Yeah, I have. I was County Chair for BC04 last year. I was recruited because no one else would take the job.
Stationary? I got no stationary. Critters? Mine are all donks. Volunteers? I ended up with a handful of kids while the local Party apparatchiks were having their various luncheons and dinners and complaining they had no money and were too busy to hold a fundraiser. The one interaction I had with the guys at the top was to try and get the advance man for W to smooth the feathers he ruffled of my one and only big money donor after he was promised a personal visit, got about 50 folks together to greet the POTUS and then no one showed up and no one said a word until 48 hours after I exploded at the pro.
The GOP is ineffectual from the ground up. I begged for an organizer on the ground for months....make that about 18 months. I got the crisis team 2 days before the election and all they wanted were phone callers when no one wanted to call or be called one more fricking time. Our County Party Chair was way too busy backing Tancredo to work for W. The folks who took on the responsibility for Michels were MIA.
BTW, I run 2 businesses. The majority of the GOP honchos are retired, independantly wealthy or married women with grown kids who do not work. Most who reluctantly agreed to do one thing, screwed it up.
Hosting events for high level officeholders is always risky because they constantly have interruptions such as crucial Senate votes, natural disasters, and one committee upon I served, when Reagan had to cancel after being shot.
FReepers don't even have a clue as to how mad a person can get at RINOs until they've gone through being a party officer only to be betrayed.