Posted on 10/08/2013 10:43:42 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Momentum appears to be building in South Carolina against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who faces three challengers in next year’s June primary.
On Monday evening, the Greenville County, SC GOP executive committee, an official arm of the state's Republican Party, passed a 29-point censure of Graham’s activities in Washington. “Initially a voice vote was taken and newly elected County Chair Chad Groover ruled that the nays won, at which point there were several calls for ‘division,’” The South Carolina Conservative’s Javan Browder wrote on Tuesday morning. “Groover recognized the call for division and a standing vote was taken, and the measure then passed by a convincing 53-26 margin.”
Greenville County’s GOP executive committee is now the third official Republican Party outfit in South Carolina to pass such a resolution. It joins Chesterfield County and Fairfield County, who passed similar resolutions in September.
Polling data from Clemson University released in late September shows South Carolina GOP voters increasingly disapprove of Graham. (snip)
All this news comes as various local Tea Party activists are getting more involved in the Graham race. Kershaw County Patriots, a Tea Party group, endorsed Graham challenger Lee Bright on Monday. In a video they published announcing their endorsement of Bright, Kershaw County Patriots founders Jeff Mattox and Larry Risvold noted that they were “really instrumental in the groundwork of getting Mick Mulvaney elected and John Spratt out of office.”
“We had a lot of success with that,” Risvold says in the video. “We were in every county in the fifth district and actually developed a great relationship with all the other Tea Parties and conservative groups throughout the state.”
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Good. I’ll be pull’n for you.
Please let it be so!
As a side note to momentum building against Sen. Graham, please note the following.
If patriots and former Obama supporters can elect 2/3 conservative majority control of both Houses of Congress in 2014, then Congress will have the constitutional authority, under Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes.
In other words, Congress will be able to repeal Obamacare without Obama’s signature.
Git’m!
A reminder to all: June is a long way off. Several political lifetimes in fact. We mustn't become complacent. Let redouble our daily efforts to retire linda next year.
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| Nancy Mace | Lee Bright | Richard Cash |
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Guess you're not from South Carolina.
Here's how our primaries work:
Voters who voted in a party's primary, can vote only in the runoff of the same party. Voters who did not vote in the primary, may vote in either party's runoff.
The primary is for Democratic and Republican candidates only. Candidates running unopposed for their Party's nomination will not appear on primary ballots.
Voters may not vote in a political party's runoff if they voted in another political party's primary. However, voters who did not vote in either politicial party's primary may vote in either politicial party's runoff.
A defeated primary candidate may not actively offer or campaign as a write-in candidate for the ensuing election. The use of posters or stickers on the ballot is not permitted. The voting machine provides for a voter to write-in a candidate. Write-in votes are not allowed in primary elections or the election of President or Vice-president.
While the state permits fusion (a candidate may be nominated by multiple parties), if a candidate runs for and looses a primary (of any party), the candidate cannot appear on the November ballot.
PLEASE, this must happen!
See reply #28.
LOL!!! I love that. Prophetic.
Louie Gohmert is rock solid. Wish he was my representative.
Graham needs to lose by a lot. There will be cheating.
My office mate was a 1963 Citadel grad and was a classmate of Nacy Mace’s father, Emory Mace (Later BG and the Comandant of the Citadel).
I’d like to see Trey as our VP candidate. Cruz for President.
Mitt Romney has “severely” certified Graham’s conservative bona fides.
Thanks for the info .
You’re welcome.
I understand your sentiment but there is less of a threat of the Lamestream Media there - in SCarolina Graham enjoys one huge advantage in that he knows and can cough-up ON STAGE the names of the faces he sees in the crowd. And he knows the names of their dogs. I'm not kidding. He is an excellent southern politician in terms of getting elected. And then he knives his constituents in the back. Its pathetic.
Most when they are on the spot have trouble speaking their mind. So these candidates need to have that skill to compete against this turd and win.
I had Chet Edwards as my Rep and he would do just about the same thing. Took YEARS to root that SOB out. He would say one thing here, act all conservative and then go back to DC and hold Pelosi’s purse and sit quietly in a chair waiting for her next edict.
Good luck, hope he can be dug out like an old dead tree stump.
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