This is really very hard for me to do, as its for personal reasons (sort of) and not to support the work we do at UncoverDC, but I am asking for your help. As many of you know, I ran for State Executive Committeewoman here in Horry County, SC. I was elected to that position, and our Chair, and Vice Chair were elected all of similar mindset. We replaced old leadership here as our entire county stepped up to get involved in the political process and bring change to the leadership of the GOP.
This win was not without hardship and strife. The chair of our state party hasn’t withheld his disdain for us, and has vocally smeared those who have stepped up in the same way, in one instance calling the Greenville County GOP leadership “lepers”. You can read a bit more about that here https://www.fitsnews.com/2021/07/09/south-carolina-gop-civil-war-party-chairman-calls-maga-backers-lepers/

On July 12, 2021, for this and other comments, as well as seeking to conduct party business with a self-appointed club outside of county rules, our Executive Committee brought a censure (https://archive.ph/kHf2j) resolution to vote, which was approved by the county committee.

We are going to rewind a little bit. I was invited to speak at “Rock the Red” a long standing conference here in SC on June 5 of last year. General Flynn was also a keynote speaker. After General Flynn had spoken and stepped off the stage and the event was over, a man stepped forward and took the microphone. He began to read from a prepared manifesto.

It was a really unsettling thing to experience. The day after, a local website penned an article that was completely ridiculous about this, framing the article as though Chad had done something wrong. Because of politics, a number of the members of the GOP here began flooding the Executive Committee with demands for Chad to step down from his position as Precinct Executive Committeeman. On June 6, 2021, the Horry County GOP published a statement on its website to address the disturbance at the event, and explain what had happened from our perspective. The statement explained that Chad had acted appropriately under the circumstances, diffusing a potentially dangerous situation. It was based on the reports of other witnesses to the incident.

The attacks didn’t relent after this, and I personally felt SO upset about the way this was being propagandized, I brought Chad on the podcast to explain his side of the story. I started the show like this:

"Something happened at . . . Rock the Red, over the weekend, and there’s been this report that came out about it that is so utterly contemptuous that I am compelled to speak out about it . . . . I’m going to brief the story and then Chad [Caton], I will bring you in to discuss what happened.”

And then later on in the show I explain what I saw and what was reported to me by other witnesses that night. Mind you, I NEVER said this man’s name, and neither did the Horry County GOP statement.

The same outlet that wrote the initial piece that started the entire public portion of this incident, also published on their website a statement by the man who had the manifesto.