Posted on 11/22/2005 12:22:18 PM PST by nywalton
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bowdoin College Student Elected Maine Republican Party Vice Chairman
College Republican National Secretary Daniel Schuberth is Nation’s Youngest State Party Officer
AUGUSTA - Daniel Schuberth was elected Vice Chairman of the Maine Republican Party on Saturday, November 19. Schuberth, 21, a three term state chairman of the Maine College Republicans and College Republican National Secretary, is the youngest state Republican Party officer in the United States.
The Maine Republican State Committee met on Saturday to elect a new Vice Chairman in addition to its other business. The seat was previously held by Mark Ellis, who assumed the party chairmanship last month upon the selection of former Chairman Randy Bumps as the Republican National Committee’s Regional Political Director for the Northeast.
Maine College Republican Chairman Nathaniel Walton is thrilled by Schuberth’s election: “I am excited and proud to see Dan elected Vice Chairman of the Maine Republican Party. Dan’s energy, enthusiasm and experience will help strengthen the Maine Republican Party for months and years to come,” Walton said.
“Dan is the person who essentially built the Maine College Republicans from the ground up to become the ‘Best State Federation in America’ in 2004. His leadership abilities and talent in grassroots activism will help ensure great Republican victories in Maine next November. I look forward to working together with Dan and the Maine Republican Party leadership in accomplishing these great goals,” he concluded.
Vice Chairman Schuberth (Bowdoin ’06) is humbled by the trust placed in him by leading Republicans from across Maine: “The Maine Republican Party has proven that it is the party of youth, energy and new ideas by electing me to serve as Vice Chairman. I am humbled by the confidence placed in me by the Maine Republican State Committee; and I am excited to have the opportunity to use the experience I gained as a state and national leader in the College Republicans to help elect Republican candidates here in Maine,” Schuberth said.
“Given the difficult challenges facing Maine, and the failure of the entrenched Democratic majority to address these issues properly, it is critical that we elect Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate and send a Republican Governor to the Blaine House in 2006. Maine people deserve decisive leadership and bold new ideas to lead our state forward, not broken promises and misleading rhetoric. It is time to take our state back,” he concluded.
Starting in 2003, Schuberth built the defunct state College Republican federation in Maine to become recognized by the College Republican National Committee as the “Best State Federation in America” for 2004. Under Schuberth’s leadership, the Maine College Republicans received much of the credit when President Bush won the Maine youth demographic in the November 2004 election, launched Maine’s only statewide conservative student publication, The Pachyderm Press, and became the first state College Republican federation to create a Board of Governors.
The Maine College Republicans carry on a powerful tradition as the flagship chapter of the College Republican National Committee, America’s oldest Republican youth organization. Over 3,000 students on 24 of Maine’s college campuses claim membership to the organization.
Vice Chairman Schuberth is available for interviews/further comments about his election as Maine Republican Party Vice Chairman. He can be reached by telephone at (207) 522-6382 or by e-mail at dschuber@bowdoin.edu.
For more information on the Maine College Republicans, please visit the organization’s website at http://www.mainecr.org.
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Not much of a Republican party up there anyhow...from the state that brought us Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe.
I have just one thing to say...this person better find some actual CONSERVATIVE Republicans for a change.
Can he do something about the 2 senators from that state?
YEEARRRGHHH!!!
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Home of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, one of the finest patriots in American history, hero of Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 and a former governor of Maine. A first class human being all the way.
I was thinking of the same thing, The Republicans in Maine seem to be mostly RINO's.
Since there is only five Republicans in the entire state, I'm not surprised.
You got to think long term. Hopefully things will be better in Maine after 2010!
Wow, first a high school kid is elected mayor of his town. And now this story.
Very interesting. I'll have to contact him. While I was at Bowdoin I was elected chairman of the New England College Republicans and also as chairman of the Maine Young Americans for Freedom and the (Bowdoin) Political Forum and BUCRO (Bowdoin Undergraduate Civil Rights Organization) - the later causing quite an uproar as it was felt that conservatives did not believe in civil rights. The administration and faculty tired to get me to resign as head of BUCRO. The Bowdoin organizations I headed brought Milton Friedman and George Schuyler to speak at Bowdoin. Quite un-PC particulaarly for Bowdoin even for those days (1968).
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain would be proud.
Maine College Republicans rock. They always do an outstanding job at rallies and speeches. They need support on getting the Student Bill of Rights passed in our state.
I wholeheartedly agree. Arguably the best general during the turbulent 1860s.
General Chamberlain would be proud!
What is a real shame is - that Bowdoin has Joshua's Medal of Honor, but will not display it because of their leftist views. Although they did recently build a statue of him and creat a little park at the start of the campus coming up Maine Street from downtown Brunswick and across from his residence.
Damn! You beat me to it! I was gonna mention Col. Joshua "The Fightin' Professor" Chamberlain coming out of Bowdoin. Funny that the trustees wouldn't give him a leave of absence to enlist, so he asked for a year off to study in Europe and they approved, of course.
He was there at Appomattox Courthouse at the end. Between he and General Gordon, and, of course Lee and Grant, they did a beautiful thing there. Imagine how horrible it might have been had someone other than those gentlemen been in charge. The healing began right there. Too bad so many want to keep picking the scab, even to this day. ":^/
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