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Upstate Young Republicans Support Lowcountry Young Republicans Golf Outing Members of the Upstate Young Republicans could hardly call it a sacrifice on a beautiful summer Saturday to assist their sister group, Lowcountry Young Republicans in their first annual golf tournament. The day was a smash hit among all 18 groups teed up for the shotgun start on Wild Dunes Golf Course in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. South Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Hugh Weathers and Lowcountry US Representative, Henry Brown were among the political celebrities in attendance. Despite all the hard work and the occasional SNAFU, the Lowcountry YRs certainly reaped the fruits of their labors and look forward to a second annual golf tournament next summer and of course they can count on the support of the Upstate Young Republicans.
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Upstate Young Republicans Attend Leadership Conference in Washington,
DC. Upstate Young Republicans (YRs) James Gibney and Carl Clegg recently attended the four-day-long Young Republican Leadership Conference in our nation’s capital. The conference afforded numerous panels and discussions on topics such as, renewable energy, fund raising, and of course, leadership. A special visit to the House floor was arranged as well as a tour of the White House and a briefing in the Old Executive Office Building with former GOP Chairman (and now, advisor to President Bush), Ed Gillespie. The conference was intended to inspire and equip its attendees for leadership, not just to become elected officials but also to become effective leaders in whatever office they hold. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, in a question and answer time, told a packed room of YRs that, “if your leaders aren’t leading then they aren’t really leaders.” He also urged his energetic conservative listeners who expressed their displeasure with the Republican Party to seize control of the leadership and set it back on a true conservative course. The YRs were treated to another firebrand speaker, Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter who was just as dynamic and certainly as straight forward as Newt Gingrich. Rather than giving a speech to the lunchtime crowd of YRs, Representative McCotter asked for questions from the group, which elicited true straight-talk answers, no dancing, no equivocating, just the facts ma’am; to which, the YRs replied with a thunderous standing ovation. Other speakers included former Maryland Lt. Governor and GOPAC Chairman, Michael Steele, Former Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott; both of whom spent much time encouraging support for the GOP presidential nominee, Senator John McCain. A final highlight was a soiree hosted at the Iraqi Embassy by the new Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaidaie. The event brought together a dozen young diplomats from Iraq with YRs from all across the United States. The young leaders engaged in conversations from American foreign policy to Iraq as a battleground for the Iranian proxy war with the US. James and Carl came away from the event with a renewed sense of purpose for the Young Republicans as an organization and a commitment to engaging young people in the conservative political process.
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