Lin Wood Heats Up Race for SC Republican State Chairman

Defamation attorney Lin Wood (L) will be squaring off against current SC Republican Party State Chairman Drew McKissick at the SC Republican State convention May 15th. The contest is for control of the Party and whether it will continue as middle of the road or move in a more conservative direction.

 

The race for the SC State Republican Party chairman has heated up considerably since defamation lawyer Lin Wood entered the race a month ago. Since that time Wood has traveled the state meeting with county organizations to express his views on what should be happening in the chairman’s position and he’s met with people who are new and joining the Republican Party. Wood even attended a contested debate for the GOP Chairmanship at Seawell’s Restaurant May 7th. This was a debate that had three of four candidates vying for the office sparring over conservative policy and direction of the party. Those candidates were Michael LaPierre, Mark Powell, Lin Wood, and no show current Chairman Drew McKissick who was invited but declined to attend.

The SC Federation of Republican Women was the originally announced sponsor for the event but they suddenly dropped out. With a void to fill SC Women for Trump Midlands director Pamela Godwin stepped up to fill the gap. Godwin took the ball and ran with it bringing the televised debate together within 24 hours. Godwin said there were more people than she anticipated for the event and untold thousands who viewed with interest around the state and the country.

Ironically, current Party Chairman Drew McKissick did not attend the debate as well as many Republicans who were asked not to attend by the SC Federation of Republican Women. In good fun a chair was with McKissick’s name tag attached to it was on stage should he have decided to participate. It is apparent that the SC Republican Party has a schism running through the middle of it dividing the party into factions.

Interestingly, the SC State Republican Party race for Chairman has gained national attention. Wood himself said that this race could impact the United States. Wood is seeking the statewide office to rid the SC Republican Party of corruption and restore integrity to elections.

On May 3rd the Lexington County Republican Party held their regular monthly meeting. Lexington is only one county where details were discussed concerning the upcoming Republican State Party convention May 15th.

At that meeting security was tight to enter with delegates and alternates asked to show their state ID for voting credentials. This security was a reminder of the last election and the fraud that took place around the country. Unfortunately, what many believe was wholesale fraud has yet to see justice served due to those lawsuits never being heard on the merits of the case and being tossed out like yesterdays garbage on “standing” technicalities.

Over 200 people were in attendance at the Lex. County monthly gathering and were intent on preparing for what they thought, and has become, a showdown between Republican Party moderates and the conservative faction typically known as the ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) element of the party led by the chairman’s race. By and large the MAGA element think the last election was “stolen” while most of the moderate wing think not.

That difference of opinion was brought home by guest speaker attorney Lin Wood, who is seeking the office of State Party chairman. Wood spoke to the ‘Pubs covering the gamut from addressing child sex trafficking, Republican Party rules, RINO (Republican in name Only) Republicans who seek to maintain the status quo of how the mechanisms of the party currently operate, to the location—and ultimate lawsuit which followed the county meeting—concerning the upcoming convention and the issue of meeting face to face versus remotely on a zoom type meeting, and other issues.

 

 

Unless a state judge rules differently, the current Republican State Party announced plan is that county delegates and alternates will meet remotely in a zoom type meeting. The vote will happen by making selections on a paper ballot, after which the county chairman will call in the tallies to a central location. At this time, and unless changed, Lexington County delegates and alternates will convene at the Lexington Chamber of Commerce building for their portion of the Republican State Convention, beginning for registration at 10:00am on May 15th in Lexington, SC.

The Republican’s are scheduled to convene the credentials report shortly afterward at 11:00am. A note to those who did not get the message: all those who are delegates or alternates who plan to attend must be registered no later than Friday May 14th at 5:00pm.

The address for the convention is:

Lexington County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center
311 West Main Street
Lexington, SC 29072

 

Wood warned against being certain of the character of those who count the votes so not to have a repeat of last fall’s elections. Wood suggested of the vote to “keep it simple” and not to complicate it. He spoke of the various difficulties of potentially different ways of voting that could take place in 46 counties, the  difficulty in monitoring and a “wide open invitation to cheat”.

Wood was well received on many points including stopping child sex trafficking, a call to put God back into the affairs of government and to revise the Republican Party rules.

 

“Lose the rule of law and you’ll never get it back.” Lin Wood, Attorney

 

Wood told the Republicans that those who will be voting must have the “peace of mind” to re-elect Drew McKissick, Wood or any other candidate for party leadership. Two other candidates are running for State Party chairmanship at this writing: former US Senatorial candidate Michael LaPierre, and former state house candidate Mark Powell.

Wood spoke of the critical time in America and that there must be “no doubt in your mind about the integrity of the vote.” That one issue appears to be why many people are taking a renewed interest in party politics. He continued that “you the people are entitled to be represented by the person that you the people voted for.” Wood reminded the delegates “that didn’t happen—yet.”

“I’m familiar with ES&S, and you’ve got to go back and audit the 2020 vote in South Carolina because while the electoral vote won’t change… you’re going to find that many of your down ballot races were cheats.” Wood added that “people won who didn’t win, people lost that won.” He said “you’ve gotta go back and do a recount and audit of your November 2020 vote.” Wood commented that “you’re going to come away with the same feeling as I have, get rid of these voting computer machines they lead to fraud.”

The former Georgia lawyer told the story of the Georgia Dominion electronic voting machines being recognized by a judge as ‘not if they would be used for fraud, but when they would be used for fraud.” He added that “these [electronic] voting machines a re a simple invitation for fraud.’

Wood put forth the idea that SC ought to have “elected judges, term limit the judges… let the judges serve eight years and go back to being a lawyers.” He continued “they went to law school, they didn’t go to judge school.”

In a later interview Wood said “If you have partisan legislators choosing judges you have politics involved.” He went on to say that he thought it improper to have to choose between a lawyer in a case based on the fact that one in the state legislature had more influence over one who is not in the state legislature. He also commented that he thought judges should be elected by the people and have term limits.

The question was raised at the Lexington meeting of “what needs to happen to ensure the next convention is legit”. Wood answered that “you can’t have another illegal election… if you add one on top of another and didn’t change it and fix it, you’ve lost the rule of law and it’s going to be harder to get it back.” He said, “it’s not now or never for SC, but it is now or a long time getting it fixed.”

At the time Wood said that there have been discussions and considerations of filing a lawsuit to get the party to hold the convention in a single location. That lawsuit has been filed since the county meeting due to be heard May 12. He said this is one option because “the Republican Party engages in interstate commerce that makes them subject to the constitutional rights that they cannot violate.” He also said they could ask for “an injunction from the court forcing the party to follow its own rules.” He said the rules say “a location”. He continued that if the party wants to change the bylaws it would require a 2/3 vote which he concluded they don’t have.

UPDATE: In the court case to hear the emergency injunction to postpone the State convention the Judge overruled the motion to postpone and said the convention will proceed as scheduled on May 15th. 

The CCP scare had made many locations unavailable to hold a meeting that would need to accommodate up to 1500 people for a state convention. Since then the governor has issued a directive for businesses and schools to open up and get back to business. Wood said the issues with the Republican Party will be fixed by the people.

UPDATED INFORMATION as of May 14, 2021 2:00am

 

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