The Reddy Room

10/28/2026

As we approach the midterms, one thing is clear. The Democrats are united. The Republicans are not. This will have some serious repercussions. The US Senate race in South Carolina is a prime example.

State law 7-11-210 requires a candidate running in a statewide primary to sign a pledge with the election commission to support the eventual nominee of the party. The candidate is specifically required to "abide by the results of the primary" and "not run or campaign as a write-in against the nominee."

Ralph Norman and his family decided that they would ignore the spirit of the law and try to get by the letter of the law. How? Ralph says he will honor the law and vote for the nominee, but his family will not, and his son does an interview with "Crooked Will" of (Un)FITS News saying he will support Annie. Ralph goes on to call the nominee a fake and a fraud.

All Ralph has to do is come out and say the voters spoke when 35 out of 46 counties picked Darline over him in the primary, and while he may have some differences with Darline, his differences with Annie are much greater, and he encourages all his supporters to vote for the Republican nominee.

Career politician Ralph, however, who has been in politics for the last 25 years, cannot bow out gracefully and let go of power. His ego and his arrogance get ahead of the people of this state, his pledge, and just plain decency. Of course, he pulls out the same playbook he used against me when he called me (and my wife) a fraud, a fake, and "not from here." He is literally using the same words against the Republican nominee for Senate, Darline Graham. Amplified, of course, by Crooked Will of UnFITS News.

Regardless of your views about the qualifications of Darline, this is not the time for payback. That time passed with the Republican primary. This is the time to compare her to Annie Andrews—yes, the same Annie who, after the 1/2023 mass shooting in CA, said, "It's the f*cking guns"; the same one who said, "Gender-affirming care for minors is not child abuse, it basically means not being an a$$hole to kids"; the same one who wants to codify Roe v. Wade with federal regulations. These are not "internet" attacks. Annie is stupid enough to have articulated these positions in her own words.

So, to all Republicans, the time for infighting was over with the primaries. You may not like the result, but the nominee had to win greater than 50 percent of the primary vote. The losers don't get a do-over. That is our system of picking candidates. Codified into state law.

The US House of Representatives, with a 4-seat Republican majority, is toast regardless of what poll or pundit you believe in. Losing the US Senate can be catastrophic not just for the next 2 years but for a long time.

Let's start with the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas is 78. Another conservative judge, Justice Alito, is 76 and has admitted he may consider stepping down at the end of the current term in 2027. Democrats controlling the Senate will block not only Supreme Court judges but all conservative judges and any remaining Presidential appointments. For that matter, all conservative legislation will be gridlocked, and impeachments will gain oxygen.

The Democrats controlling the House and Senate will introduce legislation like free health care for all, "tax the rich," which is code for tax increases for all, free college, free everything for their constituents, forcing the President to do nothing other than use his veto pen. They will then use the Presidential veto as a reason to elect a Democrat President in 2028. Nothing good will come out of losing both houses.

So, to all Republicans, you may disagree with the President, or you may disagree with your Republican nominee. This is not the time to settle these scores. The alternative is much, much worse. Let's band together, ignore the losers like Norman trying to divide us, and get out and vote for ALL our nominees.

If you have any doubt, I will leave you with one statistic that perhaps saved our nation—in the first 2 years of Biden, there were an average of 1.8 million border encounters in the Southwest with illegals. In the first 9 months of 2025, there were only 98k encounters—a greater than 90 percent reduction. Keep that 1 statistic in mind as you head to the polls. God bless!

10/25/2026

First, I want to say I fully understand the pain and frustration many feel with high gas prices, groceries that seem like they are in an upward spiral, and the frustrations of war. I also understand that some may be frustrated with the President and his approach to war and over-involvement with state politics. On the gubernatorial campaign trail, many of you also expressed frustration at how divided a society we have become. Everything seems different from even a couple of decades ago.

However, beware of the alternative. Before you vote Democrat because they look or sound better, or before you listen to the idiotic write-in campaigns that only dilute us Republicans, take a minute and study the data below.

In God we trust; everyone else bring data, a wise man said.

**ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS:**

The border is now finally closed. Beware of the alternative.

For the first 2 years of Biden, average illegal border encounters in the Southwest were 1.8 million per year.

For fiscal year 2026, the same SW illegal border encounters were 98k!

Nationwide illegal border encounters are now the lowest in history since data tracking started.

**INFLATION:**

It is hard to step back and look at the data when gas and diesel prices appear out of control, but here it is:

Cumulative consumer price increase (CPI) for the first 2 years of Biden was 14 percent inflation (average of 8 percent in 2022 alone).

Cumulative CPI under Trump is 5.4 percent inflation (average in the low 3's so far this year).

**VIOLENT CRIME:**

The FBI statistic on violent crime per 100k population was 389 in 2022, with a murder rate of 6.5 per 100k population.

The same statistic in 2025 was 327, with a murder rate of 4.1. The 327 represented the largest year-over-year drop from 2024 since data tracking was started in the 1930s.

The 4.1 murder rate tied for the lowest rate since the 1950s.

**FEDERAL REGULATIONS:**

There was a massive increase in federal regulations under Biden. The Federal Register page count set an all-time record of 106k in 2024.

The same Federal Register page count was at 61k in 2025, which is the lowest in decades. The final rule count in 2025 of 2,441 was the lowest since records were kept in the 1970s.

**TAXES:**

There was a constant drumbeat of higher taxes under Biden. Taxes were increased on certain large corporations in the first 2 years, along with threats to increase taxes on the "rich" (usually means middle class), introduce wealth taxes, and introduce taxes on capital gains not realized. That means if your stock price went up, you could be taxed on the gain even if you did not sell the stock. They also were not planning on extending the 2017 tax cuts, which means a de facto tax increase.

Trump extended the 2017 tax cuts in full, eliminated taxes on tips and overtime, and reduced taxes on seniors.

Finally, don't forget that we eliminated identity politics in the federal government. Instead of dividing us into subgroups by creating quotas for women, blacks, trans, gay, they, them, and us, we went back to trying to pick the most competent people for the job. Do we always get that right? No. But it is better than picking people because they belong to a certain subgroup. Defeats the purpose of us all being Americans and one nation under God.

So, when I vote, I will try to not listen to the endless ads and name-calling and appealing to the underbelly of humanity and instead vote for the results I want—a sovereign nation, low crime, low regulations, low taxes, and one America. God bless.

10/21/2026

I have my opinion on this but I will let you form your own. Who does this help?

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said Wednesday he’s keeping his promise to support Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) at the ballot box on Nov. 3 but said his family will not. In a radio interview with “The …

10/15/2026

I fully understand the frustrations many Republicans feel with high prices, wars, and an uncertain economy. However, when I hear Republicans claim they may vent their frustration by voting for Annie Andrews, writing in Norman, etc., I say beware the monster you may be unleashing by electing a far-left loony Democrat pretending to be moderate because of her "Republican dad" and her sudden change of heart about her liberal beliefs.

There is a great site, Therealannieandrews.com, that defines "Moderate Annie" in her own words. I listed a few items below. Please study her record in detail before you put someone in office for 6 years who will not only be there for the remaining Trump term but for the entire term of the next President.

Here is "Moderate Annie," often in her own words:

**GUNS:**

After the 1/2023 mass shooting in CA: "It's the f*cking guns."

Then, in a Nancy Mace moment, she doubles down: "Sorry about my language. What I should have said is it's the goddamn mother f*cking guns."

**ABORTION:**

Wants to codify Roe vs. Wade by ending the filibuster in the Senate (so Democrats would only need 51 votes instead of 60). She forgets the fact that the federal government dictating policy to the states violates the Constitution and federalism.

"It is critical that Congress codifies Roe v. Wade as soon as possible. If there are not 60 votes in the US Senate, I support ending the filibuster on an issue as important as this."

**GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR MINORS:**

As recently as April 2024, she posted a video opposing H.4624, the bill banning transition procedures for minors.

She doubled down in a February 2025 post: "Gender-affirming care isn't child abuse. It basically means not being an a$$hole to kids."

**IMMIGRATION:**

In January 2019, she says she called then-Rep. Joe Cunningham to urge the House to keep "holding strong and not funding the border wall."

She also opposed ending DACA, told doctors not to share information with immigration authorities as she continually advocated open-border positions. She now claims she supports "strengthening border security." Daddy get to you, Annie??

**COVID MANDATES AND MEDICAL FREEDOM:**

"Moderate Annie" backed universal masking in schools, claimed she was "dismayed" that Mt. Pleasant Town Council voted down a mask mandate, and wanted to deny organ transplants to anyone who declined to take the COVID vaccine. Crazy Annie is more like it.

**RACE AND IDENTITY POLITICS:**

In 2024, she co-organized a group to rally white women for Kamala Harris. Her co-organizer, Shannon Watts, described the call as charging white women to "check their own privilege." Huh? Say what, Annie??

Darline looks pretty good to me, flaws and all. Can you imagine a Senate with Annie and Abdul El-Sayed? We can do our part and keep her out. Put away your Democratic thoughts and your write-in pens.

10/12/2026

During the gubernatorial race, I took a lot of flak for protecting my private property based on a simple constitutional principle—if land is deeded to you and you pay taxes on it, government cannot step onto your land and claim they have authority over it without buying it. A large American flag flies proudly on my property in honor of that principle.

Now, the bureaucrats at the Department of Environmental Services (DES) are coming for you dock owners. I do not own a dock and have no skin in this game, but I recognize the playbook. Unelected bureaucrats are coming for your rights as dock owners with the same talking points. For all of you dock owners, read this post and act.

This is the DES playbook used on beaches. They plan to rinse and repeat with dock owners. It starts with the bureaucrats at DES (who run their own evil empire with zero oversight) quoting the same noble objective that goes something like this:

DES claims they have been "tasked to promote the economic and social welfare of the citizens while protecting the fragile areas of the coast" (this is similar language used by their masters—the far-left, radical Coastal Conservation League, a 501(c)(3) taxpayer-subsidized organization). All this means is that, in the name of the environment, private property rights will be shredded by a bunch of bureaucrats we never elected.

DES says they are not changing the law (which they are not authorized to do) but merely "clarifying" existing law, so it makes life easier for them and the citizens they enforce these laws on. These "clarifications" are done in the form of regulations (the state has almost 90k of them), which have the force of law. As they did on beach regulations and as they are proposing to do with docks, these are not "clarifications" but wholesale changes that give them more power and take away the rights of private citizens.

How did they come up with these "clarifications"? The same way as beaches—a "blue-ribbon workgroup" that is a cover for their pals at the Coastal Conservation League and a bunch of other left-leaning environmentalists.

For all you dock owners, pay close attention to the changes in regulations they are proposing, especially for R. 30-1.D(50) and R. 30-12 A(2). They claim these changes are to "streamline standards applicable for construction of private and joint-use docks" throughout the state. They plan an "information session" on October 13th in N. Charleston and a formal hearing at the Administrative Law Court in Columbia on October 27th. They will then submit it to the House and Senate Committees with the lie that these changes merely clarify existing law, and these committees will rubber-stamp these changes that become the new law. Get involved now and lawyer up ASAP. Maybe too late, but that is what they count on. Being a surprise to you is part of the plan.

The preamble to the changes that are repeated about a dozen times in the amendments says "the SC coast has experienced a significant population growth including a proliferation of private docks leading to navigation, access and natural resource impacts." The bureaucrats at DES are therefore going to fix this not by changing the law and going through a formal process like they should but by "clarifying existing regulation." You decide whether a handful of items I have listed below (not the full list, by the way) qualifies as a clarification.

The new regulations change allowable dock square footage and the width of the creeks. The calculation of width appears to be at staff discretion. Some changes are blatant—for example, docks will not be permitted in creeks less than 21 feet wide, up from 10 feet wide. This is no clarification but a change in the law.

Joint-use docks changed from 2 times square footage to 1.5 times square footage.

Removed language in some cases that "boat storage structures will not count against total dock square footage." So, presumably, they will now count toward the square footage limitation. Boat lifts and drive-ons also appear to count toward allowable square footage.

Changed requirements for roofs on docks and now appear to be largely at the discretion of DES staff.

Department staff now has discretion to determine allowable channelward dock extensions with vague new requirements (that will always be interpreted against you, judging by their approach on beaches).

Maintenance and repair definitions appear to be at the discretion of staff—words like "major engine repair" is prohibited. Presumably, a desk-bound bureaucrat will determine major vs. not so major. Requirements on whether normal maintenance to piers and walkways will be allowed are vague.

It is not clear to me how grandfathering works after a storm or after a sale. If not questioned, it will be left to the discretion of staff or will require compliance with the new regulations.

There are numerous other restrictive changes couched as clarifications to fool these committees that approve them. Not that it takes much to fool them.

When I ran for Governor, I ran on the principle that our rights come from God. Government's job is to protect or secure these rights. So, even though I don't own a dock, I can see how wrong this is and how the role of Government in our lives needs to be reset, or we will lose the dream our Founders had of a self-governing citizen.

For all of you who may have an interest in this, please read up on yet another power grab in what is supposedly a red state and fight this before you give these folks more firepower to victimize you. As Einstein said, "The strength of our Constitution depends entirely on the determination of every citizen to defend it." God bless this great Republic.

10/05/2026

**WHY THE USA TURNS BLUER THIS NOVEMBER**

The 2026 midterms are on us. All signs point to the Republicans losing ground in both the US House and Senate, but also in some closely contested gubernatorial races.

Current predictions look like the Democrats will win a majority in the US House with between 225 to 230 seats. Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker. Ugh!

The bigger concern is the US Senate. The Republicans currently hold a 53-47 edge. There are 35 out of the 100 seats in the Senate up for election in November. Unfortunately, the Republicans defend 22 out of these 35 seats. The Democrats need to defend their 13 and pick up 4 from the Republicans to gain a majority. It looked unlikely as little as 2 months ago, but things have changed.

Solid Republican seats in Texas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Iowa are now in play. The Democrats looked vulnerable in Georgia and Michigan, but Georgia now looks like it will stay in the Democrat column.

In Texas, after President Trump endorsed the very weak Ken Paxton, the Democrat Talarico has tied the race, which is unbelievable in ruby-red Texas; Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican, is struggling to hold her ground in Maine; the popular Democratic 2-term Governor Roy Cooper in North Carolina has taken a lead over the Trump-endorsed Michael Whatley; Jon Husted, who was appointed in 2025 to replace JD Vance in Ohio, is in a battle against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown; and in Iowa, Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican, appears to be tied up with Representative Josh Turek, a Paralympic Gold medalist. More significantly, the Republicans in these races appear to be losing momentum.

A Senate loss in addition to a House loss will be an unmitigated disaster, especially given the extreme left tilt the Democrats have taken. In today's system, Bill Clinton and John Kennedy will have to run as Republicans!

The question is how did we get here so quickly after across-the-board wins in 2024? Many of the reasons can be narrowed to two self-inflicted wounds and terrible messaging.

The self-inflicted wounds started with the 2024 Trump promise to rein in inflation and make everyday life affordable. This agenda got sidetracked by tariffs and the Iran war.

There is a role for targeted tariffs to protect certain industries and, in some cases, to level the playing field. However, across-the-board tariffs at extraordinary levels cannot be absorbed by the supply chain and shows up in higher prices for food, clothing, cars, building products—basically everything that impacts the everyday person. The only way to implement significant across-the-board tariffs would be to marry them with significant across-the-board tax cuts.

Then came the Iran war. Clearly, no one anticipated that 8 months later we would still be trading insults with the Iranians. Petroleum products, especially diesel prices, have skyrocketed, adding pricing pressure to freight for everyday products, gas for cars, prices for plastics, and other downstream petroleum products.

Uncontrolled Federal spending plus these inflationary impacts have spooked the bond market, causing interest rates for mortgages and consumer loans to reach highs not seen recently.

President Trump has not helped with the messaging. By far, his biggest achievements have been shutting a porous border and passing the big, beautiful tax bill that eliminated taxes on tips and overtime and extended prior tax cuts. You cannot have a sovereign nation without a strong border, and the President exceeded expectations with his quick actions on this front.

Inflation management and staying out of wars, which were his other promises, have not happened. He is also not reading the room on how citizens feel about data centers in their backyards and how states are increasingly starting to resent what they view as federal interference in picking their state representation.

Instead of focusing on specific successes, the messaging from Washington appears to be headlining issues that are not front and center for most everyday citizens—ballrooms, arches, Kennedy Center naming rights, banning news stations for perceived unfair coverage, etc.—which sucks the oxygen out of successes like borders and taxes.

Most voters, Republican and Democrat, are concerned about the crazy cost of food, gas, mortgages, uncontrolled government spending, data centers being forced into neighborhoods and farmland, and wars without a clear exit strategy. They want to know how the next 2 years are going to be better on these fronts.

A slow disconnect between what voters are focused on and what our Government is focused on is how we got to a place where the Democrats have a shot at taking over the Legislative branch. Perhaps, it is time to stop and go back to our Declaration of Independence to seek guidance. The Declaration is clear in articulating that our rights come from God. Government's job is to secure and protect those rights by ensuring that they (Government) have the consent of us (the governed). When we lose that connection, we lose our system of government.

*"ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS—THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN DERIVING THEIR POWER FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED."*

09/23/2026

It is shocking to see the politicians jump on the diesel export ban. While the shock value of the ban may temporarily move the US market marginally lower, it will almost certainly cause the worldwide market to explode. Once reality hits in a week or two, there will be an explosion of pricing upward for diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, and heating oil in the US and the rest of the world. Below is a simple explanation that even our sound-bite politicians should be able to grasp.

Diesel is not a standalone refined product. Diesel and gasoline are produced simultaneously by hydrotreating and hydrocracking crude. They both start with crude oil. The difference is which slice of the barrel is used and how it is cooked. So, if diesel capacity is shut down, then gasoline capacity is also shut down. With that background, what happens with a diesel export ban?

Our refining and diesel capacity is almost entirely in the Gulf region. Let's start with the East Coast diesel needs. The big pipeline for transporting diesel is the Colonial Pipeline from the Gulf to New York Harbor. This pipeline does not go into northern New England. This pipeline is full currently and has almost no capacity.

From New York Harbor, product moves to Boston and other ports by barge. Jones Act rules make these US-flag barges scarce and expensive. Very little spare barge capacity exists today.

Therefore, New England also takes cargoes from Canada and Europe. In winter, that includes heating oil, which is the same middle-distillate family as diesel.

California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii are cut off from the Gulf by the Rockies, and there is no large, refined product pipeline to the West Coast. California's own refineries plus waterborne cargoes, often from Asia, supply this market.

Banning Gulf Coast exports will surely send the world diesel and heating oil market soaring. The problem is we cannot get this additional product to other parts of the US, as the ban does not create new pipelines or extra barges.

As an ex-oil person, what would I do if I was operating refining in the Gulf and I cannot export and I cannot get the product to other parts of the USA? I will put it in storage for a week or two, at which point I run out of storage and start shutting down capacity. When I shut down diesel capacity, I also shut down heating oil, jet fuel, and gasoline capacity in a market that is already supply-constrained. At that point, I have a man-made disaster with fuel prices.

These are not difficult concepts to understand, and it is astonishing to me that these politicians are so quick to get on TV and propose these poorly thought-out solutions to try to make voters feel like they are doing something. Don't fall for this. It will be a disastrous policy that will send all fuels into an upward spiral for us and the rest of the world. Not smart.

09/22/2026

We are reposting a piece from earlier this year about data centers because the issue it rearing its ugly head. Share your thoughts in the comments with us.

Why South Carolina Should Walk Away From Data Centers
Politicians don't know how to make deals
By Rom Reddy

Data centers have suddenly become a big issue in South Carolina. First, let me say I completely oppose them in SC especially given the leaders we have who do not understand how to make any reasonable deals. I also oppose federal mandates on what state should or should not do with data centers. A series of federal executive actions are pushing states toward certain regulatory frameworks, and as usual, politicians are lining up to comply without asking the most important question first - Is this constitutional?

First, data centers themselves. They do not create any level of meaningful jobs and consume vast amounts of power, water, and land. The politicians, including some of the candidates running for office, glibly say what their consultants told them to since none of them have any current governing skills. They say they will get the data centers to pay for the power and water. What they do not say is that the state system is a generic cost-plus system that is not set up to manage power generation and distribution capacity to specific locations. The power companies simply say we need more power; they spend the money for power generation and distribution, add their mark up and pass it on to us with higher rates. If you say that the capacity expansion was for the data center, they will argue it was not, and it was a generic power expansion. Remember the nuclear project of $ 10 billion dollar plus disaster that was attributed to Santee Cooper. No one got assigned the blame. They just write it off with higher rates to us. So do not buy their 45 second talking points. They always talk about slick policy but do not know how to get anything done.

Then you have the ruling class's disastrous deal making skills. They absolutely have never done deals with their money and now think they can do deals with our money. They do not understand risk. They do not understand leverage. They do not understand long term cost vs short term press releases. The disasters with Scout motors, battery plants, solar panel plants and data centers should be a grim warning to not trust making more bad deals with our money. If these were private sector deals, they would all be fired. Terrible terms. Disproportionate risk. Any deals with data centers will be a disaster. Don't let them do it. We will end up holding the bag and paying the price for their addiction to OPM ( other people's money)

Under the Tenth Amendment, states retain sovereignty over matters not explicitly granted to the federal government. Yet what we keep seeing is state leaders bending the knee to federal pressure, adopting federal direction as if it were law, and setting dangerous precedent in the process.

You may like the current president. You may believe he is doing a good job. I do. I gave him a seven figure donation. That is not the point. What happens when the next president is someone like Gavin Newsom? Are you prepared to take direction then? If you have already surrendered state authority, you will not get to choose when to resist. That is why state sovereignty must be defended at all times, not just when it is politically convenient

For that reason alone, I oppose federally driven mandates around data centers. South Carolina should assert its Tenth Amendment rights and make its own decisions and resist all attempts at federal mandates with data centers.

South Carolina is not in a position to gamble on projects it does not understand, negotiated by people who cannot negotiate, under pressure from a federal government that has no constitutional authority to dictate these decisions.

This is how states get into trouble. Slowly. Quietly. One bad precedent at a time.

The smart move is simple. Walk away.

Reassert state sovereignty. Protect taxpayers. Stop chasing shiny objects. And demand leadership that understands the Constitution, understands economics, and understands that not every deal is a good deal.

09/17/2026

THE EVOLUTION OF THE PALMETTO REVOLUTION

On June 9, 2026, we came within a 28k vote swing (or 6 percent of those who voted) from making the gubernatorial runoff and creating a true Palmetto Revolution. I have always believed everything happens for a reason, and I am at peace with the outcome. However, that has not stopped many of you from asking an important question—is this the end of the road for the Palmetto Revolution that so many of you were enthused about? The answer is no. We cannot give up.

First, a walk down memory lane. What is the Palmetto Revolution all about? The Revolution simply said that on our 250th anniversary, it was time to return to the principles of the Declaration. Our rights come from God. Our Founders intended our system of government to be one where Government "secures" or protects these rights on our behalf—not a Government that rules over us by taking more of our money and increasingly controlling our lives.

Today, we are suffocated by a corrupt and all-powerful government at all levels. The Revolution must start at the state level and then progress to the local level by returning money and power to the citizen so a citizen can gain control over their lives.

The Palmetto Revolution called for massively shrinking the administrative state by 50 percent or greater and returning the money to the citizen; massively shrinking the size of local government and slashing property tax rates, including a phase-out of property tax for seniors who have owned their home for more than 10 years and an elimination of property taxes on autos; judicial reform where judges are not selected by lawyer legislators; reform of the family court that destroys both parents and children; and an elimination of dark money donations by modifying some of the worst donation disclosure rules in the nation.

On the positive side, The Revolution sees a role for government in fixing our broken K-12 education system and fixing our roads using modern management practices instead of throwing money at these problems and hoping they go away.

As ambitious as it sounds, I honestly and sincerely believe all this is substantially achievable, but only if we can energize the grassroots. Between a Presidential endorsement and massive amounts of money that went into a smear campaign, I ran out of runway to energize the grassroots through the election process. So, we must go back to a slower and perhaps more difficult path, which is a grassroots revolution to restore our founding principles. South Carolina did this once before, and we can do so again.

The first step will be the formation of the Palmetto Revolution PAC that will support candidates who adhere to the principles we espouse. To that extent, I would like you to send your thoughts on the above principles to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Please share your thoughts freely on whether you agree with the Revolution agenda in general, as discussed in the previous paragraphs. You do not have to agree, but be respectful and constructive in your disagreements.

We will then finalize the principles of the revolution and launch the PAC with a major fundraising initiative base loaded by my family. As you all know, the Supreme Court ruled that all PACs are legal and citizens or corporations are allowed to use them to spread their message under the First Amendment.

They left disclosure of PAC sources up to the states, and SC chose not to have disclosure. However, we will voluntarily self-disclose. All sources and uses of the funds will be made 100 percent transparent on our website, and a special newsletter on activities will go out periodically to all donors, small or large. Getting the right people into government and the wrong people out will be an essential step to achieving our goals, and this cannot be done without funding.

The next step will be developing a media platform statewide. Given the diversity of the state, it may mean 3 or 4 media hubs throughout the state with a mixture of podcasts, radio, TV, digital, and newsfeed. This will likely need to be achieved by a combination of grassroots startups and acquisitions, so we have a voice. We cannot rely on the existing bought and paid media sources to amplify our message.

Our core media platform will be free, with a premium platform open to subscribers only. The subscription will be 7 or 8 dollars per month but will give subscribers much more content, access to weekly or bi-weekly town hall-type questions and answers with me and special guests, ability to call into shows, and regular news feeds. We will also give founding subscribers a rate guarantee for 3 years. We hope you will support such efforts, as it is critical to us gaining a voice in the state.

So, for all you patriots out there that have been and will be victimized by a corrupt establishment, do not give up. Help may be slow in coming, but it is coming. A revolution is way overdue, and why not have South Carolina lead the way again!