Pickens County Convention issue: Resolved!
Many of us followed the situation in Pickens County re: their convention. Saturday this was resolved in favor of the current county leadership team and the Pickens County voters who were seated as the delegation at the time of the county convention. A report from Rick Tate, Vice Chair GOP in Pickens:
As many of you are aware State House Representative Neal Collins showed up at the doors of the Pickens County Republican Party Convention in April with between 40 & 50 people insisting they be seated as delegates.
His intention being to, with the vote of these additional people, be elected County Chairman along with Representative Gary Clary 1st VC and Representative Davy Hiott 2nd VC.
The county party was completely unaware of these additional people until they arrived at the convention with Collins.
It is important to understand there are long established procedures for becoming a delegate, this process must be, by party rules, completed no less than 5 days before the convention.
County Chairman Phillip Bowers declined to seat the people as delegates in the Collins coalition then proceeded to convene the convention.
Representative Collins then took to the floor of the convention , and sometimes the stage, for approximately the next hour making arguments and motions to seat the additional people.
The delegation of 155 properly vetted and seated delegates voted twice on the
question of whether to seat these additional people, both times voting down the motion.At which time Representative Collins promised, very angrily, a protest with the State Party, and as it turned out he did exactly that.
This Saturday Aug 22nd the State party held a formal hearing, in Columbia, which was conducted like a courtroom trial.
State party Chairman Matt Moore, and a legal advisor, acted as Judge.
State House Representatives, Neal Collins & Gary Clary where the complainants. Both Collins & Clary are attorneys Clary is also a retired Superior Court judge,
The Pickens County GOP was the defendant represented by Chairman Phillip Bowers Vice Chairman Rick Tate and Pickens County State Executive Committee Representative Sylvia Bass.
There were over two hours of testimony and evidence given at the conclusion of which the executive committee, with 36 Executive committee representatives in attendance acting as the jury, went into closed session to deliberate.
The verdict of the committee, in a 34 – 2 vote, was to dismiss/deny the protest of the complainants with the results of the 2015 Pickens County Republican Party Convention being upheld.
Additionally the next convention will be supervised/ monitored by the State GOP.
Insuring our next convention is beyond reproach.I think it is fair to say Chairman Phillip Bowers was completely vindicated in the decisions he made on the night of the Convention.
I would also say the State Party ran the hearing very professionally, everyone involved was treated fairly, without prejudice or bias.
I am truly grateful this is over, now we can get on with growing our party and working to put our conservative principles into practice.
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Source: http://www.spartanburgteaparty.org/2015/08/23/pickens-county-convention-issue-resolved/
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