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| Loveland - November 23, 2008 November’s election and create strategies for next year. November’s election and create strategies for next year. Larry Carillo, an active Republican volunteer, announced his interest in the office and asked for the support of those assembled in a private meeting Monday night. Carillo works for an Internet advertising firm and also ran Matt Fries’ campaign for State House against Democrat Bob Bacon. Fries lost to Bacon in a landslide garnering only 37% of the vote while Bacon captured 67%. Carillo has been a regular attendee of county party meetings and often makes motions from the floor during general county meetings of the Central Committee. Carillo is now questioning the conventional campaign methods the party and its candidates have employed in recent years and advocated a program for the party to make greater use of the internet for candidate advertising and tracking of voter inputs during a campaign. He promised that as chairman he could re- invigorate the party from recent losses and bring younger blood to the process. Brush was elected the party chair after his predecessor, Ed Haynes, stepped down to join a Mormon mission trip to Canada. No other candidate has come forward seeking the position yet but Kirk Brush’s intentions to vacate the seat have not been reported yet in the general media so it is unlikely most members of the Republican Central Committee know. |
| County Repubican Chair Stepping Down Kirk Brush, Larimer County Republican Party Chairman, Announced He Will Not Seek Another Term Next Year |
| Larimer County Republican Chairman, Kirk Brush |
| LovelandPolitics Exclusive |
| Larry Carillo, above right, attends a training session for party activists earlier this year |
| Kirk Brush with Congresswoman Musgrave |
| Moderates Sweep Top Offices in Larimer GOP - Read Report from Feb. 10 Meeting |
| Recent Party Leadership History Brush followed the more controversial Ed Haynes in the position when moderates in the party attempted to wrest control from party conservatives like Musgrave aid Nancy Hunter who decided not to run again for chair against challenger Haynes. Despite heavy losses for Republicans this year, Brush's tenure was one of cooperation and less discord from within the party on philosophical grounds. Below is the story from the LovelandPolitics archive regarding the election of Ed Haynes and other to the Central Committee. |