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Cincinnati Tea Party’s ‘precinct project’ featured on Fox News
Press release from the Cincinnati Tea Party (we reported on the “Precinct Project” in a weekend series):
Dan Lillback, Director of Special Projects for the Cincinnati Tea Party, appeared on Fox News Special Report last Friday with a special message of his own: “We have some different ideas and we have some direction that we’ve been talking to you about and you haven’t heard us yet.” Lillback was speaking to elected Republicans who seem to be in short supply of the time-tested values the Cincinnati Tea Party hopes to bring back into vogue: fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.
Lillback heads up the Precinct Project, an effort to educate people on the importance of being involved on county and state candidate-selection committees. He has presented to more than 30 liberty-minded groups around Ohio, explaining how to get elected to these positions. “The importance of the candidate-selection process is revealed in the understanding that protesting, letter writing, and phone calls only go so far, and that real change starts at this foundational level. The few elected citizens that make up these county and state committees effectively create the policy for the party.”
Phase I of the Precinct Project was getting people on the ballot. At a recent candidate press conference and rally in Cincinnati, over 100 candidates signed an agreement, pledging to uphold Cincinnati Tea Party values. Now, Phase II of the project is underway—getting candidates elected and implementing a game plan. And Dan has plenty of ideas: using voter identification resources, being a political leader in the neighborhood, having candidate nights, and simply increasing the level of engagement in one’s sphere of local influence. “It’s your best bet for results,” said Lillback. “While I’m not that good at politics, I am pretty good at math. A 51 percent majority of liberty-minded members in these county and state positions absolves us from playing politics and allows us to choose freedom.”
Dan Lillback has been working with the Cincinnati Tea Party since April 2009. The Tea Party movement is looking beyond 2010.
See Dan Lillback on Fox News here.
Read more about the Candidate Pledge here.
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