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