Published: May 07, 2008 12:47 am            

GOP selects delegates, officers

from staff reports



Republicans from Lauderdale County held their county convention on Saturday, April 26, 2008 in the Circuit Court Room of the Lauderdale County Court House. The convention is held every four years to elect delegates and alternate delegates to the Statewide Republican Convention that was held in Jackson on May 10. Each of Mississippi’s 82 counties are allocated delegate positions based on the Republican voter turnout in the prior presidential election. Based on this turnout, Lauderdale County was slated with 7 1/2 delegates. Alternate delegates are also elected in the event that a delegate is unable to attend. The following delegates and alternate delegates were elected at the convention:



Delegates:

Sally Brown

Scott Carmichael

Gene Damon

Representative Greg Snowden

Jimmy Slay

Bill Marcy

Betty Lou Jones

Derek Glicco



Alternates:

Jena Thompson Abrams

Patti Carmichael

Representative Tad Campbell

James Peavey

Greg Hatcher

Brenda Galyean

Susan McFallor

Brooks Gray

In addition to the election of delegates, the convention also elected the officers and members to serve on the Lauderdale County Republican Executive Committee for a four year term. The Convention elected three members from each supervisor’s district and three members at large:



DISTRICT ONE

Scott Carmichael

John Johnson

C. D. Smith



DISTRICT TWO

Derek Glicco

Harold Keyes

James Peavey



DISTRICT THREE

Billy Allen

Sally Brown

Gene Damon



DISTRICT FOUR

Paul Dunda

Jeremy Windham





DISTRICT FIVE

Jimmy Slay

Jerry Creel

Buck Roberts



AT LARGE

Representative Tad Campbell

John Watts

David Stevens



Members of the newly elected Executive Committee then selected the following slate of officers to serve for a four year term:



Chairman: Scott Carmichael

Vice Chairman: Billy Allen

Secretary: David Stevens

Treasurer: Derek Glicco



The State Republican Convention was held Saturday, May 10, at the Regency Hotel in Jackson.

        

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