S.C. Republicans unite with Tea Party
Fresh off the Tea Party National Conventions where keynote speaker Sarah Palin urged the Tea Party to work within the Republican party this was posted on Fox Nation:
The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it’s uniting with tea party groups in the state to share resources, coordinate messaging and push the GOP in a more conservative direction.
The points of contact between the state party establishment and the grass-roots will be the Greenville County Republican Party — one of the most conservative wings of the state party — and the Upstate Coalition of Conservative Organizations, an umbrella structure of state tea party groups.
The agreement, as announced by South Carolina Republicans, is designed to serve four goals: increase precinct involvement, improve communication between the state party and grass-roots groups, create liaisons between the state party and the various tea party organizations and to work “closely to make the Republican Party more conservative.”
State Republican Party Chairwoman Karen Floyd told POLITICO that the arrangement came at the suggestion of a local activist who works with both the state party and local tea party groups.
Do you think this is doable in Virginia?
I think this is a terrible idea. We need to maintain autonomy and serve as a watchdog group to ensure that all officials are upholding the basic principles of fiscal responsibility, Constitutional rights and free markets.
We will lose a lot of supporters if we become a wing of the GOP.
I’m not sure that I believe this……….Where is the confirmation from the SC tea Party ? Past incidents of claims like this have turned out to be untrue.