Thursday February 4th 2010
State Superintendent GOP Candidates Forum. Event to be held at Greenville Tech, J. Verne Smith Auditorium, 620 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, 7pm – 8:30pm.
This is a FREE event for the general public.
Candidates Attending: Dr. Brent Nelsen, Elizabeth Moffly, Kelly Payne, and Mick Zais.
2010 Lake Training Program:
What: Savannah Basin Watershed Management Resources
When: 6:00pm, Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Where: Anderson County Museum (corner of McDuffy St & Greenville Street/HWY 29)
Our educational session will be lead by Rebecca Spratlin, the SCDHEC’s Savannah Basin Watershed Manager.
She will walk us through much of the DHEC’s educational material. This information is important in helping us
fulfill our Covekeeper mission of educating ourselves and our neighbors.
All continuing Covekeepers should attend. All future Covekeepers welcome!
Prospective Covekeepers who can’t attend this week will have other opportunities to participate. The Covekeepereducational program has six sessions a year…our next should be sometime in March (date not finalized).
For detailed directions to the museum, click on or paste this link into your browser:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Anderson&state=SC&cat=Anderson+County+Museum&country=US&latitude=34.5033&longitude=-82.650299&geocode=CITY
…Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator…Romans 1:25
For Immediate Release: January 22, 2010
Office of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina)
Contact: Wesley Denton (202) 228-5079
DeMint on Record SC Unemployment: “Enough is Enough”
Wasteful stimulus spending has failed, time for broad-based tax cuts that are prove to create jobs and spur investment
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement after South Carolina Employment Security Commission reported the state’s unemployment rate has jumped to a new high of 12.6%, with over 273,000 South Carolinians out of work.
“Enough is enough; It’s time to stop the failed stimulus and instead enact immediate broad-based tax cuts that are proven to fuel real job-growth,” said Senator DeMint. “Instead of taking money out of our economy to be wasted by Washington politicians on special interests, we should let taxpayers keep more of their own money to spend, invest, and create jobs.”
“I introduced the American Option Jobs Plan last year to put dollars and decisions back in the hands of families and businesses. People in South Carolina and across the nation have seen through the false promise that Washington can fix everything by new spending or a new bureaucracy. America became the most prosperous nation in the world because of a limited government and free markets that allowed people and businesses to succeed. Washington must stop choking our prosperity with high taxes, spending and debt.”
According to a study by the Heritage Foundation earlier this year of Senator DeMint’s “American Option” Jobs Plan, South Carolina would have gained an additional 6,956 jobs in 2009 and 28,262 jobs in 2013. An average South Carolina family of four could have expected their personal income to increase by $1,153 in 2009 and by $3,864 in 2013.
Full summary of DeMint’s “American Option” Jobs Plan
The “American Option” Jobs Plan would:
• Defuse the 2011 tax bomb: Stop tax increases set to hit the economy in 2011.
o Permanently repeal the alternative minimum tax once and for all;
o Permanently keep the capital gains and dividends taxes at 15 percent;
o Permanently kill the Death Tax for estates under $5 million, and cut the tax rate to 15 percent for those above;
o Permanently extend the $1,000-per-child tax credit;
o Permanently repeal the marriage tax penalty;
o Permanently simplify itemized deductions to include only home mortgage interest and charitable contributions.
• Long term, broad based tax cuts for American families and businesses.
o Lower top marginal income rates – the one paid by most of the small businesses that create new jobs – from 35 percent to 25 percent.
o Simplify the tax code to include only two other brackets, 15 and 10 percent.
o Lower corporate tax rate as well, from 35 percent to 25 percent. The U.S. corporate tax rate is second highest among all industrialized nations, driving investment and jobs overseas. Lowering this key rate will unlock trillions of dollars to be invested in America instead of abroad.
o This is not only good economic policy, but a matter of fairness. No American family should be forced to pay the federal government more than 25 percent of the fruits of their hard labor.
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I’ve gotten to know James over the last couple of months and was very impressed with him. Unfortunately, he’s withdrawing from the Congressional race for health reasons. Below is his statement:
I have some difficult news to share with you.
Beginning in mid-December, I experienced a number of episodes of chest pain, with the severity increasing over the holidays. My family has a history of heart related deaths at early ages, so I finally went to the doctor after a couple of very alarming bouts of severe pain earlier this month. The initial examination and tests were very concerning to my family and I because they indicated possible problems with the proper electrical functioning of my heart. After a more intensive round of tests last week, obstructive heart disease has been ruled out, but the reason for the chest pain, which is continuing, has not been determined. Last Friday, I met with my doctor who advised that, after discussing the myriad demands on my time as a father of three with a full-time legal practice and a congressional race, I should view this as a “wake up call.” Based on that discussion, and after much thought and prayer, I determined that it would be in my best interests to reduce my commitments. I do not want to ignore this advice and end up in a very serious condition in a few years. Moreover, as a husband and a father, it would not be responsible for me to not safeguard my family’s future as much as possible.
So, today, I regrettably announce that I am withdrawing from the race for the 3rd Congressional District.
This has been a very difficult decision. While campaigning for office is extremely challenging, I have greatly enjoyed traveling the district and meeting new friends in every county. I was very much looking forward to the rest of the campaign and the chance to serve. I am appalled at what is being done to our country by the current leadership in Washington. I am committed to fighting the radical agenda and irresponsible spending of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Reid however possible. I just cannot continue to do so as a candidate for Congress. I deeply appreciate those of you who volunteered their time and efforts over the last several months. To those of you who contributed to my campaign in these difficult economic times, words cannot convey how humbly grateful I am. I have spoken to many of you, but will be continuing to make calls in the coming days.
It is my hope that the reckless and irresponsible spending of the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats has finally settled the debate over how we need to govern our country. For decades, the Democrats have argued that we just weren’t taxing enough or in the right way. Well, now, almost no level of taxation can support what we are spending. Spending is clearly the problem. We must demand from our elected representatives more discipline, more humility, and more honesty about the challenges facing us in the coming years. That is what I will be looking for when I cast my vote for the next Congressman from the 3rd District. I would encourage everyone else to do the same.
Thank you, James Galyean
