On Sept. 29th the Oconee County Republican Party had a meeting.
The meeting had originally been scheduled by the Vice Chairman Jim Mann and on the agenda for that night was the call to assume the resignation for Perry Smith, and Mathew Durham. They were scheduled to ask for the resignation of David McMahan the Chairman of the OCRP.
Before the call to prayer or anything could be said for the meeting however Jim Mann jumps up and asked to make a motion that the original agenda be put in place, he was called out of order, then came a flood of his supporters trying to shout down the chairman. They were of course ruled out of order and then they tried to make a motion to adjourn the meeting.
When they were ruled out of order they began a race for the door, Jim Mann and others telling their followers to leave with them as they hastily ran for the door.
You might think with this behavior that this was a middle school event, but it wasn’t this was grown adults on up in their years behaving like this. Their attempt obviously was thinking they would deny a quorum. That didn’t happen there was still plenty of people for a quorum and they could have took advantage of that fact to enact a ruling to deal with that disruption but they didn’t.
These people are supposed to be there to represent their precinct but ran out of a meeting and failed in their duties. They have demonstrated that they need to be replaced for real Republicans that are going to be there for their people and do their duty.
The meeting was very interesting explaining the power of the Executive Committeemen and how they can pretty much change anything to be the way they want it to be, but at that night nothing was changed at all, the chance to make use of the assembled EC was not used to to deal with the problem at hand that night.
Had the Vice Chairman Jim Mann had gotten his way about having his agenda used for the meeting I can tell it would have all fallen apart as the majority support David McMahan, as well as Perry Smith, and Mathew Durham, he would have had a no vote on all his proposals by the majority.
The small group of contentious people in the OCRP it is clearly don’t have the votes to pull off whatever it is they think they are trying to accomplish, and we can all thank God for that. Then again nobody is stating what the arguing is about. The only thing we do have on record is Jim Mann calling the people of Oconee Dixiecrats.
