Building a 21st Century Virginia GOP
Mission
The mission of the Virginia Project is to create the 21st century party infrastructure to compete effectively and roll back Democrat Party influence.
To this end, these are the objectives of the Virginia Project:
- Take a complete accounting of GOP performance in every election district in the state of Virginia;
- Ensure that there is a Republican candidate on the ballot for every office, in every district, in every election cycle;
- Build out missing and underperforming party infrastructure, activating every idle unit throughout the state;
- Optimize branding, marketing, messaging, voter outreach and mobilization, along with the communications and information technologies that support these activities;
- Provide a baseline level of candidate support to all Republican candidates throughout the state;
- Develop success narratives agreeable to the whole party, and a sense of shared purpose;
- Develop information, resource, and skills-sharing networks between units, and between our people on the ground; and
- Force the Democrat Party to play defense, disrupt their narratives, and counter their long-view strategy of incremental and continuous gains.
Principles
The Virginia Project is wholly partisan in favor of the success of the Republicans in Virginia.
However, this project is strictly non-partisan with regards to primaries and other internal GOP affairs.
We do not make policy and candidate decisions - we rely on the will of the people to decide those questions.
Scope
The activities of the Virginia Project are confined to the state of Virginia, and Virginia only.
The Virginia Project exists to integrate and assist the Republican Party of Virginia, its constituent members, and other supporting organizations.
The Virginia Project does not intend to duplicate or replace the function of any existing organization. All other GOP organizations and supporters in Virginia are encouraged and welcomed to work with us and to make use of the information, tools, and services we provide..
What We Will and Won't Do
Our primary method is strengthening the Republican Party itself, and therefore we will be focused on information and communications assistance to GOP voters and to unit committees.
We will provide a limited and equal level of candidate support for all state and local Republican candidates.
All Republican candidates will have equal access to our data, and all Republican candidates will indirectly benefit from our party unit support activities.
As the Virginia Project is a state PAC, our ability to "touch" federal elections is strictly limited. However, nothing is stopping us from state-level party building activities that will inure to the benefit of Republican candidates in Virginia generally, including federal candidates.
We choose not to intervene or interfere with any internal party politics, whether they be primaries or policy questions.
We choose not to track Democrats, independents, or third party candidates, other than for the purposes of defeating them, and for drawing comparables for analysis of GOP performance. Our goal is specifically and exclusively to elect Republicans in Virginia and support all activities that share the same end.
We will never spend a dime in opposition to any Republican candidate for public or party office, at any time, for any reason.
Historical: Mission (November 2019 original page) | Principles (November 2019 original page)