May 1 2012
Republican Liberty Caucus Endorsement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 1, 2012
CONTACT: Daniel Encarnacion at 843-695-7521
Republican Liberty Caucus of SC Endorses Kevin Bryant for Re-election
SUMMERVILLE, SC – The Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina unanimously endorsed Senator Kevin Bryant for re-election in South Carolina Senate district 3 at its state convention in Summerville on Saturday, April 28th.
“Kevin Bryant has been one of the key leaders promoting individual liberty and limited government in the South Carolina Senate,” says Scott Pearson, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina. “We applaud his efforts to protect the taxpayers of his district and throughout the state.”
Senator Bryant has the third highest rating of all 46 members of the South Carolina Senate according to the Palmetto Liberty PAC scorecard and was one of only a handful of Senators to oppose accepting federal stimulus money in 2009 without also using that opportunity to reduce South Carolina’s debt.
Bryant is a reformer with a proven record of promoting more accountability in both our state government and elections. He voted in favor of voter ID legislation in order to protect the integrity of South Carolina’s elections in addition to recorded roll call votes in the Senate to provide accountability of Senators to the people. In that same spirit of reform, he has been one of the leading forces to change South Carolina’s antiquated and backwards way of government. For instance, he is a supporter of abolishing the unaccountable and wasteful Budget and Control Board.
Because of Bryant’s proven track record of being on the side of liberty and against growing government, the Republican Liberty Caucus is proud to stand with him and encourage all of our members and anyone else in his district to vote for him in the June 12th primary.
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The Republican Liberty Caucus is a nationwide grassroots organization which promotes individual liberty, limited government, and free market economics within the Republican Party. You can find more information about the Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina at www.rlcsc.org
May 01, 2012 @ 16:18:04
A little over a year ago Mr. Bryant chaired a subcomittee that exposed how state employees twisted, misused, mis-applied and invented fire codes to the detriment of nearly every pocketbook in this state. The harassment by the state fire marshal’s office touched schools, churches, day cares, and vast numbers of private business that was in some cases so severe they had to close shop (according to LAC). One official, Bill Galloway, who was the reason for the investigation even caused the career loss of the one who initiated the inquiry according to a secret recording of his firing. The testimony of numerous victims told how policies of John Reich and Mr. Galloway caused tremendous hardship. The soon to be named head of LLR, Catherine Templeton, was in attendance and upon arriving in power began working with the new governor to clean this mess up- or did they? The violations of the previous five years were so disturbing that all former directives were overturned and new legislation was signed into law. But what happened to the offenders? John Reich is now curator of the fire deptartment museum in Columbia and Bill Galloway had a position invented for him where responsibility and decision making authority are gone. Translation: reward and paid vacation for life for causing citizens of this state to needlessly and wastefully spend untold millions of dollars. And what happened to the one who brought this to the attention of LAC and legislators? After losing more than half his customer base over a three year period, his license was invalidated in one of John Reich’s last official acts as SFM. By that time there was nothing left and he survived only by his family’s generosity. At fifty years of age he is now starting over and doing his best to achieve poverty level status. Thank you, Republican Establishment, who was supported by him all his life. How do I know all this? It was me.