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Greenville County Republican Party Chair Sends “Special Edition Chairman’s Letter”
There are challenges with a few new members of the EC body who are aligned with the splinter group faction and have been a distraction from our goals of party growth …
Greenville County Republican Party “splinter group faction” called for a special meeting last week … and below is the Special Chairman’s Letter sent out with her perspective of said gathering. Read, Learn & Enjoy …
September 17th, 2023
Members of the GCRP Executive Committee & Friends,
This is a special edition of From the Chairman’s Desk offering my perspective on our GCRP Special Called Meeting this past Thursday. I feel compelled to weigh in as former GCRP Chairman Nate Leupp has opined via this 4th District Club newsletter.
Our Thursday September 14, 2023 special called meeting may be forever known as the “Sauna Meeting” for many of us because we sat for 3 hours in a room where the temperature got to 79 degrees because of an AC failure. As you may recall, we had proposed that this meeting be done by Zoom, which in retrospect would have clearly been more comfortable for all attendees. However, after some of the theatrics (I was a little concerned that a few of the speakers might get attacks of the vapors!) and expected theatrics (why on earth was some guy who is a blogger from Charleston be invited to a GCRP meeting), I understand why the offer of a Zoom call was not accepted.
To start, I would like to thank everyone who has complimented me on how the meeting was chaired, and to give special thanks to those that made my job easier – our credentialing and teller team under the leadership of Joe McLaughlin, Tony DiLorenzo who loaned me a very effectively annoying whistle that is a special gift from his father, Nate who got me a better microphone, and last but certainly not least parliamentarian Greg Peck who kept us on track during the long evening.
I also must thank the core group of party volunteers who today are not focused on gaining or regaining some perceived power but instead on the work of the party and supporting it financially. I just got an email from Chairman McKissick’s political consulting company and the subject is Candidate Recruitment – our GCRP recruitment committee has been incredibly busy lately and done an amazing job as they had to start from scratch since this was not a priority for administrations prior to 2021. Scott Crosby, former GCRP EC and Mauldin City Councilman, who is active in protecting 2A rights and spoke at Coffee and Politics on Friday congratulated us on our focus on boards and commissions and said he has been preaching this for years! The night we received the special call meeting email (which we now know had been planned for weeks now), many of us were at HQ watching LifeMark, a real tearjerker about choosing adoption over abortion. This is one of 4 movies in a series the Pro Life committee has arranged – another of the committees working tirelessly to make a difference on a critical and, in this case, fundamental issue – LIFE.
It is easy for those of us new to politics and who really don’t want a career in it but are fighting for better governance and to save our Country, to forget the bigger battle within the GOP that filters down to local county parties like Greenville. There are huge fault lines within our party – think Americans for Prosperity / Romney / Cheney establishment vs MAGA grassroots, and smaller ones – think SC Freedom Caucus vs SC Republican Caucus that are all influencing our dynamics in the GCRP. After being elected your Chairman, I spoke with Vickie Tonkins, pictured here,
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about her experiences being chair of the Republican Party in the largest county in Colorado (another state the GOP is losing to Democrats). Her experiences as do those of other grassroots conservative led parties across the USA, and within our state, reflect the consistent narrative of “incompetence”, hints of corruption, “Democrat plants” as well as the personal attacks that the political establishment is using as tools to retain power. You might question whether Greenville, SC is really noticed by the nationwide political establishment. But remember our State Chairman is second in command at the RNC, and grassroots conservatives here in Greenville have the unique advantage of the educational non-profit mySCGOP that is a real thorn in the side to the kinds of Republicans that would rather work with Democrats than Constitutional Republican Platform Conservative elected officials and grassroots activists. mySCGOP filled an education gap for citizens who want to get involved in governing themselves, but populism is a threat to self-serving career politicians.
At the local level the primary control tool the political establishment uses is the threat of the GCRP being dissolved. Many of us that have learned firsthand how party rules can be bent to serve the establishment have realized that is a possibility from the beginning. Our passionate, patriotic Christian Constitutional Conservatives are not going to stop fighting for their children, grandchildren and our country because we are tossed out of a political organization. In fact, I have had to talk some Conservative Christians into remaining with the GOP. Many are increasingly disillusioned by the lesser of two evils choices they have when voting. They are also very angry with leadership that does not adhere to the Republican Platform and that has allowed our party to lose so much market and mind share to an amoral, secularist and foreign interest dominated Democrat Party.
Self-serving members of the political establishment have other tools at their disposal in fighting to regain power from grassroots conservatives in Greenville.
There is an industry around conservatism and in our area an alphabet soup of organizations fighting each other for money, influence and the time, eyes and ears of conservative voters. These fights create hostilities and distract from the bigger mission of fixing government in the “blue” city of Greenville, Greenville County where six Republicans joined with the only two Democrats to unnecessarily raise our taxes, South Carolina and our Country.
GOP Sweep, which started with a splinter group that broke apart from the original Greenville conservatives movement that was able to win only one of three leadership slots at our county convention is clearly disgruntled and not accepting of the election results. A social media post from one of their members said “I stole my election”. There are also deep-rooted hostilities between individuals in the two GCRP factions. People who hunger for power and influence are always looking for ways to get it. That effort can create some, as the saying goes, strange bedfellows. Many of the people who were once part of the Greenville grassroots conservatives movement are now allied with and useful tools for what we think of as the establishment.
Because Nate Leupp was not as involved with the original grassroots group (mainly for reasons listed HERE) he was not able in his missive to talk about relevant permanent hostilities that have come out of the events of: (1) a former board member being asked to resign; (2) an internal fight over school board candidate and state superintendent candidates; (3) an effort by some former leadership to rein in the powers of the Chairman to do FOIA requests; (4) an individual involved with Election Integrity demanding to see the voting record of a member who was up for a leadership position when we know that data hygiene of South Carolina voter files is not a priority for the RNC and we routinely see errors in voting records.
The enmity that is being presented as a question of our budget competence is particularly disingenuous. As you will see from the 2022/2023 budget documents that will be posted on our website and that were approved by the EC body both in March 2022 and January 2023, we presented both expenses and revenue with itemized amounts in pie chart form as an easy way for people to quickly comprehend where our money would come from and how it would be spent. If there was a major concern that the information was not presented in “standard budget format”, could the person in the treasurer’s role have taken the time to present the information correctly in support of the body that approved it? As part of the transparency around budget that NEW members of the EC body may not have had, anyone is invited to arrange a meeting with me, Jeff Davis or Mike Voaden to view a copy of our month to month lease for the space where our headquarters is currently houses. The lease document, which was passed by our EC Body unanimously (except for one nay), was already emailed out by the GCRP to nearly 3,000 people back on March 7th, 2022 and presented on the big screen for review prior to passage. Unfortunately some of our ECs are unable to keep their own records and thought it appropriate to call a special meeting to request another copy.
There are also challenges with a few new members of the EC body who are aligned with the splinter group faction and have been a distraction from our goals of party growth, increased voter turnout and candidate support. One individual’s attorney sent a “No Trespass” letter to our State EC Jeff Davis back in June – wonder how that works when the individual shows up at GCRP business meetings? This individual also seems to think that providing a list of people who attended a precinct meeting meets the SCGOP requirement of providing a list of people who were invited to the meeting. I personally struggle communicating with individuals who seem challenged to understand the difference between archived and active business records, as well as SCGOP rules and regulations around these records and party resources to manage them, and the inappropriateness of giving “deadlines” for completing low value administrative tasks to volunteers. I am sure prior Chairmen would get a big laugh out of us asking for a special called meeting to demand copies of minutes from a 2019 or 1996 business meeting, but then again many are asking that we do so as none of the over 30 years of GCRP records were handed over in the 2021 ReOrg transition to new leadership.
I hope this letter provides each of you a reminder of the bigger picture, to think about some of the things you heard Thursday night with new information, to realize that maintaining the hostilities impeding our work is a conscious choice and that we all could be actively working towards the political improvements so desperately needed in Greenville city and county (it is imperative we protect our library board chair Alan Hill who is the target of a petition by the left and that we work to elect Randall Fowler and Knox White), South Carolina and our Country.
Keep an eye out for my regular newsletter edition coming out mid-week. The topic is Lies and Fear and how avoid being manipulated by them.
Sincerely,
Yvonne Julian, MBA, BS Chem
Chairman, Greenville County Republican Party
Executive Committeeman, Southside Precinct
A SCGOP “drama” seven months in the making is now over (HERE & HERE) … with the original results from the March / April Pickens County ReOrg & Convention being the same results as the November / December Pickens County “ReDo” ReOrg & Convention.
It was a huge win for our MAGA America First friends in Pickens from the opening start with the Greenville County Republican Party’s (GCRP) own Parliamentarian & Convention Expert RAY SHEEN being elected as temporary (and ultimately permanent) Convention President.
Once that initial temporary Convention President vote was in (HERE), it was clear that the America FIRST Patriots were by far the dominant voting block.
Congratulations PICKENS … Justice prevails!
#JusticeForPICKENS!!!
It was a huge win for conservatives as former (now future) Senator Lee Bright (HERE) won the special election for SC Senate District 12 replacing Senator Roger Nutt (HERE) who resigned earlier this year due to health reasons.
Although most of Senate District 12 lies in Spartanburg County, it was the votes in conservative Greenville County that pulled Lee Bright over the 50% + 1 margin. Bright narrowly avoided a runoff by 46 votes, with Greenville providing a solid margin of 126 extra votes over his two competitors.
Congratulations Senator Lee Bright!
Education
Pickens – Setting the Record Straight – A VIDEO RESPONSE
Bob Fetterly – PCRP Chair 2023-2025
YouTube (HERE) or Rumble (HERE)
We all know about the Drew McKissick shenanigans at the SCGOP State Convention back on May 3rd, 2025 with the “sneak attack” on the Pickens County Republican Party (PCRP) and the ultimate failure to seat the 24 (anti-DREW) PCRP State Delegates on fabricated charges. (mySCGOP.news, May 8th, 2025 – The Latest SCGOP Fabrication – HERE)
It really is dumbfounding … but in reality just another example in a long line of examples since the MAGA America First insurgency began in ReOrg 2021 with the outright fraud in Greenville (HERE & HERE).
Well, it is ongoing with the SCGOP … as they say, the gift that keeps giving insofar as exposing the hypocrisy and outright corruption withing the SCGOP State Leadership & State Executive Committee itself.
Specifically – the SCGOP State Executive Committee voted ( 32 to 18 ) at its quarterly meeting on June 7th, 2025, that the Pickens County Republican Party would be “suspended” until the next quarterly meeting in September. The PCRP elected leadership can no longer use the PCRP name, website, email system, bank account … even with important elections coming up in November … and the PCRP can’t meet … but somehow (even though they can’t meet?) they are supposed to come up with a “plan” to present to the SCGOP State Executive Committee in September on how to fix the fabricated problem.
Basically Pickens was “unorganized” on June 7th (without notice) – even though the SCGOP State Executive Committee did not have the 75% of the votes needed to unorganize PCRP under the “new” Rule 16(b) which was ramrodded through in a special called SCGOP convention in July 30th, 2022.
The good news is the former PCRP Chair, Bob Fetterly (who did not run, nor had he planned to run, for re-election in 2025) has published a video response to the SCGOP charges that he arbitrarily capped the number of county delegates to 400 – a bizarre charge by the SCGOP. Bob did a great job laying out the details … and it now appears that “if” there were any “Rules Violations” … it was really the SCGOP itself that violated it’s own Rules.
Take a look … we think you will enjoy the video response and details:
YouTube (HERE) or Rumble (HERE)
This is obviously going to be an ongoing story … so stay tuned!!!
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Last week FITSNews put out an article about the SC Speaker of the House entitled “Murrell Smith Has Lost His Ability To Lead”. (HERE).
Questioning the Speaker’s ability to lead was one thing (and we loved it) … but we found a quote in the article that “IF” all our MAGA America First friends would learn and truly understand, we would win this war with the RINOs … and Save America in the process.
Take a read … and maybe read it twice …
“Power, in an ideal world, is wielded by principled officials with the consent – and in the interests – of the governed. In reality, though, it is wielded by powerful special interests who use elected officials as their puppets. As a result, the goal of “governing” becomes advancing those special interests while doing just enough to fool just enough of the voters into believing you are still serving their interests.”
“The more the curtain is peeled back, though, the harder it becomes to keep the puppet show going… especially when the objectives of these special interests run completely counter to the will of the electorate.”
– FITSNews 4/24/2025
Do you see it? Do you realize that none of this world of politics is about the Will of The People? Do you understand you can’t trust any of them … and as we would add, especially don’t trust the ones you like? Didn’t we see this with what essentially every SC State Senator did to Treasurer Curtis Loftis on April 21st, 2025 … and their “railroading of US”? (HERE)
It is all about OVERSIGHT … by The People … by YOU … by US … and it takes calling out the “drift” to the center (or worse, to the left) we see with all good conservative elected officials … most within months of being elected.
Yes, WE are peeling back the curtain. WE are winning. But learn to trust your gut, learn to question everything, and learn to trust nothing as is necessary!!!
WE The People win first by knowing what this “game” (as they see it) is really about … and secondly by knowing this applies to ALL elected officials … including the ones you like … especially the ones you like. No one is immune.
If you will learn just that … WE can Save America.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.
Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).
Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.
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Jeff Davis on In Depth with Mason Sims – 4/24/2025 (HERE)
There is a lot going on in the way of discussion about (#1) the SC Senate’s Railroading of Treasure Curtis Loftis (or really the railroading of “US”) … & (#2) the SCGOP Convention on May 3rd.
Here is a quick live podcast video of Jeff Davis on In Depth with Mason Sims from last that we think you may enjoy.
Podcast Live Video: HERE
If you have any questions, concerns or thoughts … just let us know at team@mySCGOP.com.
The SC Senate’s Railroading of “US”: HERE
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.
Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).
Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.
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Friends, the term “Radical Transparency” is being used a lot in Washington DC and with D.O.G.E. right now … and people are loving it. That is fantastic as we have been preaching it for years.
To us … radical transparency is a LITMUS TEST issue. If your elected official won’t meet … they are not to be trusted … and should be primaried … PERIOD!!!
Now, I am not saying they have to meet with every crazy and “unstable” guy off the street that wants to get together and hear themselves talk about the same thing … 5 days a week … but if you are an “honest broker” looking to ask questions … especially hard questions … of your elected “leader” and they are not willing / able to meet in a timely manner … the general rule (99% of the time) they are HIDING SOMETHING!!!
Elected Officials … in order to be an “elected official” that The People are willing to accept .. must practice RADICAL TRANSPARENCY … and more importantly we must DEMAND IT!!!
We do not need to keep falling for their tricks … DEMAND RADICAL TRANSPARENCY!!!
My Story = Your Story
And don’t think it is just you … I personally have been in elected leadership of the Greenville County Republican Party (GCRP) for 4 years now … 2 years as Chairman and 2 years as the State Executive Committeeman. At this stage, I really know what is going on (although we learn more every day) … I have really HARD questions to ask our elected officials … and I was elected to ask those questions.
And, there are certain elected officials who won’t meet with me (like the SC Freedom Caucus, Drew McKissick, and a bunch of RINOs) who obviously have something to hide … and fortunately there are quite a few that will meet, answer the tough questions, and often change course when they hear our perspective.
But for the ones that won’t meet … that is OK. If I was doing bad things and trying to hide it, I would not want to meet with me either … just like the DOGE “targets” that don’t want to explain themselves to Elon Musk or Donald TRUMP.
[NOTE: And know too … it is not just me. I know many an elected official that say other elected officials won’t meet with them either. It is everywhere … and they know which ones are BAD and doing corrupt things. And guess what, like with the DOGE “targets”, the bad people here in South Carolina that won’t meet are simply SELF IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES … so to me it is a good thing!!!]
Everyone wants DOGE South Carolina … we do too … but guess what, you already have it. You are DOGE, we are DOGE … and anyone who won’t meet, needs to be DOGE’d (aka Primaried) next June 9th, 2026.
It all starts with a simple question to your elected official … “will you meet” … and if they do meet, don’t be DUPED. lol Do your homework and be prepared … call us for tips … and we will happily JOIN YOU … and as we always teach, remember to TRUST NOTHING & verify everything … even what we tell you!!! (mySCGOP.news, 12/09/2024: HERE).
mySCGOP.news 06/22/2023: HERE
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.
Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).
Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.
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Make a Charitable Donation TODAY: HERE
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