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Momentum Building Against Lindsey Graham in SC GOP Primary
Breitbart ^ | 10/8/2013 | Matthew Boyle

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censure; graham; lugargraham; primary
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To: Servant of the Cross

ping


21 posted on 10/08/2013 11:22:54 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Servant of the Cross
I hope you folks can deliver, we need more Ted and Rands in office.
22 posted on 10/08/2013 11:26:27 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: SCHROLL

Good. I’ll be pull’n for you.


23 posted on 10/08/2013 11:27:16 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Please let it be so!


24 posted on 10/08/2013 11:30:45 AM PDT by veracious
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To: Servant of the Cross; All

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.


25 posted on 10/08/2013 11:35:47 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: stylecouncilor

Git’m!


26 posted on 10/08/2013 12:10:47 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Servant of the Cross; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; ColdOne; ...
Thanks for the ping.

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.



And put one of these fine folks in his place:
Nancy Mace Lee Bright Richard Cash

FReepmail me if you want on or off this ping list. (Additions: free; Deletions: $10/ea :)

27 posted on 10/08/2013 12:11:42 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: Lexington Green
We need to get behind 1 challenger so that Linsthy cannot divide and conquer.

Guess you're not from South Carolina.

Here's how our primaries work:

Source.
28 posted on 10/08/2013 12:13:38 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: Stillwaters

PLEASE, this must happen!


29 posted on 10/08/2013 12:15:03 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: freedomfiter2

See reply #28.


30 posted on 10/08/2013 12:15:14 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: mrsmith

LOL!!! I love that. Prophetic.


31 posted on 10/08/2013 12:16:17 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Louie Gohmert is rock solid. Wish he was my representative.


32 posted on 10/08/2013 12:28:06 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Servant of the Cross

Graham needs to lose by a lot. There will be cheating.


33 posted on 10/08/2013 12:35:18 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: upchuck

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).


34 posted on 10/08/2013 12:48:11 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: Sequoyah101

I’d like to see Trey as our VP candidate. Cruz for President.


35 posted on 10/08/2013 6:16:34 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (Mother of God, pray for us and our country.)
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To: John 3_19-21

Mitt Romney has “severely” certified Graham’s conservative bona fides.


36 posted on 10/08/2013 6:34:14 PM PDT by tnvol01 ("...answering that question w/ specificity uh, you know, is, is, uh above my pay grade.")
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To: upchuck

Thanks for the info .


37 posted on 10/08/2013 6:59:53 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: freedomfiter2

You’re welcome.


38 posted on 10/09/2013 3:22:17 AM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: Farnsworth
The media is working hard to discredit anyone that is assoicated to the Tea Party. Graham may be primaried, but will the winning Tea party person be rendered unelectable by the media? Tough row to hoe, but whats to lose? RINO or Democrat, same damned thing.

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.

39 posted on 10/09/2013 8:14:04 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: corkoman

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.


40 posted on 10/09/2013 9:17:10 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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