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Message from our Chairman, Corey Thomas
Hello everyone,
On Saturday, March 21, 2020, the Spencer County GOP will be hosting its presidential year Mass Meeting. There are a lot of rules behind the meeting process, so I’m including a condensed overview of everything here.
The meeting will take place at the Spencer County Public Library, 168 Taylorsville Road, Taylorsville, KY 40071. We have the room reserved from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. I anticipate there being time reserved for check-in of our attendees from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., with the meeting scheduled to begin around 10:30 a.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, with the actual meeting itself not taking too long at all.
The purpose of the meeting is to elect the slates of delegates and alternates we will be sending to the District and State Conventions. Spencer County is one of a few counties that happens to be split into two separate congressional districts. This means we will be selecting slates for both the 2nd and 4th Districts, and the two slates for the State Convention. The selection of slates will be done by registered Republicans of Spencer County (see below for more details).
For each District, we will send three delegates and three alternates to the District Convention. We will also name the four individuals of each of the following committees at the Convention: Committee of Permanent Organization, Credentials Committee, Rules Committee and Nominations Committee. Usually four of the people who go as delegates and alternates will serve on the committees. While that is normally the case, we could technically send four different people to serve on the committees in addition to our three delegates and three alternates, for a total of ten people to each convention. However, we would only have three voting delegates able to vote at each convention itself.
The dates of the conventions are as follows:
2nd District Convention: April 4, 2020
Registration: 9:00 a.m.; Convention to begin at 10:00 a.m. EST
Elizabethtown Community College-Regional Post-Secondary Center
620 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Fee: $10
4th District Convention: April 25, 2020
9:00 a.m. EST
Dixie Heights High School
3010 Dixie Highway
Fort Mitchell, KY 41017
No Fee
State Convention: Saturday, June 6, 2020
2:00 p.m. EST
Center for Rural Development
2292 US-27 #300
Somerset, KY 42501
The process works as follows:
If you have any questions about the rules/procedures of the Mass Meeting, please feel free to reach out to Spencer County Chairman, Corey Thomas (cmthom26@louisville.edu), or Vice Chair, Marsha Mudd (marshamudd@icloud.com). We look forward to seeing you there!
Corey Thomas
Chairman, Spencer County GOP
On Saturday, March 21, 2020, the Spencer County GOP will be hosting its presidential year Mass Meeting. There are a lot of rules behind the meeting process, so I’m including a condensed overview of everything here.
The meeting will take place at the Spencer County Public Library, 168 Taylorsville Road, Taylorsville, KY 40071. We have the room reserved from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. I anticipate there being time reserved for check-in of our attendees from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., with the meeting scheduled to begin around 10:30 a.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, with the actual meeting itself not taking too long at all.
The purpose of the meeting is to elect the slates of delegates and alternates we will be sending to the District and State Conventions. Spencer County is one of a few counties that happens to be split into two separate congressional districts. This means we will be selecting slates for both the 2nd and 4th Districts, and the two slates for the State Convention. The selection of slates will be done by registered Republicans of Spencer County (see below for more details).
For each District, we will send three delegates and three alternates to the District Convention. We will also name the four individuals of each of the following committees at the Convention: Committee of Permanent Organization, Credentials Committee, Rules Committee and Nominations Committee. Usually four of the people who go as delegates and alternates will serve on the committees. While that is normally the case, we could technically send four different people to serve on the committees in addition to our three delegates and three alternates, for a total of ten people to each convention. However, we would only have three voting delegates able to vote at each convention itself.
The dates of the conventions are as follows:
2nd District Convention: April 4, 2020
Registration: 9:00 a.m.; Convention to begin at 10:00 a.m. EST
Elizabethtown Community College-Regional Post-Secondary Center
620 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Fee: $10
4th District Convention: April 25, 2020
9:00 a.m. EST
Dixie Heights High School
3010 Dixie Highway
Fort Mitchell, KY 41017
No Fee
State Convention: Saturday, June 6, 2020
2:00 p.m. EST
Center for Rural Development
2292 US-27 #300
Somerset, KY 42501
The process works as follows:
- The Spencer County GOP Committee (its current voting members—Chairman, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Precinct Captains and Co-captains) will nominate the slates of individuals to serve as delegates and alternates
- Individuals who are seeking to serve as delegates and alternates must reside in the congressional district for which they are nominated (if you live and vote in Thomas Massie’s district, you would be eligible for the 4th District; if you live and vote in Brett Guthrie’s district, then you'd be eligible for the 2nd District)
- The County Committee would nominate the slates of delegates and alternates for each of the congressional districts, the state district
- It is common practice for us and for most counties across the Commonwealth that members nominated for the congressional districts are also nominated for the state districts (we would have six delegates and six alternates total at the state (3 from each of the 2nd and 4th districts))
- The County Committee would also nominate the individuals to serve on the four committees at each convention, too
- Separate votes will take place before the entire Mass Meeting for the slates of delegates/alternates to district conventions; delegates/alternates to state conventions; and the slate of committee members for each
- Any individual who was registered as a Republican by December 31, 2019 may vote at the mass meeting on the various slates. (Hence the need for a sign-in time to verify registration status of each attendee. RPK has provided us with a list of registered Republicans as of 12/31/19, so while the process may be a little more tedious than a regular meeting, it will hopefully go smoothly.)
- Slates are approved by a simple majority of Mass Meeting voters
- If the slate is rejected, there can be nominations from the floor of the Mass Meeting, but only for a new slate (no voting takes place on an individual basis for delegates/alternates and committee members; each are selected as a slate)
- Once we have the delegates/alternates and committee members for the districts and the state, those members will need to sign the appropriate sheets for certification by the Chairman and the meeting secretary and are to be sent to the Republican Party of Kentucky within the requisite time-frame as outlined in the RPK Rules and Call to Convention.
If you have any questions about the rules/procedures of the Mass Meeting, please feel free to reach out to Spencer County Chairman, Corey Thomas (cmthom26@louisville.edu), or Vice Chair, Marsha Mudd (marshamudd@icloud.com). We look forward to seeing you there!
Corey Thomas
Chairman, Spencer County GOP
Updated 17AUG2020