Hagen elected MOCR chairman
April 8, 2008
Missouri Victory Campaign Coordinator Chuck Poplstein speaks at the Missouri College Republicans Convention on Saturday at the Adam's Mark Hotel in St. Louis. Polstein spoke on how college students can get involved with political campaigns and the benefits of doing so.
First-year law student Jeremy Hagen said interconnection and organization are two of his goals as the newly elected chairman of the Missouri Federation of College Republicans.
Hagen was elected Saturday at the Missouri College Republicans Convention in St. Louis.
He said he would lead the Federation, which is comprised of college and university College Republican chapters across the state.
“My job will be to interact with the chapter chairs at the universities and encourage member involvement in the political process,” Hagen said.
Shortly after he was elected to his leadership role, Hagen gave a presentation on recruitment, something he said is important in this election year. Hagen said as chairman he will encourage and guide the different chapters in regard to their recruiting process.
“My job isn’t really to develop the plan,” he said. “It’s to encourage the chapters to develop their own plans.”
Hagen said different recruitment processes must be used depending on the school because the chapters are so diverse, ranging from “ultraliberal to ultraconservative, public to private, religious to nonsecular.”
Another topic Hagen discussed was the November elections and the campaigns on which the College Republicans chapters would focus their efforts. He said some areas, such as southeast Missouri, do not have as many chapters, but in St. Louis, more campaigns could be focused on because there are more resources and more campaigns.
“One of the focuses of my presentation was prioritizing,” he said. “It’s such a strain on the chapter, and they just need to try and prioritize.”
Hagen said the Federation has not yet finalized any plans for the campaigns and elections.
“We haven’t sat down and made any sign-up plans,” Hagen said. “The same races we’ll be focusing on will be the races the Democrats are targeting.”
U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof, R-Mo., spoke at the convention about student involvement in the political process. Ed Martin, the former chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt, and John Hancock, the former executive director of the Missouri Republican Party, were also on hand to speak to the crowd of about 100.
Hagen said besides his new leadership role, he took away a sense of activism and participation in the political process, and he thinks all the College Republicans in attendance did the same.
“The more interconnected and decentralized we are the better activists we become,” he said. “We had more than 100 kids become better activists, and I think because of that, Missouri will have a better chance of electing Republicans this fall.”
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