As you all go to the polls Tuesday, I want to frame the current state of the Governor’s race.
The field has separated into 2 tiers. There are 3 candidates in Tier 1 - Wilson, Evette and myself. 2 out of these 3 will be in the runoff.
For those of you tired of Columbia politics, I am the only one that can prevent one insider (Wilson) running against another insider (Evette). You have to decide if this state can afford 8 more years of this.
Even though I am the only outsider businessman who has never been in politics and takes zero campaign donations, the “outsider” vote is being split between me, career politician Norman and Nancy Mace. For those of you on the fence who maybe are considering Norman or Mace, please recognize they do not have a path to the runoff and by voting for them and splitting the outsider vote, you will inadvertently be setting up an insider vs insider battle between Wilson and Evette.
Let’s see why that would be a disaster. In the last 10 years of Evette/McMaster, the S.C. population went up roughly 10 percent while state spending soared over 100 percent and we became the highest income tax state of any Republican run state. Meanwhile nothing changed on key metrics such as education, roads, median family income or violent crime. Do we want to reward failure by promoting it with Evette?
If S.C. were a private entity in big trouble, would you pick the company attorney to become CEO and fix it? That’s what you would be doing with Alan who has been the state lawyer for 15 years and has never had any governing experience. An insider attorney is not a turnaround CEO.
In my case, not only have I been a CEO of multiple operating companies, I have hired and developed CEO’s and leaders of companies we bought.
I have a very detailed 12 page newsletter (available under the policy tab of our website
Reddyforgoveror.com) that tells you what I will do and how to transfer money and power back to the citizen including eliminating the income tax the right way by rebooting spending, eliminating the property tax on cars/ trucks and phasing out residential property tax for seniors. We will also restrict uncontrolled growth and ban data centers.
So, in summary- regardless of how you feel about the merits of a Mace or Norman or Alan, please be mindful of not setting this race up to be another insider vs insider contest. I am the only remaining option to break this cabal. I humbly ask for your consideration and your vote Tuesday.
-Rom Reddy