sailingaway
05-06-2011, 09:59 PM
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20110506/ARTICLES/110509768/1001/sports02?Title=Tea-party-roots-for-Paul-s-message-of-government-limits-personal-freedom-
just one part:
Paul was expected to be the runaway winner of a straw poll taken in the hotel ballroom later in the night that included more than 20 of the top candidates for the Republican nomination.
Chris Lawton, an organizer with the Greenville Tea Party, said he's keeping his options open but has always been a "Paul guy."
Underscoring the importance of candidates' building inroads in the overwhelmingly conservative and politically active Upstate, Lawton said about 80 percent of the Republican delegates from Greenville County planned to attend and vote for the state party chairman at Saturday's state GOP convention.
Many of those delegates also belong to the 1,000-plus member county tea party group, he add
just one part:
Paul was expected to be the runaway winner of a straw poll taken in the hotel ballroom later in the night that included more than 20 of the top candidates for the Republican nomination.
Chris Lawton, an organizer with the Greenville Tea Party, said he's keeping his options open but has always been a "Paul guy."
Underscoring the importance of candidates' building inroads in the overwhelmingly conservative and politically active Upstate, Lawton said about 80 percent of the Republican delegates from Greenville County planned to attend and vote for the state party chairman at Saturday's state GOP convention.
Many of those delegates also belong to the 1,000-plus member county tea party group, he add