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“Quinndom” Crown Prince Draws Primary Opponent

YOUNG LAWYER TO CHALLENGE INFLUENTIAL STATE HOUSE INSIDER || By FITSNEWS || Rick Quinn – the crown prince of the most influential political consulting empire in South Carolina – has drawn a primary opponent. Ryan Holt – a young attorney from Lexington, S.C. – announced this week his intention to…

YOUNG LAWYER TO CHALLENGE INFLUENTIAL STATE HOUSE INSIDER

|| By FITSNEWS || Rick Quinn – the crown prince of the most influential political consulting empire in South Carolina – has drawn a primary opponent.

Ryan Holt – a young attorney from Lexington, S.C. – announced this week his intention to challenge the influential “Republican.”

“Lexington deserves a representative who doesn’t simply vote the right way but takes the extra step of developing creative solutions for the systemic problems that plague state government,” Holt wrote on his website. “If I am elected, you will have a conservative leader in Columbia who will always seek the advancement of liberty and limited government.”

Holt’s wife, Jill Holt (who is prominently featured on her husband’s website) works for the S.C. Senate.

Quinn represented S.C. House District 71 from 1989-2004 – attaining the rank of majority leader. After being ousted by S.C. Rep. Nathan Ballentine in a GOP primary election in 2004, he was elected to represent House District 69 in 2010.

Quinn’s father, Richard Quinn, is one of the most successful political consultants in South Carolina history – although his affiliation with various neo-Confederate causes has garnered him negative attention on more than one occasion.

Along with Russell Guerard‘s campaign against liberal “Republican” Chip Limehouse in Charleston, S.C., we expect this to be one of the more hotly contested GOP primary races of 2016.

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31 comments

utah July 7, 2015 at 8:45 am

Google “Ryan Holt Balloons” to see what a self-important snot this kid is.

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lulz July 7, 2015 at 8:53 am Reply
Instant Campaign Ad July 7, 2015 at 9:51 am

Quinn should hand out balloons at his campaign functions.

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mamatiger92 July 7, 2015 at 9:08 am

I thought I recognized him. Ha!!
Look at me being serious!

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Squishy123 July 7, 2015 at 11:03 am

So he was the light in the loafers VP to the light in the loafers President who was USC President Sorenson’s house boy.

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Jackie Chiles July 7, 2015 at 9:44 am

Looks like he’d take his job seriously, which is probably more than I can say for the other politicians in this state.

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Medical Diagnosis July 7, 2015 at 9:50 am

I think the stick up his ass will medically prevent him from being able to perform the functions of his office properly.

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Jackie Chiles July 7, 2015 at 10:11 am

Yeah, we need to elect chill bros that lol at pranks all the time.

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Mike at the Beach July 8, 2015 at 1:08 am

I don’t know, bro…it would appear that the dude has issues. “Where did the air come from?!” Holy shit; I wouldn’t want that retard handling any legal work for me with logic like that kicking around his head.

Jackie Chiles July 8, 2015 at 9:08 am

You mean someone said something that didn’t make sense when they were in college??? Well I never!

Mike at the Beach July 8, 2015 at 10:00 am

Come on now, amigo…Jackie doth protest too much, methinks. That was a bit more than some silly college utterance- that’s personality stuff there. You close to this guy? I’m not saying he’s UBL, just dorky…

Jackie Chiles July 8, 2015 at 12:47 pm

Never met him, but I do know a lot of dorky guys that didn’t take jokes very well either-which is what made playing pranks on them funnier. Example- this real uptight guy in college always had his room organized. We lowered his seat like 2 inches when he wasn’t there. He comes back, sits down, and immediately knows that someone has been in his room and gets angry. Lucky for him we didn’t have a camera I guess or he’d face anonymous posters putting links to a video of him being mad that his chair was lowered 2 inches in comment sections to news articles if he ever announced a desire to run for office.

My friend in college was, and probably still is, a bit of a dork and uptight, but he’s a good guy that’d probably be a lot better politician than you or I would be. Problem is, with the trend today of endless mockery for any on-camera mistake made during your lifetime, people like my friend would not want to run at all. Not out of fear about being attacked on their stances on issues, but out of the anticipated exhaustion of having to answer a bunch of moronic questions/address internet commentors on how he got mad about his chair being lowered or whatever the case may be.

Your and my kids will grow up being unable to ever make a mistake or fool out of themselves in high school or college because it’ll follow them around the rest of their lives via the internet- and that’s sad. In a way, I’m resisting this trend in my replies to this article.

BTW
I do actually remember seeing this on (I think) VH1 back in the day. I remember it explicitly because it used to be rare to see any stories out of South Carolina on any show. I do find it odd, however, that minutes after he announces he’s running, posters on here not only remembered his name, but had a link to both his wedding video and the VH1 prank video. Just seems pretty coincidental.

Mike at the Beach July 8, 2015 at 11:15 pm

I hear you…and to a certain extent you are correct about the weird trend of video following folks forever. I just think this guys seems a little weird, that’s all. They did pounce on him pretty quickly, but I seem to remember that the initial exposure on that video was pretty popular in the political circles at the time.

Mike at the Beach July 8, 2015 at 1:07 am

Ho…leee…shit.

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Jambo July 7, 2015 at 8:45 am

So he’s a scumbag lawyer, and his wife is sucking off the gubment tit, and he’s the great white hope for liberty? Cockroach couple.

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Jackie Chiles July 7, 2015 at 9:46 am

You seem like a nice person.

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Edit July 7, 2015 at 8:49 am

“Hot wife, Jill Holt (who is prominently featured on her husband’s website) works for the S.C. Senate.”

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Toyota Kawaski July 7, 2015 at 8:54 am

Hell yea send the dam Quinn back to the cheese line.

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UGAalumni July 7, 2015 at 9:33 am

Be sure to catch their “wedding trailer”… http://www.sc-wedding-videographer-blog.com/2010/07/jill_jackson_wedding/

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Jackie Chiles July 7, 2015 at 3:48 pm

Strange that you had that video at your fingertips so fast….

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UGAalumni July 9, 2015 at 11:23 am

It’s amazing how a high speed internet connection and a Google search can generate information; all at your very own fingertips. Have you ever heard of such a thing?

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Sociopathic Narcissism July 7, 2015 at 10:24 pm

Wow. A perfect example of the narcissism of the “me” generation. They didn’t make a video of their wedding to relive their experience…they actually made one to “tell a story”….for everyone else.

Perfect mindset for up and coming politicians.

He’s Clint Webb without the baby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvU3QQH2b2Y

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gaydar July 7, 2015 at 10:01 am

Is it just me or does Ryan appear to be a little “light in the loafers”?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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F3 July 7, 2015 at 10:09 am

I believe he and Wes Donehue were once lovers

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mamatiger92 July 7, 2015 at 10:07 am

yep. that’s him.

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Squishy123 July 7, 2015 at 10:57 am

Nevermind.

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AJ July 7, 2015 at 2:17 pm

Gees, he was a college kid that was worn our and was trying to get home to bed. Most people have done worse.
That’s the problem with politics. Real issues never matter. it is always some nonsense that people latch onto.

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Jj July 7, 2015 at 10:47 pm

If anyone took one minute to speak with him they would realize how serious this young man is about making a difference. Heaven forbid he actually be serious about saving money(balloons) and that he has a good looking wife. Hope he wins.

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Who'll pay for the air? July 8, 2015 at 9:12 am

I don’t know if he’s otherwise qualified but he certainly has the ego for it.

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