GOP Asks: What Do You Think of Our Platform?
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and the GOP leadership want your input into the party’s 2016 platform, which will be written at the national convention next month.
The Republican Platform Committee will be led by U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) as chairman, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). To facilitate the kind of grass-roots feedback they’re looking for, the RNC launched a new website, platform.gop, at which users can review and rank the issues and offer their say in the content of the platform.
Barrasso said the website is a “valuable way” to hear from the party’s grassroots, saying the party leadership wants to give them a voice for their priorities, ideas and goals for the future. Having grass-roots input in crafting the platform will lead to “a stronger Republican Party and a stronger America,” he added.
“Over the past three years, the RNC has already taken in feedback from over 500,000 individuals about the direction of our party, and this website will allow us to hear even more,” Priebus added. “While Democrats are letting party insiders write their platform behind closed doors, platform.gop is proof of our party’s philosophy of listening to the voice of the people and honoring the democratic process.”
