Inauguration Day – Purple Ticket Let Down

It is inauguration day and we are standing in line in the 395 tunnel under the capital.

We will be sitting in the Purple Standing area when and if we make it above ground to the US Capital grounds. Check back throughout the day for various updates and pictures.

Update:
We would have brought more updates, but the Internet connection in the subway was horrible. Not to mention the fact that I never made it to the inauguration.

That’s right, we got up at 4am this morning to go to the event to stand in the I395 tunnel for close to 6 hours. Then we get to the entrance and they are closing it up.

From what I heard, the speech was awesome.

Oh well, congrats to the President.

Our Wrecking Crew in Washington, DC

We made our long voyage to Washington DC today for the inauguration of Barack Obama.  For some of us (myself) this is my first time in DC, while the rest of the crew has been here at some point in the past.  Each of us are enjoying the opportunity to see history, the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States.

We had an interesting ride with the one and only Rick Beltram who somehow managed to ramble for 1 hour and 20 minutes about several things.  I shouldn’t say ramble, but he discussed DC in general and reviewed the itinerary with everyone.  Me, I enjoyed watching The Dark Knight on my iPhone and laughed with my friends above.

The Spartanburg Herald Journal is along for the ride and they are making sure to talk to everyone and get their pictures.

We’ll provide some updates throughout the day tomorrow, hopefully, and the next night.

A Sad Day in Boiling Springs

Tonight, the doors will close at Ron’s Family Restaurant (Ron’s Hog Pen) in Boiling Springs.

Ron has been running the restaurant since the early 2000′s and has been fairly successful.

He started in a small building off of Parris Bridge Rd, moving to a parcel in the old Seven Sea’s Building around 2005.

He was so successful there he had to move to his new location on Hwy 9 beside the Pizza Hut in Boiling Springs.

Unfortunately, the economy finally gotten the best of him.  He had made several attempts to reorganize and hold on to his great business, even seeking an additional funds from Bank of America to be told by the representative a rather questionable response that we won’t air here.  It was along the lines that you as an individual do not meet the social requirements.

Ron told me today that he hated to have to shut his doors.  He was very thankful to the people of Spartanburg and Boiling Springs for allowing his restaurant to survive as long as it had.

Ron had become very active in the GOP community providing catering needs for events as well as opening his doors to host executive committee meetings and forums.

Ron will continue to run a catering business out of an unknown location and has said he is considering returning to a small location with his famous pigs and familiar BBQ.

Ron, we at The Conservativist wish you the best of luck in your new ventures.

The Battlegroud Spartanburg Has Become

Spartanburg has been in a tizzy since July 2007 politically speaking.

Rick Beltram first banned Ron Paul from participating in Republican events in the county.  The Paulite’s lit him up like it was the 4th of July.  The county party hq phone rang off the hook and his inbox overflowed from emails from across the nation.  He stirred the pot further with his infamous “Trophy Wife” comments stirred more debate.

Over the next several months, practically every candidate running for President stopped in Spartanburg leading up to the primary on January 19th and 26th.

Then the local primary races got interesting with the 3 way race for Senate 13, Talley and Bright for Senate 12, Slick Steve in House 37 (Steve was found innocent of those accusations as well), and the surprising upset in House 38, Millwood over Walker and the accusations made against Rick Beltram accusing him of offering campaign consulting services from his county chairman post.

Then November 11th struck.  The immediate controversy that came to be concerning the proper voting methods used to nominate a chairman of a county delegation.  It’s a rather pointless position, but the argument between the Good ‘Ole Boys and The New Kids on the Block is over the rule of law.  Each side still claims the law is on their respective sides and is daring each other to take them to court to resolve the issue.

But the rumors floating around Spartanburg appear to be more than just the rule of law or how some individuals in the state house want to make the scenario a Senate vs. House debate.

It is rumored the entire rift is because of some “midnight appointments” made by the out going Senators.  It has been brought to our attention that these appointments were “ram-rodded” and not legal.  And being the stature of the vows made by The New Kids on the Block, they are challenging the norm and trying to ensure the “rule of law”.

And then we learned from some sources that there will be another resolution presented at the Spartanburg GOP meeting on Thursday to censure Shane Martin over his actions.  A fairly popular candidate who said he wasn’t going to play games is caught in the middle of this.  All because in some people’s opinion, he is trying to do what is right, follow the rule of law while others believe it is a petty power struggle.

After the event tomorrow night, I heard the two sides were going out to Cowpens for a duel.

Spartanburg County GOP Executive Committee Meeting

The first executive meeting of the new year will be held on Thursday, January 15th at the Country Hearth Inn (Intersections of I-26 &I-85).  Dinner will begin being served buffet style at 6pm.  Cost is approximately $10 + tax. Program begins at 7pm.  Proposed agenda is below.

Opening Remarks
Chairman’s Report
Re-organization Report
Inauguration Report
Legislative Report – Steve Parker
Guest Speaker – Attorney General Henry McMaster
Resolutions Report

We have also obtained a resolution that will be presented at the meeting.

A motion to declare that the Spartanburg Republican Party officially endorses AG McMaster’s truth in sentencing – criminal justice reform proposal and urges each member of the Spartanburg County delegation to sign on as a co-sponsor and  actively support the proposal’s passage in the current session of the General Assembly

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