Doug Pestana: Difference between revisions

Several months later, Pestana was named Campaign Manager for [[Juan A Martinez]]'s 2013 city council race. <ref name=":0" /> Though Martinez was ultimately not elected, Pestana's data background and methodologies were credited with helping to deliver significant efficiencies to the campaign, which went on to shape the direction of grassroots organizing in Nevada and other states in the years ahead. <ref name=":0" /> <ref name=":5" /> <ref>See section and sources pertaining to Martinez's campaign at [[Juan A Martinez]]</ref>  

Shortly after the city council race, Pestana concluded that the [[Republican Party]] was mostly an incompetent joke and stuck on obsolete methodologies like the traditional 'precinct program.' <ref name=":2" /> It was also excessively-difficult for him to mobilize the party's aging (and often libertarian-hostile) volunteer base into any kind of meaningful action different than what they had always known. Even the libertarian-aligned volunteers who had come into the party as a result of [[Ron Paul]] were difficult to organize efficiently, often wanting to do their own initiatives without following any kind of coordinated plan. <ref name=":2" /> <ref name=":0" /> Pestana therefore decided not run for re-election as Precinct Director of the Clark County Republican Party when his term expired in July 2013. In the days leading up to the official expiration of his term, he lampooned the party by e-mailing the rest of the board and proclaiming that he was appointing every registered Republican voter in Clark County --- a sum numbering in the several hundred thousands --- as a 'precinct captain.' This would have arguably made Pestana the most successful precinct program leader in the entire history of the Republican Party according to some of the traditionally-considered metrics. Though obviously intended as farcical, Pestana's proclamation was debatably procedurally-valid. It is unknown if it was ever officially reversed. <ref name=":0" />