Arapahoe County Commissioner
Nancy Doty, who runs the Colorado Conservatives Denver Meetup group and its monthly
gatherings at Las Brisas, a Mexican restaurant.
On the heels of stunning wins in last falls election including unseating an incumbent
Democratic senator for the first time in 36 years and retaking control of the state Senate for the
first time in a decade Colorado Republicans will meet on March 14 at Douglas County High
School in Castle Rock to elect party leadership.
Colorado Republican Party chair Ryan Call, who is seeking a third
term leading the party, and his challenger, former Adams County
GOP chair Steve House, talk at the start of a forum for state
Republican officer candidates on Feb. 25 in Greenwood Village.
officials and donors, Call argued that his experience steering the state party makes a big
difference when it comes to winning elections in a decidedly swing state.
I do think that experience, and relevant experience, matters, Call said. I think that if youre
going to provide resources and be a resource to those county chairs, having not just a few
months serving as a county chairman House chaired the Adams County GOP briefly before
stepping down to mount last years gubernatorial bid but actually seeing through an election
cycle multiple election cycles matters. Being able to answer the questions that come in on
the basis of many years of experience, and having the technical background, really is a valuable
resource for our candidates, our party committees and others.
Call maintained that the stakes are too high to switch party leadership in the face of a historic
election.
Its a very steep learning curve, and, I think that, especially heading into the presidential
election, having an experienced, competent person who knows what theyre doing, thats been
through it multiple times before, and has those relationships to be able to lead to success is
what our party needs now, he said. I believe right now, in the job of the party chairman, you
need someone who has that experience.
Anticipating Calls argument, House countered that his experience as county chair and as a
statewide candidate count for a lot but contended that his business background means even
more.
Over a 33-year career I actually went back today and calculated this we sold over a billion
dollars worth of equipment to people, House said. For me, running a state party vs. running a
$300 million organization for GE Healthcare theres probably not too much I havent seen
from an organizational dynamic point of view. There are rules, there are bylaws, there are things
to kind of guide you. He added, The reality is, that business experience is going to give me a
unique opportunity to connect with people across the state that I know, who are in business,
who can get on board with what were trying to do, with the process.
Debra Irvine, a candidate for state Republican Party vice chair,
addresses a forum for officer candidates on Feb. 25 in Greenwood
Village.
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direction. We need to have a sense that were fighting back, but we also, I think, need to make
sure we recognize that the Republican Party is a big coalition. Its not just Tea Party Republicans
and libertarians and Ron Paul supporters; its also social conservatives and its traditional
conservatives, its folks who attend the chamber of commerce meetings, and maybe its folks
who arent aligned with any party, but are concerned about their childrens education, who dont
want their business subject to oppressive regulation.
Its the job of a party leader to keep everyone together, he said.
We have to recognize that this broad, grand coalition of our party also requires within that
coalition that we arent going to kick people out of it, Call said. He cited a recent speech by
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who said that successful political movements are about winning converts,
not about purging heretics.
Colorado Republican Party vice chair Mark Baisley, who is seeking
a full term at the partys March 14 leadership election, addresses a
forum for officer candidates on Feb. 25 in Greenwood Village.
Photos by Ernest Luning/The Colorado Statesman
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Its not an easy battle, Im not going to suggest that it is, he said. But the real battle is outside
the tent, not within it, he added.
Ernest@coloradostatesman.com
http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/995424-gop-%3Fhigh-stakes%3F-battle-state-leadership
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