Where do you stand, Vince? Where does Sheheen stand on new pro-life bill? Columbia, SC – August 17, 2010 – Tomorrow, a bill will be signed that prevents abortions from being performed before a 24-hour waiting period. The bill passed the Senate earlier this year, but no one knows how Vince Sheheen voted on it – the bill was passed without a roll-call vote. In fact, Vince Sheheen’s entire position on abortion has been impossible to nail down. Earlier this year, during a televised debate, Sheheen referred to questions about abortion as a “trap,” and refused to answer the moderator’s
This morning, unopposed GOP Nominee for South Carolina State Treasurer, Curtis Loftis, announced his transition team. The team is comprised of a group of twenty-one talented and hard-working individuals from across South Carolina. They have been challenged to provide expert recommendations to Loftis that will allow him to meet his campaign goals of creating the most transparent and accountable Treasurer’s Office in America and eradicate fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer dollars. Loftis stated in a letter to his team, “I was extremely proud (and humbled) to receive the Republican nomination for State Treasurer. Given that I have no general
Kansas City, MO – August 6, 2010 – South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Karen Floyd today announced that South Carolina will retain its unique status as the nation’s First in the South Republican Presidential Primary, with a new rule passed by the Republican National Committee. The date of the primary will likely be set in late February of 2012, after the Iowa and New Hampshire contests. All other states are encouraged by the new rule to have their contests in April, but can go in March so long as they award their delegates on a proportional basis. The new rule
Columbia, SC – August 4, 2010 – South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Karen Floyd today announced the directors of the SCGOP’s Victory 2010 program, the party’s coordinated election year effort to elect Republicans to state, federal and local offices. Victory’s field operations will be headed by Taylor Hall. Hall graduated from Furman University, and served as a Wilkins Fellow in the Senate Finance Committee in 2007. He served as the McCain/Palin Youth Victory Chair for South Carolina in 2008. He was also unanimously elected State Chairman of the SC College Republican Federation from 2008-2009. Prior to joining Victory, he served
Greenville, SC _ June 2, 2010 – The Greenville County Republican Party and the South Carolina Republican Party have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Greenville, seeking to overturn laws that prevent political parties in this state from holding primaries in which only people registered for that party can vote. The suit will have no effect on the June 8th 2010 Primary Elections, as it seeks only to change the way future primaries are conducted. Currently, South Carolina law allows any registered voter to vote in any political party’s primaries, which denies political parties their 1st Amendment right of
Members of our Republican family – Keeping our First in the South status is a huge deal and we are very excited that our hard work is paying off. Please take a minute to read this fantastic editorial by The Sun News. Have a great day, Karen Floyd ________________________________________________________________ Still First Regardless of what party you vote for, it’s hard not to be pleased with the news that the S.C. Republican Party seems poised to hold on to our state’s “First-in-the-South” position on the GOP presidential primary calendar. Both parties’ primary campaigns in 2008 gave local voters a chance to
Columbia, SC – April 19, 2010 – Rather than holding a town hall meeting in his own Congressional District to try and explain and justify his wildly unpopular role in pushing through President Obama’s nationalization of healthcare, Congressman John Spratt is retreating north of the border to give a speech on the new law at UNC-Chapel Hill. SCGOP Executive Director Joel Sawyer today released the following statement on Spratt’s choice of venue: “It’s no shock that instead of holding a town hall meeting with voters of the Fifth District, Spratt’s public defense for leading the charge for socialized medicine will
VOTERS TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN ON HEALTHCARE, SPENDING Columbia, SC – April 14, 2010 – When Republican voters go to the polls in June, they’ll be able to do more than pick their favorite candidate. South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Karen Floyd today announced that the Republican Party has added two advisory referendum questions to its June primary ballot. One question asks voters if the state legislature should enact protections against socialized medicine being implemented in South Carolina. The other asks voters whether the legislature should cap the growth of state spending. The last time the Republican Party
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday used language that compared House Democrats’ efforts to pass healthcare reform legislation to a Japanese kamikaze mission. “Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they’re making a suicide run here,” Graham said on the Keven Cohen Show on WVOC radio in Columbia, S.C. Graham is a staunch opponent of healthcare reform despite his efforts to work with the White House on issues such as terror trials and immigration reform. The South Carolina senator also used strong language against White House senior adviser David Axelrod this
Sen. Jim DeMint is making a bid to be the tea party movement’s best friend in Washington. It’s hardly a coincidence that the South Carolina Republican finds himself with few friends in his own workplace. DeMint — ideological warrior, cable TV regular, possible 2012 presidential candidate — is trying to channel the anti-establishment passions roiling the conservative movement while serving in the U.S. Senate, which even in a more raffish age of politics still counts as the most establishmentarian institution in American life. Examples of his senatorial poor form keep growing. DeMint has refused to endorse some of his fellow
