Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun 1978, lokacin da ya yi nasara Charles W. Pickering, Retzer ya zaba sau da yawa a matsayin shugaban jam'iyyar Republican Republican Mississippi. A shekara ta 2004, an zabe shi a matsayin mai ba da kudi na Jam'iyyar Republican National Convention
, wanda ya hadu a birnin New York don sake zabar tikitin Bush-Cheney. A shekara ta 2001, an zabe shi a matsayin Kwamitin Kasa na Jam'iyyar Republican na Mississippi; Jim Herring, lauya daga Canton, sai ya zama shugaban na tsawon shekaru bakwai. A shekara ta 2002, an nada Retzer mai ba da kuɗin Jam'iyyar Republican ta ƙasa.