28: Redundancies & Cooperation

Exert leadership to minimize redundancies and turf battles and make sure better cooperation takes place.

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Division of Labor and the Need for RNC Leadership -- There is a great deal of discussion about how to collaborate between the national committees and friends and allies. At the outset, the role of each committee and allied organization needs to be determined based upon which is best equipped to handle a particular role. For example, the RNC made some of the best ads of 2012, but it is unclear whether that is the best use of its limited resources. The RNC and the state parties are best to organize the ground game, but there is a complementary role for friends and allies to play organizationally. It's clear that with respect to many political functions, it is important to minimize redundancies and turf battles, and leadership must be exerted to make sure better cooperation takes place. Republican organizations need to understand that all of this will work better if they will all participate in these discussions and play their respective roles. The RNC needs to sit down with various players and determine, as the law allows, who is doing what. Only the RNC can serve this role, and it is certainly one of the challenges in operating in the current environment. Chairman Priebus should call for a command performance meeting of the leadership of our friends and allies and not allow anyone to leave the room until it's determined, to the extent allowed by law, who is doing what that can be divided legally. This is likely the most important recommendation in this friends and allies section of this report. Without this sort of teamwork, there will be too much redundancy, turf battles, and waste. Lone wolf groups are more likely to waste their donors' money and act in a redundant, unhelpful manner.

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28.1: Roles

28.2: Coordinator

28.3: Ground Game & Public Communication

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