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Screven County GOP reborn with familiar chairman
Evans to lead political party
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After several years of inactivity, Screven County’s Republican Party has reorganized, with Osal J. Evans returning as its chairman.A small group of party leaders met Monday evening at R&D’s Seafood restaurant in Sylvania to make the reorganization official.Evans had served as chairman of the local party for at least six years when health problems forced him to step down about four years ago. Then another chairperson moved away, Evans said, and at some point the party stopped holding meetings. With his physical condition now improved, he answered a request from state and district GOP leaders to lead the party’s rebirth.“We’re not in the same ballpark as Bulloch County, populationwise, so we don’t have as many people to draw from, but I did have lots of interest from people wanting the organization so that we would be identified as a two-party county, which I think every county should have,” Evans said.Screven County, with 14,202 people by the most recent census estimate, does not toe either party line in elections.
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