Posted on 06/12/2019 5:11:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
The future of the GOP is bright and the conservative movement is growing by leaps and bounds.
This week, hundreds of conservative young professionals from across the country will gather in New York at Mavericks Conference 2019 to hear from and engage with top leaders in business and government on a variety of topics, such as innovation, technology, and the 2020 election. More specifically, these young professional conservatives- all of whom work in a variety of industries and are under forty years old - will discuss what they can do to help elect like-minded local, federal and state-wide candidates in 2020 and beyond.
At the top of the agenda for success in 2020 and beyond is the need for the GOP to cultivate successful candidates as well as donors willing to support these candidates. Successful Republican candidates will be those who fall on the center-right side of the political spectrum, those who are business-minded and support free market ideals. Our candidates need to be more representative of our country’s demographic. In order to flourish, we need to recruit diverse candidates who bring a different perspective, especially females, veterans and minority candidates.
In addition to attracting successful candidates and encouraging them to run for office, we need to engage new donors to support these candidates. Millennials are the fundraising future of the party but only if properly developed. For far too long, Republicans have relied upon a smaller group of major donors to fund the campaigns of candidates across the country. as opposed to the Democrats, who have cultivated a huge pool of active, engaged donors. These donors are passionate ambassadors for the candidates they support and back them frequently through small donations. Republicans need electable candidates who supporters and donors can be passionate about to motivate them to frequently donate and recruit others on social media to do the same. I’ve found that most people don’t contribute to campaigns simply because no one has asked them. Once someone donates- even at a small level- they become a force multiplier who can greatly benefit a campaign.
he hundreds of professional conservatives gathering in New York this week are doing just that. These young executives and entrepreneurs are engaging in the political process, making small to medium-size donations – for most, their first political donation – to be involved in the process. Every successful organization needs a farm team and millennials, through groups like MavPAC, will play an ever-increasing role in the GOP.
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Hopefully.....
Without a doubt, young people vote liberal, but Millenials were exceptionally brainwashed. Only way for the GOP is to go up for this group. I suspect that many of those young adults are now getting jobs and careers with the new administration’s economic success, and that will translate into republican thinking.
I guess this writer never heard of Trump and his base of small donors.
Be very careful where you donate, even if it says Trump, if it doesn't go to Trump Tower, some other party is taking a piece of the money {and more often than not, they take the lions share}.
——Republicans have relied upon a smaller group of major donors——
That has now ended. I now get at least two and perhaps as many as four Republican solicitations in the mail every week.
Once they get your name, the requests are unending. Based on my experience, by the time next year rolls around, they should have a mega small donor base. If there are millenials, cso much the better.
For young women, contributing is making a difference
Is “Mavericks” really a good name for this group?
They are donating in an effort to turn the GOP leftwards.
To make it more socially liberal and embrace climate change fallacies.
I would hope that a new party would be built on the ash heap of the Republican party. Just as the Rat party is becoming the communist party the conservatives must dominate and change the Republican party. But I hate political parties cause the only reason they exist is to take power and control the public wealth. The government’s only reason to exist is to keep itself in power. Why do you think nothing really gets done except spending money? It’s long past due for a second revolution. It’s demanded by our forefathers in the Declaration of Independence when the government becomes as oppressive as ours.
A tad of devil's advocate:
ME and now MA are diving into the Ranked Choice Voting madness. As I learn more about it, I'm gaining more appreciation for some of the positives of having the GOP.
RCV pits individuals to compete with one another at the expense of party. The ultimate conclusion of RCV would be party has no place in elections. In a 'Rat state like mine, that means R's would be squeezed out... elections would be a bunch of 'Rats vying for the offices. At least with the traditional election process, once primaries are over, a really rotten 'Rat would lose to a good Repubbie, as too many 'Rat voters stay home.
With parties, there is some semblance of "party line" (varying by the candidate, obviously). There is some maneuver room for conservatives to push platform positions like pro-life, individual liberty and property rights, small government. RCV diminishes all that.
Bottom line, party has some positive aspects for the base to keep the GOP in line, and thus the candidates that run under it.
Well, on the one hand, it’s GREAT to read about this!
On the other - Don’t donate to the RNC, Ya Dopes! Donate DIRECTLY to candidates of your choice!
And choose CAREFULLY - I got burned by Mia Love and Joni Ernst. They both turned into Swamp Creatures the MINUTE they hit DC! Blech!
It is easy to talk about such things, but this is impractical and frankly, illegal.
Impractical because modern governments in all countries including ours today have at their disposal extraordinary means of electronic surveillance and suppression of communications that even the most powerful empires of the 18th century could only dream of.
Illegal because we have ironclad laws on the books against such things.
The best thing we can do is to fight in the marketplace of ideas by having gifted communicators on our side who can articulate our principles using language that most people can understand. We have ceded ground in universities, and that is the battleground for ideas.
IMO, the Republican party brand has been too damaged by Bush, Romney, McCain, etc. to consider a rebrand. Kick it to the curb and move on.
I get about a hundred emails each day asking for contributions. John Cornyn has been after me (never donated to him, just Trump) but I noticed that after I get a legit email from the Cornyn campaign, I get about three with the exact same content, but the return email address is completely bogus. Frequently, it's one of those aaxvymaiss3@yahoo type emails that bots generate. Pretty sure these are straight phishing scams. Others, as you noted, claim to be raising money for a candidate, but keep all but a few dollars.
TL;DR: go directly to a candidates official web page to make contributions.
The sheer dichotomy of the economy from 2000 to what it is NOW is so obvious, many of these dejected younger folks, now have something economically they did not really have... HOPE. Much like the citizens many small towns who spent the last 20 years watching their towns be destroyed and no one caring.
Yes the public schools are indoctrination centers, and no one is doing anything about it, and that is dangerous.. but many of these kids taught under liberal critical theory instead of being able to critically think, are now seeing first hand the difference.. they won’t all come to the light... but you will see bigger numbers turn around as they are able to start to access the American Dream that the last 20 years have largely denied them.
Maybe the liberal at 20/ conservative at 30 axiom is kicking in.
Maybe the liberal at 20/ conservative at 30 axiom is kicking in.
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