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A Proxy Fight For Next MeckGOP Chairman?
At last night’s annual MeckGOP precinct meeting, two candidates for MeckGOP introduced themselves to many of the voters who will select them at the March county convention for the party.
With Mecklenburg County having over 180,00 registered Republicans, controlling the local Party mechanism would be a nice bit of leverage to have for any politician, and it seems two of the biggest names in North Carolina politics have thrown proxies into the ring.
Igor Jablokov and Bradley Overcash both made their pitches for the chairmanship of the MeckGOP. Interestingly, neither gave a lot of information on what they had done for the local party to deserve the top spot. Instead, both focused on their connections to powerful elected officials.
Igor Jablokov has been a member of Governor Pat McCrory’s transition team and Bradley Overcash worked for Congressman Robert Pittenger back when he was in the NC State Senate.
The question is will the local party faithful pick one of these two men with strong establishment connections, or will someone else who has a longer history working the Party’s grassroots step forward?
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Does anyone know if there were there are any other potential nominees? I had heard that the “libertarian wing” was planning on running a candidate for GOP chair.
What is required for nomination?
When do nominations close?
When is the election?
Inquiring minds want to know…
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Tim – I’m heading up a search committee with the MeckGOP to help anyone who wants to run. And we do mean anyone. If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll try to answer any questions you might have. The election is at the county convention in March. Nominations are accepted at the convention (I’m about 99% sure of this). The requirements are just that you are a registered Republican in Meck Co. Let me know if I can help! Mary Jo
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Bear in mind that in order to be a voting delegate to the Meck GOP County Convention, you must have been a registered Republican in Mecklenburg County as of January 31st and must have attended the Meck GOP Precinct Meetings held 2/7 either in person or by Absentee Letter.
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Tim,
Discussions are underway among the small-government grassroots groups, but tossing a name out would be premature at this point. Any candidate may announce between now and the March 23rd Mecklenburg County Republican Party Convention, to be held at West Charlotte High School. In fact, any candidate may be nominated during the convention. The only deadline is when delegates vote to close nominations during the convention itself.
It’s also worth mentioning that the current Chairman of the Mecklenburg County Young Republicans, political consultant Larry Shaheen, confided to me last night that he was behind pushing Overcash to run. Shaheen was NC Senator Jeff Tarte’s campaign manager last year.
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Thanks, Adam. I’ll be rooting for you guys to gain inroads on party leadership at the convention this year.
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Thanks, Rick. I wanted to know more about them. They said last night the requirements for serving in a leadership position in the GOP is to be a registered Republican and to be alive. The nominations are open up until the election at the County Convention, not sure of that date.
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