Arkansas Republicans 2.0
As noted earlier, the Republican Party of Arkansas hired LCM Strategies to redesign their online presence. It looks like the website is close to being up and running and the shell is already in place. Look for the new site to be much more interactive and up to date, allowing Republicans across the state to connect on what is going on and coordinate their statewide efforts.
Also this week, the Arkansas Young Republican will be launching their new website. The have a launch party planned for May 18, Tuesday evening at 5:30 at Crush Wine Bar. For more information on this event, contact them at info@arkansasyr.org.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
As a Republican who has been hoping for RPA to gain some traction for a long time, it is very disconcerting to see us without any web presence. We’ve been without a webpage for several months now.
This is a failure on the part of our chairman, who instead of raising money and recruiting competent candidates to run for office, is collecting a 90K salary and making disparaging remarks about lesbians.
Unfortunately, the YR leadership isn’t any better. Fort has been an awful chairman. I went an entire election cycle without getting hardly any email updates from the YRs. Now that someone is challenging him for the chairman’s spot, I’m getting 2 or 3 emails a week. We need results from our leadership, not a bunch of prima dona’s that slobber all over themselves…
May 19th, 2009 at 8:51 am
How long does it take to build a website?
It’s 2009 for goodness sake. Well, I just hope the RPA actually uses it and keeps it updated. In the past, both the RPA and YR websites were more like billboards hosted on the internet–nothing would changes for months.
As to the YRs…what a joke they were during the last election cycle. They held one piddly event at Fort’s driving range (which I think went under or is closed). But, now that there are absolutely no elections going on except Fort’s fight to hold on to scraps as Chairman, there’s a new website, “Donkey Watch” or whatever that childish name for their online email is…and it’s all part of Fort’s “strategic plan.” Kinda reminds me of Fort, Randell Shelton, and the AYPN boys’ “Mastermind Document” or whatever it was titled that Blake’s Think Tank and the Times covered.
Sounds to me like the YRs need another architect and the RPA needs a PR consultant.