This column has previously noted the need for the GOP to reach out to the youth of our country. Last week, House Republicans spent three days at their Annual Retreat in Williamsburg, Va. in “self-reflection” on the Party’s image.
In a January 18, 2013 column in The Washington Post, writers Rosalind D. Helderman and Ed O’Keefe, referring to the conference, stated that “…the consensus was that the change was about how to communicate, not about rethinking core policy positions”. They went on to say that Republicans are spending more time in discussing the necessity of addressing immigration laws, and they held a session during the retreat on “…successful communications with minorities and women.”
At last!
Terence D. Grado, in his article from the January 11, 2013 edition of The Washington Times writes that millennials (those ages 18 to 29) shifted 11 points away from Obama in the November election – this, even though that age group turned out in even greater numbers in 2012 than in 2008. And why? Grado says that they are not a partisan generation – they just want results. He says “…65% agree that the economy grows best when individuals are allowed to create businesses without government interference”; and he continues “Young people understand that Washington’s role is to encourage opportunity, not get in the way.”
The Dream Act, minorities, women, Hispanics, youth. GOP… – the time is now!
Mary Burke Russell, chair of the St. Mary’s County Republican Central Committee, was quoted in this column on January 9, 2013 on the topic of the
