Yesterday was a busy Saturday. We were in Halifax for the Plymouth County GOP breakfast where roughly 50 people got together to rebuild the County Club. Thanks to Bernie Pigeon for doing a great job reviving the club and putting together this breakfast.
In attendance were: State Representatives Vinny deMacedo, Dan Webster, Susan Gifford and Sheriff Joseph McDonald as well as Jeff Beatty and Jim Ogonowski who are both strongly considering a bid for U.S. Senate.
Here is a clip of Jeff Beatty:
Here is a clip of Jim Ogonowski:
After the breakfast we had a Campaign 101 training in Lexington. Here is Chairman Torkildsen sharing some of his wisdom from the campaign trail. If you could not make the Lexington training you can always catch Peter's portion online at MassRootsAction.com
The idea for MassRootsAction is this - if you want to be trained, you should not have to wait 2 months and drive 3 hours. So, grab your cup of coffee and log on to MassRootsAction to see what you missed and get a good dose of training from home. Don't have a password for MassRootsAction? Contact us info@massgop.com or 617-523-5005 and you need to be connected with a GOP organization/campaign. If you are currently not with anyone we can certainly accommodate you and get you connected with a GOP organization.Lyndsay Jones from our finance department talked about raising money and the process that goes into it.
Our next official training will be our Finance School which is an intensive training devoted entirely to raising money. This is not just for candidates. If you are a campaign manager, activist, or part of a Republican Town Committee, we strongly encourage you to attend this training.We are also going to be opening up a Training Office at the MassGOP headquarters in Boston for small groups that would like to come in on a Saturday or on a week night. This is perfect for Town Committees and campaigns that would like to schedule a private training and carpool together.
We had over 25 people this past week in our Boston office and I realized that we should conduct more trainings from our Boston office (don't worry, we are still on the road.)
The Berkshire County GOP also has an office in Pittsfield and we would be happy to run trainings out of this "satellite" office.
Things are moving in the right direction.
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