WPDE News Anchor Jim Heath will speak at the Beach Dems breakfast meeting in June.
The group will meet at 8 a.m. Friday, June 13, at Akels Family Restaurant, 6429 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach.
The breakfast meeting is open to the public and no reservations are required. For more information, contact Sally P. Howard at 449-1936 or sallyphoward@aol.com.
If you just cannot wait until the Galivants Ferry Stump, the Beach Democrats have lined up an early taste of the action for their next breakfast meeting on Friday.
Morgan Martin, the emcee for the following Monday's stump meeting, will be the guest speaker. The Galivants Ferry Stump is a traditional Democratic political event held since the late 1800s, and this year's meeting will honor S.C. Congressmen Jim Clyburn and John Spratt.
The breakfast begins at 8 a.m. at Akels Family Restaurant at 6429 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach. It's open to the public and no reservations are required.
For more infomation, contact Sally P. Howard at 843-449-1936.
Eddie Dyer, executive vice president of Coastal Carolina University, will speak to the Beach Democrats on Friday after their previous speaker, Jim Heath of WPDE, cancelled, said Sally P. Howard.
The details remain the same:
WHEN | 8 a.m. Friday.
WHERE | Akels Restaurant, 6429 N. Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach.
MORE INFO | Contact Sally P. Howard at 449-1936.
A trio of events await area political enthusiasts in the coming weeks.
WHEN | 4 to 7 p.m., Tuesday.
WHERE |The Peanut Warehouse, downtown Conway.
COST | Free.
MORE INFO | Call Edge at 272-1143.
WHEN | 8 a.m. Friday.
WHERE | Akels Family Restaurant, 6429 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach.
COST | $7 for the breakfast buffet.
MORE INFO | sallyphoward@aol.com
WHEN | 6 p.m. Monday, April 21.
WHERE | Upstairs meeting room of Magnolia's Restaurant, 26th Avenue and Ocean Boulevard, Myrtle Beach.
COST | $16 for the buffet dinner, which opens at 5:30 p.m.
MORE INFO | Mary Henry, 444-4364 or myrtlebeachrepublicanclub@gmail.com.
Today's article about the emerging race for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District describes the S.C. coast as a Republican stronghold since the Reagan Revolution of 1980.
That may be technically true for the 1st Congressional District, but it doesn't quite tell the whole story of Horry County, writes Sally Howard, former chair of the county's Democratic Party, in an email today.
"Up until the 90s Horry County was in the 6th district and had Democrat congressmen... John Jenrette, Robin Talon, etc.," Howard writes. "We were redistricted and the first year we were in the 1st dist. was 1992 (I was chairman of the local party). Mark Sanford won that seat then."
It's also worth noting that the heavily Democratic 6th district, now represented by Jim Clyburn, has also had Republican Congressmen in the recent past, Edward Young in the early 1970s and John Light Napier in the 1980s.
What's the moral of all this? It's always harder than it seems to paint only in red or blue.
Joe Werner, executive director of the S.C. Democratic Party, will speak Friday at the Beach Dems Breakfast.
The public is invited and no reservations are required.
WHAT | Beach Dems Breakfast, featuring S.C. Democratic Party executive director Joe Werner
WHEN | 8 a.m. Friday
WHERE | Akels Restaurant, 6429 N. Kings Hwy, Myrtle Beach
For more information, contact Sally P. Howard at 449-1936.
The campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has canceled a scheduled appearance with the Beach Dems breakfast club.
Terry McAuliffe was supposed to speak Friday morning, but had to cancel for logistical reasons, the Clinton campaign said.
Instead, the former assistant secretary of commerce, Ray Vickery, in the Bill Clinton administration will speak at Akel's Family Restaurant.
This is the lastest in a string of cancellations Myrtle Beach has seen in the flurry of political campaigning. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani canceled a campaign appearance earlier today at a local cafe, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee rescheduled an appearance at a FairTax rally and Sean Hannity canceled an appearance last night at a state Republican party dinner.
What | Ray Vickery, assistant secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, speaks to Beach Dems
When | 8 a.m. Friday
Where | Akel's Family Restaurant, 6429 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach
The national chairman for the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will speak to the monthly Myrtle Beach Democratic breakfast club the day after the Republican presidential primary debate in Myrtle Beach.
"This is big," said Sally Howard, the founder of the Beach Dems breakfast club. "I'm so thrilled."
Terry McAuliffe, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will speak at 8 a.m. Jan. 11 at Akels Restaurant. The dutch treat is $7 and open to the public. No reservations are required.
Howard, a major local Democratic organizer and former county party chairwoman, has not said who she is endorsing, though she worked for Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., in 2004.
"If I was out there endorsed with one, I think it would put an awkward working relationship with the other campaigns when they are here for the debate," she said. "I have tried to stay neutral so I could be of assistance to all of them."
For more information on the breakfast or the Beach Dems, contact Howard at 449-1936.
A senior adviser to Sen. Barack Obama stopped in Myrtle Beach on Friday to ask local Democrats to join the growing support in South Carolina for her candidate in the heated race for the nomination.
"The key with Obama is getting people to give him a look," said Samantha Power to about 30 local Democrats over breakfast at Akel's Family Restaurant. "A lot of people say, 'Oh, Barack Obama, he's a fine young man. He'll make a fine President some day.' We don't have some day to wait."
A journalist who has covered genocide in Eastern Europe and Africa who later founded a human-rights policy center at Harvard University, Power has been Obama's foreign policy adviser since he was in the U.S. Senate, long before the Presidential campaign. She said she joined Obama after he read her book, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," and called her to discuss it.
"No American politician has ever called me to discuss American responses to genocide," Power said.
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A Pulitzer-Prize winner and foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama will speak at the Beach Dems breakfast this week.
Samantha Power will speak at the 8 a.m. breakfast on Friday at Akel's Restaurant. She is a professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
No reservations are required, and the breakfast is a dutch treat. For more information call Sally Howard at 449-1936.
What: Beach Dems breakfast featuring Samantha Powers
When: 8 a.m. Friday
Where: Akel's Family Restaurant, 6429 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach
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