2023 Pender County GOP Convention Update

This past Saturday (March 4th, 2023) we held our annual Pender County Republican Party Convention! It was well attended and may have been the largest number of participants we have ever had for our county convention. We want to thank all of you who gave up your Saturday morning and some of your Saturday afternoon to participate in our political process. 

At the convention we elected delegates to send to the district and state convention. More on that later.  We also elected precinct chairs. See the chart below.

We want to congratulate our precinct chairs who were elected and thank them for their service and for agreeing to participate in this important role.  Also note that we still have a few unorganized precincts.  If you or someone you know is interested, please let us know immediately.

We also elected new officers.

Congratulations to Joshua Smith for being re-elected as our party chair, Scott Sherman for being re-elected as our party vice chair, Lynn Norwood for being re-elected as secretary and Phil Cordeiro on being our newly elected treasurer. We also agreed to keep our current plan of organization in place. 

Sue to increased participation in our party politics, we had to make our convention a little more formal than we have in the past. In previous years we did not have sufficient participation in the county convention such that the precinct meetings actually mattered. In the past, we were doing everything we could to find delegates and precinct chairs. This year we actually had one precinct who had more registered attendees than allocated delegates for that precinct. This is a good problem!

Although we are excited about the increased participation in our county convention, we have also learned that increased participation calls for better planning for the convention. We learned a lot at this convention about how we can be better at our next convention and we are holding a debriefing meeting tomorrow to share the lessons we learned. We would like for you to share with us your thoughts about the convention. Tells us what you liked about it and what you didn't like about it.  Tell us something you learned that you did not know before. Tell us how you think we can make the process better. Your feedback will help us make our next convention even better. 

Please email your convention comments to [email protected]