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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:

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 future generations with unsustainable debt,” said SCGOP Executive Director Joel Sawyer. “But we’re not holding out any hope that Spratt will stop taking marching orders from the Speaker from San Francisco. We’re incredibly glad
that voters in the 5th District will have a clear choice this November, between Spratt and conservative state Senator Mick Mulvaney – who will stand against liberal spending sprees and will focus on creating jobs for South Carolinians.”

NOW THAT PELOSI’S GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTHCARE IS LAW, AMERICA’S JOBS CREATORS ARE BRACING FOR IMPACT

$2,000: How Much It Will Cost Job Creators Per Employee They Do Not Offer
Government-Approved Insurance To.

$150 MILLION: How Much Government-Run Health Care Will Cost John Deere

$100 MILLION: How Much Caterpillar’s Costs Will Increase Next Year Due To
Government-Run Health Care.

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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:

http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/03/22/1181735/area-health-care-providers-laud.html

So just Where in the World is Rob Miller on the question of whether he supports the healthcare bill?

“Mr. Miller’s time for hiding is over,” said SCGOP Executive Director Joel Sawyer. “We’ve seen this ploy 1000 times – Mr. Miller thinks if he ducks the question long enough, he will be able to ‘redefine’ or ‘evolve’ his position on the healthcare bill based on what the polling says when the election nears. While Mr. Miller may
not give voters the credit they deserve for being able to see through his hackneyed political trickery, we know that voters are smarter than that. Congressman Joe Wilson has stood against the massive government takeover of healthcare. His position is clear. Mr. Miller needs to have the courage to make his position clear as well – and voters in the second Congressional district should insist that he do so.

“That is, assuming they ever see him…”

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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 in Congress rammed this bill through using procedural gimmickry. Voters can and will hold Democrats accountable this November, from people like John Spratt who ran point on this latest iteration of the healthcare nationalization, to people like Rob Miller who have refused to publicly stake out a position on where they stand. Fortunately, we have many Republicans on the state and national level who are committed to continue doing whatever they can to oppose this action, either through legal means or legislatively. We are appreciative of their efforts, and I will be working side by side with activists across South Carolina to continue to fight this bill tooth and nail.”

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 to stake out a position means that Rob Miller is either completely out of it, or he’s making the political calculation to try and ride the fence, both of which are a problem,” SCGOP Executive Director Joel Sawyer said. “The battle lines are pretty clear – you either favor government making your healthcare decisions, or you prefer those decisions to be left in the hands of individuals. Joe Wilson has always been crystal clear that he stands against government intrusion into healthcare decisions, and Rob Miller owes it to everyone to let us know where he stands as well.”

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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 named federal “Employee Free Choice Act,” which would strip workers of their right to vote for unionization by secret ballot, opening them up to intimidation and harassment by unions. The legislation is being pushed on the federal level by union bosses and their liberal allies in Congress.

In arguing for the constitutional amendment, Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) said “I don’t know of anything more basic to the essence of our nation than the right to a secret ballot election.”

Just last week Jim Albaugh, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, told the Seattle Times “The overriding factor was not the business climate. And it was not the wages we are paying today. It was that we can’t afford to have a work stoppage every three years. And we can’t afford to continue the rate of escalation of wages.”

Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler (R-Cherokee) is the lead sponsor of a Senate companion bill. ” Boeing’s decision to expand its facility near Charleston serves as a reminder why we must protect our tough right-to-work laws. We are sending a strong message to the world: We want your business, and we’re committed to getting it. I want to continue sending that message by defending workers’ rights to secret ballots when deciding whether to unionize,” said Senator Peeler.

Peeler continued, “We’ve seen what happens when unions control the economy. It’s called Detroit. And we’ve seen what happens when unions fail. Congress bails them out on the backs of hardworking taxpayers. It’s unfortunate that the Democrats can’t see this clear fact.”

The Democrats argue that the bill is unconstitutional, but Senate President Pro Tempore argues otherwise. “The fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution creates a floor for protections. It does not prevent South Carolina from reaching for the stars in protecting our citizens. In fact, it lets us give our citizens more freedoms than guaranteed by the federal government. We have soldiers fighting overseas to grant others rights that are being filibustered at home.”

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Columbia, S.C.  The South Carolina Republican Party today issued the following statement upon news that liberal lobbyist Dwight Drake has ended his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Drake’s announcement was hot on the heels of trial lawyer Mullins McLeod ending his bid, which itself happened not long after yet another liberal trial lawyer, Chad McGowan, ended his challenge to Senator Jim DeMint:

“Democrats are dropping out of statewide races almost as fast as the Obama Administration is racking up debt, and that’s no easy feat to accomplish,” SCGOP Executive Director Joel Sawyer said. “The reason is simple – like their big-spending counterparts in Washington, the only ‘solution’ Democrats are offering is more government, more debt, and more taxes, and South Carolinians aren’t buying it. By contrast, we have four outstanding candidates in the governor’s race who are offering real, conservative solutions to move our state forward – and at the rate Democrats are dropping, a Republican primary might be all we have to look forward to.”

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