Republican Keith Van Winkle will announce his candidacy for Horry County Council's District 3 seat at a free breakfast starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 at The Donut Man, 200 S. Kings Highway.
Everyone is welcome. Van Winkle will speak on several topics, including county infrastructure, public safety, the environment, airport expansion and landfill, water, sewage and air quality, according to a press release.
WHAT | Myrtle Beach Republican Club legislative forumWHEN | 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 18WHERE | Paradise Resort, 2201 South Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach.
The South Strand Republican Club will hold its annual legislative breakfast, featuring an open-question session with a number of state lawmakers, next month in Murrells Inlet.
The following legislators will attend: state Sen. Ray Cleary, Sen. Luke Rankin, Rep. Nelson Hardwick, Rep. Thad Viers and Rep. Alan Clemmons.
They will discuss proposed laws covering immigration, taxes, schools, health and others. Anyone is welcome to attend, and 30 minutes will be saved for questions and answers.
WHAT | South Strand Republican Club Legislative Breakfast
WHERE | Inlet Affairs Banquet and Catering, 4031 Hwy 17 Business, Murrells Inlet.
WHEN | 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16.
COST | $10 per person; includes buffet breakfast.
For reservations or more information, call Bill Schweitzer at (843) 215-5030 or Charlie Soto at (843) 655-1793.
It was not a blimp (like Ron Paul's that hoovered over the Myrtle Beach Convention Center during the Republican debate), but "ED in 08" supporters flew a banner plane over the Palace Theater before the Democratic debate.
The plane circled as supporters walked around Broadway at the Beach handing out information about their mission to make education a top priority in the upcoming presidential election.
Art vone Lehe traded in a suit Thursday afternoon for a wetsuit and some snorkel gear as he and about two dozen other environmentalists rallied in support of the fight against global warming outside the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
All of them tied blue balloons around their waists with a 20-foot string. It symbolized how much the sea levels would rise if glaciers on Greenland melted due to global warming. The scuba gear represented how much more swimming people would have to do, von Lehe said.
"We're not here to say that one candidate is better than another," said von Lehe, an attorney who works for the Coastal Conservation League. "But we all agree that something needs to happen."
Sara Tansey, 19, chose an even more unusual costume. She was dressed in a full-bodied snowman outfit. She called herself Frosty the Snowwoman, and drove from Litchfield for the rally.
Tansey, a sophomore studying social work at the University of South Carolina, even spoke at an impromptu press conference held by the protestors, a coalition of different environmental groups.
All held red placards to bring attention to the climate change issue.
"What we stand to lose are our weather patterns," Tansey said. "It's the middle of January, but it's a 70-degree day. Eventually, snowmen will be no more."
Dr. Ron Paul, his wife, Carol, about 35 supporters and several staff members walked Broadway at the Beach this afternoon, shaking hands and sharing his views.
Crowds were thin, but the people who support Paul were vocal and excited to be there. Gabe Fitton, 22, from Myrtle Beach, pulled up just as Paul's SUV was leaving the parking lot. He was stoked to tell his friend Jason Capp that he waved to Paul and Paul waved back.
"I wanted to ask him about health care and medicine," Fitton said.
Capp, 25, said many of the people Paul spoke with this afternoon wanted to talk about the war.
"That seemed to be the biggest concern people had," Capp said.
Capp's friend Tomo Hayakawa, visiting Myrtle Beach from Tokyo for the first time, went along to the Paul rally and got right into the spirit.
"Japan is Ron Paul's BFF," he said, clutching a Ron Paul for President sign.
Groups representing various national issues have started coming into town, hoping to get in front of cameras or show candidates the extent of support for their issue.
The head of the Travel Industry Association said his group had “aggressively” tried to get Fox News to ask a travel-related question during the debate.
TIA Executive Director Roger Dow, who spoke to the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce in November, pointed to an October survey that said half of likely S.C. primary voters thought the federal government could do more to improve the efficiency of the system, and more than a third of likely Republican voters said the issue could affect their vote.
“We're just trying to say hey look candidates you're not the only ones who have tight schedules to keep,” Dow said.
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The local organizers of the national FairTax movement today announced details of the group's rally on the day of the Republican presidential primary debate on Jan. 10.
The group will sell $25 tickets to its rally, which includes dinner, entertainment and a sweatshirt.
The rally will kick off at 3 p.m. at the Elks Club at 606 27th Ave. N. in Myrtle Beach. The group plans to then march the half mile to the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, where the debate will be held, then go back to the rally site for more entertainment, dinner and speakers.
The group invited all the Republican candidates, radio personalities Neil Boortz and Sean Hannity, and U.S. Rep. John Linder, R-Ga., to speak, though they have not yet received responses, according to an e-mail sent by local organizer Mickey Lattimore.
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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Come January, supporters of one cause or another from across the country will be pouring into Myrtle Beach for the two presidential primary debates, and they have already begun preparations.
One group, which promotes a tax reform idea called the “fair tax,” held a conference call Thursday evening with supporters from across the Carolinas to discuss the logistics for its rally during the Republican debate on Jan. 10.
A Democratic debate will be held Jan. 21 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Myrtle Beach government and tourism leaders cannot wait until the activists and political junkies – many of whom may have never been to Myrtle Beach – start filling up hotel rooms and eating at restaurants in this the coastal tourist mecca.
The fair tax group wants to get a crowd of 250 people at the Elks Lodge on 27th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach, and they hope to snag pro-fair-tax candidate Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor.
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