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South Carolina Republican Party 52nd annual Silver Elephant gala dinner is Friday, August 2, 2019, 7:30 p.m. at the Columbia Convention Center!
The black-tie optional gala is a SCGOP tradition and celebration of our party, its donors and grassroots activists.
This year's event will feature after-dinner music entertainment!
This year's keynote speaker will be The Honorable Mick
Mulvaney!
See you there!
For tickets to this outstanding event, scroll down-
"Congress has worked itself into obscurity [and] irrelevance. When you can go on the floor of the House as the presidents say 'I'm going to do it with or without you,' and Congress stands up and cheers, you have rendered that branch of government feckless and irrelevant," Gowdy said. "Congratulations. The House doesn't matter anymore. White House and Senate [matter], House doesn't matter."--former Congressman Trey Gowdy
Trey Gowdy: 'Nobody cares what Congress does ... The House doesn't matter anymore'
Former congressman Trey Gowdy called House Democrats "feckless and irrelevant" Wednesday in response to a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress.
Today's news
Congressman William Timmons update from Washington--
William Timmons
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) forced a vote on beginning impeachment proceedings against President Trump today.
This may be good politics within his party, but it is virtually unthinkable under the law. The Constitution requires evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors in order to support impeachment of a sitting President.
The Democrats are frustrated with the President — that is fine and within their rights — but what is not fine is moving forward with an unjustified attempt to unseat a sitting President, and that is why I voted to block impeachment proceedings.
Congressman Ralph Norman's update from Washington--
Rep. Ralph Norman
It’s been called the “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” And it’s caused a chaotic mess in the House of Representatives this week.
On Tuesday, Democrats pushed a vote to condemn President Trump's recent comments on Twitter. Then they tried to impeach him last night. After the impeachment vote failed, Speaker Nancy Pelosi remind the nation that six (6) different Democrat-led committees in the House will continue working to try and find something (anything) that might help them with future efforts to impeach. Before all this, they voted to hold Attorney General Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross in contempt over documents related to the President’s efforts to… get this… reinstate a citizenship question back into our census.
Whether we agree or not with the President's policy positions, tone, personality, style, choice of words, use of social media, etc., we can all agree that Mr. Trump has always “called it like he sees it.” Democrats in Congress haven’t really figured out how to process that. And so their two-pronged response has been to (A) try and prevent the President’s success on almost every front, and (B) pursue opportunities for impeachment. Neither of those are in the nation’s best interest.
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The South Carolina Republican Creed
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon.
If I can seek opportunity, not security, I want to take the calculated risk to dream and build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for dole.
I prefer the challenges of life to guaranteed security, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence, nor my dignity for a handout.
I will never cower before any master, save my God.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid. To think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations; to face the whole world boldly and say, “I am a free American.”