Posted by Gary Coats on October 26, 2008 under Education, Press Release, SC Politics, Spartanburg | 
Families in Spartanburg are talking about school choice.
Parents want more options for their children and better accountability from their public schools. They want to get the facts about high public school spending, low test scores and how broader access to private schools will improve performance for all students.
Come and join the discussion!
Pizza will be served!
Tuesday, October 28th, 6:30 p.m
Merryland Child Development
95 Ashley Street, Spartanburg
Learn more: http://schoolchoicenow.wordpress.com/
Posted by Gary Coats on October 22, 2008 under Elections 2008, Spartanburg, US Senate |
Senator Lindsey Graham will be at the Spartanburg County Republican Party HQ today at noon to meet with volunteers and give an update on the status of the campaign.
Later tonight, the Constitiution Party will be hosting an event at the J. Verne Smith Auditorium at 7pm. The list of speakers includes John Langville (Candidate for SC Senate 7), Polly Nicolay (Candidate for SC Senate 1), Susie Cornelius (Candidate for Oconee County Treasurer), and Bob Conley (Democratic Candidate for US Senate).
Unfortunately, The Conservativist will not be able to make either event today, but each should have their own interesting twist. The CP event tonight should be very interesting.
Posted by Gary Coats on October 20, 2008 under Elections 2008, Spartanburg |
The night was marked with comedic over tones provided by Jimmy Tobias, Joey Millwood, and Rick Beltram.
Beltram began the night highlighting that Reese was not there by wearing a Krispy Kreme Hat and then passing out Dunkin Doughnut napkins. Needless to say, that pissed a few people off, republicans and democrats.
Millwood took a shot at opponent Mark Chambers (who was not in attendance) stating:
I have debated my wife over seeing Reese Witherspoon Friday night, my dog for sitting on the couch, but never air.
Of course, in popular belief, the Spartanburg Herald had to take a shot at Millwood concerning the support he has received from SCRG. Millwood responded with the following:
Conservatives get mad when big liberal organizations make contributions and liberals get mad when big conservative organizations make contributions…
I have one question though…Where was the Herald Journal when the NEA and large homosexual and abortion groups raided the state a few years back trying to stop the marriage bill that was before us? No where. Not one word about it.
A very valid point by Millwood. The Herald Journal just did another article criticizing SCRG but failed to mention the money received by Harold Mitchell from out of state sources.
In the end though, Jimmy Tobias (D - Senate 13) stole the show. His no holds bar to the issues provided relief to the mundane political speak. There was no political correctness and he closed the night with:
We need brass balls!
About 200 people attended the event and each candidate did a fair job getting their positions across. The biggest loser may have been the Media.
Posted by Gary Coats on October 17, 2008 under Spartanburg |
At Donna Hicks “Shoot for Candidates”, she announced that she was withdrawing from the Spartanburg county council district 1 race and announcing her candidacy for the Mayor of the City of Spartanburg.
Donna Hicks is currently working on her PhD in Theology (Regent University) and a BS in Business (University of South Carolina - Upstate). Donna, a former educator, is a native of Spartanburg and has a strong desire to serve the city that she grew up in.
Visit VoteDonnaHicks.com for more details or contact Kerry Wood at 864.921.6205.
Posted by Gary Coats on under Elections 2008, Spartanburg |
The Conservativist has just learned of a few candidates that are making guest appearances other than those that were advertised at Donna Hicks “Shoot For Candidates”.
- Mark Hammond
- Andre Bauer
- Bob Conley
For those of you who don’t know, you can bring your shotguns to the Spartanburg Gun Club, donate $100 to the candidate of your choice and shoot skeet for the afternoon. Make a trip down there and enjoy and cool afternoon of quail hunting practice, but please leave the lawyers out of your sites!
You are also welcome to visit the candidates and other attendees free of charge.
We will keep you posted with various updates throughout the day. I would say that I was surprised to Conley on this list, but hell, he has been crashing various other GOP events during this campaign season. He’s even managed to get two individuals kicked off the Greenville GOP Executive committee.