A recent road trip brought my mom and I to Kershaw, South Carolina.  Now this was only my second time stopping in the state of South Carolina, but the first time I went, I only stopped by for Easter dinner.  What both of these trips had in common was the fact that people in the South can COOK!  If you haven’t guessed by now, I do enjoy food, and somebody’s home-cooking is my absolute favorite!  Anyway, this post is not about food, but rather about the political process.  In my last post, I documented the election party that my friend had during her primary election campaign.  Well, in South Carolina, we went with friends to a different kind of election party.  Mr. Sammie Tucker, Jr. recently won the primary election in the Kershaw County Sheriff race, so he threw a party to thank all of the people that voted for him.  This party had all of the makings of a day to remember from the delectable chocolate brownies to the finger-licking bar-b-q chicken to the oh-so-moist pound cake to fresh watermelon – and I’m just talking about the food.  But the party also had crowd-pleasers, like the electric slide, the cha-cha slide, a live band playing the oldies but goodies, folks on the dance floor, and much more.  I was so glad that we were able to be a part of this celebration!  See images below.

If you don’t know by now, I really like photographing food.  This picture was an ode to down-south cooking!  Y’all, the bar-b-q chicken was so finger-licking good that I spent some time cleaning that bone.  This is as good as it got because I was trying to look dignified by eating the chicken with the plastic fork… but I had been in the comforts of my own home, I don’t think you would have seen anything left on that bone!

What’s a dance floor without an electric slide…  I guess it depends on who’s throwing the party!

These ladies were working the registration table, but they had some choreographed moves going on as they played The Temptations!

I guess this is what politicians need to be able to do really well – laugh!  It makes them look very human!

With his pants hiked up!

Friends from way back…

Talking Politics!

A Girl’s Best Friend… and Truly a Show-Stopper (The Engagement Ring)!

Back in high school, I was never into politics or student government.  I knew there was value in voting (and as soon as I was of age, I did), but I was never that concerned with running.  Well, at the end of my freshman year in college, a very ambitious classmate of mine recommended that I run for the office of Sophomore Class Senator as there was a vacancy.  She let me know that I would not have too much competition and that if elected, I’d be working with her, as she was running for Sophomore Class President.  Well I ran, and I won!  Of course, she did too!  We continued to work together through the end of our Senior year of college when she was the Student Body President, and I was the Senior Class President.

As long as I’ve known Ms. Dar’shun N. Kendrick, she has had her eyes set on government, politics, and law.  After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, she went on to law school at UGA, and just this year, she started her own law practice, Kendrick Law Practice, LLC.  She wants to eventually be the US President, so earlier this summer, she announced that she was running for GA State House of Representative in District 94.  Immediately, she went into full-campaign mode, hiring seasoned campaign managers and consultants, attending events, putting up a website, raising money, printing mailing pieces, and soliciting friends and volunteers to help with the rest of the “get-elected” process.  Her primary election was on July 20, 2010, and on that day, she threw a party to watch the results come in with family, friends, and volunteers.  She ended up with the most votes of all 4 candidates, but there was still a need for run-off election, which she won 3 weeks later!  I am so proud of Ms. Dar’shun Kendrick, and I wish her nothing but success in the November election!

Below, I have included images from the first election party… I am looking forward to the MANY MANY more that Ms. Kendrick will be a part of!

Ok, so I think this is why she won… She’s concerned with the health of District 94 🙂

Ok, this is a picture of one of Dar’shun’s friends calling her while masking his voice to sound like a constituent…

This is when Dar’shun was trying to figure out who was calling her and what they wanted…

This was after Dar’shun figured out who it really was that was calling her…

This was the hearty laugh that we all got in seeing Dar’shun figure it all out!

Dar’shun was hoping for a victory… and no run-off…

She was elated that at least she was at the top of the results board…

By special request, here was the cake that I made for Dar’shun’s victory!