2012 Election results and what the GOP needs to do about it

by Pete Laurence on February 1, 2013 · 2 comments

Former mayor of Clayton California, Pete Lawrence, recently addressed a Republican Womens’ group on the topic of the 2012 Election Results and what the supporters of the Republican Party need to do about it. See transcript below.

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BGR February 2, 2013 at 2:19 pm

Thanks Pete. My take on such “what to do” handwringing is to support efforts that train and encourage people to live out their principles in their own backyards and neighborhoods where they actually have insight, power and legitimate authority as citizens to act more normatively.

Conservatives, ignoring subsidiarity which points to the most local level for problem solving, seem to get stuck on big moral-ideological issues and language “out there” in DC and never organize effectively at the local level demonstrating very little solidarity with their neighbors on critical issues in our neighborhoods and cities from which to build broad-based support.

Let’s stop training pundits and wallowing in group think and make a point of promoting thoughtful solutions at the local level by reaching beyond “the demographic” and organize around that to produce a new breed of leaders grounded in community action instead of the rhetoric of talking points from Fox-News.

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primo February 2, 2013 at 1:16 pm

one activity they could defeat is the new gas tax moonbeam brown and democrats are fast tracking.
Brown has too too much discresionary $$$$$ to spend and he wants more more more. By my calculations,because of tax passages,he will have about $ 17 B more in 2014-2015.

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