When this episode of Neutral World, as we begin to think about the 2024 election, one of

the most important jobs we have as a party is to identify strong candidates in each state

and give them the training they'll need to understand how to run a campaign.

My guest today has the remarkable name, the campaign doctor, Chuck Mooth.

I've watched Chuck for many, many years. He has an amazing background. He is the

president of a non-profit grassroots lobbying organization called Citizens Outreach,

and his Mooth's Truths is the number one conservative political public policy blog in Nevada.

I'm really pleased to welcome my guest and old friend, Chuck Mooth.

Chuck, welcome and thank you for joining me on Neutral World. It's an honor to be with you,

Mr. Speaker. Thank you for having me. I'm curious. How did you start getting into politics?

Well, I joined the local Clark County Republican Central Committee in the early 1990s. That's

where Las Vegas is, and after a couple of years ended up getting elected chairman of the party,

and realized very quickly that I really didn't know what I didn't know. After you took over the

House of Representatives in 1994, and I was part of the GOPAC tapes and everything else. I asked

our national committee men, I learned about your campaign management college with Joe Gaylord,

and asked the national committee men if he would pay to send me back, and I spent the week with

you guys, and by the time I was finished, I knew exactly what I wanted to do in politics. I wanted

to do what you and Joe did, because I was just amazed at all that I learned in seven days that

no one in Nevada was teaching, let alone knew about, and so I came back and started doing

similar training here in Nevada. Then 1992, why did you join the local Republican Party Central

Committee? I was working for a car rental company. I was managing an operation. They were building

a new facility. That's how I moved from Maryland to Las Vegas in the first place, and one of our

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