Our next meeting will be Thursday September 16 at 7pm. We will be meeting at the Laurens County Higher Education Center. The address is: 663 Medical Ridge Rd. Clinton, 29325. We will be in Room 411. All patriots are invited.

For God and country,

John Gartrell, VP

The Laurens Co. Tea Party would like to express its profound gratitude to Hampton Inn of Clinton for allowing us to use their facilities to meet.

The Laurens Co. TEA Party is pleased to endorse the following candidates in the November 2010 elections.

Governor: Niki Haley http://www.nikkihaley.com/

Lt. Governor: Ken Ard http://www.ardforsc.com/

District 3: Jeff Duncan http://www.jeffduncan.com/site/

District 4: Trey Gowdy http://www.treygowdy.com/

Comptroller General: Richard Eckstrom www.cg.sc.gov/

Attorney General: Alan Wilson http://www.wilsonforag.com/

SC Adjutant General: Bob Livingston (Unopposed)

State Treasurer: Curtis Loftis http://www.curtisloftis.com/ (Unopposed)

Superintendent of Education: Mick Zais http://www.mickzais.com/

US Senate: Jim Demint  http://demint.senate.gov/public/

District 14 SC State House of Representatives: Mike Pitts

District 15 SC State House of Representatives: David Tribble (Unopposed)

Secretary of State: Mark Hammond

Agriculture Commissioner: Hugh Weathers

We, the undersigned Tea Parties of South Carolina, are issuing a censure of Senator Lindsey Graham. Sen. Graham, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, recently voted to approve Elena Kagan’s nomination out of committee and to the Senate floor for a full vote. As the lone Republican voting to approve Ms. Kagan, Sen. Graham’s rationale appears to be that as President, Obama has the right to appoint anyone he wishes to the Supreme Court. However, the Constitution’s balance of power requires the Senate to confirm the nominee as being fit for the role. If the President appoints someone who is unfit, it is IMPERATIVE for the Senate to check his power and vote NO. As part of the oath of office, Sen. Graham is required to uphold the Constitution. All of the available evidence indicates that Ms. Kagan is completely unfit for this office and will not uphold the Constitution, but will instead use her powers to legislate from the bench. Ms. Kagan has no experience as a judge, and her graduate thesis reveals her belief in judicial activism and that it is “not necessarily wrong” for judges “to mold… the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends.” Her time at Harvard also showed that she favors international law over our U.S. Constitution, and she fought all the way to the Supreme Court to ban military recruiters from Harvard. It is clear that she will not uphold our Constitution and will legislate from the bench, helping to destroy our country in the process.
Sen. Graham, if you believe that since elections have consequences and therefore Obama can do as he wishes, without any fight or impediment from those who oppose his radical agenda for America, then we suggest that you step down now and let the people of South Carolina find someone who will fight for our country, our freedom, and our ideals. If you continue in office, understand that We the People are watching you closely, and we will continue to hold you accountable for your failure to uphold the Constitution and Conservative principles, and we will be working hard for your replacement in 2014.

Signed:
Laurens Co. Tea Party
Seneca Tea Party
Boiling Springs Tea Party
Tea Party of the Lakelands
SC Black Conservatives Movement
Columbia Tea Party
Myrtle Beach Tea Party
Patriots R Us (Walterboro)
Spartanburg Tea Party
Anderson TEA Party
Tea Party Patriots of Florence
Aiken TP
RINO Hunt
Hilton Head Tea Party
Fairfield Co. Tea Party
Greenville Tea Party
Greenville 912 Project
Carolina Patriots
Americans Have Had Enough Coalition
Coalition for a Traditional America

Bill Connor

Rep. Mike Pitts

Attorney General Henry McMaster

Beau Belsom

Jeff Duncan

Mark Willis

Danny Verdin

The mission of the Laurens County TEA Party is to restore our Constitutional Republic and to fight to preserve the freedoms granted by God as laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

We are pleased to announce that Laurens County has their own tea party movement.  More details will be forthcoming over the next several weeks.  Stay tuned.