Greenville County, SC

“We’re going to have to start working for and talking to the taxpayers - that’s a constituency we had. It’s going to be up to our party to erase the confusion about what we’re for, and that is limited government, economic opportunity for all, for people who want to build a small business, work hard and create the American dream.” - said Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party.

Last week we learned SC Gov. Sanford was named RGA chairman, and in today’s news, SC Republican Party Chair Katon Dawson is seeking chairmanship of the RNC.

South Carolina’s Political History

Like most Southern states, South Carolina consistently voted Democratic in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century as a part of the Democrats’ Solid South. The Republican Party became competitive in the 1960 presidential election when Richard Nixon lost the state to John F. Kennedy by just two percentage points. In 1964, Barry Goldwater became the first Republican to win the state since Reconstruction.

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“Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance”

In a move that harkens back to the Middle Ages when non-followers were burnt at the stake, Rev. Jay Scott Newman of St. Mary’s Catholic Church here in Greenville issued a letter to his parishioners stating that Obama supporters are putting their souls at risk for supporting him for Presidency.

In this most conservative area of the state, there are plenty around here who feel the same way, but Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats, says “Father Newman is off base. He is acting beyond the authority of a parish priest to say what he did.”

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