Spartanburg County - Only County in US to Sponsor 2nd Event with Ron Paul??

It specifically states that Beltram would shun Ron Paul from the county Party activities because of not supporting the "official line" about 9/11 and the "need for the Iraq war".

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20070704/NEWS/707040336/-1/...

Here's another article from later in the year, after RP did make some appearances at Spartanburg, with Beltram making that "claim" of being the only county party to have 2 appearances, but the reporter for this article could not verify that they were the only ones.

http://goupstate.us/index.php/2009/03/20/floyd-hall-and-belt...

In both of these articles, Beltram makes it VERY CLEAR that he does not like Ron Paul, and is no supporter. Beltram is a NEOCON warmonger.

And here's a VERY INTERESTING article about Beltram and the SC straw poll.

And I quote:
"Now curiously, a quick search for Spartanburg County Republican Party Chairman Rick Beltram turned up a question of ballot box stuffing:

The Spartanburg County Republican Party had its annual meeting recently, and held a presidential straw poll (March 2, 2007). The results were posted on CNN:

The important results were these:

Arizona Sen. John McCain: 164
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani: 162
California Rep. Duncan Hunter: 158
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback: 85

But here is the kicker: McCain was initially reported by Mr. Beltran as having only 114 votes, putting him in fourth place. Everyone else's vote totals were the same as currently reported by CNN at the time. Then, Beltran said the numbers got switched and it should have been 141 votes, still leaving McCain in fourth place.

Then it became 164 votes the next morning. Poof! A first place win for John McCain! Proving it ain't over till they say its over, and that some votes count more than others. [Perhaps he originally meant 164 instead of 114. A single digit transposition, though a strange one to get wrong. Written, it is a little hard to see missing a difference between a 1 and a 6. As a counting error it represents a 50 fold difference. Spoken, one hundred fourteen sounds vastly different than one hundred sixty-four. But I wasn't there. I do not know by what process the vote was taken, tallied and reported to the assembly. I don't know how good is Mr. Beltran's eyesight or hearing. I just know a straw poll is a bit of fun for the activists who have sweated for the cause, actually care enough to show up to conventions and meetings and ought to be given more respect than this demonstrates, IMHO.]

So Ron Paul, welcome to South Carolina politics."

Link- read it all or scroll to bottom.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Editorial-Page.htm?InfoNo=021045

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