By FITSNews || It happens next to never, but every once in a blue moon the flaming fiscal liberals and anti-free market forces who run the S.C. General Assembly get something right …
Believe it or not, it happened earlier this week when the S.C. Senate – typically ruled by a clueless RINOcrat majority – voted 33-9 to adopt a House resolution sponsored by conservative Upstate Rep. Eric Bedingfield (R-Greenville). What does Bedingfield’s resolution do? It guarantees that South Carolina workers will have access to the secret ballot when it comes to deciding if they want union representation or not.
Basically, the bill – which passed the House a year ago – is aimed at protecting this state’s “right to work” status from so-called “card check” legislation, which union goons are pushing as a way to build back their severely depleted private sector membership rolls.
For more on Bedingfield’s bill and the importance of protecting the state against “card check,” click here …
By Quick Question March 12, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Why did Darrell Scott at the Chamber of Commerce thank Rep. Boyd Brown for helping out on Twitter? Isn’t that guy a Democrat? And how did a rep help out in the senate?
By Seymour Glass March 12, 2010 at 5:44 pm
@ QQ,
If you have to ask, then you really don’t need to know.
By Jamie Sanderson March 12, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Yes, let’s give credit where it’s due. To those who work on a resolution to prevent a law not even signed by a president rather than focus on the state’s unemployment and bring permanent jobs to the area. Let’s give credit to those who want to see workers’ wages stagnant with no chance of ever growing.
I wonder each day here when people will actually do their homework and research what the Employee Free Choice Act would allow workers here in this state. The dribble here is made to convince those who desperately need a voice to forgo asking for one.
By Jimmy March 13, 2010 at 7:01 am
Let’s give credit to Rep. Bedingfield and:
Senator Harvey Peeler
SC Chamber of Commerce
NFIB/Tallon Darby
AGC
Ragley Public Affairs
By kookyone March 13, 2010 at 9:48 am
For months I have held my tongue while Rep. Nikki Haley traveled the state touting her “opposition” to taking federal stimulus dollars, but after reading her Feb. 12 guest column in this paper I felt compelled to set the record straight. Here are the facts:
While the majority of state legislators opposed President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan on principle, we realized that if South Carolina did not accept the federal funds then the hard-earned tax dollars of the families we represent would be spent in other places, like New Jersey and California. In other words, we would be paying the price and getting nothing in return.
Rep. Haley knew that. This legislation was thoroughly discussed, and the issues were very clear. On March 9, Rep. Haley joined 107 other legislators voting for an amendment to the budget bill to accept the stimulus money. The very next day, she voted for the budget bill that included the stimulus money. On the third and final reading of the bill, it passed overwhelmingly with a voice vote.
It was only two weeks after she announced her candidacy for governor that Nikki Haley changed her tune on the stimulus. She then began to publicly question everyone else who had joined her on multiple occasions in voting to accept these federal funds. And despite all of her double talk, the truth is Nikki Haley’s rhetoric just doesn’t match her record.
By Jack March 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Jamie you need to open your eyes, and mind. California, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois all union paradises! Where are their jobs? All moving to non union states in the South, or over seas to avoid the punishing US tax code as well. If you want true economic opportunity for the citizens of SC, you should be pushing hard to maintain the right to work status and pounding on our legislature to quit picking winners and losers through manipulation of the tax code.
By WorkingTommyC March 13, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Love your name, kookyone! It fits.
BTW: that issue is soooooooo fifteen days ago.
By Another Opinion March 14, 2010 at 12:00 am
While she’s not my choice for governor, Haley & others who voted for stimulus $ for SC were right. The choice was take the $ or it would go to other states.
I can imagine the Native Americans in this country felt the same way when they had the choice of starving & dying or moving onto reservations. Or when white folks had the choice of renouncing slavery & by doing so faced death or worse, or when black folks had the choice of demanding the right to be accepted as more than property or just settling to be the equivalent of someone’s farm animal.
There is no doubt in my mind that any truly decent politician in this country who is trying to do what is right while wallowing in the pig sty of the political world is just as confused about what to do as any American citizen.
By kookyone March 14, 2010 at 1:15 pm
thanks working Tommy Cunt!!!
By fastmouth March 14, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Although I think that the “stimulus” by the Obama was and still is a joke, I don’t much blame the legislature for accepting it. If we didn’t accept, it was going somewhere else. We might as well get while the getting is good. These candidates will say and do almost anything to get elected and I mean all of them.
By Witty March 14, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Tommy C is Nikki Haley folks….
By really???? March 15, 2010 at 9:53 am
Jamie, I assumed you were a moron from your picture, but then I read your post and that confirmed it.