Chairman Update

Hello Patriots, it's Chairman Bennett and I just wanted to send you an update on what we have going on here at your GOP. When you elected me to be your chairman less than a year ago, I wanted to make sure that we stayed focused on our vision and our mission. So my leadership team and I sat down and we drafted up our mission and vision statement and I want to share that with you today. Our mission is to win elections by recruiting, vetting, training, and supporting Republican candidates who will adhere to the Republican Party platform and defend and promote the God-given constitutional rights of Oklahomans. Our vision is a unified grassroots Republican Party that actively engages in the political process to ensure the election of representatives to local, state, and federal offices who adhere to the unifying principles of the Oklahoma Republican Party platform. As your chairman, I want you to know everything that we are doing here. One of the most important things to me is that we are being transparent with your money. We recently sent out an email to the Republican Party leadership in our state. Our goal is to be as transparent as possible as we move forward in fighting for liberty and build the strongest infrastructure so we can keep our party strong and keep our state red. We send out updates by email at least every other week and we will continue to send financial updates at least every quarter to make sure you are informed and we are transparent. Another priority for us is to make sure that the state GOP is a bottom-up grassroots organization. After you elected me in April 2021, we realized that we needed more grassroots precinct training to strengthen you all at the local level. Why? Because local politics has a national impact and we must work together to take this country back one community at a time. And this all starts at the precinct level. So we asked the team of professionals to put together a standard operating procedure for precinct training that can be used throughout the entire state. And I just want to send a personal thank you to Marshila Pryor, who is the chairman of this committee. I also want to thank Bob Jack, Leon Ferris, Mary Ann Corcoran, and all of those who contributed so much to make this SOP a success. Additionally, we have formed a mobile training team and we will be taking this show on the road and we will be in Lawton, Oklahoma for the first training session later this month. So if you want to schedule training for your county, then please contact Vince Skoufis here at the state headquarters. Obviously, these programs and other updates and changes were made to better your state GOP. They all cost money. So we have prioritized fundraisers and we will continue to do so. As a matter of fact, we have a fundraiser scheduled for February the 24th in Oklahoma City with David Barton. If you'd like to attend, please go to event.okgop.com to sign up. As I'm sure you know, the legislature is back in session and one of the hot issues is education choice, probably better put as parent choice. There's a lot of information going around about these bills and what is best for our kids' education. We want to make sure that we have all the facts and intent for these bills, so we will be having an education forum with education experts and others to speak about these bills and parent choice. Finally, everyone here at is a volunteer. We have an army of volunteers who love liberty and are volunteering to keep Oklahoma red. So we had a volunteer appreciation lunch for them here recently at the state headquarters. We appreciate all of them and we appreciate all of you. If you would like to volunteer, please contact us at volunteer.okgop.com and we can get you plugged in as well. So thank you again for allowing me to be your chairman and please let us know if you have any concerns or questions. And I also ask that you please sign up for our emails if you want to stay informed. To do that, you can go to okgop.com and sign up on our front page. And remember, if we fight, we win. God bless you and the great state of Oklahoma.