GBRC Newsletter

To the GBRC and Friends: Happy New Year!

The Greater Bluffton Republican Club had it's "revival" meeting in October, and new officers were elected that evening. They are as follows:

President: Dawn Duff
Vice President: Donna Huffman
Secretary: Dave Stortz
Treasurer: Diane Reynolds

A note of thanks to Diane Reynolds for serving as President for the previous sixteen months.

Many members of this club worked very hard for the November Elections. We volunteered at Headquarters, and made endless phone calls. We also held the "Bluffton Blitz", an event that had signs, posters, and flyers for all Republican Candidates, including the Presidential race down to the local elections, distributed all over Bluffton as well as other parts of Beaufort County. We got people out to see Joe Wilson in Sun City and Jim De Mint on Hilton Head. Some of us attended the October Fundraiser at the Marriot and heard the Governor speak. Many of us wrote Letters to the Editor of our local liberal paper.We called on our people to help out "old" Bluffton with the recent local elections. On Election Night we gathered together at the Squat & Gobble. Later that month, we had a great victory party, with many members of the other RCs showing up to celebrate with us. It was a glorious evening with incredible barbeque by Ted Huffman, and donations of food & drink by many who came. Also in November, we established the GBRC Blog, a forum for our members and invited guests to express opinion, post notices, and direct others to inportant online articles. Please visit and join us: http://blufftongop.blogspot.com/ In December, we decided not to have a business meeting, but we did have "A Time To Share - the Essentials and Gifts Drive" for the families of our troops deployed overseas. With the help of all our fellow RCs, we packed three SUVs full of mostly new and some almost new items for our military families. Thanks to everyone who gave, and especially to Dave Stortz, Jim & Alice Lee, and Howard Duff for collecting the items and bringing them to the Marine Core Air Station a couple weeks before Christmas.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday evening, January 11th at the Holiday Inn Express. Please come for social time at 6:30. The meeting begins at 7. We will be discussing the possibility of changing the night of our meetings to Mondays, as well as changing the location. There will also be a guest speaker. Details will follow. We also would like to direct you to the County Republican's site: http://www.beaufortrepublicans.com/index.php There is much good information there as well as a page specifically for each club in Beaufort County.
I thank you all for the opportunity to work with you, and Donna & I hope to see you all this Tuesday evening at the meeting.
Dawn Duff