Now Is The Time To Prepare For The 2024 Elections

Patt Mayer, LRWF president, and Jason Clark, Bay Area Regional Vice Chair

Lisa Mullins, left, and Terri DiLoreto Hold Another Successful Raffle

Wayne Pope, chair of the GOP Central Committee’s District 5, and his wife Gloria were among the guests at the meeting.

In speaking to the 67 members and guests at the Lamorinda Republican Women Federated luncheon meeting yesterday, Jason Clark, GOP Bay Area Regional Vice Chair, pointed out key steps that should be taken now to prepare for the 2024 elections. The meeting was held at Zio Fraedo’s in Pleasant Hill.

Clark, an attorney who also spent two years in the Trump Administration, noted that the six counties in the Bay Area have some 512,000 registered Republican voters. “If we work together, we can produce good results.  We are not alone,” he said.

Clark noted that in the 2022 election 25 percent of the Republican voters in Contra Costa County did not vote, adding, “We have to reach out to them.”  While Republicans in general do not like to give their ballots to someone else to deliver, he continued, ballot harvesting in California is now legal and must be done starting from the day the ballots are mailed out. “We have to encourage early voting,” he said.

In addition to ballot harvesting, Republicans need to line up good candidates for office and with the filing deadline for the March 5, 2024 primary just nine months away, there is no time to lose, Clark said.  He also urged Republicans to line up volunteers to knock on doors and to develop a small donor program for seed money.  And lastly he explained the state GOP has developed new technology available to central committees to analyze voter registrations, voter turnout and to get out the vote.