MYRTLE BEACH, June 13 – Bennie Swans, chairman of the Horry County Democratic Party, today issued a statement about the horrific shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Florida early yesterday morning when 50 people were killed and 53 shot and injured: "We join with everyone in Horry County who are deeply saddened and horrified by the…

Democratic candidates will face off in three races in the statewide Primary Election on Tuesday, June 14.  These races are in Senate and House districts which include portions of western and northwestern Horry County. In Senate District 30, Patrick T. Richardson of Brittons Neck is challenging incumbent Kent Williams of Marion. This district includes precincts Aynor;…

Horry County Democrats are congratulating Christale Spain, who was just named the new Executive Director of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Christale is returning to SCDP, where she had been Deputy Director, after taking a leave of absence to work on Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. On the Sanders campaign, Christale served as SC Political…

Harold Phillips of Conway has won the Democratic primary for Horry County Council District 7. He will face Republican Robert Shelley in the special election on Tuesday, July 5. In the primary three-way race, Phillips took 51% of the vote. Orton Bellamy received 27% and Lee Sherman received 22%. Phillips is a member of the Horry County Planning…

Robin Gause, 51, a longtime resident of Burgess, has announced her candidacy for the Horry County Council District 4. Gause, the busy mother of a son and five daughters, with 10 grandchildren, comes from a medical background, having taught childbirth education, pre-natal and breastfeeding classes to hundreds of women. She was for seven years a “guardian…

The Horry County Democratic Party elected Bennie Swans of Carolina Forest its new county chair on Saturday afternoon, passed 18 resolutions, and elected its slate of officers as well as delegates to the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention in Columbia on April 30. Swans, leader of the Carolina African American Heritage Foundation, is a widely-respected community…

South Carolina Democrats overwhelmingly supported Secretary Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary on February 27.  While Senator Bernie Sanders earned more votes proportionately in Horry, York, Charleston and Greenville than in other counties across the state (he lost 2:1 in these counties versus at least 3:1 elsewhere), the Clinton campaign momentum was unstoppable. Both candidates have turned attention…

The Horry County Democratic Party will hold its County Convention on Saturday, March 19, 2016. County officers for 2016-18 will elected and delegates to the South Carolina Democratic Party convention on April 30 will be chosen. “Serving as a county party official is an honor and a great responsibility,” says HCDP Chair Joan Furlong. “Volunteers can…

Long-serving Horry County Councilman James R. Frazier has resigned his seat on County Council effective March 1, 2016.