State and County GOP conventions

1.  The Montana GOP State Convention will be held June 19-21 in Missoula.  In a Presidential election year, there are actually three conventions that are held simultaneously:

a.  A meeting of the State Central Committee (4 Executive Board members from each county) will meet to vote on any rules changes and to elect a Naitonal Committeeman and National Committeewoman.

b.  A state party Platform Convention — eligible to vote in this meeting are State Central Committee members as well as those who will be running as Republicans in the fall election, holdover state senators, etc.

c.  A convention at which delegates to the Republican National Convention will be elected.  Up to 25 delegates can be elected from each county.  The vote from each county is weighted based on the number of votes cast in the Republican primary.  More about this in number 2.

2.  We will be holding a Yellowstone County Central Committee meeting/county convention in the first week of June — tentatively set for Thursday evening, June 5th at 7PM at the Crowne Plaza.  All are welcome to attend, but only those who are precinct captains/precinct committeemen and committeewomen as of after the June primary are eligible to vote.

This means that only those who turned in a notarized form in the last few months will be eligible to vote.  And (this is important) there are some contested elections for precinct positions — only the winners of those precinct elections on primary day will be precinct committeemen and women eligible to vote at the county convention.

It is very important that precinct committeemen and women/precinct captains all come to this meeting the first week of June.  We now have a large Central Committee here in Yellowstone County, and we need to have a big turn-out in order to have a quorum.

3.  Those who are interested in attending the Montana State GOP convention as a delegate or an alternate, please contact me.  Please note again the dates of June 19-21, and that the election of delegates from Yellowstone County will take place about 2 weeks prior.

4.  Those who are interested in attending the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in September as delegates or alternates should read more information at the state party web site and fill out an application if you are interested in being considered.  There is a delegate selection committee that will review all applications, and that committee will recommend a slate of delegates at the state convention.  Other nominations will be allowed from the floor, and the delegate convention in Missoula will elect the delegates.