Cobb Republicans Remain Static Despite State Gains

8 November 2006 - Despite a strong showing statewide by the GAGOP last night, Cobb GOP failed to make any major inroads into South West portion of the county last night. State Senate Districts 6 and 33 remained in the hands of Democratic incumbents and Terry Johnson held off Cindye Coates in the House 37th. This was despite a well organized get out the vote effort by the Cobb County Republican Party which included phone banks, candidate recruitment, and sign parties.

Conservative Sentinel feels the Cobb GOP should implement the following strategy for '08:

1. Continue to run viable challengers for the State Senate 6th and 33rd and the House 37th as we did this year.

2. Recruit challengers for districts where Democrats run unopposed - the House 39th (Alisha Thomas Morgan), the House 40th (Rob Teilhet) and the House 44th (Sheila Jones).
No district should go unchallenged.

3. During '07 focus on building the party by recruiting delegates to the mass precinct meetings, the district, county and state conventions.

4. Lead at the State Convention. Cobb has never realized its potential to be the 900 pound elephant at the state convention by virtue of the number of seats assigned to it because it could never recruit delegates to fill all those seats.

5. Develop an agenda for Cobb and the state based on 1. TABOR (tax payer bill of rights), 2. Immigration law enforcement. 3. Fair Tax advocacy (OK, I know that's a national issue, but we can still promote it).

I saw a lot of potential and teamwork that worked at the state level this year and I feel Cobb has all the pieces in place to solidify it's Republican Majority in '08.