Berkeley, Dorchester and Charleston Counties have joined together to host, the final 1st Congressional District Debate of the primary season, just three weeks before the Congressional primary, aboard the USS Yorktown, Patriots Point in Mt. Pleasant on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 8 PM. The cost to the public to attend the Debate will be $35.00 per person. A pre-debate reception will be held aboard the Spirit of Carolina at 6:30 PM . Contact one of the Chairman regarding information and cost to attend the reception. A straw poll, to determine the winner of the debate, will be conducted at
Columbia, SC – April 27, 2010 – We’ve had a little fun at Democratic Congressional candidate Rob Miller’s expense, highlighting the way he’s been spending time clinking glasses with out of state liberals, kicking television cameras out of public events, and skirting questions about where he stands on healthcare. Today, we add one more to the list of places where Rob Miller isn’t – raising any money in his own Congressional District. Here’s a look at Miller’s fundraising from the first quarter of this year, by the numbers: – Miller has received donations from fewer than 100 people in the
Columbia, SC – April 19, 2010 – Rather than holding a town hall meeting in his own Congressional District to try and explain and justify his wildly unpopular role in pushing through President Obama’s nationalization of healthcare, Congressman John Spratt is retreating north of the border to give a speech on the new law at UNC-Chapel Hill. SCGOP Executive Director Joel Sawyer today released the following statement on Spratt’s choice of venue: “It’s no shock that instead of holding a town hall meeting with voters of the Fifth District, Spratt’s public defense for leading the charge for socialized medicine will
The conversation concerning the historical and current relationship between African Americans and Republicans has been shaped by rhetorical cliches, oversimplifications, and incomplete information. In his recently-released book Silence Makes the Loudest Sound: A Conversation between African Americans and the Republican Party (Booksurge: 2010 http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Makes-Loudest-Sound-Conver …), author Marvin D. Rogers turns his frustration with the “easy answers” into a captivating account of the storied relationship between this American race and American political party. Rogers’ perspective at the intersection of race and politics in America is so unique that it caught the attention of Washington Post syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker and NPR
Columbia, S.C. – March 29, 2010 – Now that John Spratt is home from Washington D.C., where he led the charge for the $2.5 trillion government takeover of healthcare, his constituents will be eager to hear why he put liberal, partisan interests ahead of the needs of the hard-working voters of the 5th Congressional District: “Representative Spratt was one of the critical leaders for passing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s $2.5 trillion dollar government-run healthcare experiment, and we’re glad he’s finally coming home to explain why he sold out for a health care bill that will hurt South Carolina families and burden
Columbia, SC – March 23, 2010 – Democratic Congressional candidate Rob Miller has shown us he’s pretty good at a few things. Miller is good at clinking glasses with establishment liberals at out-of-state fundraisers. He’s also shown himself adept at kicking television cameras out of public events. Two weeks ago, he displayed great skill in deflecting answers about where he stood on the costly Democratic healthcare bill passed Sunday. And just yesterday, he added a new trick to his arsenal of ways to hide from public scrutiny: just flat out ignoring questions about his stance on the nationalization of healthcare:
South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Karen Floyd today issued the following statement on Congressional Democrats’ passage of their national healthcare takeover bill: “What the House Democrats have done is wrong for the way it expands the federal government’s intrusion into our lives by an unprecedented degree, it’s wrong for the way it puts future generations on the hook for untold future debts, and it’s wrong for the way it takes healthcare decisions away from the American people and puts those decisions into the hands of government,” Floyd said. “Perhaps most disturbing of all is the way that the Democratic leadership
Republicans Working To Guarantee Right To Secret Ballot Elections Columbia, SC – March 10, 2010 – South Carolina’s Republican Senators are pushing a bill on the State Senate floor that guarantees a worker’s right to a secret ballot election in the workplace, but liberal Democrats have been working to block that right. Will they continue their fight to deny workers of their rights to secret ballot elections today? H.3305, introduced by Rep. Eric Bedingfield, is a constitutional amendment that would guarantee a worker’s right to voting by secret ballot during union organization. The legislation is a reaction to the deceptively
Columbia, S.C. – March 10, 2010 – It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of 2nd Congressional District Democratic candidate Rob Miller. When he isn’t clinking glasses with New York liberals or kicking television cameras out of public events, Miller has been doing a lot of bobbing and weaving on exactly where he stands on government-run healthcare: http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/03/09/1166803/joe-wilson-challenger-rob-miller.html Which leads to the question, “Just where in the world is Rob Miller on nationalized healthcare?” “The healthcare fight has been the single most covered, most debated, and most talked about piece of public policy in recent memory – so refusing
Senate Guarantees Right To Secret Ballot Elections in Union Votes, Makes Spending Caps Top Priority Columbia, SC – March 10, 2010 – South Carolina’s Republican Senators today moved two key bills being pushed by the state’s business community. The Senate passed the anti-card check bill protecting workers from union intimidation. It also set legislation on special order creating a constitutional cap on state spending. H.3305, introduced by Rep. Eric Bedingfield, is a constitutional amendment that would guarantee a worker’s right to voting by secret ballot during union organization. The legislation is a reaction to the deceptively named federal “Employee Free
