HuckPAC Oklahoma UPDATE: from State Organizer, Mike Ford

HuckPAC OK Update: 2/5/09

1. HuckPAC House Party 2/26/09
2. Fundraisers Conference Call
3. Join the HuckPAC 2009 Republican Delegates

Attention all HuckPAC Oklahoma Volunteers,

HuckPAC House Party 2/26/09

Make plans to attend a HuckPAC House Party on the 26th! See details from Governor Huckabee at the link below, then contact me (mikef (at)huckpacvolunteer.com) if you are interested in hosting a HuckPAC House Party in the Tulsa, OKC, Bartlesville or Muskogee areas on February 26th. We need hosts!
http://www.huckpac.com/?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=2107

This will be an excellent time to launch our first meetings in an informal and social atmosphere, where we can meet each other and hang out. The state coordinator in your area can address the group with HuckPAC announcements regarding some upcoming plans, events and developments. There's lots of cool stuff on the way!

Fundraisers Conference Call

If you responded to the National HuckPAC Volunteer Team as a Fund Raiser, please contact me (mikef@huckpacvolunteer.com) with some potential dates and times (the second or third week of February) that you can be available for a conference call to discuss and organize our Oklahoma fundraising campaign.

I would like to hear your ideas and form a group strategy. I was thinking maybe a Monday or Tuesday night after dinner time when all of our households are winding down???

Join the HuckPAC 2009 Republican Delegates
(Let's make an impact on this year's conventions!)

The 2009 County and State Republican Conventions are almost upon us. It is vital that all of us join the Delegation in our respective Counties and participate in our Party process.

Together as a voting block, we can influence the elections of our new Party leadership and assist with the preservation and enhancement of the conservative OKGOP Platform (where we can suggest and discuss issues like the Human Life Amendment, the Fair Tax, Homeschooling, Education and Gun Rights).

Please go to our state Meetup site at
http://www.meetup.com/mikehuckabee-66/messages/boards/
and post the date and time of your GOP County Convention so others can find the info.

Ask your County Chairman if you can submit these planks to be considered for our Platform:

The FairTax Act (HR 25, S 1025)
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_main
The Human Life Amendment ( Sometimes referred to as a Personhood Amendment )
http://www.humanlifeamendment.info/

If you do NOT live in Tulsa County:
Contact your County Chairman, or call the OKGOP headquarters in OKC if you need more info. Contact Jay Mandraccia | 405/528-3501 | jay (at) okgop.com . Tell them you want to become a delegate if you have not already and missed your Precinct Meeting last week due to the ice storm or other complications.

If you DO live in Tulsa County:
If you have not already, please take 2 minutes and go to http://www.tulsagop.org/ to register. The deadline to register is FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th! Then, I challenge you to do 2 things:

1. Send this invitation to EVERY Republican you know, especially those who have felt like the Party has left them behind and no longer stands for their values. If they do not respond and become a voting delegate, they will have only themselves to blame. We will be stuck with the platform and leadership elected by delegates who register, show up to the convention and vote, for the next 2 years.

2. If you have an idea or a policy you would like the Party to stand on in our Republican Platform, send it in. This is how solutions are entered into the political arena. If you want to see the Fair Tax, The Human Life Amendment, or other great conservative ideas become GOP approved, it starts with YOU! Email them to chairman (at) tulsaGOP.org .

What: Become a Republican Delegate !!!

When: By THIS FRIDAY, February 6, 2009

Where: http://www.tulsagop.org/

Here is some info from our Tulsa County Republican Chairman:

Dear Republicans,

I wanted to update you on a few things.
I have received several emails about the precinct meetings and wanted to make certain that everything was very clear.

We suggest that since we sit in precincts at the county convention that you elect these at the convention. Electing officers is not a lenghty process and we suggest that you arrive at the convention a few minutes early for you to do so. We will supply forms at the convention for you to fill out and turn in.

There may be some precincts that have already met or are meeting this week or next. If you have signed up online and are in one of these precincts we ask that you contact your precinct chairman so that they know that you are wanting to be a delegate but could not make the meeting due to the weather. You can get the contact information for a precinct chairman as a drop box to the “Officials” tab. If you see no precinct chairman listed then we would love to sign you up as a precinct officer.

Also, if you have no precinct meeting and you would like to sign up for the rules committee, platform committee, or credentials committee, feel free to send me at chairman (at) tulsaGOP.org and I will forward that onto the committee chairmen. Just a reminder that you can only sit on one committee. Also, please remember that several committees have many people sign up and not everyone is chosen. Please email me by February 6 so that we have time to process everyone.

Finally, if you have a platform plank that you would like to submit and did not have a precinct meeting, please send and email to chairman (at) tulsaGOP.org. Those planks must be into me by February 6.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at 627-5702.
Thank you!
Joy Mohorovicic, Chairman

Just a Reminder:

Note: If your precinct does not have a Chairman, your meeting will be held at the Tulsa County GOP HQ on February 3rd, from 7 - 8pm.

Attention Tulsa County Republicans:

The 2009 Tulsa County GOP Convention will be held February 21.
Please contact your Precinct Chairman for more information regarding location and time.

If you need to know your precinct number CLICK HERE: http://206.202.208.78/TulsaCounty/TulsaCoHtml.aspx?framesrc=pctloc

If you need to know who your Precinct Chairman is CLICK HERE:
http://www.tulsagop.org/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.tulsagop.org/officials/precinct-chairman%E2%80%9D/

Tulsa County GOP HQ Hours
Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Huck PAC National Volunteer Team

The following is a recent e-mail sent out by Huck PAC Oklahoma (unofficial grassroots) Meetup Organizer, Mike Ford. OKforHuckabee has heard from a source that the National Volunteer Team (NVT) has actually already grown to over 1,600 members. If you have not already signed up for this, PLEASE DO SO NOW! Thank You!

Dear HuckPAC volunteers,

Thanks to all of you who have responded to Mike Huckabee's call on January 1st to become HuckPAC volunteer group leaders. We are pleased to announce that by January 4th, the HuckPACvolunteer project response exceeded all expectations with 1,144 volunteers (our goal was 500 by Jan. 15). 614 people have indicated they are willing to signup as a Group Leader and 369 people have said they will raise money!

The goal for each state is to have at least one group leader operating within each county. We are currently loading all volunteer data into our files county by county.

I have been asked to request a brief (2 paragraphs) introduction telling HuckPAC a little about yourself. Who you are, why you believe in HuckPAC and your reason for stepping up to join our leadership team.

These can be sent back to me as a reply to this email. In addition to your introduction, please include any former political or campaign experience, leadership experience, skills and resources that will be helpful in organizing our Oklahoma leadership team.

Please also tell me what county you reside in and if you are willing to be a temporary leader in a nearby county that does not have a leader until we can fill it. Areas like Tulsa and Oklahoma County will likely have several leaders, so we can work as a team to be creative with ways to service other counties until they are filled.

The information is coming fast and we are thumbing through a lot of it, so please be patient as we get our databases organized. We will be introducing our initial action steps soon. Once we become active, it will be easier to recruit volunteers. Most people don't want to join a team that is doing nothing.

Here are some upcoming activities we will be planning:

Our first meetings will be held in February. I would like to see a meeting scheduled in each of our 4 major cities (Tulsa, OKC, Bartlesville and Muskogee) for all local HuckPAC volunteers to attend on a monthly basis. Our leadership team can have conference calls monthly and meet in person quarterly in various locations around the state. Of course, during elections, these meetings will become weekly.

The Republican Precinct Caucuses will be held in most counties on January 27th. It is very important that we get as many HuckPAC supporters and conservatives to their local precinct meetings. This is the beginning of the delegate process for the 2009 OKGOP conventions, where those who became delegates at the precinct caucuses will vote in our new County and State leaders, and be involved in other important matters. Unlike in the past, it is highly unlikely that anyone will be seated as a delegate who does not attend these meetings this year. Please note that 2008 delegates must attend as well, or they will not remain delegates in 2009!!! If you are unsure where your precinct meeting is, please call your County Chairman. If your precinct does not have a chairman, consider stepping up and becoming the precinct chairman in your area. I can help you with this.

I am speaking with some people around the state regarding a Human Life Amendment for the Oklahoma State Constitution. It is very likely that we could have one passed through our now Republican state congress, and also may be filing a petition to add a ballot initiative to one of the upcoming elections. The passage of the Human Life Amendment in Oklahoma would recognize unborn children as American citizens with full Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment, rendering abortion unconstitutional.

We will also plan Fair Tax rallies for April 15th.

One of the things we are developing at HuckPAC is an online community similar to HucksArmy.com and Meetup.com. HucksArmy and Meetup members are encouraged to continue with their current formats if they would like to. However, once the new group formats are completed, I think we will find that it will enhance our internet base and eventually replace them both. Until then, I think we should continue to stay active on HucksArmy and the Oklahoma HuckPAC meetup group to generate web hits and stay in communication with others to build our team socially. If you are not currently a member of HuckPAC Oklahoma Meetup, please join if you would like.
Go to http://www.meetup.com/mikehuckabee-66/ .

Please send the link www.Huckpacvolunteer.com to your personal networks and encourage friends and family to participate. I honestly think we can grow HuckPAC Volunteer Team to 2,000 nationwide by the 15th, if we have not already. I'll keep you updated as I hear the progress reports.

Thanks for the response. I look forward to working with each of you.

Sincerely,

Mike Ford
HuckPAC Oklahoma
Mikef@huckpacvolunteer.com
918-361-5126