Ready To Go As Executive Director of RTP

[Robert Willington]

Greetings everyone. Today, is my first day as Executive Director of RebuildTheParty.com and I am really excited to roll up my sleeves and get to work over the next couple of months. I'm from the northeast (Massachusetts) and am used to some pretty rough political terrain. New England Republicans are used to trying new things on low-budgets and so we tend to be a creative bunch utilizing new media to our advantage.

As you know, RebuildTheParty.com has exploded thanks to your interest and dedication to Growing Our Party. The RTP community is now advancing to the next level. It's a real honor to work in this capacity over the next couple of months and dedicate myself to this Party on a national scale. There is a tremendous amount of talent and energy among this community and I hope to effectively utilize all of you to advance the Republican Party. In essence, I will be working for you and you are my boss so feel free to email me at rob[at]rebuildtheparty[dot]com. Each one of you has a piece of ownership in this initiative and I can't wait to serve you. We are off to a great start and we will work together to expand our core of 7,000 plus members to 15,000 plus members before the RNC election to make a big impact. As you know, almost all of the candidates for RNC Chair are supporting the 10 point platform.

As RebuildTheParty.com states front and center, we are strengthening and modernizing the Republican Party. I imagine you have already endorsed the plan, but if not, you know what to do. Spread the word among your network and encourage them to sign on as well. Did you read that last sentence? Send the plan to your network and encourage them to sign on. Only with a strong collective voice will we succeed in strengthening and modernizing the Republican Party. The building has begun.

[Jim Bummer]

Congratulations! This is my first visit to the site - I came from The Next Right - and am interested in doing whatever I can to help. Pittsburgh is a challenge to say the least.

[Benjamin Dickmann]

It was good working with you at the convention, and I have no doubts you'll do great at being Executive Directer. Welcome!

[Robert Edward Aufiero, Jr]

Hello Rob,
I am really happy that there is an organized effort to rebuild the Republican party in this State.
I am excited that this is starting off before 2009, which, I think, might be an interesting year?

Robert Aufiero

[Bob and Judy]

Now is the time to rebuild and get back to our conservative values.

[Brock N. Cordeiro]

I've known Rob Willington for at least the past 8 years when we were both Massachusetts College Republicans and I've worked with him closely over the past several years as he was first instrumental in organizing VoteOnMarriage.org and then he became the Political Director & later Executive Director of the Massachusetts Republican Party. As a former municipal committee chairman & now as a MassGOP State Committee member I can personally attest that Rob Willington is a tremendous asset and can only be a huge boon to these efforts. Rob is both a diehard conservative & a true gentleman. I consider myself fairly adept at technology but Rob has been on the cutting edge.

I was mourning the MassGOP's loss of Rob Willington since I received the breaking news via Twitter that Rob was cleaning out his office. However, now I need not mourn Rob but to praise him! It's absolutely wonderful to see Rob take on this role. I not only expect great things from Rob Willington but knowing him as I do, I am confident that he will deliver.

[Steve Gunn]

Congratulations from Fort Lauderdale and welcome aboard. We're looking forward to working with you.

[Bill Strittmatter]

Great to have your leadership and I am looking forward to working with everyone to make our party and country strong again.

[BernieD]

Thank you Rob for your willingness to step up to lead this effort. I agree with this site and all it stands for. I agree with the broad objectives. Here are my specific priorities for this effort:

1) As RTP has already identified we must get conservatives (of ALL stripes) signed up and connected via email and the intenet -- we are nowhere in this age without that. I will work on that in my own local area along with RTP;

2) Then we need to MAKE BIG INROADS into a presence on and control of national TV/newspaper coverage - - Fox News is a godsend and it is FAIR but it alone is NOT ENOUGH (this last campaign proved that) -- we are losing the PR war big time -- for a current example look at the outrageous 3 page piece in the NYT that blames G.W. Bush entirely for the sub-prime collapse -- ridiculous -- but every news outlet save Fox News are echoing the story verbatium so we lose that one -- its absurd!!

3) I live in Ohio -- the democrats go to Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and Cincinnati and sign up hundreds of thousands of new voters -- obviously we can go to the exurbs to help offset this -- but one other thing we NEED to do (it is not easy) is to GET OUT into rural Ohio -- the small towns and farms and find out how many voters we are losing out on because they are not registered. We do not need a million new votes -- a hundred thousand or so will change outcomes here -- I want to get involved with this effort.

4) Find some common ground that ALL conservatives can stand on. Can we agree on a few basic principle that stand above all other considerations? Such as: respect for All human life, a federal government that is as SMALL as possible; having federal taxes as LOW as possible; a FREE enterprise,commerce; a COMMON language, advocating personal responsibility.

These are the basics but also we all need to be willing to compromise. Yes I know morally committed right-to-life persons --for example -- cannot compromise their position on this matter -- BUT can they not at least agree that a person committed to the sanctity of life after the first trimester (e.g., the actual Roe v. Wade position) is better than an Obama type who promotes infanticide like partial birth abortion?

We need a piece of ground that we can all stand on to fight from. Let's make it the HIGHEST POSSIBLE ground! Merry Christmas and Good Luck in this worthy effort!

[Larry Litchfield]

Congrats.... welcome aboard! I am from NH, willing to help however I can. "Live Free Or Die" is our State motto. Kinds of says it all doesn't it?!?!

[Bill Greene]

Welcome, Rob. Fair warning: just because candidates running for RNC "endorse" the plan here, does NOT mean they're telling the truth. We've learned that well in the last however-many years, haven't we?

Let's get to work! :)