Attorney for Greenville County  GOP Executive Committee Explained to Public Audience how Liberal Democrats are Selecting Nominees for the Republican Party in South Carolina

Samuel-Harms-DSCN2386Very few people know that 22.30 percent of voters in the 2011 Greenville City Republican primary had voted for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democrat Presidential Preference Primary. Some of those voting in the Republican primaries were elected Democrat office holders and Democrat Party officials.

Data collected from across the state proves that Liberal Democrats  currently have a key role in selecting nominees for the Republican Party in the Palmetto State. That is why the Greenville County Republican Party and their attorneys have worked diligently for several years to right this serious unconstitutional injustice. It is the reason why conservative voters in increasing numbers are staying home on election day and threatening to form another party.

Many elected Republicans are former Democrats and fear a pure conservative Republican Party. In fact, Senator Lindsey Graham won his last Republican Primary easily with a heavy turnout of Democrats.

Attorney Samuel Harms explained that the basis for the Greenville County GOP lawsuit, to prevent Liberal Democrats from selecting nominees for the Republican Party, is the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The First Amendment states:

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of the people  peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Harms said that when you marry the freedom to speak and the right to assemble, you have freedom of association.

In South Carolina, Republicans are deprived of their constitutional rights to assemble with people of like mind. The Greenville County Republican Party Executive Committee has gone to considerable expense to hire experts and prove statistically with public data that Democrats are selecting nominees in Republican primaries to oppose Democrats in General Elections.

Attorney Harms emphasized that the lawsuit is about “closed primaries,” not about “registration by party.” He said we could have registration by party and still have Democrats voting in the Republican Primaries.

Twenty-five states currently have closed primaries with only party members voting in their party’s primaries.

Virginia was allowed to have closed primaries by the Fourth Circuit Court in 2007. The Greenville County case is before the Fourth Circuit and the case is based on the Virginia winning strategy.

Harms said either the legislature or the State Attorney General could remedy the situation, but neither will. Republicans in the legislature changed a law to make the Greenville case more difficult.

He showed a statement made by Attorney General Alan Wilson before the court. Wilson allegedly said the reason Greenville County GOP wanted close primaries was for  “racial exclusion.”

The South Carolina Republican Party Executive Committee had voted to join the lawsuit with Greenville County  three years earlier.

As he left town to take a job with the Republican National Committee, Chad Connally, then state party chairman withdrew state party support from the lawsuit without a vote approving his actions by the executive committee and without notifying the Greenville Party. His actions were considered a political act of vengeance by some, but regardless of the motivation, the Judge scheduled to hear the case threw it out because, without the backing of the state party, the County party had no “standing.”

Despite the opposition from the party power  structure, the Greenville County Republican Party Executive Committee voted to continue to pursue the case, and Samuel Harms pledged to continue providing legal services at no charge.

This is the first time the attorney has made such a presentation in public. “I have become an evangelist,” Harms said. He is now trying to educate the public on the facts that have been assembled to support the case. And he asked his audience to help spread the word.

 

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