The first straw poll will be taken at the Hamblen County Republican Party Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner, which will be held tomorrow night, February 24th, 2012 at 6:30pm at First Presbyterian Church, located at 600 West Main Street in Morristown. Tickets are $25/each, and can be obtained by calling Hamblen County GOP Chairman Paul Chapman at 423-312-2027. You can also get tickets at the door provided that they aren't sold out.
The second straw poll opportunity will be the Tennessee Conservative Union's Reagan Day Dinner and Southern Conservative Caucus. This important event will be on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 at the ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville. It's quite a bit more pricey than the Morristown straw poll at $100 a ticket, but the food is always fabulous at this annual who's who of East Tennessee conservatism (fried chicken, collards, hominy, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, fat and calories et. al.), and a big part of that hundred bucks a head is going to pay for Herman Cain's speaking fee. If you can spare the time, travel, and funds for either or both of these straw polls, please show up and pick Rick!
The Hamblen County Straw Poll results will be sent out to the local media. Also, the TCU Reagan Day Dinner is bigger than a Straw Poll. It is going to be Caucus-type event with a roll-call vote. It should be A LOT of fun, with media from across the state.
ReplyDeleteFireball, I know HOW the TCU straw poll (and it really is that, you can call it "straw poll, you can call it "caucus" but it amounts to the same thing in a real-time sense) is conducted, it is always a roll call, so the vote is public. Perhaps I should have made that clear, but I doubt that hard-core Santorum supporters (or supporters of anyone else) will mind their vote being public.
ReplyDeleteI've attended the TCU Reagan Day event before. I wanted to make sure and mention it here because it is one of the most enjoyable political events I have EVER had the pleasure to attend.