Dad & GOTV

Getting their hands in the till is Job #1 for our RINO rulers, looking out for citizens is not even in the top ten!
Posted by: Hrothgar Establishment RINO

I've said this here before, but...

Dad led a county-wide GOTV campaign locally that basically had a massive door-to-door effort of folks saying 'We want you to get out and vote. We want you to vote Republican, but mainly we want you to vote!"

It was so successful, it made the news and attracted the attention of the state GOP. Dad ended up as GOP committeeman, helped lead a state-wide GOTV effort that got us our first GOP governor, and started forces in motion which, ultimately, changed the state from Southern Dem to Reagan Republican. Pix of Mom & Dad w Ike & Mamie, & with Dick & Pat, of me & my sister with Goldwater at our house, are some of my treasures.

Gov. Henry Bellmon's bio covers this. Dad gets a chapter. Dad once told me, the state GOP hadn't been so much interested in winning as in fundraising, and Dad was not as 'controllable' as they had thought.

Dad died in January '68, when I was 15 and I was already forcibly distanced from him due to my folks' divorce a few years before. No 'inheritance' of knowledge or wisdom from all that. (Just like the ancestral business wisdom lost between generations.) I never got to talk with him about how exactly they did it. As you can imagine, I often ponder it.

I also often pray the spirit of that remarkable state turnaround comes to our nation.