VOTE411 Voter Guide

Protect and strengthen public education by ending unconstitutional private school voucher schemes and ensuring public dollars are invested in South Carolina’s public schools, teachers, and students. Expand Medicaid to increase healthcare access, strengthen rural healthcare systems, reduce uncompensated care costs, and support working South Carolinians who fall into the coverage gap. Protect women’s reproductive freedom and medical privacy by restoring safeguards for access to contraception, miscarriage care, maternal healthcare, and evidence-based reproductive medicine.

I would oppose unnecessary documentation requirements that make it harder for eligible South Carolinians to vote, especially those that burden women disproportionately when legal names may have changed through marriage or divorce. I support election integrity, but security should be both effective and efficient, not a paperwork trap for lawful voters. And I would work to protect access to early/absentee voters--that must not be endangered by restrictions that suppress turn-out.

New legislation is currently being considered at this very moment. I feel strongly that any new legislation addressing protection of SC water and power resources be both prospective and retroactive in order to hold existing, expanding, and new data centers to the same rigorous resource standards. The corporations themselves should be responsible for the increased energy costs; those costs should not be passed on to residents.

As I write this, both of these are endangered by current legislation being discussed in the SC Statehouse, in particular the legislation that is pushing to exclude contraception that prevents implantation of an embryo. There is also an act in committee since 2025 that would serve to protect IVF procedures and providers, H3652. I would fight to have that pulled out of committee and voted into law. I will fight for policies that respect patient choice, follow established medical standards, and provide timely access to the full range of fertility and reproductive health care.

1. Bipartisan Redistricting Laws - to begin fixing our identity politics problem. 2. Repeal right to work laws - to help labor organize for their benefit. For far too long SC has given owners an advantage over labor. This is one of the true government benefits program. 3. Increase taxes on the monopolistic business and top 1 percent of wealthiest South Carolinians.

We need to reframe how government is understood. The mythology of government has come from the elite class and it has shaped the way South Carolinians perceive what is possible with regulation and legislation and why. Too many people, legislators and commentators alike, just do not know how to present the argument and this has led to what we are seeing today: the rise of wealth inequality, increased political polarization and violence, and the break down of the liberal international order, which has allowed companies like BMW to expand into America and Amazon to expand across the globe...

I would take every step available, but as this is part of my main priority, I would find ways to reach republican voters (talk radio) with correct information on how this will destroy America in the long-run. Also, identify republicans who are voting for SAVE-like legislation and being a voting rights campaign in their districts. Exposing people to the correct information and framing is what I believe will create the pressure on legislators to walk away from such idiotic pursuits.

Absolutely vote against AI data centers or tax credits for them as well as any other data centers. And sponsor legislation like that from NY state congressman Alex Bores here in South Carolina that begins to limit and regulate the expansion of AI. We have to protect our lands and people from the harm of data centers and AI while ensuring the benefits work for the whole and not just the elite. I am not against infrastructure, but it has to work for South Carolina and South Carolinians.

100%. Women's rights are human rights. I do not agree with theocratic legislation. These laws limit choice, freedom, and healthcare. It's disgusting to me and if I can, I will sponsor legislation that makes any future legislation about a woman's body can only be voted on by a quorum of female legislators.