Election InformationThe 2024 Party Primary Elections will be held Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Your address indicates you live in the district for this race. You may vote in either the Republican or the Democratic primary.To find your election day polling location, go to: https://vrems.scvotes.sc.gov/Voter/Login?PageMode=PollingPlaceOr you can vote early during a two-week early voting period at your County Voter Registration and Elections Office and other early voting locations from May 28 until June 7except weekends. See:https://www.scvotes.gov/early-votingOr you may be eligible to vote absentee by mail. For details on eligibility and how to submit your request, see:https://www.scvotes.gov/absentee-votingPosition Description - SC State SenateOne of two legislative chambers in the General Assembly, the Senate is composed of 46 members, one from each of the state’s single-member Senate districts, elected to 4-year terms in November of even-numbered years. Members must be citizens of the United States, South Carolina, and their district and be 25 years old. State senators create and amend state laws, pass an annual state budget, and redraw district lines every 10 years.
Campaign Phone
8033150776
Campaign Email
carlislekennedy@kennedylawsc.com
Education
Clemson University BS Corporate Finance, minor Accounting - Clemson University MBA - University of South Carolina JD
Qualifications
Career experiences include wealth management, 11th circuit assistant solicitor (criminal prosecutor), running a small business, and private attorney
Medicaid provides an important social safety to many people across our state. Expansions of entitlement programs require thoughtful consideration. Programs, such as Medicaid can create ongoing unspecified obligations to our State budget decades into the future. If these obligations are significantly higher than expected, it can cause budget crunch requiring our State to cut other services, raise taxes, or dip into rainy day funds in order to balance our budget.
There are many things we can do to increase job opportunities in South Carolina, starting with improving infrastructure, strengthening education, and expanding workforce development programs.
Every citizen has an obligation to be a good steward of this planet. It is important that we balance the needs of our growing population and economy with responsible conservation to preserve the resources and beauty of South Carolina for generations.
First and foremost, all discussions about content and libraries should start from a place of transparency and respect for different views. Educators, Parents, and community leaders should work together to provide quality literature in our school libraries.
Campaign Phone
803-530-8787
Campaign Email
KatrinafShealy@gmail.com
Education
Darden University-Business, USC Healthcare Fellowship,
Qualifications
12 years service in SC Senate, Chair of Family and Veterans Service, Serve on following Committees: Finance, Labor, Commerce, & Industry, Corrections and Penology, and Rules. I also serve on the Joint Bond Review Committee,
I think that SC needs to rethink the position on this. The money that we do not receive goes to another state and we have huge numbers of South Carolinians who are in need of health care
SC currently has a less than 4% unemployment rate. As we consistently bring more industry into the State what we need is more technical education. Many of these new jobs can be filled with a two year degree.
This is not an area that I am well versed but do know that it is believed to be related to climate change. The organizations and research groups need to report to the Office of Resilience any findings so that the state could begin to take action.
School Librarians and educators - for years we believed teachers could do this. They picked out the books and material we read and most of use turned out ok. I realize there are a lot of sensitive material and there are books that do not need to be on our children’s reading list and I hope that the teachers selecting this material know this and we would not have to regulate that. I do believe we need to find there is a problem before we need to solve it. All this being said there could be a time when someone could have to step in and draw a line.
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