Greenville GOP members step down after three months in office. | Facebook
Greenville GOP members step down after three months in office. | Facebook
Greenville's top-elected Republican officials released a joint online statement July 8, all resigning from their positions after citing continued turmoil from conservative activists pushing Trump's agenda.
Party Chair Jennifer Black, Vice Chair Stacy Shea, and State Executive Committeeman Randy Page, announced their immediate resignation after only three months of being in office.
"Continual lawsuits, threats of lawsuits, intimidation, threats, bullying, disenfranchisement, and character assassination, as promised by the leadership of mySCGOP.com and the Greenville Tea Party do not advance anything positive, much less promote any level of political discourse or change. The tone of the leadership of these entities is clearly destructive to the tenets of the Republican Party, and we will not be a part of it," the statement on their Facebook page read.
The activists who targeted the trio created an organization known as "My SCGOP."
Other Republican party members condemn the activists' behaviors as well.
"These are people who want to turn the local party organization into their own personal hobbyhorse, and that is not our mission,” GOP Chairman Drew McKissick told The Post and Courier. “The mission of the Republican Party is to support our platform and elect people who will support that platform and carry it into public policy. Period. Anything else is a complete distraction."
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