Precinct Convention Guide PRECINCT CONVENTION GUIDE OBJECTIVES AND
Precinct Convention Guide PRECINCT CONVENTION GUIDE OBJECTIVES AND GUIDELINES 2014 The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge • • Hosea 4: 6 a OBJECTIVE 1 To Elect At Least A Majority Hopefully Much More Than Majority Of The Allowable (Fixed) Delegates And Alternates From Your Precinct Convention To Your Senatorial District Convention The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide OBJECTIVE 1 (Continued) To Elect Delegates And Alternates • Who Are ØPro-Life ØPro-Family ØBiblical Worldview ØWilling To Participate ØCan Be Counted On The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide OBJECTIVE 2 • To Adopt Resolutions üPro-Life üPro-Family üReflect Your Values • To Be Submitted To üYour Senatorial District Convention • Defeat (Vote Down) üResolutions Contradicting Your Values The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide REMINDER • Precinct Convention March 4, 2014 üYour Political Party @ Your Primary Election Voting Place on Election Day (Not your early voting location) üAfter Polls Close at 7: 00 PM. Starts @ 7: 30 pm (Schedule is for Fort Bend County TX. Your County/State may be different) • Senatorial District Convention üYour Political Party in Your County üSaturday March 22, 2014 Time And Place: 8 am Registration, Convention Starts at 9 am @ Old Gym @ Sugar Creek Baptist Church (Schedule for SD 17 & 13 in Fort Bend County TX. SD 18 in Fort Bend County TX meets at Travis High School & your County/State will be different) The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide Summary Of Objectives 1. Attend Your Precinct Convention 2. Elect Yourself & Like-Minded Friends As Delegates And Alternates to your Senatorial District Convention 3. Adopt (Only) Good Resolutions To Send to your Senatorial District Convention The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide How? üBy Having A Majority In Attendance » (Super Majority Is Better) ØAt Each Precinct Convention Who Are Like-Minded And Who Are ♦ Fully Informed & ♦ Fully Prepared To ♦ Fully Participate The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide GUIDELINES • Identify üQualify Potential Participants » Resident Of Your Precinct » Like-Minded » Voting In March 4 Primary Election Of Your Political Party üEnlist ØContact In Advance ØDiscussed The Purpose ØPlan The Action üGet Committed To Show The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide • Mobilize üCall Or Email “The List” Afternoon Of March 4 Starting About 3: 00 p. m. • Remember and Emphasize üAll Eligible Family Members Attend üOnly Numbers Count Because You Only Count Numbers ØThe Name Of The Game Is Voting Strength Present And Voting The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
TIPS Precinct Convention Guide Before You Start • Be “Prayed-Up” üIf We As Christians are Going To Be Involved then Let God Lead #This Is A Spiritual Undertaking with A Spiritual Purpose and Should Be Undertaken with A Spiritual Perspective ØTongue + Temper = Trouble The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • Come Early And Stay Late. . . And • NEVER, NEVER LEAVE before the Convention Is Adjourned • However Those Who Come Late Are fully Entitled To Participate in any Remaining Business ØThis Applies To You and Others The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • Be On Time Or A Little Early üUsually 7: 15 -30 PM ish ØConvention starts at 7: 30 pm • Be Informed üStudy This Entire Handout - Check Online @ www. Faith. And Freedom. Texas. com üReview Roberts Rules Of Order The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • Be Prepared üHave Three Copies Of any Resolutions You Intend To Submit • Bring Pen And Paper For üNotes üCopying lists, etc. The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • Size Up The Situation üStop, Look, And Listen before You Declare üDon't Give The Opposition the Information They Need to Defeat Your Objectives üDon’t Overplay Your Position ØDon’t Reveal Too Much Too Soon The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • Volunteer To Be Chairman (If Necessary) or Secretary • Be Fair To Others. . . And Stand Firm For Fairness with Respect To How You Are treated The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • If You Have A Majority: üPass All Your Resolutions üReject Objectionable Resolutions üAccept No Less Than your Proportionate Share Of delegates And Alternates from The Number Allowed » You Can Take Them All but that is A Questionable Strategy The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • Memo üNumber Of Allowable Delegates/Alternates from Precinct Convention To Senatorial District Convention are Pre-Determined • Don’t Let The Slots Get Filled before Your Team Gets Going ØBeware The Fast Filling Of Delegates The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide • Memo üDelegates And Alternates from The Precinct Convention to The Senatorial District Convention must Be Elected by Those In Attendance at The Precinct Convention ØNot Appointed by The Precinct Convention Chairman The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • If You Are In The Majority: üDon’t Let Opposing Resolutions be Passed Without Voting ØOr No Resolutions Be Sent üUsing Excuse. . . “It Is Going To Be Done All Over Again, Anyway” • Reminder: Have Three Copies of Your Planned Resolutions The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
TIPS Precinct Convention Guide • If You Are In The Minority You Will Have Another Chance at The Senatorial District Convention • But only If You Are Elected as a Delegate Or Alternate to Your SD Convention • Therefore… Your Election As A Delegate to The Senatorial District Convention Is The Priority!!! The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS Selecting Delegates And Alternates • You Don’t Have To Fill All Your Slots üIt Is Very Hard To Leave People Out if Space Is Available • Attendance Not Required to be elected but must Be Otherwise Qualified • Bring A List üOthers Will üSize Up List Adding The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS • At A Senatorial District Convention (Saturday March 22, 2014 – Your County) üIn The Absence Of Full Delegation Alternates Are Seated In The Order Elected At The Precinct Convention • Therefore. . . . The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
TIPS Therefore. . . Precinct Convention Guide • At The Precinct Convention when Nominating People To Be Alternates To The SD Conventions • Try To Get Your Names At The Top Of The Alternate List If They Don't Make It As Delegates • Be Sensitive To Attempts To Move Conservatives Lower On the list The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
TIPS Precinct Convention Guide At The Precinct Convention • You Cannot Add Names to The Delegate/Alternate List After The Convention Is Adjourned • You Might Never Know Until SD Convention • Safeguard by Making Your Own List by taking a picture of the list with your cell phone • Typically this Occurs With Unfilled Slots The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS Precinct Convention Tactics • Normally Not Important To Try To "Take Over" A Convention And Elect "Your" Convention Chairman • You Should Be Prepared To accept The Opportunity If No One Is There who Wants To, Or knows what to do The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS Precinct Convention Forms • The Election Judge may have all The Precinct Convention Material and may Not Know It • How To Chair The Convention? üGet The Forms üRead The Script üFill In The Blanks üFollow Through ØDeliver Material to County Chairman The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
NOTE Precinct Convention Guide • Precinct Convention Permanent Chairman üRequired By Law To See That the Minutes of the Convention are filed with the local Party within The Required Timeframe ♦ (usually within 3 days) As Per The Instructions • If You Are The Permanent Chairman üThis Means You The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide TIPS Before You Leave The Convention • Write Down Information On the üElected Delegates And Alternates » Name, Address, Phone Number üContact Information For ØPermanent Chairman ØSecretary • Convention Rules Require üPrecinct Convention Minutes be Made Available For 30 Minutes The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
TIPS Precinct Convention Guide • Hold A Precinct Convention Even If üYou Are The Only One Who Shows Up ØElect Yourself To All The Offices ØElect Yourself (And Your List) as Delegates And Alternates to The SD Convention ØPass All Your Resolutions • Deliver The Minutes Per Instructions • The Election Judge may have All The Materials Including Instructions The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Crisis Management Precinct Convention Guide • VERY, VERY HIGHLY UNLIKELY • But If You Are Wrongfully Excluded from Fully Participating in Your Precinct Convention Process call Attention To It in front Of Everyone ØMake Detailed Notes üIn Most Severe Cases: ØHold Your Own Convention ØTurn In Your Minutes ØChallenge At The SD Convention The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide Crisis Management • Serious Infractions Of Rules üExamples » Not Allowed In » Not Allowed To Participate » Not Allowed To Nominate » Not Allowed To Run For Delegate and/or Alternate » Not Allowed To Submit Resolutions » Wrongly Removed » Meeting Moved/Started Early The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Conclusion • Plan Now To Attend Precinct Convention Guide your Precinct Convention In your Neighborhood In your Political Party of Preference » Democratic Or Republican ØTuesday, March 4 (About 7: 30 PM) ØAt Your Polling Location » Check For Posted Time • Be Elected As A Delegate To Your Senatorial District Convention The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide Conclusion • Plan Now To Attend Your üSenatorial District Convention ØSaturday, March 22 ØOf your Political Party ØIn your County üInformation On Time And Place Is available At Precinct Convention üMake Plans Now To Attend Your Senatorial District Convention by First Attending Your Precinct Convention The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Conclusion (Really) Precinct Convention Guide • Final Reminder » Come Early » Focus Intently » Participate Fully • And Never, Never Leave Before The Convention Is Adjourned • WHY? ? ? Because If You Leave early, Everything You Did - Can Be Undone With a Motion To Reconsider The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
Precinct Convention Guide THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU The Precinct Convention - Norm Mason
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