Education
Unite on Issues – #realSchoolChoice – SCGOP Opposes?
Did Drew Agree to Unite???
We are all conservatives and should be able to UNITE on core issues. UNITE on the SC Republican Platform’s core values … right???
That is what one nationally known politician advised us to do when he called us this past Saturday night to discuss this battle within the SC Republican Party. Well … WE AGREE!!!
So this week we challenged this politician as well as others (including Drew McKissick & the SCGOP – see below) to do what is right by K-12 kids (low income, special needs & home school) and PASS “real” school choice … the PACE / ACE Scholarship Bill (S 285).
This $55 MILLION bill (net cost to taxpayers is estimated to be much less, if not zero) is the “litmus test” issue we personally know in and out … and that we have been documenting for you all as the “case study” this entire legislative session.
NOTE: School Choice is our personal issue … but the tricks and games politicians play are all the same be it school choice, judicial reform, pro-life, closed primaries, etc., etc. Learn how the RINOs stop one issue, you will see how they stop the entire Platform and why SC is rated #33 (out of 50) as the most liberal red state in the nation.
S 285 has already passed the SC Senate after 4 or 5 hearings … and substantial debate on the Senate Floor. The bill has been vetted, and although we would like a few changes, everyone “supporting” the bill is in agreement that it needs to PASS the SC House of Representatives “as is” with no changes so that it can go straight to the Governor’s Desk to be signed into law.
Why No Changes?: If the SC House changes anything in the bill, even a single word, the entire bill has to go back to the SC Senate … and the word on the street is that Senator Shane Massey (R – Edgefield & Senate Majority Leader) will KILL IT!!!
So … no changes at all. If anyone wants to tweak anything in the bill language, they can file a separate bill that can be debated next session (January 2024). We need this bill to go straight to the Governor’s Desk!!!
YES, WE TRIED!!! As advised, we asked Drew McKissick, better yet we gave him a chance to UNITE on an issue … on “real” school choice … the PACE / ACE Scholarship Bill (S 285) … and do the right thing by the SC Republican Platform.
It is $55 MILLION for K-12 kids … free-market school choice … they should support that right?
Did Drew Agree to Unite??? No, just the opposite!!! His “operatives” came to the SC House Ways & Means Sub-Committee meeting yesterday, Thursday (5/4/2023), and tried to KILL the bill!!!
How? By suggesting minor / meaningless changes to S 285 – mainly they suggested changing the dates between which applications would be taken. Instead of 1/15 – 3/15 each year, they suggested moving those application dates back to November or December.
SAY WHAT?!?!? If we make that minor change, the bill has no time to pass this session (which ends Thursday May 11th, Sine Die) and will go back to the SC Senate where it may be killed!!!
And it gets worse!!! Those application dates (1/15 – 3/15) are the EXACT SAME DATES as the dates in the ESA Bill (100% government run school choice) that was signed into law by the Governor just YESTERDAY!!!
The SCGOP and the “pro-government run” school choice crowd suggested application date changes … when the dates are the exact same as in their “monied” special interest bill. Why would they do that? To kill the bill!!!
#FollowTheMoney!!!
As we teach … “Watch what they DO, not what they SAY.”
CALL your SC House Rep (the one in Columbia, not in Washington DC) and tell them you want them to do what is right and PASS “real” school choice … the PACE / ACE Scholarship Bill (S 285).
WHO CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN?: Advise your personal SC House Rep. to speak with SC House Ways & Means Chairman Bruce Bannister (R – Greenville) & Speaker of the House Murrell Smith (R – Sumter).
We along with school leaders spoke with Chairman Bannister yesterday after the hearing and corrected some of the misinformation … and emphasized how this bill must be passed by next Thursday, Sine Die. We can not wait until January 2024 … it must be passed NOW!!!
This is going to be a great test … and remember … “Watch what they DO, not what they SAY.”
Education
Pickens – Setting the Record Straight – A VIDEO RESPONSE
Bob Fetterly – PCRP Chair 2023-2025
YouTube (HERE) or Rumble (HERE)
We all know about the Drew McKissick shenanigans at the SCGOP State Convention back on May 3rd, 2025 with the “sneak attack” on the Pickens County Republican Party (PCRP) and the ultimate failure to seat the 24 (anti-DREW) PCRP State Delegates on fabricated charges. (mySCGOP.news, May 8th, 2025 – The Latest SCGOP Fabrication – HERE)
It really is dumbfounding … but in reality just another example in a long line of examples since the MAGA America First insurgency began in ReOrg 2021 with the outright fraud in Greenville (HERE & HERE).
Well, it is ongoing with the SCGOP … as they say, the gift that keeps giving insofar as exposing the hypocrisy and outright corruption withing the SCGOP State Leadership & State Executive Committee itself.
Specifically – the SCGOP State Executive Committee voted ( 32 to 18 ) at its quarterly meeting on June 7th, 2025, that the Pickens County Republican Party would be “suspended” until the next quarterly meeting in September. The PCRP elected leadership can no longer use the PCRP name, website, email system, bank account … even with important elections coming up in November … and the PCRP can’t meet … but somehow (even though they can’t meet?) they are supposed to come up with a “plan” to present to the SCGOP State Executive Committee in September on how to fix the fabricated problem.
Basically Pickens was “unorganized” on June 7th (without notice) – even though the SCGOP State Executive Committee did not have the 75% of the votes needed to unorganize PCRP under the “new” Rule 16(b) which was ramrodded through in a special called SCGOP convention in July 30th, 2022.
The good news is the former PCRP Chair, Bob Fetterly (who did not run, nor had he planned to run, for re-election in 2025) has published a video response to the SCGOP charges that he arbitrarily capped the number of county delegates to 400 – a bizarre charge by the SCGOP. Bob did a great job laying out the details … and it now appears that “if” there were any “Rules Violations” … it was really the SCGOP itself that violated it’s own Rules.
Take a look … we think you will enjoy the video response and details:
YouTube (HERE) or Rumble (HERE)
This is obviously going to be an ongoing story … so stay tuned!!!
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Coffee & Politics – June 13th, 2025 – YouTube (HERE) & RUMBLE (HERE)
Friends, we have been running a weekly Coffee & Politics Meeting out of our Greenville Headquarters for nearly 3 1/2 years now … and it has been a huge hit. It is how we communicate our vision and #Mission to or local Volunteers and Community … and it one way we RECRUIT more people to the MAGA America First movement.
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What is the #1 enemy of a political campaign? TIME!!!
The clock is ticking friends. Exactly 365 days from today will be the 2026 Republican & Democrat Primaries here in South Carolina. That is not a lot of time.
It is even less time with EARLY VOTING beginning on Tuesday MAY 25th, 2026 – FRIDAY June 5th, 2026.
ARE YOU READY???
Are you doing what YOU need to do to (1) run for office … or (2) help a CANDIDATE run for office???
The clock is ticking … #FOCUS!!!
PRIMARY: June 9th, 2026
EARLY VOTING: May 25th – June 5th, 2026
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Coffee & Politics – June 6th, 2025 – YouTube (HERE) & RUMBLE (HERE)
Friends, we have been running a weekly Coffee & Politics Meeting out of our Greenville Headquarters for nearly 3 1/2 years now … and it has been a huge hit. It is how we communicate our vision and #Mission to or local Volunteers and Community … and it one way we RECRUIT more people to the MAGA America First movement.
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Coffee & Politics – May 30th, 2025 – YouTube (HERE)
Friends, we have been running a weekly Coffee & Politics Meeting out of our Greenville Headquarters for nearly 3 1/2 years now … and it has been a huge hit. It is how we communicate our vision and #Mission to or local Volunteers and Community … and it one way we RECRUIT more people to the MAGA America First movement.
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Coffee & Politics – May 23rd, 2025 – YouTube (HERE)
Friends, we have been running a weekly Coffee & Politics Meeting out of our Greenville Headquarters for nearly 3 1/2 years now … and it has been a huge hit. It is how we communicate our vision and #Mission to or local Volunteers and Community … and it one way we RECRUIT more people to the MAGA America First movement.
WHEN: Every Friday from 11am – 1pm
The opposition hates it so much … and we temporarily had to move it to a local DENNY’S restaurant … because they actually filed a ZONING / Business Use violation as we were not authorized to have public meetings inside our HQ (outside is OK) as we are just formally permitted as a “business office” AND a PODCAST STUDIO!!! Yes, we are formally permitted at our HQ as a PodCast Studio … so guess what we can do!!!
We are now LIVESTREAMING the meeting not just for our local Greenville Friends … but also statewide (and worldwide as we have had members watch from Europe & even from a transatlantic cruise).
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