The Millwood Dilemma
In the morning, the voters of House District 38 will have to make a choice between Joey Millwood and Doug Brannon.
If you are looking for a reason to vote against Representative Joey Millwood, you are certain to find plenty. You won’t find any good reasons to vote against Millwood where his voting record is concerned. When it comes to his votes, he has been a good and consistent conservative representative for District 38 in Columbia.
Any reason to vote against Joey, is purely based on the fact that he has behaved (a bit too frequently) in an immature manner, a manner not becoming of a representative of the people.
There are plenty of people in Spartanburg who want Joey Millwood gone, and quite frankly his detractors would likely support Charles Manson over Millwood. Let’s look at who they are supporting:
Trial attorney (of the ambulance chasing variety) Doug Brannon.
Doug Brannon represented the defendant in one of the worst child abuse cases ever, where the child was handcuffed and nearly starved to death. There are MANY despicable cases where Brannon has defended the worst of the worst among us. How can anyone who typically represents those sort of people represent all of us?
Brannon has stated the Arizona immigration law is unconstitutional and he would not support such in SC.
Brannon is in favor of assisted suicide, so he will not side with those who are pro-life.
Bottom line, anyone supporting such a person as Brannon cannot be of good moral character. If you are okay with starving children to death, then by all means, support and vote for Brannon. What Brannon does for a living, makes Millwood’s immature antics seem pretty small and insignificant. Would it not be better to give Millwood a chance to grow up?
AND, for those who believe Millwood is an embarrassment to the Spartanburg Delegation, just wait for the fodder we’ll have with the likes of Brannon.
June 21, 2010
Posted in: Statehouse Races
2 Responses
Stephen Hess - June 22, 2010
You have not even scratched the surface on how horrible it would be have N. Douglas Brannon elected. I am shocked he even had the nerve to run.
Tim - June 22, 2010
Joey Millwood is arguably the most conservative and least-RINO-esque representative down in Columbia–just check the record. For any tea party member or supporter to not vote for him would be insane in my opinion. Thank you for pointing out that he is a consistent conservative. As for the alleged immaturity, I think you’re overblowing that. There were times in his first year (he took office in 2009) that he went a little too “Twitter-happy” (as other Rep’s down there do too) but he has corrected that. The average constituent doesn’t use Twitter anyway and it’s only politicos that came up with this notion of immaturity. But other than the Twitter thing, Joey Millwood has acted exactly as tea party folks want their elected officials to act: never backing down from his conservative principles and taking on the GOP leadership on a whole host of their sell-outs from the stimulus to the cig tax to pro-life legislation.
I hope Joey wins tonight.
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