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Saturday, June 08, 2013  Executive director Alex Stroman says Chad Connelly submitted his resignation on Saturday during a meeting of the party's executive committee.

Sunday, June 02, 2013  South Carolina's legislative session is supposed to end this week. Yet all the reform measures that legislators of both parties and chambers called top priorities back in January remain undone.

Saturday, January 21, 2012  The former house speaker, Newt Gingrich's win in South Carolina marks a stunning change in direction in just one week.  According to exit polls, most voters said they made their minds up in the last few days of the campaign and two-thirds of them said the debates were an important factor in their vote.

Saturday, January 21, 2012  South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she will continue to campaign for Mitt Romney despite a losing bet placed in her state's key primary.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012  Now that the Republican Presidential Debate is over, Myrtle Beach's day in the political spotlight is over and local leaders will be evaluating how well it went and whether it accomplished what they had hoped.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012  The Myrtle Beach Convention Center was packed Monday night with thousands for the GOP presidential debate.  3,000 ticket holders were allowed inside the debate. An additional 382 members of the media had signed up to cover the event.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012  Republican presidential candidates took the stage in a heated South Carolina GOP debate Monday night that aired on Fox News.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012  During Monday night's debate on Fox News, the Grand Strand and Pee Dee were mentioned specifically by the candidates.

Monday, January 16, 2012  Tonight, Myrtle Beach hosts the Republican presidential candidates as they debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.

Saturday, January 14, 2012  An estimated 3,000 people are expected to attend the debate. In addition 382 members of the local, national, and state media have registered to come, according to the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

Thursday, January 12, 2012  The lastest media advisory from the South Carolina GOP has Twitter listed as one of the hosts of the January 16th Republican Presidential Debate.

Thursday, January 12, 2012  Presidential candidate Rick Perry's criticism of Mitt Romney's business past has cost him the support of a prominent South Carolina Republican.

Thursday, December 22, 2011  Comedian Stephen Colbert says he will pay half a million dollars to help fund South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  There will be a Republican Presidential Primary in South Carolina next month, but how it will be paid for is up in the air. The South Carolina Republican Party says it's not going to pay for it, and the State Election Commission says it doesn't have enough money.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  The South Carolina Republican Party says it will provide only the $20,000-per-candidate filing fee toward the cost of running next month's GOP presidential primary.