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 Three announce candidacy at Republican Party quarterly meeting web posted March 12, 2008 EDGEFIELD – The Edgefield County Republican Party held their quarterly meeting Tuesday night and three candidates announced their intentions to file for office. County Councilman Everett Kitchens, who represents district two, said he would be filing for his fourth term. Rodney Ashcraft, who had an impressive showing two years ago as a write-in, said he would file to challenge Mr. Kitchens. David Franklin said he would be filing for the new school board district created last year. A challenge to unseat freshman Republican SC Senator Lindsey Graham was also announced. Mr. Franklin, who will be running in a non-partisan election for school board, said he has been a resident of Edgefield County for five years and lives in Mount Vintage Plantation. Among his credentials he listed included being a veteran, a teacher at T. W. Josey in Augusta, and has been involved with Fox Creek Charter High School. Mr. Franklin said his main platform is accountability. That accountability, he said, would reach from the school board, administration, and all the way down to the parents and students. Mr. Ashcraft, filing for the seat currently held by Mr. Kitchens, said his main platform was “a policy of honesty, fiscal responsibility, and political transparency.” Mr. Ashcraft said he believes the citizens of the county should be able to obtain any information they request from the county without roadblocks. He is a veteran and is very involved in the county and attends an assortment of meetings each month. He said he is serving on the economic development board at the present time. In 2006 Mr. Ashcraft ran a five day campaign as a write-in candidate against Mr. Kitchens and received almost thirty per cent of the vote. County Councilman Everett Kitchens said he intends to run to retain the position. Mr. Kitchens said the county “overall” was in good shape. Over the years there have been some “rough times”, he said, but recently things have been "smoother". Mr. Kitchens warned, “Columbia is attacking Home Rule,” and said if a lot of the things the state legislature wants to do goes forward it would make county councils useless. Mr. Kitchens said that the state was advancing on local operations in a piecemeal fashion. Tom Plowden spoke at the meeting and stated, “We have an incumbent US Senator that needs to be brought back to South Carolina.” That Senator being Lindsey Graham who, Mr. Plowden said, was “out of touch with South Carolina”. Mr. Plowden said that South Carolina was known for “stepping out” when it needed to and unseating Sen. Graham could send a message across the nation. Even though Sen. Graham has served only one term Mr. Plowden said he has failed the people of the state. The candidate Mr. Plowden was supporting for the challenge is Dr. Walter “Buddy” Witherspoon. Listed in the campaign material distributed by Mr. Plowden was that Mr. Witherspoon’s top three issues are immigration, taxes, and values. Issues Mr. Plowden said Sen. Graham has failed to uphold. Party Chairman Ralph McFarland said the Republican Party would be hosting a “Meet the candidates” with a tentative date of May 17 from noon until 3 pm at the Edgefield Town Gym. Other announcements can be found at the Edgefield County Republican Party website. The next quarterly meeting will be held on May 9 at the Edgefield County Council Chambers. The public is invited to attend any and all meetings. ©
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