By Steve Gillan
Last weekend, while speaking to an AMAC audience about the history of political parties in America, I discussed something that many voters never see and many party leaders appear to have forgotten: political parties were never intended to exist only during election season. They were designed to be permanent institutions responsible for recruiting candidates, organizing neighborhoods, developing future leaders, and ensuring that every community had a voice in government.
The foundation of that system has always been the local committee structure.
