Restoring government of, by, and for the people

By Karen Martin, Spartanburg Tea Party

Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that killing the B&CB is what South Carolinians want? have wanted? for years? Why don’t the people we send to represent us in Columbia quit messing around and just get this done?

NO MORE EXCUSES! Whether they are favored senators or not, if YOUR senator is giving excuses on this issue … if they cannot explain to you why this has not been accomplished yet … it’s time to have a chat with them. Here is your Senator’s contact info:

• Sen. Kevin Bryant, kevin@kevinbryant.com, 864-202-8394
• Sen. Billy O’Dell, 864-943-0905

Here are two sources of information for what’s going on in Columbia. Not only are they NOT getting this done they are WASTING TIME on it!!!!

Talbert Black urges Senators to get behind the SC Policy Council amendment. What Senator will step up and propose this?

The South Carolina Senate has been debating the Department Of Administration bill for three weeks, amending it five times. So far, they have given us a bill that in its current form does little to improve our currently unaccountable system.

Read Talbert’s article, who do they think they’re fooling, replacing one unaccountable board with another unaccountable board? Us. They think they’re fooling us.

And there’s this article in The State by CINDI ROSS SCOPPE. Hugh Leatherman concerned about MORE corruption? That’s a laugh.

Mr. Leatherman quickly honed in on the new procurement proposal. He spoke ominously of storied gubernatorial corruption in Louisiana, asked Mr. Sheheen if he had read All The King’s Men — whose central character, inspired by the infamous Gov. Huey Long, rises to political power through corruption, intimidation and patronage — and warned that he wanted to make sure “nothing like that happens here.”

This idea that we would invite rampant corruption by giving S.C. governors a fraction of the power of every other governor in the country has been a favorite canard of restructuring proponents since Carroll Campbell first put forward a reform agenda in 1991, but Mr. Sheheen doesn’t consider procurement a make-or-break issue, given everything else the bill does.

“Given what we’ve seen happen in the statewide elected officials in this state over the last 20 years, I think we’d better be careful,” he said, noting that he is considering additional safeguards (which are, frankly, needed). “But what I don’t want to do is see us do nothing.”

Tired of it senators.

Today is the big day, you have until 7PM to cast your vote in the South Carolina Presidential Preference Primary. Your vote will determine who gets South Carolina’s delegates at the RNC convention, where the Republican nominee for President will be chosen.

Was your precinct combined?

Click here to find out. Make sure you go to the right location to vote, a number of precincts were combined in Anderson County.

It’s your duty

• “Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”
  – Samuel Adams
• “Consider well the important trust . . . which God . . . [has] put into your hands. . . . To God and posterity you are accountable for [your rights and your rulers]. . . . Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you. . . . [L]ook well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. . . . Think not that your interests will be safe in the hands of the weak and ignorant; or faithfully managed by the impious, the dissolute and the immoral. Think not that men who acknowledge not the providence of God nor regard His laws will be uncorrupt in office, firm in defense of the righteous cause against the oppressor, or resolutly oppose the torrent of iniquity. . . . Watch over your liberties and privileges – civil and religious – with a careful eye.”
  – Matthias Burnett
• “[T]he time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it – and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they [Christians] take [in politics].”
  – Rev. Charles Finney
• “Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
  – President James Garfield
• “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
  – Justice John Jay

In case you missed it, the SC Superintendent of Education Mick Zais recently took a stand against “green ribbon” schools. I sent him a quick “thank-you” for this by way of encouragement, knowing that he would be hearing the opposite from the NEA-directed school establishment.

Often when writing to an elected official, you get a form letter. This one appears to be a direct reply! [Read more →]

The Anderson County Republican Party is hosting a Town Hall Meeting which will feature the interim county administrator and several county council members. This is a great opportunity to hear from and speak to the folks in charge of…your back yard.

WHEN: Monday, Jan. 16th at 6:30pm
WHERE: Concord Community Church, Concord Road, Anderson, SC

The SCGOP has provided a convenient place to track the schedules of the presidential candidates as they campaign here in SC: http://www.scgop.com/primary/