This weekend is parents weekend and Focus on Western and several other big events revolving around the First Home Football Game in the new Stadium against Murray State.
We will be helping sticker people before the game for Mitch McConnell and Brett Guthrie. We will need at least 12 people to help out. If you can help please email me at Shane.noem263@wku.edu or call me at 513-969-4810.
55 people were in attendance Tuesday night as we met for our first meeting of 2008. State Sen. and 2nd district Congressional Candidate Brett Guthrie was our guest speaker. He addressed the current election and the college republicans involvement in the races. We also heard from RPK representative Tres Watson on the GOTV effort and the 72 hour push. Monday we are making our way up to Owensboro for the Red White and Blue festival. We will be working with the Daviess county party helping out with the speeches. We will be busy in the coming weeks. Keep posted by watching this blog and your email for updates.
On Saturday Andrew Denney, Sara Miller, John Whitaker, and Shane Noem helped Mitch McConnell for Senate, Guthrie for Congress, Northup for Congress and McCain for president for their efforts with stickers and registration. Of the countless dignitaries that spoke, the more prominent ones included Secretary of State Trey Grayson, Senator Jim Bunning, Congressman Geoff Davis, State Senator Brett Guthrie, State Senate President David Williams, RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, Former White House Deputy Political adviser to the President Scott Jennings, and many others. There was a large ruckus created when Ron Paul supporters tried to make points of orders on the convention floor for various reasons. This eventually led to RPK Chairman Steve Robertson to remove the microphones from the floor and throw several people out of the convention. An unprecedented event for sure.
As John McCain came to Nashville for a town hall meeting, so did the WKUCollege Republicans. Sara Miller, Jon Moore, Nicole Aho, Shane Noem, and Derek Noem were privileged to hear Senator McCain respond to audience members questions, and shake the Senators hand. Senator McCain has challenged Senator Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, to a series of forums similar to the one witnessed last Monday.
These are the details of John McCain coming to Nashville on June 2nd. I will be there, let me know if you plan on going, we can all carpool if you live in Bowling Green.
On June 7th, we have been asked directly by the Republican Party of Kentucky to help run the Kentucky Republican Convention. We will be registering delegates, showing people where to go, passing out stickers for candidates and helping the RPK with anything they need help with.
This is WKU CR's time to shine!
We really need a lot of help on this one, so If you are within driving distance of Bowling Green, please consider coming in town for the weekend. I can find a place for you to stay if you would like.
Please let me know if you can help on June 7th ASAP!!!
The McConnell campaign is looking for volunteers to help make phone calls to encourage people to get out and vote in the upcoming Kentucky primary. Volunteers are needed for Tuesday (May 6th) and Thursday (May 8th) of this week, and Monday and Tuesday (May 12th and 13th) of next week. We will be calling each night from 5-8 PM, but even if you can only help for an hour or two it would be greatly appreciated. The calls should be relatively easy as they are going to registered Republicans and will only consist of a couple of questions. If you are able to help or have any additional questions please contact Scott Lasley at lasleywarrengop@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!