May events - the presidential primaries continue and local/state qualifying opens

▪      May 1 Tue 5:30-6:30 pm McIntosh County Town Hall with Sen. William Ligon, Darien - Preferred Outlets at Exit 49, off I-95. 1111 Magnolia Bluff Way, NW, Suite 205, Contact 437-6684. Sponsored by the Darien-McIntosh Chamber of Commerce

▪      May 3 Thu 6:30-7:30pm Camden County Town Hall with Sen. William Ligon and Rep. Jason Spencer. Kingsland - Camden County Recreation Center, 1050 Wildcat Drive, Contact 912-729-5600

▪      May 6 Sun 3:00 pm Confederate gravestone dedication at the Confederate Soldiers Park in Waynesville, GA.

▪      Freeman W. Wincey, Co. "C", 61st Ga. Infantry, Wiregrass Rifles; Joseph Howell, Co. "H", 26th Ga. Infantry, Forest Rangers; David W. Hunter, Co. "A", 61st Ga. Infantry, Irwin Cowboys;  Isaac Hickox, Co. "K", 4th Ga. Cavalry, Shiloh Troops.  Contact Scott Newbern scottnewbernsr1@yahoo.com

▪      May 7 Mon 6:30-7:30 pm Brantley County Town Hall with Sen. William Ligon; Nahunta - County Commissioners Meeting Room; 33 Allen Road; Contact Commissioner Ron Ham at 462-5256

▪      May 7 Mon Glynn County Republican Party Social, Pranzo's , St. Simons, May 7

▪      May 10 Thu 5:45 pm Coastal Republican Women’s Club, Captain Joe’s US 341. Program candidates for sheriff Neal Jump and Ron Corbett.  The Sheriff’s office has a staff of 150 and an annual budget of $9M Contact Kathy Strickland 912-222-2226 strick1@comcast.net

▪      May 10 Thu 6:30 pm General Reception Fundraiser for Romney for President featuring Anne Romney at Ocean Forest, Sea Island. $1000/person. RSVP Dabney Hollis, dabneyh@me.com 404-791-7179. Or contact Nancy Coverdell nnally@bellsouth.net 912-638-5431

▪      May 14 Mon 11:30 social, 12:00 noon luncheon meeting. Golden Isles Republican Women. Bonefish Grill. Contact Ruby Robinson rrobinson6@bellsouth.net 
        May 15 Tue Nebraska GOP Primary for US Senate. Don Stenberg supported by Senate Conservative Fund

▪      May 18 -19 Fri-Sat GA GOP State Convention, Columbus, GA

▪      FRI 10:00 AM Registration opens; 2:00 business convenes; 5:00 pm recess; 5:00 PM Recess; 5:30 registration closes; 5:30 victory reception; 7:00 victory dinner

▪      SAT 7:00-10:00AM Registration open; 7:30 AM Victory Breakfast honoring Governor Deal; 10:00 am convention reconvenes

▪      May 21 Mon 11:30 social, 12:00 noon luncheon meeting. Golden Isles Republican Women. Bonefish Grill. Program: Congressman Jack Kingston. Lunch $17.00 Contact Ruby Robinson rrobinson6@bellsouth.net
(Note this meeting is moved from the normal second Monday calendar.
About Jack Kingston: He represents 25 counties of the GA First Congressional District. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, the Defense Subcommittee and the Labor, Health and Human & Human Services and Education subcommittee. He is Chair of the Subcommittee on Agriculture which oversees the Dept of Agriculture, FDA, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and related agencies

      May 22 Tue Civil War Roundtable. Sea Palms Conference Center.. Program Dr Chesson. Contact Alex Thompson thompnco@aol.com thompnco@aol.com

▪      May 23 Wed 9:00 am Qualifying opens to place names on the general primary ballot

▪      May 24 Thu 6:00 – 8:30 pm Sons of Confederate Veterans Thomas Marsh Forman Camp #485, Ole Times Country Buffet, 655 Scranton Rd., Brunswick. No May speaker. Social event and unit elections. Contact Scott Newbern scottnewbernsr1@yahoo.com

▪      May 25 Fri Noon Last day to qualify (file a notice of candidacy to have name placed on the general primary ballot)

▪      May 29 Tue TX GOP Primary for US Senate. Ted Cruz supported by Senate Conservatives Fund

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2012 First Congressional District Convention

New to the presidential year convention process?Learn more about the typical scenarios and this year’s First District Convention. 

First Congressional District Republican convention, Glynn Academy Auditorium, Brunswick, GA 31520.
Registration fee:  $25 for Delegates, $20 for Alternates, and $10 for guests.

Registration opens 9:00 am, convention to order at 10:00 am by First District Chair Ruby Robinson.

Who can participate? The delegates and alternates elected from March 10 conventions in these counties:

Bryan; Camden; Charlton; Chatham; Effingham; Glynn, Long, Liberty, Lowndes, McIntosh, Ware, Wayne and perhaps a few others I missed or that might not have held County Conventions. It appears from 150-200 delegate and alternate slots were allocated; not all were filled.

What is the convention business? To elect 3 delegates and 3 alternates to the national convention in Tampa in August. Any eligible Georgia voter can be nominated and elected as delegate or alternate; rules do not require you be present to be elected.  Those elected from the Ga First District will be bound by the State GOP rules and election laws that allocate delegate votes proportionally to Newt Gingrich (2) and Mitt Romney (1) on the first two ballots.

How are delegates selected? They are elected at the convention by all district delegates and it is normally highly competitive. This is the ultimate role from the congressional district. Note delegates are not chosen by the nominating committee. There are several steps from temporary nominating committee, to permanent nominating committee, to the approval of rules to elect by “slate” or by individual post. Generally,

PRIOR TO THE CONVENTION

·        The district chairman appoints a temporary nominating committee.

·        The names of all temporary nominating committee members are “public” and known by all delegates. Delegates from the counties receive info on whom to contact, how, and when.

·        The temporary committee solicits names of those who want to go to the national convention as national delegates. They may request resumes. They may schedule telephone interviews. Or they may ask the candidates to appear early at the District Convention for interviews with the Committee.

·        Often your County Chairman will also assist leading Republicans in your county in getting support to become a national delegate.

The DAY of the CONVENTION

·        The temporary nominating committee meets on-site during the registration period.

·        The convention starts and after credentials are established, the delegates vote to accept or change the temporary nominating committee.  If the delegates approve the Chairman’s temporary committee, it becomes the permanent committee. If not, new members are selected.

·        The convention is in recess (and usually hears speeches) while the committees meet.

Convention 2012 contacts:

·        First Congressional District GOP chair is Ruby Robinson.

·        Temporary nominating committee chair: Sheila Miner Galbreath, 23756 Highway 144, Richmond Hill, Ga. 31324 (912)727-2109 fish1@clds.net Sheila says to send your request and resume to her by April 6.
She says she’s not disclosing the other members of the committee – to protect their privacy.

·        Other committees – Resolutions, Sergeant at Arms, Arrangements – haven’t been named as of April 1. If you have suggestions please contact Ruby Robinson 912-266-0466

(Yours truly has attended these conventions during TEN presidential cycles and was elected alternate national delegate from the First District in 1980. In addition to prior years of volunteer campaign work and leadership in different GOP organizations, it really helped that I was a young female at a time when most GOP activists and delegates were men in their 40’s – 70’s.)

From Glynn County:District delegates 

12 Dist	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

From Glynn County District alternates

12 Dist	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

 Postscript:
Delegates elected: Ann Mueller (Chatham); Ruby Robinson (Glynn); Steven Lambeth (Chatham? )
Atlernates elected: Kay Godwin (Ware?); Wes Cox (Glynn); Carl Smith (Chatham?)
These were results I gathered from different people attending the convention. I have seen nothing officially communicated by first district chair Ruby Robinson or anyone else

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