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Published: November 25, 2008Posted in: Campaigns and Elections, Features
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Jason Kenney is the director of RedStormPAC, providing free online fundraising solutions to Republican candidates throughout Virginia. He is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides in Richmond, Virginia.
Jason also blogs at J's Notes 
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Excellent post
This will be an interesting issue to watch. As painful as it may be. I would invite people to look at Raising Kaine archives and see their very frayed relationship with the Democratic Party Infrastructure.
I agree with the conclusion. RPV cannot run the blogs as a top-down model. The lesson is to be learned from the obama campaign. Provide the tools and ISSUE PAPERS (Shout out to Norm what do we stand for again?) and let the grassroots self-organize and run things. It should be crystal clear by now that what works in Southside is different than HR is different than the Valley is different than NoVa.
Very well said, indeed. I hereby nominate Jason Kenney to head up RPV blogging strategy!
Did I miss something? Who insulted the blogosphere? If you’re talking about Jeff, he simply said he doesn’t typically read blogs due to a time management. I can understand, as one could spend hours and hours on blogs, neglecting other things. And just because Jeff doesn’t read them, does that mean others around him don’t? I don’t know, but he got to this website last week somehow to make that post. Finally, if you have a suggestion or a complaint, he offered, contact him. He responds to all my emails, and no other RPV chairman in my memory has been so accessible online.
I forgot to ad the most important line
We can all agree on one thing GO MCDONNELL
Amen to that, novamiddleman.Go Bob and Bill!
Thanks; I found this writing to be insightful and well written.
It seems the 2009 McDonnell/Bolling team has and will have things in its favor for many months while the dems will be battling it out to come up with their candidates/message, perhaps is some way analogous to how McCain was settled on long before Obama; yet McCain squandered those months and never, for many reasons, was able to embrace and employ new media effectively to communicate a unified message and/or motivate grassroots; hopefully your criticisms are not prophetic is some way and the RPV can see the light and repent (turn around) before its too late. Unrelated and perhaps despite their relations with new media and how effectively new media serves their goals though, the 2009 GOP ticket is something to be excited about. I’m not confident in the RPV leadership vis a vis new media in particular, but I am confident in the candidates to influence and overcome.