![]() If enough write-in candidates organized and ran hard on a pro-democracy platform that included government transparency, supporting a woman’s right to choose health care alternatives, economic justice for all and fairness in elections, they could make a real difference. Lots of people should run for seats as write-in candidates. Strom Thurmond when he was a Democrat in 1954. So let’s take a lesson from the late U.S. Why? Because they gerrymandered the hell out of their districts to keep reasonable opponents from running. Few of these sponsors have any real challenges in November in the general election. House Bill 5399 currently has 51 sponsors – all white and all Republican. John McCravy III of Greenwood, don’t seem to have a reasonable bone in their bodies, perhaps it’s time for South Carolina’s reasonable people – more than 60 percent of whom support some kind of access to abortion as a vital component of women’s health care – to take to the election battlefield with a massive write-in campaign to get rid of the zealots and lemmings. McCravyīut since these zealots, led by GOP S.C. Because of the “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban that the state is now under, there can be virtually no abortions six weeks after inception anyway. Even better: Don’t rush things now but wait for the regular legislative process in January. The right way to do things: Have fair hearings with alternating points of view (instead of stacking the people who you agree with at the beginning) to discuss a bill that actually has language to consider. What’s more infuriating is anti-abortion religious zealots and their lemmings are pushing a complete ban without even waiting to see the consequences of a near-total ban that just went into place a few days back after the overturning of the landmark Roe v. House committee on Thursday to vet a strict abortion ban bill, even though there is still no language attached to the bill that people can parse or criticize. By Andy Brack | There are right ways and wrong ways to do things.Ĭase in point of the wrong: A kangaroo hearing by a special S.C.
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