Following a short report by their attorney Samuel Harms, The Greenville County Republican Party Executive Committee voted to suspend pursuit of legal actions to overturn the state election law that allows all registered voters to participate in selection of Republican Party candidates. The Committee also released Harms, who had invested thousands of hours and dollars pursuing the case, from any further responsibility or obligation.
The Greenville County Republican party had pursued the matter in federal court for four years, at great expense to members and volunteer attorneys. The State Party had been a supportive partner in the legal action.
Two months before an important federal court hearing, Chad Connally, then chairman of the SC Republican party, on his last day of duty before taking a lucrative job with the Republican National Committee staff as Liaison to Evangelistic Christians, betrayed Greenville County Republicans and withdrew state support of the lawsuit. With no state support, the court ruled that Greenville County Republicans had no standing to pursue the case.
Harms said Conally did not discuss his decision with him and Greenville County Republicans learned of the dirty deed through the media after Connally had moved on to his new job in Washington with the RNC.
The Committee still owes almost two thousand dollars in administrative and court costs.
The state legislature could correct the problem with a single vote, however, they will not do so, because if they did it would expose the myth that South Carolina government is controlled by Republicans, when in fact it is controlled by Democrats, some of whom are Republicans in name only.
That is also why no conservative legislation is enacted and why a majority of Judges and other appointees are powerful Democrats.
Greenville County Republicans attempted to expose the deception and correct the problem through the court system, but support for the current system is so strong, even within the so-called Republican Party, that the effort could not succeed.