Posted on 05/09/2024 3:37:18 AM PDT by cotton1706
COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Republican Party has disqualified five of its members — including two delegates to the national convention in Milwaukee this summer — from voting after revelations they contributed hundreds of dollars to independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign.
According to SCGOP leadership, the five members — Keith and Olga Blandford, John and Mamie Rand, and former attorney general candidate Lauren Martel — were told they were no longer eligible to vote at the party’s May 4 convention following revelations each had paid $500 to attend a dinner at a private residence last July where Kennedy was speaking.
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Martel, in an interview, said she was not aware she was donating to Kennedy’s campaign when she paid to attend the dinner, and that she mistakenly believed the ticket price was intended to cover the cost of food and drink.
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State GOP Chairman Drew McKissick said the rules are clear. Under the party code of conduct, any officer, delegate or alternate who publicly endorses or financially supports a candidate for partisan office other than a duly nominated Republican candidate “shall immediately vacate their Republican Party office.”
“I just find it just hilarious that these folks would claim that they were just too naive to understand that they were actually giving money to the candidates’ campaign that they were going to hear,” McKissick told The Post and Courier.
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Though Martel said she never supported Kennedy for president, she appreciated his ideas and thought he could potentially serve as an official in a future Trump presidency.
“I couldn’t see (Kennedy) as president,” she said. “But attorney general? Maybe.”
(Excerpt) Read more at postandcourier.com ...
“she was not aware”
Well, at lease she’s identified the problem. Anyone around the political arena for a week, knows these dinners are fund raisers.
The SCGOP is better off without someone so dense.
We just adopted such a rule last year in Maryland GOP. I was on the Bylaws committee that struggled through the wording.
I regularly pay $500 a couple for spaghetti and garlic toast, so I completely understand... /s
maybe a few brain worms are in order for the dense. aeration ya know.
They don’t call the Republican Party the stupid party for nothing. SC should be far more red/MAGA than it is. The party is rife with posers. Nancy, the disgrace, Mace is evidence exhibit one.
Worse than Nancy is digusting Linda...I mean, Lindsay Graham.
Tank has a couple hundred in cash set aside for date nights.
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