📣 Welcome to your first lesson. Link 🔗 conservatruthblog.com/Readin… Our goal for these lessons is to help you want to read a bill. Sure, understanding it is important, but you certainly won’t understand it if you don’t want to read it.

It doesn’t much matter whom we elect. Who’s in charge? The law’s in charge, whether or not it makes any sense. ~ The Rule of Nobody.

Government with an ignorant public is theater at best.

📍 After the SC primary results yesterday, it is clear you need to get back to scrutinizing every bill. Put real effort into reading the full text and highlighting the concerns before the language becomes law. You must stop laws from piling up that blur accountability. These measures let politicians look like they are fixing problems when they are really growing government power. That machine just keeps generating the same outcomes at the ballot box no matter who we send there. Time to break the cycle.

Results. 👉 enr-scvotes.org/SC/126294/we…

📍We get what we get because too many voters cast ballots without taking the time to understand the candidates, the issues, or the consequences.

📣 Who is your pick for SC Governor? Nancy Mace Ralph Norman Alan Wilson Pamela Evette Rom Reddy

Scores improving from a low baseline is still a low baseline. The article focuses on the gain from 53.5% to 59.6%. The unseen side of the story is that 40.4% of students still do not meet expectations in ELA. In math, the situation is even more concerning. Only 43.9% meet expectations, meaning 56.1% do not. postandcourier.com/opinion/c…

Did S.164 create independent healthcare competition, or did it give CON-built monopolies enough time to replace independent providers with a growing fleet of corporate doctor-in-a-box clinics that all lead back to the same hospital system? Ah, if only more legislators were more willing to see the unseen before they vote yes on compromised bills.

They’re back! The Senate is back on the floor June 10. Most likely to discuss how to spend more of our tax dollars 💸.

How to Ensure Your SC Legislative Candidate is Truly Conservative conservatruthblog.com/SCLegi…

📍Be careful with candidate endorsements. Endorsements direct attention to the SEEN (some trusted name smiling with a candidate and a thumbs 👍🏼 up) and away from the UNSEEN (who benefits financially, what legislation that endorser wants passed, what interests are being bundled together, and how little the endorser may actually know about what that candidate has done to earn the endorsement).

When evaluating Governor candidates, focus on what they can actually do once elected. ❓How will they use appointments and removals to ensure state agencies are led by people who respect the inalienable rights of the people? ❓How will they restore accountability in agencies? ❓How will they use their veto power to ensure legislation doesn’t expand government beyond its proper role? ❓How will they rein in the growing web of regulations that burden the people? ❓Under what circumstances would they use emergency powers, and what limits should prevent those powers from becoming permanent? Voters should know how the South Carolina Governor will use their power to protect rights, restrain government, and restore accountability.

For those running for SC Governor: There are plenty of medical freedom families who are waiting for the official “I’m against ALL vaccine mandates, and I will ensure informed choice (without consequence) is restored in SC” campaign statement. Because this issue is not going away.

Every election cycle, we hear the same tired promises about fixing this or that, and soon after the candidate wins, things get worse. Why is that? I’ll tell ya why. Most candidates have no idea how to fix it because every fix is tangled with confusing sections of laws and regulations that are full of unnecessary rules, which, when done wrong, make it so nobody is held accountable. Example: Title 59, the Education title of the SC Code. Take a peek at that and tell me if you can figure out who is to blame for the issues in education. So who do we blame for the unfixed? While we, including the next political candidate, are trying to figure that out, election season again! And the candidate can once again use the broken system as part of his or her “I will fix…” campaign speech. But surely that candidate, even if he or she means it, most likely has no clue who to hold accountable to fix it, and so the issues are rarely resolved.

Don’t believe the regurgitated myth that the SC Governor is weak. It’s not true. So before you decide, educate yourself on each candidate’s political history. And even if they’ve never held office, they still have a behavior pattern worth checking. Do your own digging.

America’s impractical policy of making public choices can be summarized as follows: Credo of modern American government: Public choices must be preset by specific legal dictates wherever possible. Officials are not allowed to make practical choices, and must act in ways that are nonsensical and often counterproductive to public goals. Legal rigidity should in all cases trump efficiency, innovation, accommodation, and free choice. Individual responsibility should be avoided and replaced with legal dictates or processes, as set forth in the first sentence, above. — The Rule of Nobody, Philip K. Howard

Looks like SC budget conference committee work is being pushed back until next week.

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