I’ve always thought mutually beneficial partnerships had an intrinsic worth, especially when you’re the leader of a struggling political organization in an environment that surrounds you with successful political entities. That’s why I’ve spent so much time over the last two weeks reaching out to organizations and campaigns, and working together to form mutually beneficial partnerships.
It’s working.
So far we’ve got plans for events and programs that will be co-sponsored with the Republican Party of Texas, Texas Victory 2008, Texas Young Republicans Federation, Directors of Rick Perry’s ‘06 Campaign, in addition to several other entities of lessor distinction. At this point, we’re going to have partnership events and programs to cover every facet of the vision that I laid out for the federation.
The best part of these partnerships? These outside entities are stronger than we are and have a lot more cash. The thing is, each one of those groups needs something from the federation to make their expenditure worthwhile. What are they asking for?
Manpower.
We have thousands of members across this state, and thousands more that would join if we did a better job recruiting them. Campaigns need our members to volunteer, and will lend a hand and dollar to get those volunteers to show up. With other entities have news or information they want spread throughout the state via college students, and will help us grow so they have a stronger network to work with.
We’ve got a long way to go, but with the support of so many people and entities outside the federation, there is no reason we can’t succeed.
