Meadors versus Bryant

Actually, Bryant is only one of a few that supports spending less and returning more money to the taxpayers. The majorities of both parties in both chambers support spending almost everything that makes it to Columbia, and, as the list shows, they spend it on political favors. So, the only party line Bryant totes is the leave your money in your wallet party.
You indeed should be disappointed with your vote for Bryant inasmuch as you're happy with Columbia taking your money and sending it to frog jump festivals and cultural centers instead of buying school buses or paying for correctional officers. Bear in mind however, that if you send Meadors to Columbia nothing will change. Columbia will simply keep taking money out of your pocket, and now your senator will be voting for it.
Good luck.

No Private-Taylor . . .

That is your ASSumption. There is not a relationship between "pork" and Meadors. There IS a relationship between "taking away health care choices from the individual" and Bryant.

Don't send a pill counter to do the job of a doctor.

- SSHM

So what your saying is that since he clearly doesn't know what actually needs financial help in this state, he'll just vote against everything.....

yea really, and don't trust public education to one either...

Let's look more closely at private-taylor's assertions about Bryant.

"Bryant has voted to send hundreds of millions of dollars from the state budget to our roads."

The questions I have about this statement are pretty simple:
1.) Was he funding state roads and bridges or county roads and bridges?
2.) Could someone from say, Horry County, argue that providing hundreds of millions of dollars for "our roads" is simple pork for Anderson and not Horry?
3.) How is pork any better if its is brought home by a DIFFERENT member of the Anderson County Legislative Delegation? It all comes from the same pig, afterall.
4.) Isn't pork just an unfriendly term for "constituent service?"

"Bryant, most importantly, has voted to send hundreds of millions of dollars back to the taxpayers . . ."

Still more simple, logical questions here folks:
1.) Above, we can see, according to private-taylor, that Bryant SPENT hundreds of millions of dollars on "our roads," yet "our roads" remain a mess. I'd like to know where that money went - anyone else?
2.) Bryant is for good roads, yes?
3.) The money he voted for, according to you private-taylor, was hundreds of millions of dollars, correct?
4.) Private-taylor, your above quote shows where that same funding, aka "hundreds of millions of dollars," was VOTED DOWN by Bryant in an effort to "send hundreds of millions of dollars back to the taxpayer" . . . SO HOW WAS HE FUNDING THE ROADS, HMMMM?

What this REALLY boils down to is this:

We've had four years of Dudley-Do-Nothing in the SC Senate as our Senator. What he has failed to learn in those four years is this: You have to go with the flow until you develop CREDIBILITY. As much as people say they abhor pork, I've yet to meet a person that would say "don't pave that road" or "that dangerous intersection does not need a traffic signal."

It's a little thing called constituent service - something that Dudley-Do-Nothing failed to discover in his four years in office.

I would call for a vote of no confidence . . . if I could.

- SSHM

SSHM:

Just hang on Rick Driver, Charles Crowe, Rodney Sanders, Tom Clark, Bennie Sue West and Rick Freesomething will be bringing "recall votes" to Anderson County via the State legislature. Let them dream on. :=0

That is also the same crowd that is pushing for closed primaries here in SC - a move that would serve to cut the Republican Party off at the knees . . . OOPS . . . did I just say that OUT LOUD?

Understand the demographics of this state before you make a move that would bring about your own demise. Oh, and the state is more PURPLE than RED these days . . .

. . . poorly played game of checkers . . .

. . . political accumen of a dead sea turtle . . .

- SSHM

He wants abuse from democraps now becasue his former supporters have now turned against him...What a tool.....Why don't you get your ass of the internet and go do something productive with our tax money for a change?

Petunia,

That basically mitigates the need for a primary all together. To use a basketball analogy, and following the logic, March Madness should happen on one night, all 65 teams, same court, same time.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be interesting, but really . . . LOL. :)

- SSHM