A legislator asked us the other day what our “beef” was with Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver?
We don’t necessarily have a “beef” with anyone … but we do believe people should be informed as to exactly what supposedly conservative leaders DO as opposed to what they SAY.
Don’t you?
“Watch what they DO,
not what they SAY.”
– mySCGOP.com
We replied to this legislator with a simple question …
“Why would Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver recommend that the SC Department of Revenue run the SC private school choice program?“
The real question is why would anyone on the planet … much less Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver … recommend the SC Department of Revenue do anything … much less run a private school choice program?!?!?
Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver’s Palmetto Promise Institute in May 2016 published a “Legislative Analysis” that gave South Carolina the NATION’S first 100% government run tax credit scholarship program.
It remains the Nation’s only 100% government run tax credit scholarship program … and it is rated the Nation’s worst rated private school choice program.
So why did Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver recommend the SC Department of Revenue run the private school choice program?
Simple … #FollowTheMoney!!!
Our experience is that Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver have been staging this financial boondoggle for their “monied special interest” backers for a very long time.
When we were first randomly introduced to Ellen Weaver in early 2014, we could tell them she was “cold”. We were novices in the political world and we were just here to make School Choice in South Carolina successful.
Ellen Weaver & Jim DeMint’s Palmetto Promise Institute had a much different plan than we did … and it all had to do with MONEY, and A LOT OF IT!!! By our analysis, just with the relatively small initial ESA bill (S 39) … over $183 MILLION net-present-value!!! (HERE).
Connecting the Dots:
FITSNEWS, April 2, 2019: … “i.e., keeping people on various payrolls as advocates” … [CONTINUE READING]
Keep connecting the dots friends … and remember … “Watch what they DO, not what they SAY!“
When you are hurting kids … especially K-12 kids with “special needs … and you are doing it apparently just for money … you need to be exposed, and that is our goal with Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver.
You know, on second thought … maybe we do have a “beef” with Jim DeMint & Ellen Weaver!!! Maybe you should too.
P.S. Senator Tim Scott
P.S. And yes, we are saddened to report that Senator Tim Scott is intimately involved … and it is very disappointing.
If we were wrong, why won’t his Office return our calls … and why was his SC Upstate Director (and her husband) harvested Form 1 Ballots in the 2021 Greenville County Republican Party ReOrg “fraud”?
Senator Scott … if you truly cared about the kids … you would want to solve the SC School Choice Problem … something we think you could do with a phone call.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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???
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.