Update: El Presidente has more of the details surrounding what went down at today’s state party officer elections.
I was not able to attend today’s Colorado Republican state central committee meeting in Castle Rock, but I’ve had a chance to follow developments remotely. As reported at Rocky Mountain Right, Dick Wadhams was comfortably re-elected to the chairman’s position.
The more competitive race was for vice-chair, in which DougCo GOP reports on Twitter that Leondray Gholston beat out Nathan Chambers on the 3rd round of voting. For many conservative grassroots supporters, Gholston’s election represents a new and exciting direction for the state party. Let’s hope their optimism is justified. Certainly, Gholston’s passion, enthusiasm, and dedication cannot be denied.
Fundraising should be a strength the Wadhams-Gholston team. Also, from a Colorado Statesman article published before today’s proceedings:
Wadhams listed his goals as improving high-tech communications, registering new Republican-affiliated voters, recruiting and training candidates and continuing to work closely with elected officials.
To hear more about these gentlemen’s plans for the future of the Republican Party in Colorado, I invite you to listen to archived episodes of Rocky Mountain Alliance Blog Talk Radio: the March 10 episode for Dick Wadhams and the February 10 episode for Leondray Gholston.
Congrats to all those who put their names in the hat to run for office. Now is the time for Republicans to unify and work together toward our shared commitment to limited government, personal responsibility, and a strong national defense.
I look forward to more reports — especially from those who were actually in attendance at today’s meeting.
Wouldn’t want any goals like protecting innocent babies from
the abortionists knives, or establishing Personhood for the least
among us in the human family.
Not the Wadhams way.
And why should he have listed that as a goal in the context of this story? I admire your passion, but the randomness and tone of your comment doesn’t put you in a good light.
It is clear that our insider-crooked-neocon candidates for Governor are not only jokes to the American public but also to the Colorado delegagtes assembled for this meeting of the minds in
Cassle Rock. Josh Penry was practically laughed out of the room, no one ewanted to talk to Scooter McGinnis and Marc Holtzman was afraid to even show up and Mark Hillman dropped out of the race because the grassroots are yearning for a new face. Dick Wadhams was
literally off cowering in a corner as one delegate after another pledged their support to Cleve Tidwell. The new wave is here and its face is Cleve Tidwell who will be the governor very soon and then where will the others be? They will not be here,
that is for sure.
Kaskus – Not sure you have your information correctly. Mr. Tidwell istated he was running for U.S. Senate. I think the press mislead us with the governor stuff wih their assumptions. He will be much better qualified and more helpful as a senator.
However, I will tell you that you are right about what people are saying. Event though it is to early to hear about pledges, I was able to hear many people saying very positive remarks about Mr. Tidwell. I talked with him briefly before the meeting as I must say he is a winner, very sharp and would be the only candidate we might have to run against a strong liberal party. Mr. Tidwell is soft spoken but he has the experience to be a senator where others I hear about are just beginners in business and politics. I do believe the delegates in Colorado are smart enough to put him in against Bennett, He will give Bennett a run for the gold and I hear he has a strong Hispanic support which is something no others GOP candidate has every had and that can win an election.In fact I would predict he would win big as I was told he has a big Boulder following also even from the democrats, so this could be really good.
We must put someone in that can win and has lots of business expericne to stand up for us. I believe Tidwell has the entire package.
So,time will tell and I must say I was glad to see Mr. Wadhams stay in power.
we might be on the way back.
As someone who is new to politics but trying to stay up to date and attend as much functions as I can;
I think we have lots of great candidates for office: Penry is up there, Buck and Tidwell have sounded good, Frazier too, Lucero.
And we have good leadership too. Wadhams and Gholston should make a pretty dangerous duo.
Look out liberals!
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