Annie Andrews Interview: Taking South Carolina’s U.S. Senate Race Down to the Wire
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Annie Andrews joins us for an extended conversation on affordability and her campaign’s late momentum…
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Annie Andrews joins us for an extended conversation on affordability and her campaign’s late momentum…
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Q: Ms.Andrews, what organizations have you led professionally?
A: uhhhhm…
There’s 20 sitting congressmen who are medical professionals, Colonel. Sorry it isn’t another career politico, grease ball lawyer, or scummy corporate exec.
Four in the senate, all Republicans.
Marshall, was an Army officer, served in the House first, no hero
Cassidy, founded a low income MTF,was a state representative first, then the house, finally the Senate
Paul is the only one whose first elected gig was the Senate and I’d hardly call him a role model
Barrasso, ran his own private practice, hospital chief of staff, state representative, finally Senate
None of the four are “great” senators
Andrews has far less experience in medicine or politics than any of those currently serving at their election. She was a faculty member at MUSC when she started her first campaign and took a “leave of absence” because of the problems her campaign was creating for the Hospital. She was not offered her job back. While there, she created an anti gun program to train new doctors, in fact did loudly support transgenderism (part of MUSC’s problem with her) and is in fact a flaming liberal.
A: Well I’m a pediatrician who loves children and wants to help make things affordable and I believe little boys can become little girls……….oh, wait.
I think her medical degree forgot basic biology. What a great leader she would be….smh
It is worth repeating here what I wrote elsewhere: Democracy isn’t about replacing elected officials in new terms of office; it is about evolving them during their terms of office.
The electors’ job does not end upon casting the ballot, it begins then.
Don’t like a trait or position of the official the majority of ballots cast chose? Don’t wait for the next election. Begin immediately trying to educate the elect.
No medical doctor, specially a pediatrician, no matter her previous stance on gender switching, can be ignorant of the Cass Report that SCIENTIFICALLY found most youngsters grow out of the desire to switch genders; and during periods of youthful gender confusion, simple support such as breast binding for females hair-dos for males are as effective in treating the psychological stress of the young ones as hormone administration or surgery.
The desire to switch genders is more a now-fading social contagion than a fixed genuine medical condition, as evidences by the rapid decline in the number of teens who identify as LGBTQ.
The world has much more important problems than kids who imagine they need to switch genders. For those more serious problems, thought and science, not sound bites and attack adds, should offer the solutions.
And apart from Darline and Annie, these comments of mine on your WIR on Lindsey Graham are worth posting here, too:
@RayneLainey , perhaps “the media outlets willing to print it” are no worth reading and that is why they were not, and perhaps should not be, taken seriously.
When allegations of paying for under-age sex are made AND HAVE SOME SUPPORT they result in either criminal charges OR resignation of the official involved, even when a Republican in a majority-Republican Congress.
Two examples come to mind: Former, and now-late House Speaker Dennis Hastert and, more recently, Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, who was reportedly a pick for U.S. Attorney General before Pam Bondi.
Lindsey Graham was never bigger than either of those and would have suffered the same fate had the allegations of payments for under-age sex had any validity.
? @RayneLainey , seriously not sarcastically, did the male sex workers give Lindsey Graham “receipts” for their supposed services? And even if so, would those receipts not have been with Lindsey Graham himself, not with with male sex workers? The little clips I saw, they claimed Lindsey Graham paid them in cash. So, what receipts are you talking about?
Again, I ask seriously not sarcastically, and with care, not for Lindsey Graham, but for you because it is a sin to judge a man when he is defenseless.
God bless nonetheless.
Every SITTING and aspiring U.S. Representative and Senator needs to face this question:
Does the plight of Middle East Christians, a clear majority of whom are NOT Protestants, worry Southern “conservatives” at all? Do you even know that true Christians exist in the Middle East?
In approximate descent of numerosity, in the Middle East in 2026 are left about 30 million Copts in Egypt, about 80% of whom are Orthodox monophysites, 8% Catholic but NOT necessarily Roman Catholic, 5% are Protestants, and 2% are Jehovah’s Witnesses, Adventists, etc. In Lebanon, about 6 million are left, the majority of whom are Maronites. Between Syria and Iraq there WERE at least 6 million more of Assyrians, Syrianites, Malachites, Chaldeans, etc. How many are actually left there varies with estimates. Jump to Jordan, where there are at least 500,000 Christians.
BTW, Dr. Annie Andrews is more likely than y’all to be aware of the existence of Middle Eastern Christians SOLELY BECAUSE about a fourth of physicians in the U.S. are foreign-born/foreign-educated, many (including President Trump’s picks for the FDA and for Surgeon General) are of Middle Eastern Christian ancestry and/or citizenship.
Now, let me bring to your attention two alerting events in the last 30 days and ask for your take on them as a SITTING U.S. lawmaker.
On 30 September 2026, on a Fly-Dubai flight from Dubai to Ben Gurion Airport, a “self-radicalized” co-pilot pretended to want to perform one of the five Moslem daily prayers in the cockpit cabin. The Hindu captain, Smit Machchhar allowed it and respectfully did not look behind himself at the “praying” co-pilot, Hammam al Hammami. Rather than pray, Hammam loosened the cockpit crash axe and began striking Captain Smit in the back of the head with it in order to kill him, take over the plane and crash it into the highest building in Tel Aviv 9/11 style.
Thank God, miraculously, the gravely wounded Smit, fortifying himself with Hindu prayers, managed to open the cockpit cabin door from the inside and scream for help before losing consciousness. The deadheading pilots rushed in, stabilized the plane from the catastrophic descent in which Hammam had put it before being restrained by other passengers, and managed to land it without a single fatality in Tabuk Airport, Saudi Arabia, instead.
Then on Friday, 23 October 2026, three armed men invaded a Christian Orthodox church of Al Karak Governorate in Jordan in the middle of funeral rites for an elderly female and sprayed bullets all around, killing nine and wounding forty innocent worshippers.
No respect for places of worship or for the dignity of the deceased lady being sent to her final rest.
What were Hammami and the three Jordanians trying to achieve?
Did they delude themselves that 12 million Israelis will just get up and leave for no return the only home they ever knew, the home they built over generations and years of real blood, sweat, and tears, and throw themselves into the sea?
Did they delude themselves that the Middle East’s remaining 50 Million Christians will similarly march to the sea, drown themselves, and leave “the Land of Islam” purified of the “kafers” who, according to the Islamist violence-promoters, worship three gods and eat one of those three every Sunday in communion?
Believe it or not, the answers are more likely than not yes and yes.
Or even short of mass self-deportation or self-immolation of 50 million “kafers,” killing a few and making the others miserable is an achievement.
And believe it or not, the delusions and tactics of Islamist violence-promoters are not different from those of U.S. immigrant haters.
BTW, it was none other than Ronald Regan who signed into law the amnesty provisions of IRCA, which began life as the bi-partisan Simpson-Mazzoli bill; and it was none other than the late Lindsey Graham himself who in yester years wanted to introduce a new bi-partisan path-to-legalization before he got obsessed with Ukraine instead.
Notice how the number of Israel’s population, which BTW includes Arabs, Ethiopians, and Mizrahi Jews, approximates the imaginary number of “illegals” who, according to “conservatives” eat white Americans’ pets and steal African Americans’ jobs and women?
Notice also how the grievance of unrepresented litigants are automatically dismissed, regardless of their merits, by U.S. judges of all genders, races, faiths, and political leanings, in the hope that the unrepresented will stop suing?
Why did no one ask any U.S. Senate candidate, or sitting U.S. Senator, from South Carolina if they worry about the future of Middle Eastern Christians?
Do they even know that Christians exist outside the U.S.?
My answer is that the politicians are content to make the opponent suffer verbal blows.
But violence, verbal or physical, never solved anything.
Do these middle-aged blond candidates for one of the two South Carolina Senate Seats have other answers? Do they even know those problems exist?
THIS is where real conscience comes in.