Chattooga County Republicans celebrated the grand opening of their local headquarters on Saturday. The headquarters is located on Commerce Street in downtown Summerville, just down from the Dandee Denson Shrine Auditorium

Local Republican candidates, James Dawson, who is running for sheriff,  Dewayne Dawson who is running for oounty commissioner,as well as Senator Jeff Mullis who has no competition come November were on hand to meet voters.

Local party vice- chair Brad Hayes says the  focus of the party is to get the candidatrs names out there and  to match them up with the republican party, which is the conservative party. He said it is fortunate that the local Republican candiates are not members of the same party as the current  president of the Unitd States.

Hayes said local candidates will be staffing the headquarters some evenings and will be available to speak with voters. He said two barbecue fundraisers are planned also.