A local Republican group aiming to raise funds for county political races was looking to Massachusetts on Thursday night.
“The time is right for the Republican Party,” said Harold Coker, one of the organizers of the GOP-affiliated Majority Builders, who held a kickoff reception at the Heritage House in East Brainerd. “The Democrats are on the wrong track.”
Mr. Coker said a “political tsunami” took place Tuesday when Republican Scott Brown won the race for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
Soon after, in an opening prayer, Hamilton County Commissioner Larry Henry said “we’re thankful for the political awakening in this nation.”
Those remarks were a lead-in to Mr. Coker asking the 30 or so people in attendance to make a donation — preferably a monthly one — to the group.