The South Carolina Republican Party, RINOs in Action

A few months ago, a person asked me why I was forming the Independent Republican Party of Chesterfield County, South Carolina.  My answer to them was that I wanted an organization that would promote ideas for the betterment of our county, state, and country.  No one was going to be denied their say in how we were going to do that.  For this position, I was scorned by the traditional party in the county.  I can present evidence of why I was right and that the need for a different organization is indeed mandated.

Recently, the rightfully elected Chairwoman of Lexington County was removed from her position because she would not kowtow to the authoritarian state leadership.  Last year, this leadership implemented a new rule, which Doug Rorie and Banks Burch, the current state committee representative and county chairman of the Chesterfield above County Republican Party, supported.  This rule was simple: don’t dare go against us, the state leadership, or you are history.  Here is the rule:

RULE 16 CODE OF CONDUCT (a) No individual who holds any Party office or delegate or alternate position may be a party to any legal action against the Party at any level or against Party officers in their official capacities. Doing so shall result in an immediate vacancy of said office or delegate or alternate position. (b) The State Executive Committee alone may declare “unorganized” any entity or level of organization created under these Rules for repeated failure to abide by these Rules. Such declaration shall require a three-fourths (3/4’s) vote of the entire membership of the State Executive Committee, which shall prompt the organization of the effected entity as provided for in these Rules. (c) Any officer, delegate or alternate who publicly endorses or financially supports a candidate for partisan office other than a duly nominated Republican candidate, unless there is no Republican nominee in the relevant race, shall immediately vacate their Republican Party office. The State Executive Committee may waive this provision in statewide and multicounty elections, and the county executive committees may waive this provision for their county and less-than-county elections.

Now, this is not the only time this has happened.  This Rule 16 is known as the “Jeff Davis rule.”  Why, you ask?  The answer is simple: it was created to remove the duly elected Chairman of the Greenville County Republican Party at the beginning of 2023.

Shortly, I will write a couple of articles on how the South Carolina Republican Party manipulated the organization to protect the very lucrative jobs of the party leadership.  But, until that time, just be wary of their call for party unity, which is nothing but an attempt to convince you that they are always right; and that you are a moron.