Rick Perry Hosts Republican Social Media Retreat
Rick Perry seems to have found his message and his bloggers. And it helps if those bloggers delivering “the message of conservatism” wear “I GOT MY TWEET ON @ THE PERRY 2010 BLOGGER SUMMIT” T-shirts.
Saturday was the 2010 Perry Bloggers Summit, in which Perry-friendly online activists came to learn the tricks of the trade. Attendees heard from such big-name conservatives as Politics Daily columnist Matt Lewis, PJTV CEO Roger Simon and author and commentator Andrew Breitbart, as well as Perry himself, who's clearly getting with the program: His Web team in 2006 consisted of exactly one person.
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Robbie Cooper
I enjoyed getting to meet you both this weekend, and I'm glad that the Texas Tribune decided to cover this event, as it's interesting to read the perspective from an objective source.
I think you captured the energy and enthusiasm of the event well.
As to the KBH camp's wonder as to "why invite non-Texas bloggers," I think that there are several important reasons that our panel consisted of out of staters Breitbart, Simon, Ruffini, and Lewis:
1) The panel discussions were on building and growing your online activism and influence using tools such as Twitter, blogs, and online video. And, frankly, nobody (on either side of the political aisle) is doing it any better than the above mentioned panelist.
2) Big names draw crowds. Breitbart is a star in the Conservative blogosphere. His BigGovernment.com site was nearly single-handedly responsible for having the Federal government defund the criminal enterprise ACORN.
3) Rick Perry is running, in part, as a staunch defender of the 10th amendment; fighting Washington's D.C. interference into state matters. The out-of-state panelists have some experience fighting the Beltway crowd that our gathering of mostly-Texas bloggers could learn from.
Other than the 4 high-profile out-of-state panelists, I think every single blogger I met who was in attendance this weekend (~90) was from Texas though.