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Ain't it funny how Garris put the hit out on "Little" (that is not meant with disrespect; His pops was Mr. Joe/"Big" Joe) Joe Davis but came swooping in to stand behind Brabo?

I think the Executive Committee should hold a meeting, ask hard questions and demand accountability. There are MANY instances that we could list here but....I think many of y'all get the picture.

I wonder how Kidwell will try to weasel out of this one? I wonder if he CAN weasel his way out of this one? I smell some big charges.

Commented: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 @ 2:38 pm By: John Valley

In recent years the local Republican Party has lost a lot of good people for good reason. They have been treated (like c#@!) very disrespectfully. Unfortunately, there seems to be no willingness by many to bind those wounds and attempt to form a coherent mission outside of attacking conservatives. Let's see if I've got the gist of this stuff lately. Recent party rules violations by the Beaufort County Republican Party Chairman follow:
1. Calling for the resignation of a Republican elected official claiming she (the Chairperson) is the local GOP. There was no involvement of the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee. That committee has the power to do what she did with the press, not her alone.
2. Publicly endorsing municipal candidates in non-partisan elections using the authority of the Republican Party with no input from the Republican Party Executive Committee. She does not have the absolute power of the Executive Committee.
3. Spending money on ads and materials without authorization from the Executive Committee. (The Treasurer is on shaky ground here too.)
4. Using media to attack private citizens - Not clear about the source of this funding.
Additional ethical issues:
1. Failing to call for executive committee meetings for several months in order to avoid any consequences for her actions. (The actual committee should call for a meeting to address this. They need to take some responsibility too.)
2. When finally calling for a meeting, attaching it to a Christmas Party event. Is this really going to be a meeting?
3. Changing the date of the meeting again in order to cause conflicts with the schedules of conservative members of the Executive Committee with the dual purpose of keeping them out and also encumbering them with an unexcused absence that will hopefully get them off the Executive Committee altogether.

This is a lot of mischief, but I wouldn't be surprised if I still missed something.

The Republican Executive Committee needs to call its own meeting and bring charges against their rogue chairperson. She is acting independently of the committee as a whole. She is unilaterally attacking individual Republicans, collective Republicans, and some citizens in general. Her war against conservative Republicans and others is well out of control, and she is speaking and acting with illegitimate powers of the entire committee. She should be removed. At the very least, she should be severely reprimanded and given a very, very short leash from here on out. Anything short of these measures will ensure that the Republican Party in Beaufort County is a catastrophic failure with no credibility left at all. What we have here is not leadership. It is sabotage. I don't know whether to recommend what's left of the people of good will to abandon this sinking ship or to urge the good people that have already left to come back and try to save it.

Commented: Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 @ 10:09 pm By: Van Zant