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The Greenville County Republican Party Executive Committee met Monday night to elect members of three standing committees. The meeting ran for 3 hours, including brief comments by one presidential candidate and representatives of three other candidates.
Following the election of members of the Finance, Rules and Candidate Recruitment and Liaison Committees, two hotly debated resolutions were passed by executive committeemen.
A resolution proposed by Chris Golden would have asked Sen. Lindsey Graham to resign as a member of the Republican Party, and not seek the Republican Party nomination for the United States Senate or any other office in the future.
After extended debate, the resolution passed with an amendment that was a compromise between the original strong resolution and a much weaker one.
The resolution that passed with a majority vote of representatives from 60 of Greenville’s 105 organized Republican precincts follows:
Whereas, the 2001 Greenville County Republican Convention passed a resolution opposing any legalization of illegal immigrants;
Whereas, the Greenville County Executive Committee in 2004 and 2006 passed resolutions opposing any legalization of illegal immigrants;
Whereas, thousands of grass-roots, self-described Republicans, here in Greenville County have sent e-mails, faxes, letters, made telephone calls, and showed up at events to express their strong opposition to any legalization of illegal immigrants;
Whereas, U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham continues to adamantly support legalization of illegal immigrants in spite of the evidence stated above;
Whereas, U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham expressed contempt for grassroots Republicans, conservatives, and anti-illegal immigration activists by calling them “bigots” who will be told to “shut up,” before the National La Raza Conference.
Therefore, let it be resolved: That the Greenville County Executive Committee respectfully requests, with sincere sadness, to censure Sen. Lindsey Graham for many of the positions which he has taken that do not represent the wishes of the people of South Carolina, such as:
Immigration, border security, McCain-Feingold, and participation in the “Gang of 14.”
A resolution introduced by Evert Headley called for a public reprimand for members of the South Carolina General Assembly who cast votes for Justice-elect Don Beatty to fill the vacancy in Seat Five of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
The resolution alleged that as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Judge Beatty cast numerous documented votes on taxes, gun control and the issue of protecting life, both born and unborn, contrary to basic Republican principles.
In part, the resolution that passed stated:
That the Republican members of the South Carolina General Assembly who cast votes for Judge Beatty should be publicly reprimanded for selecting a South Carolina Supreme Court Justice–Elect who has a measurable record of anti-conservative philosophy.
Be it further resolved that Republican members of the South Carolina General Assembly who cast votes for Justice-Elect Beatty and who previously took public positions favoring stances such as a right-to-life, Second Amendment rights, and tax reform, have a responsibility to communicate to their constituencies official explanations of rationale in voting for a judicial candidate who espoused views in the contrary to those supported by their district constituents.
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