MassGOP State Committee Chair Jim Lyons might face a crowded area of candidates, ought to he select to run for re-election in January.
Jay Fleitman, committee vice chair, has already introduced his bid for chair, and a number of other others are contemplating leaping into the race, because the state’s divided Republican Party continues to weigh its political future following final week’s failed election.
“We are looking into it,” mentioned Jon Fetherston, a former chair of the Ashland Town Republican Committee and longtime host of the “All Politics is Local” podcast. “I think the results speak for themselves. MassGOP certainly needs a change.”
“What we’re doing now is not working,” Fetherston added. “It’s actually embarrassing.”
Fetherston joins MassGOP State Committee member Amy Carnevale, Bristol Sheriff Thomas Hodgson and former state senator Dean Tran, on a rising checklist of candidates who’re being batted round for social gathering management.
“I’m still considering it,” Carnevale instructed the Herald. “I’m still in the process of talking to committee members, elected Republicans and candidates who lost last Tuesday. I’m working to try to build a team, if I’m going to do this, that can be united behind me so our committee can take a fresh approach.”
In a letter to committee members Tuesday night, Carnevale described final week’s election as “nothing short of a disaster for our party in Massachusetts.”
“Our party needs a change,” she wrote. “Change requires our subsequent MassGOP chair (to) clearly articulate a imaginative and prescient that may earn the help of a majority of voters within the commonwealth. We should work on repairing our model whereas nonetheless holding quick to the ideas that unite us.
“We cannot effectuate our policies if we cannot get our candidates elected to office. It’s that simple.”
The Herald has heard that Hodgson will not be dismissing a run for chairmanship, and that Tran is contemplating it. Both misplaced their bids for elected workplace final week, Hodgson for sheriff and Tran for Congress.
Lyons has not mentioned publicly whether or not he’ll run for a 3rd time period, amid the calls for brand new management, however instructed folks this week that he has nonetheless not decided, the Herald has realized.
Fetherston mentioned Republicans should work in the direction of “realistic, reliable candidates and solutions,” an effort that needs to be spearheaded by the chairman.
“I consider myself a conservative but I also consider myself a realist,” he mentioned. “You have to win elections to be a viable party. And going only to the hardcore right in Massachusetts is not a winnable strategy.”
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