Democrat Recruitment Drive
November 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pm by Jim Shella under Jim Shella's Political Blog
Respect for Julia Carson and her current circumstances will keep any candidates or potential candidates for the 7th District Congressional seat from engaging in public campaign activities or pronouncements, but there is behind the scenes work taking place.
For example, Marion County Democrats need to fill over 100 vacancies among precinct committeemen. There are over 680 precincts in the 7th and, in a possible special election, the committeemen would pick the party nominee.
Recruitment is underway.
Just for comparison, how many vacancies are there among Republican precinct committeemen?
Shella says: Republicans also have about a hundred vacancies but Kyle Walker at GOP Headquarters says there is no recruitment drive underway. He says his party is more concerned with preparing for next year’s re-precincting that will reduce the number significantly.
[...] Shella reports that Democrats are looking to fill approximately a hundred empty precinct committee positions in [...]
[...] Blogger Jim Shella is reporting that the vacancies in county precinct committeepersons are being filled rapidly in anticipation of having to name a nominee to succeed Ms. Julia. In that inside baseball scenario, City-County Councilman Andre Carson, Ms. Carson’s grandson, is likely to have an advantage if his grandmother’s allies are filling the vacancies. [...]