Ed Hubbard posted the following this morning:
This past week has been quite busy as I have worked to keep my commitment to join forces with our local party, and to work to unite and grow it in order to elect our candidates.
I met with Jared Woodfill and have agreed to join an expanded Victory Team committee for the HCRP (currently made up of Gary Polland, Paul Bettencourt, and Robert Eckels) as part of our commitment to unite the party. I believe that Paul Simpson, and possibly one or two others, also have agreed, or are being asked, to join the team. I will let you know my precise role in this effort soon.
I also spent the last two days in meetings with Manny Rosales from the RNC and leaders of our Latino and business communities about innovative ways to grow our party and get our message to all communities, which I will share and work to implement with the HCRP. I also enjoyed the HCCC meeting at the Houston Club Wednesday night, where Manny Rosales was the featured speaker and so many of our fine candidates for Congress and local races spoke.
Additionally, I am working on a pilot program to immerse our party’s growth effort into 10 key urban precincts here, and into 10 key precincts each in Bexar and Tarrant Counties, leading to the fall election. I have the support of Jared Woodfill for this project here and have the interest of the RNC in helping with the project.
Finally, I had a long meeting with my good friend Claver Kamau-Imani, who just returned to town after successful trips to Ohio, Maryland and Missouri. I will be expanding my role with his Raging Elephants organization and including it in our work.
As you can see we have a lot of work ahead, and I challenge all of my supporters to join these efforts. Stay tuned as we unite to win in 2010.
Chairman Woodfill deserves a lot of credit for accepting Ed’s offer to help – I promise you it is not going to be received well be a few in the party. But an expanded Victory 2010 committee is going to be needed because, despite all of the predictions of a landslide off-year win, Harris County Republicans are going to face some unique problems that must be overcome if we are to win.
Gov. Perry and his team are very good but Bill White doesn’t have to win the governor’s race to impact Harris County. Like it or not, he is still popular in Houston. Hopefully we can convince people to look at the mess he left and knock his vote count down in the county as a whole. If we can do that, it will help both Gov. Perry and our county-wide candidates.
Obviously, we need to pick up the pace in teaching minority voters that our conservative philosophy is the best way for them to achieve the American dream. I’m confident that Ed can help in that area if he has the full support of party leadership and it looks like he will.
Let’s put aside our differences for now and work together. Click here to volunteer to help win in November.