Time to Elect a Democratic State Senator from Summerville
It certainly is interesting watching the three-ring circus at the national level. But the clown acts don't get much better at the state level. So, it's time for Summerville to have a state senator representing their interests in 2012.
Voters are already taking notice.
Even in South Carolina, President Barack Obama has a higher rating than Freddie Mac Lobbyist Gingrich.
As for Rick Perry? He condemns government help for the poor while encouraging churches to help out, but his most recent tax records show that he only gave one one-thousandth of what he made to his church. When he made $1 million, his total church giving was less than $100.
What happen to compassionate conservatism? Gingrich even suggested that those “wonderful (read: poor) children” could replace the unionized janitors at their own schools.
And at the state level it is not much better. Gov. Nikki Haley’s ratings are lower than President Obama. She has even the Republican Legislative leadership and the very conservative Post & Courier editorial staff against her — something about supporting Georgia and making a bad environmental decision concerning Savannah River.
Also, did you notice that Haley is asking the tax payers to build her a wine cellar in the Governor’s mansion? And her “chef” was found running his business on government property. Well, Haley did say that she supported private business.
And finally we find out that transparency will be easy for her administration – she has told her staff to destroy all emails! The result of that is using private email accounts for government business. Imagine that.
At the Senate level the citizens of South Carolina citizens are embarrassed again by Republican Sen. Jim Demint putting his demagoguery before the Veterans by being the ONLY Senator, Republican or Democrat, to vote against job benefits for them. Maybe we need to ask Demint to enlist in the Army and walk in a veteran's boots: protecting our freedom!
Education Czar and State Superintendent Mick Zias continues to give millions of dollars he could be getting for South Carolina children to other states. Even his board disagrees with this crazy move. Again, demagoguery before the best interests of our state and especially our children.
“There was a good bit of funding out there that the superintendent had arbitrarily rejected the opportunity to apply for,” said Tim Moore, a board member. Read more here.
Democrats are for a balanced budget, but in balancing the budget Democrats put public education first, followed closely by Medicaid (especially children’s benefits), Jobs, and fixing our infrastructure.
This next November Summerville and Dorchester County will get to vote on our state senator (Sen. Mike Rose is up for reelection and currently challenged by another Republican in the June 12 primary). While no Democrat has officially declared for the seat, he or she will offer a better alternative than the status quo.
I think it is time to send a Democrat to Columbia!
SDR
9:16 am on Monday, December 12, 2011
Your post exemplifies what is wrong with the Democrat Party and why it is currently irrelevant in SC politics. While stating that you oppose Republicans(duh!), the only policy you favor is a balanced budget, which, by the way, is a constitutional requirement. The voting public is not going to empower Democrats for the sake of empowering Democrats.
Worm Lady
9:18 am on Monday, December 12, 2011
You should have worked harder to get Chrissy Jackson elected in the last cycle. She was a fabulous candidate for the job.
Richard Hayes
9:43 am on Monday, December 12, 2011
I understand your sentiment -- but if you ask Chrissy personally she will tell you how hard I and the party did work for her candidacy. Very hard to run with little name recognition and even less campaign funds. But Chrissy did a great job -- and it was her first time. Let's get her to run again!
Chrissy Jackson
6:18 pm on Monday, December 12, 2011
Richard, the party, and many others worked very hard for my candidacy and we all did a great job getting the word out there; I am more than appreciative of all the time, money and hard work! We were successful in getting the endorsement of the Post & Courier, Conservation Voters of SC and others. We got a lot of people thinking and, even more important, motivated to move toward change!
Gretchen
7:53 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Are you kidding ??? There is a DEMOCRAT in the White House and he is destroying this country.
George Tempel
9:18 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Incomprehensible that anyone could be negative about the piece. Republicans, in control for 21 out of the last 24 yrs, are responsible for where SC is today: bottom in education, bottom in jobs, bottom in concern and action for it's citizens, bottom in transparency (think erases e mails), bottom in environmental concern. The list goes on. South Carolina deserves better, a Democrat who cares about people, not just tthe wealthy.
Gretchen
9:40 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Near the bottom in TAXES too ... come on ... low taxes .. less service ... PERIOD !
Richard Hayes
11:02 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Actually we are not near the bottom with our 7% income tax. However, we have the funds if we would close the $2 Billion/year in tax loopholes -- both Dems and Republicans have supported this, but the Republican leadership is not strong enough (or does it have to do with campaign contributions...) to make it happen! We need leadership, and we will get that with a Democratic controlled Senate in 2012 and the Governership in 2014.
stanley seigler
11:49 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
@Gretchen: "Are you kidding ??? There is a DEMOCRAT in the White House and he is destroying this country"
COMMENTS
is it possible to explain how BO is destroying our country...
perhaps by:
putting 30-40 million folks on the road to health care insurance; protecting citizens who have pre-existing conditions; removing cap on long term health issues; removing the drug doughnut hole for seniors, etcetc on Bo-care...and
raising the stock (DJI) from around 7000 (and trending down) when BO took over to now over 12,000.
job creation was trending down when he took over. it is now trending up...
or perhaps with tax cuts/credits such as:
*Cracked down on tax cheats (Exec Order). ref
*TARGETED ACTIONS: TAX CREDITS/REDUCTIONS:
*Temporarily suspended taxes on unemployment benefits. ref ref
*Established consumer tax credit for plug-in hybrid cars. ref, ref
*$60 billion in spending and tax incentives for renewable and clean energy. ref
*Tax breaks to promote public transit. ref
*Small business tax credits for the cost of health insurance for employees beginning 1/1/10 (HCR).
*2-year temporary tax credit up to $1 billion to encourage investment in new disease prevention and treatment therapies (HCR).
*Health insurance premium tax credits and subsidies available for those with income up to 4x the federal poverty level (1/1/14) (HCR) ref ref
*Accelerated tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for Haiti earthquake relief. ref
Ann
2:27 pm on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Richard, can you explain status quo with regard to Senator Rose. Have you even taken the time to thoroughly investigate how much better off Dorchester Cty & SC are with Senator Rose in place? Carte blanche statements along party lines are so typical.