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Speaker 1: to visit right now with Jim Ashenbaum. He is the
Speaker 1: state chairman of the Republican Party. And you've been now
Speaker 1: the chairman for about a year? Is that right?
Speaker 2: Not quite a year, John, it'll be a year February
Speaker 2: twenty second.
Speaker 1: Jim, let's talk about the last year. You've had some
Speaker 1: fun wins that have happened over the last year, So
Speaker 1: let's kind of do a quick little recap.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing I'm most proud of, John, is our
Speaker 2: new South go to gop dot com website. That was
Speaker 2: one of the things I campaigned on. I said, in
Speaker 2: this day and age, we've got to have a website
Speaker 2: that's you know, active, kept up to date. The previous website,
Speaker 2: the most recent news on it was over two years old,
Speaker 2: you know, and that's just not acceptable for any kind
Speaker 2: of an organization to have a website that that's that
Speaker 2: far behind. And so that was one of the things
Speaker 2: I campaigned on. Deb Elliott lifelike Creations out at Belfousche
Speaker 2: built our new website and it's absolutely amazing. I tell people,
Speaker 2: I said, it's so much more than what I expected.
Speaker 2: I just knew we needed something better, but I didn't
Speaker 2: expect to have a website like we have. Deb just
Speaker 2: knocked that thing out of the park and didn't charge
Speaker 2: us very much to do it. And the leadership from
Speaker 2: the RNC, the Republican National Committee, said that that's very
Speaker 2: possibly one of the nicest, if not the nicest website
Speaker 2: of all fifty states in the nation. So that's that's
Speaker 2: something to be proud of.
Speaker 1: I guess absolutely. It is a phenomenal website. And let's
Speaker 1: share the domain name so folks maybe that haven't seen
Speaker 1: the website can go over and check it.
Speaker 2: Out sdgop dot com and there is so much information.
Speaker 2: There's news, commentary, Our bylaws are our platform right there
Speaker 2: on the front page. That's something that had been actually
Speaker 2: taken off of the previous website so people couldn't see it.
Speaker 2: And if you have to hide your bylaws in your
Speaker 2: platform from the citizenry, something's wrong. And we're proud of
Speaker 2: the website. We're proud of the work we're doing our
Speaker 2: first My first full State Central Committee meeting was July nineteenth,
Speaker 2: this last summer, and I got so many compliments about
Speaker 2: how I conducted the State Central Committee meeting. They said
Speaker 2: you were open, honest, fair, and made sure that everybody
Speaker 2: knew what they were voting on. I mean, I would
Speaker 2: I clarify stuff for people. Several times I make a
Speaker 2: person that made a motion repeat their motions so we
Speaker 2: are sure that we're clear what we're voting on. Sometimes
Speaker 2: the previous State Central Committee meetings were kind of rushed
Speaker 2: through and tried to force issues, and I'm I'm not
Speaker 2: going to do that. I've stated when I campaigned for
Speaker 2: chairmen that I'm going to work for all Republicans and
Speaker 2: make sure things are done fair and equal for everybody.
Speaker 1: And Jim, I think clarity is always a good thing, yep.
Speaker 2: I just rushing through a meeting when you're making decisions
Speaker 2: as important as maybe amending your bylaws, you know, or
Speaker 2: or that sort of stuff, there has to be clarity
Speaker 2: about what what it is, what's the business we're doing,
Speaker 2: what are we taking care of right now with this vote?
Speaker 2: And I want I always want that to be clear
Speaker 2: and help me open and understood.
Speaker 1: I love that. Again. Visiting with Jim Ashenbaum, State Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party for the state of South Dakota,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about some wins and year one. So
Speaker 1: do you have some other wins?
Speaker 2: Oh, there's been a lot. There's so so many exceptional
Speaker 2: people that are they're working out, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: working for the party, helping us out with so many
Speaker 2: different things. Penning County Chairwoman Amy Wagner has agreed to
Speaker 2: chair the Convention Committee for the twenty sixth convention, which
Speaker 2: will be June twenty fifth, sixth, and seventh out and
Speaker 2: Rapid at the Monument and Penning County Chairwoman Amy Wagner
Speaker 2: and then our regional director Regient sixth Director Mike Mueller
Speaker 2: from out there Rapid is the vice chair of that committee.
Speaker 2: And they're doing such an exceptional job. I just haven't
Speaker 2: I haven't had to mess with hardly anything in regards
Speaker 2: to convention other than signing contracts and stuff. There. They've
Speaker 2: they've literally grabbed the reins and they're running with that thing.
Speaker 2: And I was somewhat concerned after I was to German,
Speaker 2: you know, whether I would be able to get people
Speaker 2: that would step up and volunteer to help with suffer
Speaker 2: if I was going to be incredibly burdened with things
Speaker 2: to do. But I still got plenty of stuff to do.
Speaker 2: But man, there are so many good volunteers working on
Speaker 2: a GROW program, and which is a program that we're
Speaker 2: working with with the RNC about growing the state party
Speaker 2: and improving a lot of volunteers working on that, and
Speaker 2: just such an exceptional group of people that are willing to,
Speaker 2: you know, put in the effort and do what it
Speaker 2: takes to make the party better.
Speaker 1: That's wonderful. Let's talk a little more about the GROW
Speaker 1: program for folks that are not familiar with it. Give
Speaker 1: us the details on that, and also let us know
Speaker 1: how we can get involved.
Speaker 2: So the GROW program is a it's a like I said,
Speaker 2: it's a program that's designed to make our party better
Speaker 2: for the citizenry and Republicans statewide, and it's a we
Speaker 2: can earn fifty thousand dollars by completing this program. It's
Speaker 2: in three stages. You get five thousand for completing the
Speaker 2: first stage, you get ten thousand for completing the second stage,
Speaker 2: and then thirty five thousand for actually making Once we
Speaker 2: get a plan put together, we have to make a
Speaker 2: certain percentage threshold of that plan to get the last
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand dollars, and that will come late spring
Speaker 2: early summer of twenty six. So we've completed the first stage,
Speaker 2: got five thousand dollars. We've got everything pretty much in
Speaker 2: order to finish the second stage. That's part of what
Speaker 2: this interview today is about. It's media relations. So we're
Speaker 2: talking with people. We're communicating with the Republicans across the
Speaker 2: state about what's going on, letting them know that we're
Speaker 2: working for them and looking forward hopefully earning the payments
Speaker 2: of all three stages of that grow program. Fifty dollars
Speaker 2: goes a long ways for paying monthly operational expenses, the
Speaker 2: cost of convention. We've got a gun raffle going on
Speaker 2: right now. You can get tickets for that right on
Speaker 2: the homepage of ASDGP dot com. Giving away fifty three
Speaker 2: guns in fifty two weeks. So that's proposed to be
Speaker 2: a great fundraiser. We got to get the tickets sold.
Speaker 2: I keep getting on my people with the tickets saying, hey,
Speaker 2: get out there and sell them tickets and Some are
Speaker 2: just knocking it out of the park. Some are pretty
Speaker 2: lazy about it. They're not getting it done, and I
Speaker 2: got to stay on them. But as far as that goes,
Speaker 2: that's another another deal that that's a fundraiser for the
Speaker 2: state party. But for each one hundred dollars ticket that's
Speaker 2: sold for that gun raffle, whichever county sold that, ten
Speaker 2: dollars of that one hundred dollars goes back to their
Speaker 2: county operations. And the first, the first drawing, we had
Speaker 2: our Hand County Party right here at Miller had sold
Speaker 2: board tickets. Then all the other all the other counties
Speaker 2: in the state combined, and I'm not too sure that
Speaker 2: we weren't. We just had our second drawing here a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago, and I'm not too sure that we
Speaker 2: weren't still ahead of the entire sty combined. But at
Speaker 2: this point we've raised almost fourteen hundred dollars for our
Speaker 2: Hand County Republican Party.
Speaker 1: And again, if you're listening and going, hey, I would
Speaker 1: like a chance to win, I'd like a bunch of
Speaker 1: chances to win. You can do that on the website
Speaker 1: right now, SDGP dot com, and there are a bunch
Speaker 1: of chances to win guns between now and when this
Speaker 1: program is over.
Speaker 2: Yep. The tickets are one hundred dollars each, five for
Speaker 2: four hundred, or ten for seven hundred if you want
Speaker 2: to buy multiple tickets and these We're doing a drawing
Speaker 2: every four weeks on Sunday night at eight o'clock. The
Speaker 2: drawings are done live. We put them on our South
Speaker 2: Got a Republican Party Facebook page and then they're archives
Speaker 2: so everybody can go back and watch the drawing make
Speaker 2: sure everything was on the up and up. But anyway,
Speaker 2: the the first fifty two tickets, the first fifty two prizes,
Speaker 2: those tickets stay out until the final drawing, and then
Speaker 2: those fifty two tickets get thrown back into the tumbler,
Speaker 2: so everybody's back in for the final drawing for our
Speaker 2: grand prize rifle and that is a TS Customs right
Speaker 2: here from TS Customs Rifles in Miller, South Dakota. That's
Speaker 2: about a fifty five rifle for our grand prize. Really
Speaker 2: really nice, got customized with the South Got To Republican
Speaker 2: Party logo on the side of the butt and on
Speaker 2: the side of the forearm. We the South Cota state
Speaker 2: motto Under God, the people rule. So that's a sweet gun,
Speaker 2: carbon fiber stock, carbon fiber barrel, six y five DRC
Speaker 2: and really really nice gun for our grand prize. That'll
Speaker 2: be almost a year from now before we draw for that.
Speaker 1: And if somebody would like a ticket to win that
Speaker 1: gun and all of the guns between now and when
Speaker 1: you get to that final drawing, they can do all
Speaker 1: of that with one ticket or as many tickets as
Speaker 1: they want. I guess right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, you go right on our website sdgop dot com
Speaker 2: and get your tickets. The list of all the prizes
Speaker 2: are there in detail. We've had the first two drawings.
Speaker 2: The first one was in October, the second drawing was November.
Speaker 2: The next drawing is coming up on December fourteenth, So
Speaker 2: if you want to get in and have a chance
Speaker 2: at those four prizes, four prizes every four weeks, and
Speaker 2: then a grand prize at the end.
Speaker 1: Again, our guest today has been Jim Ashenbaum, State Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party for the state of out Dakota,
Speaker 1: and Jim, thank you again for taking the time to
Speaker 1: chat with us about your first year in office. You
Speaker 1: had mentioned that you're a big fan of Clarity. I'm
Speaker 1: also a big fan of clarity and transparency, and one
Speaker 1: of the best things about that is just communicating like
Speaker 1: this to let folks know, here's who I am, here's
Speaker 1: what I'm up to. So, Jim, thank you for taking
Speaker 1: the time to do that.
Speaker 2: Yep. And we do get on our website SDGP dot com.
Speaker 2: There's always news and updates there. You can find out
Speaker 2: what's going on. You can find out who we are,
Speaker 2: what we believe in our Facebook page that's updated. You know,
Speaker 2: there's posts on there all the time. We've got a
Speaker 2: page on X and I think Instagram, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't take care of all those. Some other great
Speaker 2: volunteer takes care of that stuff, and so I don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about it. But plenty of information out there.
Speaker 2: The South got to GOP is definitely different than what
Speaker 2: it was. We're active. We're working with the people and
Speaker 2: communicating with the citizenry and helping them elect good constitutional conservatives.
Speaker 1: I love that. Jim, thank you so much for your time, sir.
Speaker 2: Yep, thank you again.
Speaker 1: Jim Eschenbaum has been our guest today. The website we
Speaker 1: were talking about, and this is where you go if
Speaker 1: you'd like to buy a raffle ticket to win a
Speaker 1: gun or a bunch of guns. Actually, that website is
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