Newberry County Republican Party

Newberry County was campaign central today with our conservative superstar, US Senator Jim DeMint, campaigning in Prosperity for our next US Congressman Mick Mulvaney.

Their message was loud and clear:  BEAT JOHN SPRATT!!!

We need your help to make that happen. We need your help waving signs, manning phone banks, and driving the vote out in the next few days for our Republican candidates!!!

If you want to get involved, call Chad Connelly at 803-364-3683.

Here’s what we have scheduled…

• Friday, October 29, 5-6pm sign waving at two locations: the CVS at the intersection of Wilson Road and highway 219 and at the Prosperity Baseball field as you enter Prosperity on Main Street across from the Piggly Wiggly.
• Monday, November 1, beginning at 3:30pm for the Nikki Haley Bus tour stop at the parking lot across from McDonald’s in Newberry
• Phone banks in Rock Hill from 6pm-8:30pm at the York County Victory Headquarters from 6-8:30pm

Our next governor is coming to Newberry election eve on her “Join the Movement” bus tour, and we want you there.

With just hours to go before one of the most important elections in recent memory, Nikki Haley will be stopping in Newberry as part of her 26-stop bus tour across South Carolina.

This is a perfect opportunity for you, your family and friends to talk to Nikki face-to-face about the most important issues facing our state.

The “Join the Movement” bus is scheduled to be at the Dollar Tree parking lot, across from McDonalds on Hwy 76/Wilson Road from 4pm-5pm on Monday, November 1st.

See you there!!!

Gen. Mick Zais

General Zais has proposed a “Put Education First” pledge, an 8-point plan that includes  ethics, transparency and government restructuring reforms:

1. Commitment to Education: The candidate will not seek any other political office while serving as State Superintendent.
2. Restructuring: Support a ballot referendum to allow the people of South Carolina to decide if the State Superintendent of Education should be popularly elected or appointed.
3. Term Limits: Pledge to serve no more than 2 terms as State Superintendent.
4. Stop Political Cronyism: No consulting contracts from the South Carolina Department of Education will be awarded to any paid campaign advisors. Current State Superintendent Dr. Jim Rex has paid his political consultant, Zeke Stokes, $122,236 since Fiscal Year 2007-2008.
5. End Taxpayer-funded Lobbying: No taxpayer funds from the South Carolina Department of Education will be used to hire lobbyists to lobby local, state, or federal governments.
6. Agency Transparency: All meetings of the South Carolina State Board of Education and Education Oversight Committee will be web streamed, recorded, and available for download on the South Carolina Department of Education website.
7. Financial Transparency: Working with the Comptroller General and school districts, school expenditures for individual schools will be posted online for public review.
8. State Superintendent Transparency: The State Superintendent will publish a daily calendar online.

You can read the entire press release on his website: http://www.mickzais.com/2010/09/mick-zais-proposes-put-education-first-pledge/

This is a key difference between Gen. Zais and his Democratic opponent. Gen. Zais is a proven leader with a record of success; his opponent is a liberal Democrat who has spent his career as a political operative and Washington bureaucrat. Please feel free to post this press release to your county party Facebook page, website, or send it out in an email blast.
Thank you for all you do for the Republican Party in South Carolina.

In case you missed the Little Mountain Reunion, we made a big splash with the Extreme Liberal Spendometer.

It’s time we getting spending under control and return core conservative principles to our halls of government.

Mr. Earl and Mrs. Jenny Bedenbaugh were recognized at this spring’s 43rd Annual GOP Silver Elephant banquet as having attended ALL 43 Silver Elephant dinners!!

The really great thing is that Karl Rove, while he was doing his speech, called upon them to stand and be noticed by the attendees for that fantastic accomplishment! Surely, we all know that Mr. Earl and Mrs. Jenny were Republican before it was cool as the saying goes and they have led the way for Republicans in Newberry County and in South Carolina with their time, their talents and their donations for many years and we are proud of them!!

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional  Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have recently supported primary  or special election candidates who professed allegiance to the Republican Party but who, as their  circumstances changed and to serve their own interests, turned against the Republican Party and  became or supported a candidate of another party; and

WHEREAS, many Republican leaders and Republican organizations were undermined and lost  credibility as a result of the actions of such candidates; and

WHEREAS, there will be many more decisions regarding the support of candidates, and many  more opportunities to enhance or diminish the credibility of Republicans and Republican  organizations, in the coming election cycle; now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Newberry county Republican Party urges its leadership and the leadership of  all Republican organizations to carefully screen the record and statements of all candidates who  profess to be Republicans and who desire the support of Republican leaders and Republican  organizations, and determine that they wholeheartedly support the core principles and positions  of the Republican Party as expressed in the Platform of the Republican Party adopted at the 2008  National Convention; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Newberry County Republican Party urges that no support, financial or  otherwise, be given to candidates who clearly do not support the core principles and positions of  the Republican Party as expressed in the Platform of the Republican Party adopted in the 2008  National Convention.

Adopted by the Republican National Committee, January 29, 2010