Sharon Day, the state Republican committeewoman for Broward and Florida’s Republican national committeewoman, is looking to move up in the party.
She’s running for national secretary, one of four members of the executive board that runs the Republican National Committee.
“It’s time to regroup, rethink and renew,” she said. “I like to make people go. I like to charge people up. I like to invigorate.”
Day said she thinks the Republican Party’s current status – it doesn’t control any power center in Washington – is a good fit for her skills.
“I am outspoken and I do have ideas. I think outside the box. I am creative in how I think of things.”
She always shows her colors, even in Democratic Broward, paying to have her car shrink wrapped to proclaim support for the year’s top candidate. (That’s Day behind the wheel of her car in the top photo.)
Day said the party needs to return to the priorities that helped it win in recent decades – less government, less taxes, less spending.
Voters turn against Republicans when they look corrupt, she said, citing former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Palm Beach Gardens, who resigned in the wake of explicit Internet messages to teenage congressional pages.
Republicans fare poorly “when we get off message and start behaving like Democrats with more spending.”
Day wouldn’t wade into 2012 presidential politics, declining to say if she thinks Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential candidate, or any other party leader would be a good presidential candidate in 2012. “We ought to look at 2010, and then 2012 when it gets here.”
Day is a non-stop Republican cheerleader. Within the party, she’s constantly exhorting people to work harder.
And she’s a font of ideas of ideas, such as creation of miniature John McCain fliers she came up with for Republicans to give trick or treaters along with candy on Halloween.
The Jan. 28 election is decided by a slightly more than 150 people. The state party chairman and the national committeeman and committeewoman from each state and territory each have a vote.
Day said she’s written all and talked to about 70, and will try to talk to each off the potential voters.
Day, 57, and her husband live in Fort Lauderdale. They moved to South Florida from Indianapolis in 1994 after selling their insurance business. She quickly got involved in Republican politics and became state committeewoman in 1996. She’s been Florida’s national committeewoman for four years.
