As we teach … pick a legislative topic, and go deep!!! Understand it from top to bottom … and follow the “bill” through the process.  That is the only way to figure all this “political” mess out.

Right now, two of the top legislative initiatives of the year are being completely held hostage … in the SC Senate.  First, the overwhelming desire of SC Citizens to HELP our small businesses suffering under the liquor liability issue.  Second, school choice and the utter debacle that these ESAs have become.

So what is going on? 

TORT REFORM … waiting on votes?

We have been following S244 as a case study … mainly because we knew just by the politicians involved it had a nefarious purpose (protect BIG INSURANCE) … and we knew it would be crystal clear that it was not about helping our small business establishments.

Well … it has been an interesting saga (HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE) … and we were right all along.

Now, the Senate Republican Majority Leader Senator Shane Massey (R – Edgefield) is sitting on S244 … reportedly “working votes” for his monied special interest bill … while the clock is ticking on anything to help small businesses.  

Nothing has happened … and the 2025 legislative session adjourns on May 8th … just 53 days from today.  

Meanwhile SC House bill H3497 (HERE) is sitting there, passed the House, reported out favorably from Senate Judiciary … yet Senator Massey won’t let it come up for a VOTE because he wants “his bill” S244.  

It is a total stalemate … and the loser is SC Small Business & The Citizens!!!

Do legislators care about anything except special interest MONEY?!?!?! 

BONUS CONTENT:   We were clued in this past weekend to a little provision in S244 which really proves our point that it is all about serving the BIG INSURANCE special interest.  This gets a little “legal” … but consider this example.

Dad gets killed and it is 1,000% undeniably the fault of the insured, a client of ALLSTATE (as an example).  It is an open & shut case … the deceased Dad’s family lawyer requests policy limits (which everyone agrees should be paid) … but guess what … the BIG INSURANCE company can wait 10 MONTHS to pay.  Why?  The family will get the money … it is not debatable … but the BIG INSURANCE can sit on the claim, earning interest on the cash in the bank … for a full 10 months!!!  The SOUTH CAROLINA family suffers needlessly … can’t pay for funeral expenses without taking out a loan … all while ALLSTATE (as the example) sits around and earns 5% interest keeping the money in their bank.

Seriously Senator Massey … why???

FYI … Tuesday, June 13th, 2028 – 1,185 days from today … will be the 2028 PRIMARIES.  Will Senator Massey have an opponent?  He did not have a challenger in the 2024 primaries … even though he endorsed NIKKI HALEY … and SC Citizens are suffering.  #FigureItOUT!!! 

SCHOOL CHOICE …

… they have no idea what to do!!!

This is the most atrocious legislative case study … it will literally go down in history as the legislation that cost more jobs & political careers in South Carolina than anything else … including past (& future) legislative criminal investigations.

First, know this fight has been going on since about 2003 … and SC, twenty-two years later, still has the nation’s worst rated school choice program.  Par for the course … but sooooooo many pockets have been lined with consulting payments & political donations.  The kids come last … if they are ever considered at all.

The monied special interest ESA (S62 – HERE) was RUSHED through the SC Senate … it went to the SC House and returned “changed” on February 27th … and now the SC Senate has no idea what to do because they have now (reportedly) figured out, as we told them, that no matter what they do it will be found UNCONSTITUTIONAL for the 4th time!!!

So the SC Senate is just sitting on it … having no idea what to do in order to satisfy their monied special interest donors. We have watched it for nearly 12 years now … it is all about the $$$!!!  #FollowTheMONEY!!!

CONCLUSION:  We now have two easy fixes for the SC Citizens.  The SC Senate could just pass H3497 and fix the liquor liability issue and SAVE OUR SMALL BUSINESS, but our legislators won’t do it.  And, the SC Senate & SC House could easily pass S50 / H3420 … the “constitutional” PACE / ACE Scholarship Bill we have followed for years … and all the kids would be taken care of before the end of this semester … without a lawsuit being filed by the opposition as the program is sooooo constitutional they would be laughed out of court.

Our guess is legislators won’t do it.  They know how to fix it … but they won’t because the solutions won’t benefit their monied special interest donors.

Now … what is your solution???  More popcorn???  Kids are suffering … Small Businesses are suffering … but let’s all be “friends” with the people responsible for the suffering.   DO YOU AGREE???

Let us know your thoughts … more popcorn, or more FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT???

team@mySCGOP.com

First of all … let me assure you, I want to be proven wrong. Know that our door is WIDE OPEN to the SC Freedom Caucus (and the RINOs for that matter) for them to come EXPLAIN to us why we are wrong about them.

Please, SC Freedom Caucus … come explain why your BIG GOV’T solutions are really about “freedom”.

Please, SC RINO “Leadership” … come explain to us why your ESA is better “policy” for K-12 children than Senator Tom Davis’ Tax Credit Scholarship bill (i.e. PACE / ACE).

Citizens should know that NEITHER side wants to come to the table and discuss these things with people that know (like us) because THEY CAN’T.  Both sides of the COIN know they are lying to The People … and they can’t sit with elected “equals” (like us) and have the intellectual conversation.  All they can do is spread their lies, rumors and hate … the standard political “tactics” … and hope WE QUIT before YOU ALL figure out we are right.

We, The Citizens of SC, need to stop falling for the same ole tricks.  

Know that the current Republican Leadership in the SC House & SC Senate were, in fact, the “Freedom Caucus” of their day – 20 years ago. 

It becomes clear when the newly “branded” SC Freedom Caucus leads the charge for BIG GOV’T programs like First Steps & ESAs & Refundable Tax Credits … when they flip flop from anti-Convention of States to now supporting it (thanks to Jim DeMints MONEY!!!) … when two years ago they were pushing a CLOSED Convention process as opposed to our wide open Primaries, but today they have flip flopped and now oppose it (because Drew McKissick wants them to oppose it – #FollowTheMONEY!!!) … not to mention their endorsement of RINOs in GOP ReOrg elections, calling MAGA America First a “cancer”, and the lies … the absolutely never ending lies. 

Why do we keep falling for these tricks … because they “call” themselves “Freedom Caucus”???  Is that all it takes for PATRIOTS to support future RINOs struggling for control in Columbia (and losing badly) … for them to “say” a few things we like to hear and promise to be our saviors???  Come on friends, we are better than that!!!

Do we stop calling out Republicans pushing BIG GOV’T solutions simply because they put “Freedom Caucus” next to their name, or because we feel sorry for them because they constantly cry victim of the RINOs in power???  Is it because we “think” these people are working for us, when the reality is the Freedom Caucus & the “establishment” leadership are just two side of the same coin???

Know this … and yes I hope I am wrong … but I have been consistently proven right … BOTH sides, RINO Leadership & the SC Freedom Caucus, are ONLY about the COIN and “who” gets to control it. 

We don’t like RINOs, but we should dislike liars and “future” RINOs wearing a conservative mask even more. 

Remember … just 11 days ago, on March 3rd, 2025, it was the SC Freedom Caucus that called MAGA America First “a cancer”.  What’s unclear with that message???

Since I am recovering from cancer … and the article was about me & our Greenville County Republican Party … I actually took offence and find that a little more than just politics.

Again … please … prove me wrong.

As always … we will meet anytime, with anyone.  On the record, off the record … publicly or privately … and we will sign any legal release for anything said in the meeting.  What more can we offer? 

Watch … the SC Freedom Caucus won’t take us up on the offer … because we are a CANCER to them.  Heck, they said it!!!

[NOTE:  My wife’s response to them calling us a “cancer” is YES … we are a RINO Cancer … and they are the future RINOs.]

Post & Courier (3/3/2025):  HERE

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …

Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.

Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).

Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.

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We always TEACH … where there is a will, there is a way … and that is being proven out right now in the SC Senate.

First … remember when leadership at the SC Statehouse REFUSED to call the legislature back into session following HURRICAINE HELENE?  Literally one of the most devastating hurricanes in history to roll through South Carolina … and “they” are too busy to come back into session and help the citizens of our state.

Step one in all of this is to realize our elected officials don’t care about the citizens … but they do care about BIG MONEY … and they will move heaven & earth to take care of their BIG MONEY donors … and do nothing for YOU!!!

We learned that first hand about Senator Shane Massey in our “real” school choice fight … he picked $$$ over K-12 kids with special needs … and we have no reason to think he has had a change of heart … quite the opposite … and his actions over the past two days seems to have proven just that.

Massey Pulling Out All the Stops for BIG MONEY!!!

We knew following S244 would be a perfect learning example / case study (HERE) … and that has proven out.  

Last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R – Edgefield) lost his vote 25 to 19 … and said “We are DONE.  It’s OVER.“ (HERE)  On Tuesday, Massey “carried over” his S244 – which he had pulled out all his tricks to get the bill on SPECIAL ORDER.  You don’t do that “if” you have the votes.

By all accounts S244 was DEAD!!!  (HERE)

But the statewide robo TEXT MESSAGES kept coming.  Why???  These are not cheap … and who is paying for them???   The SC Senate Republican Caucus???  The guys that refused to go back into session after Hurricane Helene???  How about the SC Chamber of Commerce???  Aren’t those guys 1,000% in the bag for BIG BUSINESS … and affectionately known as the “Chamber of Compromise” … and not in a good way???

Who has the $$$ to resurrect S244 from the DEAD???

Today’s Main Event: S244 vs H3497

So what do The People want from the SC Senate???  A massive Tort Reform Bill like S244 that has far reaching implications no one understands and the BIG MONEY special interest are trying to push through as fast as possible???

Or do The People want a “targeted” bill like H3497 that fixes the liquor liability issue … the one issue that is impacting our small businesses … who can’t afford a massive advertising and robo Text Campaign like we are seeing from some group named the “SC Coalition for Lawsuit Reform 2025″???  

[NOTE:  And what is up with the “2025” at the end of their name???  Those guys, whomever they are, obviously plan on being back year after year and need to keep up with what was done in what DARK MONEY entity.  #FollowTheMONEY!!!]

Let Your SENATOR Know!!!

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/legislatorssearch.php

It is not a hard choice.  Do The People want S244, a massive omnibus tort reform bill using the “cover” of fixing liquor liability … which Senator Massey is trying to push through FAST … or do The People want a “targeted” H3497 that fixes just the liquor liability issue???

Practice calling your SC Senator … NOW!!!

Find Your SC State Senator:  HERE

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …

Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.

Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).

Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.

SUSTAINING & INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS:

Make a Charitable Donation TODAY: HERE

We were right again … the battle over (faux) Tort Reform has come to a head and SC Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R – Edgefield) has come up short … again.

We asked some pretty tough questions two weeks ago (HERE) about S 244 as it appeared to us to be another “in the bag” monied special interest bill being pushed by Senator Massey.  We saw Massey do this in favor of the BIG GOV’T (fake) school choice legislation for years … and it appeared to us that the Senator was back at the feeding trough to fund his 2026 “Governor” ambitions using BIG MONEY Insurance Companies … and sacrificing The People of South Carolina … once again (HERE).

As the old saying goes … Pigs get FAT, hoggs get SLAUGHTERED!!!

And getting slaughtered with a ONE / TWO PUNCH is exactly what happened to Senator Shane Massey last week … and he “cried” about it right there on the floor of the SC Senate (see video below).

Punch #1 – H3497

First of all … kudos to the SC House of Representatives.  We all know the Senate is supposed to be the more “deliberative” (i.e., sensible) body … but it took the SC House to come up with a bill (H3497 – HERE) that fixes … wait for it … THE LIQUOR LIABILITY PROBLEM!!!  

Everyone has been watching the fiasco going on with Senator Shane Massey in the SC Senate over S244.  It had not gone unnoticed by leadership in the SC House … and it was a stroke of brilliance … and it did not even take a rocket scientist … the House simply said “hold my beer … we have a bill to fix that!!!”

Introducing H3497 … the LIQUOR LIABILITY BILL!!!

The bill had been prefilled back on December 5th, 2024 by Judiciary Chairman Weston Newton (R – Beaufort) … appears to have had 3 sub-committee hearings in February … and was REPORTED OUT favorably to the SC House floor on Wednesday the 5th of March … and immediately PASSED by a 109 – 0 margin on Thursday the 6th … with the last step of sending it over to the SC Senate on Friday.  

It truly was a stroke of genius … and appears to have put Senator Massey in a real predicament with his monied special interest BIG INSURANCE backers.

Punch #2 – Goldfinch Amendment

And then came the 2nd KNOCKOUT PUNCH!!!

SC State Senator Stephen Goldfinch (R – Georgetown) … Citadel 2004 by the way … put up an amendment on Thursday afternoon that would essentially gut S244 … and do what everyone wants … fix the liquor liability problem for our small businesses.

Goldfinch spoke first on the Amendment … Massey spoke against it … and then, Massey went out on a limb and made a procedural motion to “TABLE” (aka kill) the Amendment.

Well, guess what … MASSEY LOST by a vote 25 to 19!!!  It was brutal … and Massey completely flipped out … went up to the microphone in the well of the Senate … showed himself out … and MOVED TO ADJOURN THE SENATE COMPLETELY.

It was EPIC … one for the ages … and has likely ended Massey’s future hopes for “Governor” as it looked desperate and like someone who had made promises to powerful monied people, and was not able to deliver.

So now Massey has FAILED at (fake) school choice … and FAILED at (fake) tort reform … after reportedly spending $250,000 of the Senate Republican Caucus’ MONEY.

The real question now, how long will Massey be the Senate Majority Leader???

Stay tuned …  

#LearnTheirTRICKS!!! 

#FollowTheMONEY!!!

“We’re Done. It’s Over.”

March 6th, 2025 – Massey “We’re Done. It’s Over.“ Video:  HERE

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …

Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.

Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).

Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.

SUSTAINING & INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS:

Make a Charitable Donation TODAY: HERE

Purify yourself. Step away from ungodly and unmoral activities. There is good and evil … no excuse to be sitting on the fence. If you do, you support evil. Cease being influenced by the immoral, even if it may appear to be fun and entertaining. It is wrong and unless you stand up against it, you are part of it. Be better. Fix your heart. Guard your affections. Don’t get pulled away from God and God’s people.

“Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
2 Corinthians 6:11-7:1

To repeat from last Sunday (HERE), March 1st marks the beginning of ReOrg Month for SC Republicans! Yesterday was ReOrg day in Greenville and all we have to say is HARD WORK PAYS OFF!

Happy Sunday!

YouTube 1/16/2025: HERE

Folks have been asking for the video of the Greenville County Republican Party Upstate Inaugural Gala back on January 16th, 2025 … and it is finally here. 

It was a GREAT event and and we could not have been more excited and honored to be allowed to professionally video the event for our friends and family all across South Carolina … for YOU!!!

Watch HERE … or click on the video image above.  Enjoy …  

Start – Yvonne Julian, GCRP Chairman

4:15 – Ray Sheen, GCRP Parliamentarian – Invocation

5:25 – Linda Young, GCRP Communications Team – Introduce Bill

5:45 – Bill Frady, WORD 98.9 Noon-3PM Host & Lock-N-Load Podcast

18:03 – Jeff Davis, GCRP State Executive Committeeman

23:00 – Maureen Bannon, WARROOM CEO

59:12 – Jeff Davis – closing

Real Americas Voice

RAV – WarRoom:  HERE

We don’t follow a lot of podcast or new world media … and certainly not the #FakeNews Media who have been lying to us for DECADES now … because really, WE are personally living it on the front lines on a daily basis.  

But … there is one exception and it is STEVE BANNON’s WARROOM (and now we are adding in BILL FRADY’s radio show).  We started noticing that a lot … and I mean A LOT … of “our people” kept talking about STEVE BANNON.  I knew him generally from the first TRUMP Administration … but like I have always said, WE “live” this mess on the bleeding edge … and we don’t have time to follow all this stuff online.

However, Bannon has a very good “resume” … outstanding to be frank .. and when I started watching, all I could think is “this guy is saying the same thing WE have been saying” … and he has a lot more direct contacts in DC and TRUMP World than we do … so we started watching and now we are addicted.

So friends … if you do not know STEVE BANNON & WARROOM … you need to.  We sorta do WARROOM here in South Carolina … but BANNON does it nationally, and like us, is all about grassroots, precinct strategy, and getting us all involved as a FORCE MULTIPLIER!!!  

ACTION!!!

ACTION!!!

ACTION!!!

I’d highly recommend watching on Roku or FireTV by downloading the RAV (Real Americas Voice) App.  They run a live TV … but you can catch up on WARROOM recordings anytime using the app.

#JoinUS  

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …

Jeff Davis is co-founder of mySCGOP.com. Jeff is a ’89 graduate of The Citadel and in 1993 received his Law/MBA from USC. A tax attorney / CPA licensed in Georgia, Jeff is an uncompromised school choice advocate for K-12 children with special needs. Originally from Charleston, and having practiced in Atlanta, Jeff and his wife Olga now live in Greenville. Jeff completed his two year term as Greenville County Republican Party Chairman and is currently serving as GCRP State Executive Committeeman.

Jeff is also “barred” from attending the SCGOP State Executive Committee Meetings (HERE). Why? Because he dared to run against Drew McKissick for SCGOP Chairman – coming in 2nd with Drew only being reelected by 1.8% (HERE & HERE) – and in September 2021 he told the State Executive Committee that Chad Connelly had been under SLED investigation for a year and a half … and it was true (HERE & HERE).

Send us your opinion on this great debate … and how you would like to see it solved … by emailing us at team@mySCGOP.com.

SUSTAINING & INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS:

Make a Charitable Donation TODAY: HERE