REPORT ON THE JANUARY 6TH, 2010

OREGON REPUBLICAN PARTY STATE

CONVENTION

 

The Oregon Republican Party, ORP, held a highly successful convention in Portland this last Saturday. Over 150 delegates and guests attended.

 

HIGHPOINT: The highpoints of the event were speeches given by the three Republican Candidates for Governor, Allen Alley, Chris Dudley and John Lim. The Candidates spent most of the day mingling with the Central committee members. All three candidates demonstrated their ability to convey their views and impressive qualifications. All are excellent candidates however it seemed to most that Allen Alley won the day with a highly energized and motivated presentation of his views and goals for Oregon.

HIGHPOINT: Another high point of the day was a panel consisting of Rob Rollinger, internet and tech specialist, Victoria Taft, Portland radio talk show host,  Mike Riley, political pollster , Paulette Pyle, OFS director and natural resource advocate, Dave Reinhart, columnist and political consultant and Matt Wingard, State Representative.  They discussed their views of the recently lost Measure 66 & 67 vote. All were highly complementary of the coordination and effort put out by the ORP to try to stop these Job Killing Taxes.

HIGHPOINT: Greg Graves – Political Field Director for the Republican Governor’s Association, RGA, spoke on the potential for Oregon candidates and Republican Governors Nationwide. Oregon’s Republican nominee for governor will stand to draw significant support from the RGA if he demonstrates the team talent, fund raising capacity and platform that the RGA feels is a winning combination.  The RGA has between $30M and $40M to spend on 37 governors races.

HIGHPOINT: Presentations by Greg Leo and others demonstrate the awesome web, internet and high tech capacity of the upgraded ORP. Their website, Face book, information distribution and media use technologies are truly impressive.

Tim K Smith

Working for You as Your Chairman, 2^nd Congressional District, ORP