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Lexington Update … SCGOP State EC Meeting TODAY!
Will Drew McKissick act today?
The 4th Quarter SCGOP State Executive Committee meeting is usually a “sleepy” affair followed by a “Christmas Party” at the Governor’s Mansion.
Having only four meetings a year of the 46 County Republican State Executive Committee (and one being a “no business” holiday affair) is one problem … but today the SCGOP State Executive Committee faces another problem …
Why are there TWO Lexington County Republican Parties???
Well, there really isn’t two … but there is a “splinter group” in Lexington purporting to be the LCRP. This “faux” LCRP is actually out there raising donations under the auspices of being the actual LCRP … their leader is showing up at GOP events and holding himself out as the LCGP “Chairman” … and they have actually been endorsing candidates for office using the official LCRP branding.
It is absolute bizzarro world … and many believe it to be CRIMINAL.
Wouldn’t it be “criminal fraud” to go out there raising money saying you were the “Make A Wish Foundation” … and you really were not the “Make A Wish Foundation”? Can you go out there and gather “Toys for Tots” … and then take the toys to your kids at home? YES, it is a real problem and it should be discussed at today’s SCGOP State Executive Committee meeting in Columbia.
We have reported on this Lexington GOP issue several times HERE & HERE … but it is now appears to be coming to a head.
WHERE THIS ALL BEGAN
“It will fall into a state of disrepair, become a complete dumpster fire and essentially be a leper colony for the next year and a half,” McKissick said.
In its place, McKissick suggested that “sane Republicans” might end up creating separate GOP clubs in the Greenville area for people who want to stay focused on the core party functions of supporting Republican candidates.
“We will help them do that in every way,” McKissick said.
Post & Courier, July 8, 2021 (HERE)
Remember in 2021 when America FIRST Patriots – otherwise known as platform Republicans – voted out the RINOs in Greenville County and SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick called them all “lepers” and vowed to establish “GOP clubs” to work around the duly elected leadership in Greenville and several other counties? (HERE, HERE & HERE)
Well, two and a half years later the “absolutely insane” Greenville mySCGOP group has been re-elected … and other America FIRST counties like Lexington have followed suit … but it appears Drew McKissick is still at it with his splinter group “GOP clubs”.
This time however, one Drew McKissick aligned “GOP club” in Lexington has taken it to a new level … they actually call themselves the “Lexington County Republican Party”. Like they are the real LCRP.
YES … WOW!
RULES ARE RULES
The “splinter group” GOP club in Lexington is basing their claim by saying that the duly elected Chair, Pamela Godwin, has been “recalled”.
[NOTE: This news outlet has requested a copy of the rules and applicable supporting documentation from the “splinter group” on several occasions with no response.]
The real problem however … the SCGOP Rules do not allow for “recall” of an elected party official … and this has been a longstanding position of Drew McKissick himself since being elected chair in 2016 … and there are no records of anyone ever being “recalled” in SCGOP history that we can find.
So, it appears no precinct Executive Committeeman (EC), no precinct President … and most assuredly no county convention (or state convention) elected official has ever been “recalled” despite numerous attempts to do so over the past few years. And each time it was attempted … Drew McKissick himself stopped it as a violation of SCGOP Party Rules … but that was for his supporters, and this time it is different. Rules for thee, but not for me? We shall see.
[NOTE: For example, it has been reported that several years ago the Chairwoman in Anderson County, Cheryl Teague-Cuthrell, was voted out UNANIMOUSLY by the Anderson Executive Committee … and Drew personally overruled the ousting stating that the SCGOP does not have any recall provisions for an elected chairman.]
WILL DREW ACT TODAY?
This has been an ongoing issue for months now … since August … and reportedly Drew McKissick (as well as several party and elected officials) have confirmed privately that Pamela Godwin is still the Chair of the Lexington County Republican Party … and the “splinter group” is only a GOP club.
But the statement that Pamela Godwin remains the official Chair has not been made publicly by Drew since this mess was started by his “splinter group” … and you just can’t have a 2nd group calling themselves the official LCRP … can you? Not if you want to protect the GOP brand.
So the big question is will Drew McKissick act today at the SCGOP State Executive Committee meeting … or will Drew continue to kick this can down the road?
Numerous GOP leaders from across South Carolina are asking if we cannot protect the “brand” of the SCGOP … what good is the brand? If we are not a party of rule followers … what are we? If we don’t protect the election integrity of GOP party officials from our bi-annual ReOrg and County Conventions … have we abandoned all efforts for real Election Integrity?
OPENING A MASSIVE CAN OF WORMS: And if Drew flipflops and now allows for “recall” … can you imagine all the precincts, counties, and state delegates that may have buyer’s remorse and want to recall their current GOP party officials? It will become a full-time job of the SCGOP to handle recall efforts from top to bottom … in all 2,261 precincts and all 46 counties.
So, as the Governor and First Lady await the arrival tonight of the SCGOP State Executive Committee leaders from 46 counties … will any work be done to address this issue … or will there be faux precinct, county and state officials popping up all over South Carolina tomorrow … claiming to be the real deal?
Maybe even a new self-proclaimed SCGOP Chairman … wouldn’t that create turmoil in the SCGOP!!!
What a massive can of worms inaction could open up.
Stay tuned … an update tomorrow for sure.
– by Jeff Davis
There is a lot of “chatter” going around social media about “why” the Pickens County Republican Party (PCRP) and their 24 State Delegates were refused to be seated by the SCGOP State Convention Credentialling Committee on the evening of Friday, May 2nd, 2025.
A draconian move to say the least … even “if” the allegations are true … but the reality is this is just one more example in the series of “fabrications” to protect Drew McKissick, the SCGOP RINO “establishment” … and he monied special interest and their political consultants that are all selling out South Carolina and The People.
What is the fabricated list: (1) The 2021 Greenville ReOrg Fraud, (2) the December 2021 barring of Jeff Davis, as GCRP Chairman, from the State EC Meetings, (3) the fabricated stealing of the Oconee GOP, (4) the violation of HORRY GOP resignation retractions, (5) the attempted steal & takeover of the Greenville 2023 ReOrg, (6) the 2nd barring of Jeff Davis, as GCRP State EC, from the State EC meetings, (7) the Lexington GOP steal from Chair Pamela Godwin, (8) the Congressional District 01 steal from Chair Cynthia Jones, (9) the Congressional District 04 stealing of the Chair position, (10) the 2025 steal of the Charleston GOP Convention via voice votes … and now (11) the failure to seat the 24 anti-Drew delegates from Pickens.
Have we missed a few? Probably. It is hard to keep up with the fabrications.
Anyhow … very few people have actually seen the official documents from the PCRP Challenge … so here they are.
Take a look for yourself. Do you see anything that says anywhere that the former PCRP Chairman artificially capped the county convention delegates to 400? There are 33 pages of EXHIBITS … a ton of paper … but none state that the county delegates were being artificially capped at the 400 person room capacity.
The PCRP has put out there own initial response (HERE) … maybe that will help … and they have also posted the video appeal to the SCGOP convention body by duly elected PCRP State Executive Committeewoman Rhonda Billingsley (HERE). Rhonda did a great job, but it fell on deaf ears Saturday morning.
One theory … this has nothing to do with the PCRP 2025 ReOrg & County convention … it is payback for the 6-minutes of BOOING Senate Lindsey Graham at the July 2nd, 2023, TRUMP Rally in Pickens (HERE).
FEEDBACK: You decide. Is this Lindsey Graham payback? Review the documents yourself. Do you see something we are missing? We don’t see it … but if you do, send us an email to team@mySCGOP.com.
Pickens Challenge Email – PDF (HERE)
Pickens Exhibits – PDF (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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– by Jeff Davis
It is a saying that has only been around for about 2,500 years, but one of the main principles of WAR is to “Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy”.
Sun Tzu (HERE), the the great Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer, said it best …
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War – 512 BC
Now, realize Sun Tzu was speaking a bit deeper as it relates to knowing your strengths and weaknesses, as well as those of your enemy … but it is also important to know exactly “who” your enemy is … by name.
Being able to identify the enemy has been a failure of the America First movement in South Carolina in that many of us are new to the scene. We believe them when they tell us what we want to hear, and we believe them when they tell us they are Christians and quote a Bible verse. WE believe them because we can not comprehend someone we know and see at the grocery store would outright lie to us. #WakeUP!!!
As Steve Bannon says … “They have been lying to us, and we have had a belly full of it.“
Now Bannon was talking about the Fake New Media … but the same statement applies to the SCGOP RINO establishment.
So step one … from the SCGOP Convention on May 3rd, 2025 … here is the list of DREW MCKISSICK supporters that was printed out and sitting on all the chairs. This is GOLD!!! This is your initial list of all the people that need to be PURGED from the SCGOP, with extreme prejudice.
Steve Bannon also said that if you were not prepared to go to jail in this fight, you are not ready for this fight. Well, likewise again, if you are not prepared to PURGE these folks from the SCGOP … you are not ready for this fight either.
[NOTE: I will give one caveat … and it is the exception, not the rule. There are some on this list that simply don’t know. They have been duped. Everyone is entitled to REPENT and correct their way, but they must do it openly and honestly … and with full knowledge. Otherwise, they should all on this list “sit out” of politics for a cycle or two in order to reflect on their actions. A few years on the sideline might wake them up to how compromised they have turned the SCGOP.]
We all know the SCGOP is flawed organization … controlled by the monied special interest and their political consultants. Isn’t now the time to, as TRUMP told us … FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!!
Thank you President Donald J. TRUMP … and thank you Sun Tzu … and thank you to whomever had the idea to publish this list. Again, it’s GOLD!!!
Drew McKissick Flier – PDF (HERE)
Drew McKissick Flier – PDF (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.
SUSTAINING & INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS:
Make a Charitable Donation TODAY: HERE
The 2025 Precinct ReOrg process is now over … but #ReOrg2027 is right around the corner.
One thing we were taught at a young age … save your paperwork. For those of you at the convention, did you keep all those papers? For those not at the convention … wouldn’t you like to see the paperwork?
Below are the (1) Agenda, (2) Standing Rules & (3) Resolution Packet.
We hope you enjoy … and will use this valuable information to #WIN in 2027 for the MAGA America First movement!!!
A developing movement … stay tuned …
2025 SCGOP Convention Agenda (PDF): HERE
2025 SCGOP Convention Standing Rules (PDF): HERE
2025 SCGOP Convention Resolutions Packet (PDF): HERE
The 2025 Precinct ReOrg process is now over. It was a raucous 2025 SCGOP State Convention this past Saturday, May 3rd at the Columbia Convention Center. Free biscuits and coffee from Senator Lindsey Graham did not soothe the frustrations of the MAGA America First contingent … especially after their favorite Pickens County was disqualified over a “fabricated” infraction designed to take 24 anti-Drew McKissick votes off the table. (More to come on Pickens – but see the FITSNews Article: HERE.)
As in 2023 … the SCGOP “establishment” pulled every trick in the book.
Many first timers to the SCGOP convention witnessed with their own eyes the tyranny of the old guard establishment and their complete lack of respect for SC citizens. Many first timers witnessed not a single elected official in attendance stopping the overt ramrodding of the America FIRST SC Patriots … and in fact many of them celebrated it. Now Patriots know … and they saw firsthand Lt. Governor Pamela Evette & Attorney General Alan Wilson turn a blind eye to 45%+ of the body. It certainly won’t help them in the voting booth next June 9th, 2026 in the Governor’s Race … if they make it that far.
Regardless, Drew McKissick slipped back in by 103 votes, not near as close as the 16 votes of the 2023 SCGOP State Convention (HERE) … but after all the tricks pulled in Charleston, Lexington, Georgetown, PICKENS and other counties … what were we to expect.
Yes, some are licking their wounds (for a day or two) … but most are more motivated than ever.
We will be profiling more this week on the events of the 2025 SCGOP State Convention, so stay tuned … but in the interim, below are the County by County results in the top two and most critical races.
Temporary President Race: Jay Ragley (54.3%) vs. Rep. Jordan Pace (45.7%)
Chairman Race: Drew McKissick (55.7%) vs. Lee Bright (41.3%) vs. Denny Floyd (3.0%)
A developing movement … stay tuned …
SCGOP Temp President & Chairman Race Analysis PDF: HERE
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