The Oconee County Republican Party is in a “civil war” right now, party chair David McMahan said in an announcement Monday in which he also said he would not resign.
WEST UNION — The Oconee County Republican Party Executive Committee overwhelmingly voted at Thursday’s meeting in favor of asking chairman David McMahan to tender his resignation.
SENECA — Oconee County Republican Party chairman David McMahan is not backing down from calls for him to resign, defiantly telling some party committee members an effort to meet this week is “out of order.”
David Dial, who was fired from serving as treasurer of the Oconee County Republican Party on Friday, said the group is “off the rails” in a scathing rebuke of chairman David McMahan.
SENECA — Minutes taken from the July summit between multiple Oconee County Republican factions show members admitting the party’s in-house bickering has turned off those in and outside the group.
SENECA — Calling the trio the “most powerful state delegation,” suspended Oconee County Councilman Matthew Durham said South Carolina State Senate President Thomas Alexander and House Reps. Bill Sandifer and Bill Whitmire have done “nothing” with their “political horsepower,” an email obtained by The Journal shows.
SENECA — Oconee County Republicans were scheduled to hold a meeting tonight to continue efforts to unify the county party, but emails obtained by The Journal show that isn’t going to happen.
Oconee County Republican Party chairman David McMahan has been censured by a precinct, with a document calling his recent behavior “divisive and harmful.”