January 15th Presidential Primary...Dates & Details

DATE AND CALL OF COUNTY CONVENTIONS

County conventions shall be held at 7:30 p.m. Local Time, Thursday, February 7, 2008,
throughout the state at locations registered with the Michigan Republican Party ("MRP") by
Thursday, January 3, 2008.

The location, time and date of meeting of all such county conventions shall be designated
in the call issued for such convention by the chair of the county executive committee (whose term of office commences January 1, 2007), by Thursday, January 3, 2008. For the purposes of these Rules, the term "county committee" shall be read to include the congressional district committees in Wayne County and the congressional district portion committees within the boundaries of Wayne County.

The county executive committee must forward by first class mail a copy of such call to the most recent Republican nominees for state legislative office, the most recent Republican nominees or county office, each precinct delegate duly elected at the August 8, 2006 primary election, and those precinct delegates elected to permanently fill vacancies at all subsequent county conventions. In addition, such call shall be sent to all incumbent members of the State Legislature, the Michigan Congressional delegation, and Statewide Officeholders (see Rule 5C), where such person resides in the county in question.

In the event that delegates to the state convention to be held on February 15 - 16, 2008, (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "State Convention") are to be elected by an apportionment method in a county convention, as set forth in Rule 9A, a copy of such apportionment shall be included in the call issued for such convention and mailed to delegates and Republican nominees. A copy of the official call for county conventions must be sent to the County Clerk and the MRP Headquarters, 520 Seymour, Lansing, Michigan 48933, by Thursday, January 3, 2008.

If the MRP does not receive the official call by January 3, 2008, the State Party Chair is authorized to rescind any call which may have been or will be issued by the chair of the county executive committee. The State Party Chair is further authorized to issue a call to that county convention.