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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Cozy Glynn County Convention 2012 showed signs of growth

Glynn County was entitled to more than 200 delegates and alternates at the county convention held Saturday Mar 10. Seventy-five showed up.  Dozens spoke up.  It's better than the low of 2009 but not as strong as last year's dynamic convention. As in 2011 there were many new people. But it was not a clear "Regular" repeat crowd vs the "Ron Paul" crowd as often claimed in other counties.

Unfortunately neither our GOP nor convention chairman ASKED first time attendees to stand and be formally welcomed. (However the convention committees and Chair did act in a welcoming manner - hence my title. It was cozy, somewhat competitive, but not hot or contentious.) My best guess is that 25 to 30 of the 75 in attendance were NEW. If you were one of the first time attendees, THANK YOU for attending. Without you it would have been a record small convention for a presidential year. 

And yes it's true MANY if not MOST of the newcomers were Ron Paul supporters. But so were many of the regulars. The convention was perhaps half Ron Paul, half unknown/ uncommitted.  I can't report with certainty because there were no clear "sides" or counts by presidential preference. The business was to elect delegates, not to identify whom each person most prefers for President.

BY PRECINCT


Jekyll Island delegation including Susan Robinson, Jane Murphy, Ron Stock and 2 more.
New this year the turnout from Jekyll Island and city precincts was stronger than I ever remember. I've noted a few of the attendees below (my apologies to those I missed. I'm not privy to the registration records of attendees. Simply relying on memory and minimal notes)






By precinct the turnout was:
  • 3 Sterling Church of God - welcome back to the Wright family and to new attendee Alex Szyper. And thank you to Sam Wright for his work on the nominating committee.
  • 9 Sterling elementary - great turnout from the Chapman and Ligon families and others.
  • 2 Satilla Marsh - welcome Jackie Maxey and Richard Price - new attendees this year!
  • 3 Marshes of Glynn -- all from the East West Boulevard contingent!
  • 6 First Baptist SSI -- welcome the Kacos, Netherton, and Siffords families -new this year.
  • 9 St.Williams SSI -  long time regulars and Tea Party returnees from last year. No one NEW this year.
  • 2 Oglethorpe Point SSI - welcome back to the Cox family returned.
  • 5 Jekyll Island - So good to see LONG time Republican Ron Stock, 2011 returnee Susan Robinson, and 2012 newcomer Jane Murphy - plus their 2 lovely friends whom I didn't meet.
  • 8 Christian Renewal SSI - the long time always active Dietermans were there. Plus regulars Kevin Gough and Marlene Parmley. Welcome new attendee Don Elliott.
  • 1 Northside Baptist Church - Bob Wendel was parliamentarian and sound master again.
  • 1 CB Greer -  Thank you to the lone attendee out of 11 elected to attend from CB Greer.
  • 9 Beverly Shores - Long time and regular activists McVeighs, Robinson, and Kilgore held down the fort. Shaw McVeigh was convention chairman. Jeff Kilgore was resolutions chairman. And new attendees Pat and Paula Massari.
  • 5 Ballard - Good to see regulars Reyna Reba and Noel Watson and to welcome back the Wallaces and Jack Lipthratt.
  • 10 City Rec  had a huge turnout! The McMinns, Belts, Sandy Dean, Ron Sadowski, and Josh Messer.
  • 2 Burroughs Molette - LA Chancey and John Smith.  Often we have no one from this precinct. This is the first year I remember where EVERY precinct was represented by someone at the county convention.

The following attended from St. Williams (mid-south St. Simons): Janis Boland, Karen Ross, Marjorie Peters, Lisa Rozier, Joann Cook, Charles Taylor, Paul Loupee, Ken Trobaugh, and Ann Rewis.  What an active precinct. Janis served as convention secretary. Joann was on the nominating committee. Ann was on the registration committee. Karen filled in for Dale Provenzano as precinct chair for the meeting; Dale was called away to ATL for family health issues. We wish his family well.  If you think this report is skewed towards detail on St. Williams, that's correct. I was precinct chair 2001-2009 and stand ready to assist the newer officers for whom I'm so grateful!

We elected 27 delegates and alternates to the April 14 district convention and 20 to the May state convention.   See their names at the bottom of this post.

As nicely done as our County Convention was, I hope for some improvements at the District convention:
  • water please! and coffee!
  • scheduled bio breaks so it's not necessary to disrupt the business flow with an emergency recess
  • advance announcement of the FULL nominating committee and their schedule. In Glynn County, County Chair appointed Jeff Chapman nominating chair and then left it to Jeff to appoint, drop, and add members to his committee and their membership was never communicated in general news.It is my hope that District Chair Ruby Robinson will announce her district nominating committee and their schedule THIS WEEK so that those who wish to attend the national convention can submit their nominations and supporting materials.

These are the delegates and alternates I noted from the nominating list and changes from the floor. This is the list I sent to our County GOP officers. It is not the final official list sent to state - which I have not seen.

Del # Prec
#
Precinct Name LastName FirstName
D1 5193 City Rec BELT STEPHEN
D2 2293 St Williams BOLAND JANIS
D3 1273 Sterling Elementary CHAPMAN JEFFREY
D4 1273 Sterling Elementary Chapman Lyndon
D5 2293 St Williams COOK JOANN
D7 2393 Oglethorpe Point COX Wesley
D6 2393 Oglethorpe Point COX DEIRDRE
D8 2293 St Williams KELLY WILLIAM (Harry)
D9 4193 Beverly Shores KILGORE JEFFREY
D11 1273 Sterling Elementary LYNCH LARRY
D12 4193 Beverly Shores Massari Pasquale (Pat)
D13 4193 Beverly Shores MASSARI PAULA
D14 4193 Beverly Shores MCVEIGH PATRICIA
D15 2493 Jekyll Island Murphy Jane
D16 2293 St Williams PETERS MARJORIE
D17 2293 St Williams PROVENZANO DALE
D18 4393 Ballard Rec REYNA REBA
D19 4193 Beverly Shores ROBINSON RUBY
D20 2293 St Williams ROZIER LISA
D10 2193 First Baptist SSI SANDERS ANTHONY (Mike)
D21 2493 Jekyll Island STOCK RONALD
D22 2293 St Williams TROBAUGH KENNETH
D23 2393 Oglethorpe Point Truett Thomas
D24 4393 Ballard Rec WATSON NOEL
D25 White Ray
D26 Wilson Tim 
D27 1173 Sterling Church of G WRIGHT SAMUEL
District alternates

Alt # Prec
#
Precinct Name LastName FirstName
A1 5293 Burroughs Molette Chancey Linda
A2 1273 Sterling Elementary CHAPMAN ANGELA
A3 5193 City Rec DEAN SANDRA
A26 3173 Christian Renewal DIETERMAN BARBARA
A25 3173 Christian Renewal GOUGH KEVIN
A16 3173 Christian Renewal JONES JEFFREY
A15 2193 First Baptist SSI KACOS MARK
A4 2193 First Baptist SSI LEWIS CHARLES
A12 4393 Ballard Rec LIPTHRATT JACK
A5 2293 St Williams LOUPEE PAUL
A6 1273 Sterling Elementary LYNCH SHARON
A7 3173 Christian Renewal MARTINEZ KRISTINE
A8 4193 Beverly Shores MCVEIGH NORMAN (Shaw)
A9 4193 Beverly Shores MONTGOMERY DONALD
A24 4193 Beverly Shores NELSON LANA
A27 3173 Christian Renewal PARMLEY MARLENE
A10 1303 Satilla Marsh PRICE RICHARD
A11 2493 Jekyll Island ROBINSON SUSAN
A13 1373 Marshes of Glynn ROSS LINDA
A14 1373 Marshes of Glynn ROSS VICTOR
A17 4193 Beverly Shores Stoddard Edwin
A18 2293 St Williams TAYLOR III CHARLES
A19 5193 City Rec TUBBS THOMAS
A21 4393 Ballard Rec Wallace William
A20 4393 Ballard Rec WALLACE PATSY
A22 1373 Marshes of Glynn WENDEL SUSAN
A23 1173 Sterling Church of G WRIGHT LYNNE
State delegates
Del # 2393 Oglethorpe Point COX Wesley
D1 2393 Oglethorpe Point COX DEIRDRE
D3 2193 First Baptist SSI LEWIS CHARLES
D4 2293 St Williams LOUPEE PAUL
D5 1273 Sterling Elementary LYNCH LARRY
D6 3173 Christian Renewal MARTINEZ KRISTINE
D7 4193 Beverly Shores MCVEIGH PATRICIA
D8 4193 Beverly Shores MONTGOMERY DONALD
D9 4193 Beverly Shores NELSON LANA
D10 2293 St Williams PETERS MARJORIE
D12 2293 St Williams PROVENZANO DALE
D13 4393 Ballard Rec REYNA REBA
D15 2493 Jekyll Island ROBINSON SUSAN
D14 4193 Beverly Shores ROBINSON RUBY
D11 2293 St Williams ROSS KAREN
D16 4193 Beverly Shores Stoddard Edwin
D17 5193 City Rec TUBBS THOMAS
D19 4393 Ballard Rec Wallace William
D18 4393 Ballard Rec WALLACE PATSY
D20 White Ray
State alternates
Alt # Prec
#
Precinct Name LastName FirstName
A17 5193 City Rec BELT STEPHEN
A5 5293 Burroughs Molette Chancey Linda
A19 2293 St Williams COOK JOANN
A1 5193 City Rec DEAN SANDRA
A13 3173 Christian Renewal ELLIOTT DONALD
A7 3173 Christian Renewal GOUGH KEVIN
A18 3173 Christian Renewal JONES JEFFREY
A20 2193 First Baptist SSI KACOS MARK
A2  4193 Beverly Shores KILGORE JEFFREY
A3 1273 Sterling Elementary LYNCH SHARON
A15 4193 Beverly Shores Massari Pasquale (Pat)
A11 5193 City Rec MCMINN KATHLEEN
A10 5193 City Rec MCMINN RICHARD
A4 4193 Beverly Shores MCVEIGH NORMAN (Shaw)
A16 5193 City Rec Messer Josh
A12 2493 Jekyll Island Murphy Jane
A14 2193 First Baptist SSI Netherton George
A6 1303 Satilla Marsh PRICE RICHARD
A8 2293 St Williams ROZIER LISA
A9 1173 Sterling Church of G SZYPER ALEXANDER
 





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