Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Travis GOP turns rogue chairman situation into victory for grassroots power

The following public awareness campaign by the Travis County Republican Party speaks for itself, as precinct chairs and officials rally to set up a bulwark against incoming (so far very cooperative) chairman Robert Morrow


For further commentary on Tuesday night's developments, we defer to the local media, which did a (some would say uncharacteristic) yeoman's job in covering TCRP's last-minute effort to reassign powers from the county chairman to others in the party framework.

"It's not often the Statesman points out the hard work and talent of the TCRP," comment Travis GOP Chairman James Dickey, whose term ends June 12. "Kudos to Andy Hogue for putting this [campaign] and talking about it with the group last night."

Dickey also had high praise for TWC News' coverage.

TWC News ("Channel 8")
http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/news/2016/06/8/travis-county-gop-votes-to-change-structure-of-party.html

Austin American-Statesman
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/travis-county-gop-to-adopt-changes-aimed-at-limiti/nrb4j

First Reading (Statesman's political blog)
http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2016/06/07/bigger-than-trump-can-the-national-gop-borrow-the-travis-county-robert-morrow-playbook

And we would be remiss to neglect the work of the conservative media, particularly some advance coverage by Lana Shadwick at ...

Breitbart Texas
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/07/travis-county-gop-speaks-chairman

Here are some links to coverage outside of the local press:

Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/08/brief-june-8-2016

Esquire (thinking they're being funny)
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a45652/robert-morrow-interview


An archived livestream of Tuesday night's executive committee meeting may be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tUBFzLbUFs

The Tracker will have further analysis of "the plan" soon. If you run across any local or other coverage we missed please feel free to leave a comment.

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