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February 2025

Changes You Need to Know

If you want to have a voice and a vote for party leadership, be a Delegate or Alternate to your County, District and State GOP Conventions. However, the process begins at the precinct level, and there were changes made last year that you must know.

At last year's State Convention, the NCGOP adopted amendments designed to remove the conflict between two sections of the Plan of Organization (POO), one of which required attendance at a Precinct Meeting in order to be elected as a Delegate to the County Convention and another which allowed someone to be elected in absentia. 

Each County may differ slightly in procedures to become a Delegate or Alternate, but in general one begins by attending an Annual Precinct Meeting and is voted on to become a Delegate or Alternate to the County Convention. From the County Convention, Delegates and Alternates are elected to represent the County at the District and the NCGOP State Convention.

If someone is unable to attend their respective Annual Precinct Meeting, he or she should check their County Plan of Organization and send a note to the "person or persons designated by the County Executive Committee" letting them know they'd like to be elected as a Delegate or Alternate to their County Convention. 

While not spelled out in the POO, the notice must be received prior to the convening of the Annual Precinct Meeting or the County Convention. The notice must contain the person's full legal name, address, phone number, and email address. Some Counties have a deadline to submit the notice by 5 p.m. of the day prior to the Precinct Meeting. Check with your own County GOP.

Anyone not attending or sending a note prior to the convening of the Annual Precinct Meeting may attend their County Convention as a Guest. 

There are important issues to be voted on at our 2025 NGCOP Convention, proposed changes that affect all of us. We need as many Delegates as possible to vote at the NCGOP Convention on Friday and Saturday, June 6 & 7. That only happens if you follow the process and become a Delegate.

Reducing Full Participation

Folly

We've barely finished celebrating the amazing election of President Trump where turnout of voters broke records, when we find a committee of the NCGOP proposes taking a machete to the Party structure.

Rather than growing the party and encouraging full participation, the proposed changes seem exclusionary and limiting - not at all a reflection of President Trump's agenda of inclusivity and growth.

There is currently a draft of a brand new Plan of Organization (POO) for the NCGOP proposed to be voted on at our 2025 NGCOP Convention in June. The changes in the Plan are broad and sweeping and affect each and every member of the NCGOP and its affiliated Republican Organizations.

Of note, in Article 7, Section 2, the POO Committee Plan renames the Central Committee to an Operating Committee. The Plan eliminates full participation and silences voices on that Committee by excluding the current seats for NCGOP Affiliated Clubs - the NC Federation of Republican Women (NCFRW), the NC Federation of Republican Men (NCFRM), the NC Federation of Young Republicans (YRs), the NC College-Age Republicans (CARS), the NC Teen Age Republicans (TARS), the NC Republican National Hispanic Assembly (RNHA-NC), the District & County Officers Association (DCOA) and the Frederick Douglass Foundation.  

These 8 statewide organizations represent thousands of grassroots volunteers who are the boots on the ground in critical elections. The NCFRW alone provided a minimum of 750,000 hours of volunteering across the state in 2024. The YR's in NC also led 3 National deployments across the state in 2024 and knocked on thousands of doors. With a statewide perspective, these 8 voices on the Central Committee are vital. Removing those voices is silencing the true grassroots volunteers of the state.

We are asking ALL NCFRW members to attend their precinct meetings in 2025 and become Delegates to the NCGOP Convention in June to vote on this critical measure. If you do not know when your Precinct meeting occurs, contact your local GOP. We need as many of you as possible to be present at the NCGOP Convention on Friday and Saturday, June 6 & 7, to voice our opposition to this drastic plan change. We also ask that you bring your associate members and other County members who support the voices of the grassroots volunteers.  

Helpful Links:

NCGOP Calendar - Events - North Carolina Republican Party

County Convention Calendar:  2025 County Conventions - North Carolina Republican Party

Current Draft of the Plan of Organization:  DRAFT NO 9.6A 1.31.25

Google Form to Submit questions:  2025 NC GOP Plan of Organization Comments

Thank you to Kyshia Brassington, Erica Vedeikis, Michele Nix, Stephanie Broughton, and Bill Scholtes for your contributions to this Alert.

Any misunderstanding of your comments in writing this is mine, Kay Wildt.

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