Georgia College Republicans help Mark Sanford win in SC

This past weekend, in the midst of final exams and term paper deadlines, the newly-elected chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans received a phone call from the South Carolina Federation of College Republicans. The special congressional election was just 6 days away and democrat Colbert-Busch was neck-in-neck with republican Mark Sanford in the polls.

The GACRs sent out an email blast and recruited state chairman Will Kremer, UGA graduate student Whitney Wilson, Kennesaw State secretary Donny Fritz, and myself to take off from work and school that Friday night, just two days after the initial phone call/cry for help was received, and help the SC CRs campaign for Sanford over the weekend. After fighting I-20 traffic and varied tastes in music on the car ride up, the four GACRs arrived in Columbia and got some shut-eye before the busy weekend ahead.

Saturday morning at the unheard of hour of 7:45, we collegiate campaigners put on our most fabulous Southern fashions and headed to USC’s Carolina Coliseum, where the South Carolina State GOP Convention was being held. After hurried introductions, our GACR members immediately set to work making phone calls for the Sanford campaign. While making countless voter contacts via telephone, we also spoke to attendees of the convention, encouraging them to contact their friends and family in SC01, as well as assist with the phone banking. After a long, tiring day of voter outreach, the GACRs had a paper stack full of hundreds upon hundreds of successful phone calls that had been made on behalf of Sanford.