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@RepAdamMorgan @SCFreedomCaucus @RalphNorman I’d like to know why you don’t support him. What are his positions that you disagree with? FWIW, I’m undecided.

Rom Reddy just stated on radio, “The @SCFreedomCaucus members are BIG supporters of mine.” In fact not a single Freedom Caucus member is supporting him. Almost all have endorsed @RalphNorman He lies with impunity. Wild.

@jwesleydonehue So you’re a Biden guy too. Gotcha.

I decided to work for a former Democrat as AG because I've seen the corruption in Columbia firsthand. It's disgusting. We are no longer self governing citizens. We serve the biggest donors and special interests with our tax dollars. I understand that most folks have not seen what I've seen. But I will stand by a Democrat turned Republican who will fight corruption every day. Because unless we stop the special interest stranglehold on this state, every other issue is irrelevant. They control it all.

@JackStottSC21 I’m Rom curious. I’m dismayed that he has the same position on AI, data centers in particular, as Bernie Sanders. I really want to understand why he wants a ban on data centers in SC.

I have yet to meet a single Rom Reddy supporter… who is coming up with this fake numbers?

@RomReddySC @PCGreenville Why? That’s Bernie Sanders’ position too. You sound like a Luddite. I agree that there needs to be strong guardrails for data centers, but banning them outright is dumb.

@PCGreenville I'm dead opposed to data centers in South Carolina.

Come on county council said they weren’t opposed to holding a public hearing for NorthMark’s land development permit. But one said a hearing would set an “odd precedent.” postandcourier.com/spartanburg/ne…

@mnsibley 1. Boston 2. Grateful Dead 3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 4. Bruce Springsteen 5. Genesis 6. Marillion 7. Hooty and the Blowfish 8. Joe Cocker and Stevie Ray Vaughan 9. Leftover Salmon 10. Heart

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: 1. Night Ranger 2. Rush 3. Boston 4. Def Leppard 5. Five Finger Death Punch 6. Motley Crue 7. Tragically Hip 8. Metallica 9. Clapton, Collins, Philinganes, and East 10. Van Halen

@winekingg Check out Weis Vineyards. Third generation vintner. He emigrated from Germany, his father and brother still have the family winery in Germany.

@sab640 Oh man i dont remember tbh, but ill keep an eye out for those 🤝

There are a lot of terrible white wines, especially in the US. But great white wine is elite. Chablis. Meursault. Chassagne-Montrachet. Pouilly-Fuissé. Sancerre. Pouilly-Fumé. If you want to understand white wine, start in Burgundy and the Loire (France). Pouilly-Fuissé is a great Burgundy entry point because it can be generous and round without becoming a butter bomb. Chablis is sharper and mineral. Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé are Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire at a very high level but solid price. Higher in price, you have Meursault: richer, rounder, and more luxurious. And Chassagne-Montrachet: can give you that power and texture people think they want from California Chardonnay, but with more nuance and elegance. The problem isn’t white wine. The problem is mass-produced white wines tastes like buttered popcorn, vanilla frosting, and oak chips.

@winekingg I have and they’re great! Which Finger Lakes wineries have you tried? The ones on Seneca, Cayuga, and Keuka lakes are the best in my opinion.

@sab640 Have you had some good Burgundy and Loire white wines? For me i strongly prefer those over Finger Lakes but everyone's palate is different

@JackPosobiec The Freedom Train

What do you remember about the 1976 Bicentennial?

@RomReddySC Why? Seems pretty backwards to me.

I am dead opposed to data centers in South Carolina.

@mattvanswol Arrest the kids and their parents.

We need to have a serious discussion about how to fix these teen takeovers. Nearly EVERY time, the crowd is OVERWHELMINGLY Black, but we are not allowed to notice that because that's racist... ...so how do we fix this? Seriously, what is the ACTUAL solution here???

Being governor was never on my bucket list or I would have done it earlier. Running for governor with no campaign donations and using my own money was definitely not on my bucket list. The smarter play was to spend a fifth of a self-funded governor campaign to back someone who could return us closely to the principles of the Declaration. Hoping to do so, I analyzed the various candidates on the following criteria: INTEGRITY — Every private entity I ran had a motto: “When in doubt, take the path of highest integrity.” It was important that a candidate did not just talk about integrity but lived it. BELIEFS — I always felt that if you had foundational beliefs, decisions were always easier. I looked for a candidate whose beliefs were strong and where actions flowed from these beliefs. EXECUTIVE SKILLS — The governor’s job is that of a CEO. The governor must manage a complex executive branch with a focus on results. Congress and lawmaking is about staff jobs. Governing is about leadership and results. Based on these criteria, I could not find a gubernatorial candidate in the field to support. Below is my thinking — in alphabetical order. Pamela Evette: I felt Pam did not have a strong belief system of her own. Most of her beliefs seemed to reflect a need to align with the President. As one of two individual seven-figure donors to the President, I have no issues with re-aligning disastrous Biden policies but I wanted to see what beliefs Pam had on her own, which was not clear. A bigger concern however was her embrace of the McMaster record. I believe history will show McMaster to be a poor governor — he ran SC like a blue state. Uncontrolled doubling of government spending, massive growth in the agency state, head-scratching deals and board assignments for donors and some of the worst economic development deals I have seen in a long time. While Pam touted her business experience, why did she not use some of it to guide McMaster’s decisions? Either he did not believe in her or she did not believe in herself. Finally, I thought Pam advertising her HR company as a “$1 billion dollar company” was very deceptive. In effect, her company processes payroll for other companies. So if she processes a $1 million payroll for my company, she gets a small fraction of that as fees for processing. Yet she counts the $1 million dollars as part of her billion-dollar company. Not the transparency or skill set I could back. Nancy Mace: I could not back Mace for many reasons. She has no executive experience whatsoever. She has spent the last 10 years running for Congress or being in office. It is impossible to make that transition to governing with no knowledge of how to govern or even the ability to understand the difference between balance sheets, income statements, or management. Her very limited people management of her office has been a disaster with the second-highest turnover in Congress. I examined her tax plan and was shocked at the lack of knowledge or sophistication. She freezes expenses at $11 billion while today’s expenses are $15 billion-plus. Where do you find the missing $4 billion? She proposes across-the-board agency cuts — a technique that went out of favor 50 years ago as it freezes things that need to be slashed and protects things that need not be frozen. It was termed “lazy management” by Jack Welch in the 1980s. I examined her record and in the first 3 terms, the only primary-sponsor bill she had was renaming a Post Office. Of course she and others co-sponsor bills others lead. Finally, her belief system was a concern. She was for Nikki Haley, then against. For Trump, then against and then for. She was a champion of LGBTQ and then against anti-trans. She was for a hate crime bill and recently was not. It all gets very confusing. Ralph Norman: Last year someone said I should look at the Freedom Caucus candidate Ralph Norman. So I followed him for a while and this is what I saw: No consequential achievements in 20 years in office — 5 terms in SC House and 5 in the U.S. House. But was there consequential legislation on taxes, regulation, education, infrastructure that Ralph authored? No. I was taken aback at his role in the Silfab Solar panel plant. He was chair of the Solar Caucus in DC and said he had nothing to do with a solar panel plant in his district, in the middle of farmland owned/managed by his family and 100 feet from a school. When citizens objected, he told them it was not his job and they could call the state agencies. When he announced his candidacy, he said he was not a career politician and would clear out career politicians in Columbia with term limits. Twenty years in office and you are not a career politician? This is why citizens are cynical. Ralph also took the position that the citizen should elect judges. On the surface this seems logical. However, in SC the trial lawyers constitute 31% of the legislature and are the biggest dark money donors. As a citizen in court, how would you like to face a lawyer on the other side who raised $2M for the judge’s election? Even our founding fathers did not support this. Ralph claims he is a businessman. He was in real estate development more than 20 years ago. Management techniques and systems from the year 2000 bear no resemblance to today, plus real estate development skills do not translate to operation and organization skills. Alan Wilson: I know Alan as a person and respect his service to this country and his professionalism. However, if he worked at one of our entities, I would tell him that he has zero executive skills and will end up either accomplishing little or doing damage trying to learn these skills. In the private sector, we put so much emphasis on executive development as the single biggest factor of executive success and Alan would do well developing financial and executive governing skills prior to taking the reins of a sprawling executive branch badly in need of reform.

@RepAdamMorgan Not to mention she’s obese. How can the director of public health be unhealthy?

👋Meet South Carolina’s newly appointed Public Health Director— -Donated to Biden DURING Pandemic. -Ran all COVID vaccine campaigns in SC. -Put her infant in COVID vaccine trials… -Pushed mask mandates & shutdowns. -Called for Trump to be impeached. She was just appointed by “Republican”@henrymcmaster And the biggest irony—she donated to McMaster’s Democrat opponent James Smith… Do you trust her judgment to manage public health? Remove Dr. Traxler NOW!

@Write4Republic Fewer guns, more ammo

Americans should buy more guns.

@DefiantLs Because he’s smart , and talented.

Joy Reid: "I can't stand JD Vance… He could literally rescue my cat out of a burning building and I would still hate JD Vance!"

@William83185534 A lot! 100 maybe?

How many pounds should I lose?

@BearsShowYo Not since Daley retired

Chicago is the best city in the world man, there’s no close second.

@guypbenson Had the privilege to watch it live. The entire stadium was locked in to every word. UNC for the win!

Finally watched it all. Extraordinary.

@MandyLSimard No

Have you ever seen a Bear while you were out in nature?

@SaltyGoat17 Likely

Is Brittney Griner a dude?