Anderson Tea Party is getting to work!

According to Kirk Brown at IndependentMail.com, our friends in the Anderson Tea Party have put two SC House legislators on notice … they intend to support primary challengers to long-serving legislators Sen. Billy O’Dell and Rep. Brian White.

“I think we can find some conservatives in their districts who are up to the challenge,” said Jonathan Hill, a Townville resident who organized the Anderson tea party.

Speaking at the group’s first meeting of 2012 on Thursday night, Hill said O’Dell and White have served for too long without facing Republican opponents.

Hill’s harshest comments were directed at O’Dell, the dean of the local legislative delegation who was first elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1988. O’Dell switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in 2003.

“He may have changed parties, but he didn’t change the way he votes,’ Hill said. He criticized O’Dell for voting in favor of last year’s state spending plan, which Hill described as the biggest budget in South Carolina history.

Hill also chided White, who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, for joining a majority of legislators in voting last year to override more than two dozen of Gov. Nikki Haley’s budget vetoes.

January 8, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized

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  1. michaek f mccarthy - January 9, 2012

    Focus on Romney’s political incompetence as governor. In the Friday debate Mitt Romney agreed with Newt that “gay rights” had a negative impact. The discussion was about how society is prejudicial against gays and Newt turned this around to how the gay lobby harmed society. Mitt agreed saying that Catholic Charities was forced to relinquish its involvement in adoptions in Massachusetts. In Saturday’s debate Mitt went on and on about how he was an equal opportunity employer. He appointed gays to his staff and to the courts. In his appointments to the courts he appointed mostly liberals, some Democrats and a few gays. The state constitution declares that “the laws shall be made by the legislature and signed by the governor”. The same judges Romney appointed turned around and nullified the state constitution. These judges ruled that gay people have a right to marry and that the governor and legislature have no right to interfere. Romney did nothing to stop or ameliorate the effects of this ruling. He passively accepted and applied the courts mandate. He actively participated in this injustice. His liberal, Democrat and gay judicial appointees over- turned old law and made new law. This ruling was adopted by his social service appointees who basically nullified every citizen’s right to adopt from a private / religious agency and forced public / state agencies to treat prospective gay parents on an equal footing with prospective straight parents. We could set up a causal relationship that connects Romney’s judicial and social service appointments and their legalizing gay marriage and his social service appointees and closing down Catholic charities involvement in adoptions. This shows that Romney was a weak, equivocating ineffectual politician as governor. His only achievement is Romney-Care and even in this the Democrat legislature wrote and passed the legislation with no input or threat of veto by Romney. All he did was cross the t’s and dot the i’s on it. His political experience is that of trying to placate the liberal media and cave-in to liberal politicians.

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