Jul 12th, 2007 11:00 AM UTC
By Eric Dell
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A conservative, pro-life Christian activist and a fiscal conservative activist who works for a South Carolina conservative think tank joined each other for a press conference on the steps of the South Carolina State House steps yesterday. No, the meeting wasn’t to endorse a conservative candidate for president; it was to endorse and launch the South Carolina One Vote 08 Campaign.
Yesterday, Ashley Landess, The Vice President for the South Carolina Policy Council and Oran Smith, the executive director and President of the Palmetto Family Council, joined a group of bi-partisan leaders to launch the South Carolina One Vote ’08 campaign. Landess spoke of her personal interest in One Vote ’08 because of her work in organizing a small group of volunteers at her church to raise funds to build a health center in Africa. Adding to this, Smith stressed our moral obligation, as Christians, to support the goals of One Vote ’08.
Conservatives should be honored to have such leaders as Landess and Smith leading the charge in South Carolina to promote One Vote ’08. I encourage all conservatives to follow the lead of Landess and Smith by signing up and volunteering with One Vote ’08 to help eliminate extreme poverty and AIDS around the globe.
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May 17th, 2007 1:00 PM UTC
By Eric Dell
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On Monday night, over 1,500 people attended the South Carolina Republican Party’s annual Silver Elephant Dinner in Columbia. The ONE Campaign had members at the dinner banding presidential candidates and stickering attendees.
I banded three candidates and handed out lots of ONE stickers. Senator Sam Brownback was the first candidate I saw. I introduced myself as being with the ONE Campaign and Senator Brownback was very familiar with us. Senator Brownback said that he had met with Bono about ONE and thought it was a great campaign that Republicans should definitely support the campaign.
Next, I ran into Congressman Duncan Hunter and talked to him about ONE. Congressman Hunter put on the wristband and said that he would like to receive more information about ONE. Finally, I talked with Governor Jim Gilmore and he was familiar with ONE and also said that he would like to learn more
On Tuesday I attended the debate and the pre-debate reception with ONE volunteers and we stickered people at the pre-debate. After the debate, we rushed over the candidate functions, but the candidates came to the events and left very quickly. We made it to John McCain’s after party, but barely missed him. I talked with his Campaign Manager John Weaver about the ONE campaign and passed along our information to him.
Overall, the last two days have been a big success in SC for ONE’s outreach to Republicans and we will keep pushing forward on Saturday at the SC Republican Party Convention with a booth and volunteers.
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