Ever wonder what happens in the state executive committee meetings? Here’s a peek.
Last night’s meeting had 11 members there – Chair Dave Hansen, Vice-chair Morgan Philpot, secretary Christy Achziger, Merlynn Newbold, Dana Dickson, Marcie, Todd Weiler, Stan Lockhart, Chad Bennion, Chris Sloan and Drew Quinn. No elected officials were there also on the [...]

Kitty Dunn is the political director.  Her main responsibility is to work with the counties, making sure they have what they need, and that they have a strong liason within the party.  The state party cannot be successful without strong county parties.  “I do a lot of training”, she said.  At central committee meetings, she [...]

Ever wonder what goes on at GOP headquarters? I spent the day there to find out for myself.  I spent time individually with each of the three staff members – Ivan Dubois, Kitty Dunn and Katherine Lowe and sat in on their weekly staff meeting.

Ivan Dubois is the executive director of the [...]

Ivan, Kitty and Katherine sit down once a week for a staff meeting. Pretty much what you would expect….how are things going, what calendar items do we have, what fundraising do we have going on – that kind of thing.
First on the agenda this week was a report on auxiliaries:
Young Republicans are having special [...]