Those of you watching this race down here in SC05 know that we are working HARD at ousting one of Nancy Pelosi’s comrades, John Spratt. And we believe that Mick Mulvaney (www.mulvaneyforcongress.com) is going to take that seat! We have volunteers in many districts making GOTV calls for Mick, and crossing district lines to attend his events. (Yes, we have a lot to atone for | Read More »
We here in Upstate South Carolina are well aware of soon-to-be-ex-Congressman RINO Bob Inglis’ disdain for the tea party movement. We heard about it from him on the campaign trail leading up the primary in June, we heard about it between the primary and the runoff 2 weeks later, and we’ve heard about it several times since the runoff, which he lost 71 to 29 | Read More »
This article by Lee Cary at American Thinker has it EXACTLY RIGHT … this is your last chance GOP. I spent hours and days and weeks during the health care run up faxing and calling and emailing. We’ve learned that no one listened. Intentionally. I know millions of Americans did the same thing … and probably burn with the same anger that I have. I’m | Read More »
We, the undersigned Tea Parties of South Carolina, are issuing a censure of Senator Lindsey Graham. Sen. Graham, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, recently voted to approve Elena Kagan’s nomination out of committee and to the Senate floor for a full vote. As the lone Republican voting to approve Ms. Kagan, Sen. Graham’s rationale appears to be that as President, Obama has the | Read More »
On June 26 the SCGOP leadership including SCGOP Chair Karen Floyd and the Executive Committeemen from across the state met for their quarterly meeting. Patrick Hadden, first vice chair was intending to make a motion calling for Senator Jake Knotts’ resignation from the Republican Party. On June 3, on Wesley Donehue’s Internet program (Donehue heads up political strategies for the South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus | Read More »
(TO CONTACT Karen Floyd with your comments email chairman@scgop.com) Upcountry Coalition Thanks Floyd Following SCGOP Inaction June 30, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—The Coalition thanks the SCGOP Chairwoman Karen Floyd for making it crystal clear where the problems lie in South Carolina politics. At the quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on Saturday there was no mention of the racist comments made by Senator Jake Knotts, | Read More »
Immediately after Jake Knotts repugnant use of the word “raghead” to describe Nikki Haley and Obama on an internet talk show on June 3, Patrick Hadden the chairman of Greenville County GOP and the First Vice Chairman of the SCGOP called for Jake Knotts’ expulsion from the SC Republican party. Today Hadden and the Upcountry Coalition of Conservative Organizations held a joint press conference calling | Read More »
Patrick Haddon, SC Republican Party First Vice Chairman demonstrates that courage and conviction are not absent from the Republican party despite recent evidence to the contrary: Fellow Republicans, I cannot sit idly by and watch our Party be torn apart by Senator Jake Knotts’ bigotry. At the next state executive committee meeting, I will move for his expulsion from the South Carolina Republican Party. This | Read More »
Jim Lee, a veteran, active reservist, and businessman is running in SC Fourth Congressional District to unseat Uber-RINO Bob Inglis (voted for TARP, favors a version of cap and trade). Jim announced his candidacy last February at the Greenville SC Tea Party and is on target to do well in the June 8 primary, having won two straw polls and placed second in the three | Read More »
If you who sat in the Congresses of the recent last majority had championed and passed tort reform with the passion you exerted fighting Obamacare … … this would not have happened. If you had championed and passed lifting the restrictions of insurance companies to compete across state lines with the same verocity … … this would not have happened. But you wallowed in your | Read More »
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