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Erwin running for Democratic Party leadership position again

Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 7:46 pm

By Dan Hoover
STAFF WRITER
dhoover@greenvillenews.com

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COLUMBIA _ For Audrey Snead, it's all about energy.That's why the retired educator said she and others showed up at state Democratic Party headquarters Thursday to encourage state Chairman Joe Erwin's bid for a second term. Snead, a retired educator from Upstate New York and a Richland County member of the state executive committee, said Erwin is "a go-getter" in a tough job, running a minority party in a Republican state. Comparing the Greenville advertising executive to the national party's new chairman, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Snead said, "We need that kind of energy." If Erwin gets the second term he announced for moments later, the Democratic chairmanship will remain in the GOP's Upstate heartland. As chairman, Erwin could provide an Upstate voice in his party's search for candidates to challenge Republican Gov. Mark Sanford and the six other GOP incumbents who hold state executive offices. But he also ruled himself out of speculation that he might seek the Democratic nomination to oppose Sanford. Erwin told supporters that while the party didn't achieve all its goals in the November elections, state Democrats did hold a successful presidential primary, staffing it with thousands of volunteers and raising the necessary $500,000 "when everybody said we couldn't do it." Although Democrats failed to hold the U.S. Senate seat of the now retired Ernest F. Hollings, the party gained one seat each in the state House and Senate "and not a single Democratic (legislative) incumbent was defeated," he said. Erwin said he deserved another term "because we are re-energizing the party county by county, our infrastructure is better, so is our technology and we're on a sound footing." No other candidate has emerged. Delegates to the state party convention April 23 in Columbia will elect officers for 2005-07. Erwin is the first Greenville Democrat to head the state party since Frank Holleman III in 1988-90. He made his re-election announcement in press conferences in Greenville, Columbia and Charleston.

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