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This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC, Columbia, and 94-3 WS.C. Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. Hi there. Good morning. Hope you guys are having a great start to the day. Christopher Thompson with us, and we are getting ready. I guess another event tonight, this time down in Charleston, what are they call them, the Senate Stumps? And this is the one that they're having, what do they call it, the rifle club? Is that where this is happening tonight? And they're not getting all of them, if I remember right? No. They, who is not? Darling Graham is not coming tonight again. She is not. And they, in fact, listed the GOP, the South Carolina GOP listed a series of rules, I guess because she's not going to be there, saying there will be no substitutes or stand-ins if a candidate fails to appear. The original program will proceed with the remaining candidates. The candidate who does not appear can provide a video of their stump speech to be sent out to attendees during the event. But no stand-ins. You can't have somebody talk for you. Yeah, they did that once in a thing. I want to say it was like in Hilton Head that they did that. No, it wasn't Hilton Head. It was in the low country, though. It was for the, I remember the two people from the first district showed up. I'm drawing a blank right now on names. It's early, and I had a rough night's sleep. But then I do remember that they sent out somebody to represent, I think, Alan Wilson. and somebody to represent whoever was running against Alan Wilson back then. But they were talking at an event, and I remember thinking, it's so weird that you would have like somebody speaking on your behalf. Actually, Alan Wilson had the lieutenant governor nominee go down there, Mike Wickenbach. Okay. But it was somebody, some, I don't know, state senator or somebody showed up for, why I can't, Christopher, my brain is not working this morning. Who was running against Alan Wilson? Was it Ralph Norman? Back? Yes. Well, or you're talking about Pamela Evett? Maybe it was Pamela Evitt. That's who it was. Okay. It was Pamela Evitt in a runoff. Okay. And Pamela Evitt had a state senator show up and say some inflammatory things. And I was like, gosh, that didn't go as well as hoped. No. If you're going to send a stand in, they should be kind of like affiliated to you, like in a way where they're going to actually be. working for the office, not just somebody who's a big fan of yours. But yeah, tonight, big night. I'm looking forward to seeing if anything comes out of this. This is, again, Alan Wilson is the host tonight. Charleston Rifle Club doors will open tonight, I think at 515, 630 to 8 o'clock. And then after 8 o'clock, you can meet and greet the candidates. And we've got eight people showing up. Russell Fry. Gail for Rails is making another appearance. And this is the order in which they're speaking. So it's Russell, Glenda, Gale, Mark McBride, Duke Buckner, Mark Lynch, Ralph Norman's coming back, Sam Shepard, and Mark Sanford. And that's the lineup tonight. No Danny Ford on that list. What a surprise. I mean, you fought so hard, bro. Why would you not be coming? I don't know unless he just didn't want to participate.

in any Republican Party event at this point. That's going to help. That's a good strategy. I'm speculating here. I don't know. I wonder, well, I don't want to wonder too much about Danny Ford right now. I don't think it's really going to be very productive for any of us to invest a lot of energy trying to speculate as to why he's in this and, you know, fighting so hard and suing the GOP and all those types of things. So perhaps someday he'll tell us in a book or a docu-series that we can watch on Netflix. Kelly, interesting to note yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled as didn't really rule on the merits of his case. just said it would cause too much confusion at this point to take him back off the ballot again. So he's on. Yeah, and I kind of feel like Judge Coble had said basically that the rule in itself was confusing. So the word confusion has been used a lot. Yeah. And so, again, this is a lesson for not just the GOP, but I think it's a lesson for South Carolina lawmakers because we've had numerous state Supreme Court decisions going against the state because they'll say that you're, whatever the law is that you passed is too ambiguous. It's not. It leads to confusion. It can be interpreted multiple ways. And so, again, I don't. Do I think that the lawyers who are stocked at the statehouse do this intentionally to try to help themselves? Of course I do. I think that they intentionally write the laws this way. Kelly, I think I think Drew McKissick's going to make the case again that this is another. This propels South Carolina closer to closed primaries to let the parties make all the rules and the state essentially stays out of it until we get to the general election. You know, I'm not saying I'm against that because, again, I was making the argument yesterday, I think it was yesterday, that Bernie Sanders hijacked the Democrat Party. I think that the Democrat socialists should have been forced. If you don't agree to the Democrat platform, then you should have to go start your own party. Now, I'm hearing rumors that Tucker Carlson's in the midst of doing something similar, but it's going to be a fringe Republican. Insiders Club that he and Marjorie Taylor Greene and what's his name from Kentucky and Thomas Massie. Yeah, Thomas Massie. That crew, they're all up there, you know, scheming right now. How can we launch this thing that would be inside the Republican Party? I think that the Republicans should block it. Like if you don't agree to everything on our platform, and again, the platform, like, you know, we're very pro-life. We are...

strong military, whatever the thing we want to shrink the size of government. We want to just come up with you. These are your platform issues. And don't make it too specific. But do you agree to all of this? Yes, okay, then you can be a Republican. But if you start saying like on the left side, you're saying you want to erase borders, you want to end prisons. Abolish the police, abolish the Supreme Court, abolish the presidency. Yeah, you actually fundamentally want to throw out the Constitution and get a do-over, then you shouldn't be allowed to be a Democrat because the Democrats, again. I don't like their party per se, but at least they were Americans. They just didn't agree with the way we're going to solve the problems. But they've been hijacked by the DSA, and now they've got a cancer inside their own party. Speaking of which maybe... I think I have time. All right. We'll do it when we come back. I'm going to try to play you. I have the two little audio clips of the mindset of an actual, these are actual DSA members. Like, why do they think the way they think? It might be a little bit surprising to you. We'll try to get to that and more. on South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the low country, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. And after we got off the air yesterday, they called the race for Abdul El-Sayed, who then called anybody who calls him by his full name, racist, which is ironic. I thought, Well, either way. But the Democrat socialism is rising in America. It's on the move. And I found two people who I think give us a great example into the insight of the people who are supporting it. The first one, this guy appeared, I think, Monday night at the St. Paul City Council meeting. Now, he's dressed head to toe. You cannot see him. He's got sunglasses on, but he's got like head coverings. He's got gloves on. He ironically, in St. Paul, introduces himself as Lennon. My name's Lennon. What we're all participating in here is a settler colony on stolen land. This is a government that represents the settlers and the capitalists and the other neoliberal fascists that live amongst us. Why are they brutalizing all of these innocent, beautiful people? What this government, what this system exists to do is to enforce private property. If these people think that they can just go live in the park, no, no, no. That'll bring all our property values to.

So what can we do besides beg and plead, you motherfuckers, for a little bit of humanity? I think we should take away the weapons from the armed group of thugs that they use to brutalize all of us. Oh, and they love it. So that is the first wave of the DSA. That guy represents, when you hear people talk about why they want to defund the police, that is a big part of it. The police are used to enforce private property rights. Why is it that you get to own a home? And some other people don't. Why is it that you get a bigger voice as a homeowner in the community over the homeless person who lives in the park? And then you're trying to kick the person out of the park. That seems inhumane to them. Thoughts Christopher. Well, Kelly, I think that's, that is as scary as it can be. No wonder Democrats are scrambling right now. I mean, you saw Chuck Schumer yesterday. He was asked about the Democrats' big tent. Oh, El Cajad I, what do you think? And he ran away from the microphone. They don't know what to do right now because they're confronting this cancer within their own party. Yeah, it is it is nonsensical lunacy because, well, you know what? I know we're on a tight schedule here. So I'm going to play part two, the other one. But here's a little. Preview. Nobody who's supporting them is black. That is the ironic thing about the Democrat socialists right now are polling below 5% with black Democrats. Below 5% with black Democrats. In other words, there's no Democrats that are black that actually support the Democrat Socialists. So it's pretty much the bourgeoisie of the white folks who want to teach everybody else how to run the country. So. Lenin was leadoff. We'll go next to New York and talk to a Democrat socialist as South Carolina's morning news rolls on. Live from the state capital. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. A couple of mornings ago I was describing how the taxpayers were being abused in the United States, specifically because of fraud. And I used the word largesse. And I received a text message from Joe Wilson who said, Largesse is the French for creating dependency for reliable voters, not the compassion. Is Republican support promoting jobs for meaningful life? That is a great definition. Thank you, Congressman. At the same time, we're talking about the largesse of the Democrat socialists, and they want to create a class dependent upon government. Now, I was talking about the first class, the one who wants to end the property rights, that's why they want to defund the police.

This was done by Nick Shirley. He was in New York interviewing, and you have to see the video. I would encourage you to go look at Nick Shirley's YouTube page to see the two women that he's talking to. They are, in fact, enjoying a bagel and a macha while explaining that they can't afford. a bagel and a matcha. But right now we're currently in late stage capitalism and that's affecting everybody. The cost of a bagel should not be $7. The cost of a matcha should not be $10. So much of America is living paycheck to paycheck on minimum wage. And minimum wage is no longer even covering the cost of life like necessities like rent and groceries. And that's clear. that capitalism isn't effective in our daily lives anymore. And what would be your solution? What Zohran Mamdani is doing right now is really great, like trying to encourage rent stabilization, even making like the bus fare is free, trying to control the price of groceries. Like those are the things that we can do that are small but have a huge impact on people's daily lives. And how come we're starting to see this rise of Democrat socialism? I mean, I think it's because people are finally, like, realizing that capitalism isn't working anymore, especially late-stage capitalism. Like, people know that they're paying most of their paycheck on their rent and their groceries, and then they're no longer able to have a fun bagel or go out and get a drink with their friends because a beer is $12. And I also think that with the rise of the internet, people are able to see how this is working for countries in Europe. Would you rather have... capitalism or communism? They say in the communist manifesto that communism is primed for countries like England, America, and I think the Netherlands as it was, you know, when they wrote it in the 1800s. So when they implemented it in Russia, in China, they bypass the sort of systems of industrialization needed to make communism effective. And so I think that we've never seen communism work. We've never been able to see it work in systems where it's applicable. All right, so she is correct that we've never seen communism actually fully implemented because it always collapses in the socialist phase. The Soviet Union never got to full communism. Cuba never got to full communism. You can't get there because it's a system that collapses upon itself once it runs out of money and it runs out of money because during the socialist phase, people stop working because there's no incentive to work. You know, at no point in the Communist Manifesta, which obviously she's never read, did they even reference any countries. I do love the fact that today, the buzzword amongst all the hipsters is late stage capitalism. That phrase was invented literally at the end of World War I. to describe why capitalism was about to collapse. So it's over a hundred years old. We've been talking about late stage capitalism, but it just became a hot new buzzword in the last two or three years for the hipsters in New York and these other places.

to prove that it's not working. It actually does work well. And as she was talking about the percentage of Americans, they're all living paycheck to paycheck. Well, yes, we do because we tend to live beyond our means, but you could be making 300 grand and living paycheck to paycheck. But so many Americans are actually making minimum wage. Less than 1% of Americans make minimum wage. Less than 1%. Vast majority of them under the age of 20. Also, for fun, just for funsies, I decided to Google how many Americans are making under $20 an hour? Turns out that's a minority, too. A very, I mean, it's like 21% of Americans make less than that $20 an hour paycheck. And overwhelmingly, 68% of those don't have high school degrees. And about 75% of them live in states like South Carolina, you know, all these more affordable places. Nobody in New York is making $20 an hour. And as she sits there sipping on her matcha and eating her bagel explaining that nobody can afford a bagel and a macha. It's just this is a mindset. Christopher where they look they look at social media which I call fake book and see people living amazing lives they're very you know what I'm saying it's very these pictures and videos are really well groomed to make whoever's posting them look like they're living an amazing live and they think that it's communism or socialism is going to just fix all the problems. Kelly, did she say Neverlands instead of Netherlands? She may have. I don't know. I mean, and she looks like she's about 25. She's not the most educated person in the world. It didn't sound like. But. arrogantly confident in their ignorance. And what happens is they go and they hear Amam Zohran Mamdani, they go and they hear Abdul El-Sayed, they go and they hear these Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who are good communicators and attractive people. And they tell them that the problems of their lives, whatever they are, are directly caused by capitalism. And they buy the argument. These are the people we need to reach because... They are the future, right? Whitney Houston's saying it, we're going to have to suffer with it. The children are our future. We didn't teach them well, and pretty soon they're going to be leading the way. All right, we've got to take a break at 6.30 on South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. And good morning to you, 635. Christopher Thompson sent an email to me just a moment ago. And Christopher, this is a poll that you found. What did you find most interesting about that poll? Well, it's, I mean, it dovetails with what you just said about the fact that the young people are so enamored by this Democrat socialist movement. 53% of Gen Z views socialism favorably.

You know, inside that article that you sent, it showed that if you lived through any part of the Cold War, then you are much more likely to look at socialism in a negative light because we actually saw it. You know, when you... For those of you who don't remember Ronald Reagan standing at the Berlin Wall talking about it. I mean, we have a perfect example of what is the socialist society versus a capitalist society look at? We did it in an actual city. It's called Berlin. You can go there and or right now you just look on the internet and look at the lifestyles of the people who lived in East Berlin versus those who lived in. West Berlin and there's a wall in the middle of a city and it's everything's the same except one's being run by socialists one's being run by capitalists and the people in West Berlin prospering living well clean parks safety the people in East Berlin begging for freedom getting shot by the cops as they try to escape to the west and finally you know when Ronald Reagan had Thankfully, we were able to because we were in an arms race, and that's usually what will happen in these types of situations. It's us versus the Soviet Union, and we're outspending them. Because we can because we're capitalist. We can always come up with more money if we need to. And we can outwork you because in a socialist society, there's no incentive for the people to work. So we say, oh, we're going to defend freedom and we're going to be able to make money. So we work harder. And we won the arms race. And then as it's collapsing in the Soviet Union, he points to Berlin and he says, Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall. And it was a couple of years later, I guess. What was it, 1990 that they finally tore it down? You wouldn't even see it right now. You go there and it's like, oh, East Berlin, West Berlin is Berlin. But for those of us who remember it in the 80s, in the 70s, in the 60s, it was horrific what was happening just on the other side of a wall. And this is what they want to bring to our entire country. And Gen Z, who doesn't remember that history and apparently hasn't studied that history, they're just caught up in the rock star moment of some of these rising stars within the Democrat Party, the AOCs, the Bernie Sanders. I'm not sure how... He has managed to stay in that realm, considering, you know, how old he is. But nonetheless, there he is in the middle of all that. And you've got the rising candidates like what we just saw in Michigan yesterday. We have not done a very good job of teaching history, teaching how socialism can't work. We also haven't done a great job of presenting opportunities to young people or letting them understand. You know, I think it was Edison that said that opportunity is missed by most.

because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work. But on the other side of that work is prosperity, freedom, the ability to own a home, the ability to have a vehicle, the ability to marry, make children, live a life of eventually leisure. I mean, Dave Ramsey is the one who says you want to live like no one else does today so you can live like no one else does tomorrow, meaning if you work your tail off in your late teens, early 20s, even maybe into your 30s, by the time you're into your 40s, you probably are going to be comfortable depending on what kind of decisions you make financially. Again, you can't do that in a socialist society. You can't, it's just impossible. And again, capitalism is the only way to drag the world out of poverty. The World Bank talks about that, how when nations apply capitalist principles, it drags the entire population from, you know, this primitive, barely getting by. barely having enough food to eat to oh we have enough food to eat oh we can actually have climate control inside our homes this is the only thing that works i mean i wish that there was another way there's not capitalism is the only way so we got to do a better job of teaching our kids about that and like you said christopher it's scary how many kids don't know about the cold war All right, we're going to take a quick break. It is now 640 on South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. And good morning, 645. There's been a ethics complaint filed against one of the big berg names in South Carolina politics. We're going to talk about that in just a minute. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM WVOC, and 943 WSC. Now, Kelly Nash. So yesterday, ethics complaint filed. by a doctor here in South Carolina. I'll be honest, when I looked at her, at first I thought I was looking at Dr. Annie Andrews. Her name is Dr. Andrea Lamont. I'm going to play a clip of her video that she posted. This would be a medication that would be affordable to families across South Carolina and shows effectiveness in many domains. However, on the last day of the legislative session, the last day when this bill could advance. I was June 25th, if you want to go back into the tapes, June 25th, 2026. The House Majority Leader, Representative Davey Hyatt, who is from House District 4, made a procedural motion, which means he used his leadership authority to make a motion to commit this bill.

to the house agricultural natural resources and environmental affairs committee so instead of taking the vote to move it to the governor's desk and sign into law a bill that the vast majority of south carolinians and their elected official support he decided to send it to the environmental committee She goes on, I mean, it's a 15-minute video. But when you look at her complaint, she also points out that his son is a lobbyist who has a financial interest in making sure that it stays as a prescription medication rather than an over-the-counter medication. And he apparently, according to her complaint, never filed that information. Well, Kelly, as you've pointed out, this is... This is really not about Ivermectin as a drug. It's more about a battle between the Freedom Caucus and South Carolina Republican leadership. That also probably plays into it. But now you have an official... uh complaint being filed with the ethics commission and we'll post that up on social media if you want to see more about it so it'll be very interesting to see how they move forward uh with this and i'm assuming would be an ongoing investigation uh into davy hyatt so but that's that's always fun hey look we like to keep our politics spicy and so they are getting extra spicy this morning um as uh You know, again, he's one of the biggest names in South Carolina politics right now. So that is a rather dramatic turn of events, I would imagine, in his life. So we'll see how it again plays out. All right. We've got to take a quick break. Be back with more. Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News. This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.

W.C. Columbia and 94-3 WSC, Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. And good morning to you. Hopefully you're having a great start to the day. I'm trying to learn how to run the board, so it might sound a little weird here. But thank you, Christopher Thompson, for... showing me what I was supposed to do. Christopher is going to take some time off next week. I am, and then you're going to take the next week off. Yeah, so, but, you know, this will be my first time running this board by myself. So this is scary stuff as we try to figure it all out. In the meantime, speaking of scary stuff, I was talking before the top of the hour about a lady, hey lady, Dr. Andrea Lamont has filed an ethics complaint, or is it called a complaint again? Representative Davy Hyatt. And, um, Basically what she's done, she sent this to the South Carolina Ethics Commission. We have a copy of it here. And in it, she says that his son, a guy named Brad Lander Hyatt, is the registered lobbyist employed by Parker Poe Consulting and is listed specifically as the lobbyist for pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of America, aka Farma. And again, one of their clients, I guess, at Farma, is Ivermectin. And so she points out that it had passed. The Ivermectin was going to become over the counter. It was overwhelmingly passed. I think 100 to 9 in the House and then 38 to 3 in the Senate. So it was going to be, all as you need now, basically, is the second reading, I think. And then it's going to go to the governors and then we're set. On June 25th, 2026, the final day of the session, Representative Davy Hyatt, in his capacity as majority leader, made a procedural motion to commit the bill to the agriculture, and we should talk about that earlier. And then the House adopted that motion by a vote of 5837, effectively preventing the bill from ever reaching the governor's desk before the end of the session, requiring it to start all over in a subsequent session if reintroduced. And then she talks about, again, she goes back to Farmer, she talks about in her complaint that it appears that he's never disclosed that his son had financial interests in Ivermectin. But although not directly, right, he doesn't directly benefit, but kind of indirectly, I guess, would be the, she goes on to say something about the appearance of impropriety or whatever. She's now just, all she's doing is asking for them to.

take up an investigation. Public lobbying records indicate that Representative Hyatt has previously participated in legislative matters affecting the industries for which his son is serving as a registered lobbyist, including legislation relating to hemp and hemp-derived products. These prior instances suggest that the circumstances surrounding this House bill were not isolated in further support review by the commission regarding whether recusal or disclosure obligation were implicated. The appearance of impropriety is heightened by his leadership position, which affords him unique procedural authority. And so she respectfully requests that the State Ethics Commission accept and investigate the complaint, determine whether he violated the Ethics Reform Act by failing to recuse himself from House Bill 4042 and related pharmaceutical regulation matters in light of his son's registered lobbying for pharma. So Christopher, is... Do you think, just based off the surface, that the House leader should have recused himself because of his son's relationship as a lobbyist for the thing? It sounds like he should have. I mean, it would be automatic if that were Davy Hyatt's job in the real world. Yes, if he was, in fact, the lobbyist. Yeah, well, if he worked for the pharmaceutical injuries. What is Davey Hyatt's job in the world? He didn't run for re-election. I'm trying to remember what he does on the side. Wasn't he, in fact, a pharmacist? He might be. They owned a pharmacy, I thought. You might be right there. At one point, I don't know if that's what they're doing now. And also, you know, if he's not running for reelection. He owns a printing company. He now owns a printing company. Well, good for him. And again, if he's not running for re-election, I'm not sure what can be done here, if anything. That's the question, unless you're talking about setting a precedent for future. Or if you're just talking about simply trying to come to grips with... You know, this was a score that was being settled. What we've heard is that, you know, the Freedom Caucus was upset because the Republicans got upset that the Freedom Caucus was running candidates against Republicans. Yes, this has been the claim that some in the House are upset that House Freedom Caucus members actually supported primary challenges to these people who they thought they would use the phrase rhinos. And so they then supported people that they thought were more conservative in primaries. And then this would be payback because the Freedom Caucus, I think J. Kilmartin was. the main voice and pushing this to try to get it across. But again, they didn't take it out against them originally because you heard the vote was overwhelmingly supportive of it. The original vote 100 to 9 in the House. So it wasn't any pushback on it originally. But then for it to come back in the House adopt a motion 5837 to instead of pass it now, put it back into a committee. No, you killed the bill.

You have killed the bill. And you, I mean, I would, look, I know a lot of Republicans who are in the House actually listen to our show, which is awesome. Thank you. And if you're one of those people who switched your vote, I don't know, I don't want to say switched it. You, you, instead of deciding to pass it, which you had originally done, 100 to 9, if you're one of those 100 people who voted for it and then decided to vote to put it to a commission again instead of actually just send it on to the governor. I'd love to hear from you. We have a talkback feature, so you don't even have to call. You can just use the talkback feature on the IHeart radio app. Or for some reason, my email is now becoming a very popular thing, Christopher. I don't know. Are we listed, does our emails out there like for everybody, I guess? Probably so. So I got a ton of emails lately, not just from... people who work at the state house, but also just listeners are now emailing me. Again, I'd prefer you to use the talkback feature. It's so much more interactive when we put you on the show. But you know what, Christopher, we're going to pause on this. If people have thoughts on it, great. But I am going to read an email that was written about you and I. Oh. They're talking about me and you, and they're sending it to me to try to get a response from you. So we're going to do that. We'll do it live. I'm not even going to tell you what it is. Oh, boy. We're going to take it in real time. People, this is exciting. We're dancing on a tight wire. We're going to find out what happens when Christopher responds to one of our listeners. And again, The talkback features the best way on the IHeart radio app to get in touch with South Carolina's morning. Oh, I got to push the buttons, don't I? That's right. I pointed to Christopher like I was going to be out, but no, I have to push the button on South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the Lowell Country, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. I am white knuckling it as I try to figure out how to run all this equipment. Life was so much easier when I had Christopher Thompson running it. I'm here. It's like I'm on training wheels. We're just trying something. Kelly, you can do anything. But you remember when you first learned how to ride a bicycle, how you were just scared to death? Even as soon as they took the training wheels off, it was like, oh, my gosh. Anyway, all right, I'm trying to figure it all out. But in the meantime, I have received an email. Okay. And I mentioned before the break, it involves you. Oh, boy. It says, good morning, Mr. Nash. When you read this, I guess it was sent last night by somebody named CB, CB, like, you know, Citizens Band Radio. Breaker 1-9. Breaker 1-9 there, CB, buddy. It says you and your cohort were discussing Block cameras. And either this week or last week. And your cohort said that if it helps children, this is good. I could not disagree more. He goes through a long list of things. And he's a father of three daughters. He has six grandchildren. And then I won't go through all of it. But he says, we're going to end up giving up all of our liberty.

in order to try to keep kids safe. And then he says, when the DSA takes over, which they will, many Americans will be in trouble for having the wrong bumper stickers on their cars and other things. We already see the flock cameras being abused. By the way, I'll point out WIS television this morning has a new story, not in South Carolina, but in Moorsville, North Carolina yesterday. They arrested another deputy. This is a woman. A woman. And what's her name? Elizabeth Snowman has been arrested for accessing the flock cameras 31 times, according to the police chief there, in an attempt to track her boyfriend's ex-wife. I have no idea why you would track your boyfriend's ex-wife, but not a very pleasant mugshot of her. But anyway, with the flock cameras, any thoughts on we're giving up too much liberty in the name of trying to help protect children? He points out that we've, you know, traditionally we just watch our children. We don't need flock cameras to watch our children. Well, let me say, first of all, CB sounds pretty invested in the fear factor, which, okay, I'll give him that. I don't know that. We're going to be really worried about our bumper stickers. But I would say this, CB, if you had your, if it was your two-year-old that was in that Atlanta back seat over the weekend and you got carjacked and the police found your two-year-old alive and safe within 15 minutes due to flock cameras, you'd probably change your mind a bit. However, Kelly said, having said that, my mind is also starting to change because we're seeing way too many of these stories of flock camera abuses. If they're not going to be more sound regulations put into place about how these flock cameras are handled, then I might start to lean CB's way a little bit more. I'm all for anything that makes law enforcement more effective. I'm always going to be pro-law enforcement. But boy, this is, we're seeing more and more stories of this being abused. Absolutely. And then CB challenges me. Oh. On a different topic. And so he says, by the way, I'd like to know your reason for liking Ralph Norman. I'm not a fan. But I'm always open to hearing others information. All right. Well, look, to be clear, I like Ralph Norman. I like a number of the candidates. I like Mark Sanford. We talked about that the other day. I like Russell Fry. I'm a big fan of a lot of them. I'm a big fan of most Republicans who run for office because you're, you know, the man in the arena. I like that. I like that people are willing to put themselves out there and run for office. As far as why I, by the way, I'm not supporting anybody. Like, I'm not publicly endorsing anybody. But specifically on Ralph Norman, I think that what we're seeing, like, right now, like this week, what you're seeing is a direct response to what Ralph Norman did last year. So I'm talking about...

this idea that the Medicaid expansion, the work requirements, that was Ralph Norman getting that put into the Big Beautiful Bill. He would not pass it originally because Donald Trump's original Big Beautiful Bill was calling for those, you know, expansions on work requirements were going to be further down the line. I think they actually were going to be implemented when Trump was out of office. which Ralph Norman said that's a non-starter for me. I need this to happen now. And so here it is. I think they passed it literally like last June. And here we are now talking about the fact that there's a lot of Americans who are going to have to start providing 80 hours a month of either job training or volunteerism. or showing that you're looking for work or actually working in order to qualify for these benefits. I think that that's a great thing. He showed that he is willing to stand up to the president and help challenge make the president's bills better. That's why I like Ralph Norman. Now, I hope that doesn't come across as a total endorsement of Ralph, although I do like Ralph, but that was one of the reasons I like Ralph. All right, seven. Great to hear from CB. Yes, thank you, CB for participating. I'm guessing that our emails are out there, Christopher. I think it's in the open. It's in the public. I had not anticipated that that would be the way that a lot of people would communicate with this. Again, I defer. to the talkback feature so we can get you on the air. I'd rather hear your voice on the air. Use that off the Iheart radio app. So easy and free to download. And then once you have it, you make us one of your favorites, kind of like your old school radio stations, get a preset there. And then you can hit the microphone button and talk right at Christopher and myself. This is South Carolina's morning news. And I got to remember to push the button again. And I got to slide the thing. Oh, my gosh, this thing, Christopher. We have the most ridiculous mouse in America. But we finally got it in play. All right, South Carolina's morning news. Live from the state capital, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. And good morning to you, 727, and I see that the state newspaper reporting, they don't give us any details in this, but it says that the state house is poised. And I wish they would cite who is telling them this. I like to know that we are apparently going to put a cap. on what you can pay a school superintendent when they depart from the scene. And this is one of those problems that we've had here in the low country in Charleston and the Midlands all over the Midlands, Lexington and Richland Five. Richland 2, Richland 1 have all made massive payouts to their departing superintendents because things change. So you have a school board and the school board is elected to represent the people. And when the people say, I want my school board to do this and implement that, whatever that is, if the superintendent who was hired by the previous school board is not...

willing to adjust to the new sets of rules what has been happening is Well, then we have to pay them to go away. And you have to, you have the previous contract and some sort of craziness involved in there where, you know, in like some instances, you're looking at like a half million dollars going to these people to walk away. The Golden Parachute. The Golden Parachute. So Ellen Weaver has been working very hard. And it says that under this proposal, which is apparently on the verge of passing, mutual separation agreements cannot exceed one year salary. or the remainder of the contract value, whichever is less. I like that as a state law. I like that, too. I mean, if you're a CEO of a major private company, sure, you're going to have a golden parachute built in. You're going to have all kinds of contract incentives and things. We're talking about taxpayer dollars that should be going to our kids that are instead being spent just to pay these people to go away. Shouldn't happen. Specifically, for not doing what the voters want them to do. Exactly. This is a, yeah, so this is a great idea. I salute our statehouse, if they are in fact about to pass this, that's a good thing. And I salute Ellen Weaver for working so hard behind the scenes to make this happen. And I think South Carolina taxpayers, and ironically, the students are going to be in a better place because of it. All right, take a quick break. Be back with more. It's South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina. Morning News with Kelly Nash. Hi there. You might have heard in the South Carolina News update. They were talking about what's going on in Spartanburg County. Now, typically Christopher and I focus most of our attention on the Midlands and the Low Country because that's the two markets that we're in. But we are South Carolina's morning news. And I think that this is a fascinating story. And... For those of you who didn't hear it, or perhaps didn't quite grasp everything that was being said, there was a hearing last night in Spartanburg, where, according to the folks, the last time we had this many people present in our hearing room was the merger and abandonment hearing for Dominion Energy and SCE and G in 2018, according to the Commissioner Justin Williams. What's going on is there's a place called Valara Holdings, and they're one of those data centers, and they're building it in the upstate, and they're listening to what Donald Trump said, and they're listening to what a lot of community members have said, which is we don't want these data centers to be a draw on our utilities. So they said, fine, we will build our own energy plant. The question that becomes, Do they then need to go through all the bureaucratic stuff that you would normally have to go through if you were trying to build an energy plant? Now, there are multiple outlets, apparently, according to the PSC, that do have their own private energy.

sources that did not need this. However, those were at 75 watts or less. 75 megawatts, pardon me. This is a 450 megawatt natural gas plant. But again, the lawyers are saying none of this is going to the public. They're not going, this is, you're not, this is not even going to be available on the grid. All 450 megawatts of this natural gas plant are designed specifically to run our data center. Should they be under the bureau? bureaucratic authority of the state of South Carolina for a private industry. Oh, Kelly, you're putting me in a dangerous place. I'm about to ask for more government regulation. Oh, Christopher. I know, I know. And it sounds ridiculous on the face of it. But I'm not. All right. So what if one of these data centers comes in and says, well, yeah, we're going to power ourselves, just like Trump wanted. And we're going to build our own nuclear plant. Shouldn't that be regulated? Shouldn't the state have some say over, you know, I'm not saying the state should be able to tell them exactly what they can do with their power and how they use it. But. You know, maybe for the safety of the community that lives around that power plant, shouldn't we at least have some type of safety regulations put into place? Some would argue that in the best interest of a company, they would already have safety measures in place because they don't want to kill any of their own employees who would be closest to said power plant. True, but then you look at something like Sylphab, for example, that, you know, was constantly... constantly endangering the community until they finally had to shut it down and they're still discussing exactly how that plant can continue to operate. Well, again, this is an interesting argument. That's why I bring it up. I'm just wondering how people feel about it. What if, you know, how many acres do they own? I wonder. I don't know that it's reported in the story. How far from the general public is this thing going to be? I mean, I know it's a 2.8 Is it $2.8 billion that they're spending to make this place? There's been a lot of money up there in the upstate. They're going to hire a bunch of people. The question becomes, like you say, is it endangering anybody in the general public if they could prove, hey, look, we've got, you know, five miles between us and the general public. There's nothing that could go wrong that would actually kill them. Maybe they don't have to be subject to it. More power to them, literally. go, Christopher. All right. But I still think, you know, it's, and this is, this is not just Spartanburg. This is going to face every community in the, in the weeks and months to come. Yes. Because these data centers are trying to get everywhere. Yes. And so that's the big question that a lot of South Carolinians are wrestling with today. How much government control do you want? How much private manufacturer control do you want? Do you feel comfortable with this idea of, okay, you didn't want them to take your energy, so they're going to create their own energy?

It's just a lot to wrestle with. So it's a fascinating story. We'll see how it's playing out in the upstate. But last night was the kickoff at the first hearing. All right, it is now 739. You're starting your day with South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. 744. Hope you're having a great day. Florida continues to lead the nation when it comes to conservative policies. And they just want a... This was in Atlanta yesterday. U.S. Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit vacated a district court's statewide injunction that was blocking Florida from their 2023 Protection of Children Act. And what that was or is, and it is now going to be fully enforced, is it bans any restaurant, bar, whatever. from allowing children, anyone under the age of 18 from coming in and seeing a drag show. Now, this was a lawsuit was brought by a restaurant chain called Hamburger Marys, which apparently has drag performers serving hamburgers or something. And they thought that this would put them out of business. The judge says basically that we are going to stand by Florida Supreme Court precedent defining lewd behavior. So if your hamburger servers are lewd in any way, then you will. be in trouble. But as long as you're not lewd, you should be okay to serve even children because you look like clowns. I don't know who wants to bring their kids to see the clown show, but if they do, I noticed, I asked, are there any other states that have... current bands on drag shows. And so far, there's Tennessee, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Texas, and Montana. Montana specifically just bands drag performers from reading books in schools to the kids. Texas implemented the adult-oriented public performances where minors might have access to it. So, for example, it was a couple of years ago. whatever it was called, the famously hot drag shows or something here for Gay Pride Month. And I remember seeing some photos of the drag performers, like right on Main Street in Columbia. And they're... You know, there's like little, you know, eight, nine-year-old kids there, and these people are clearly performing in what I would describe as a sexual nature, which made me uncomfortable. We do not have any restrictions currently in South Carolina. Now we have two laws that have been proposed, or bills, I should say. 3381, the Defense of Children's Innocence Act, would make any business hosting a drag show qualify as a sexually oriented business.

For whatever reason, they didn't prosecute. At the same time, China now has 220 million of them. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC, Columbia, and 94-3 WSC Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. It's going to be a big day. Rand Paul and his crew voting on the contempt of Congress vote for... Anthony Fauci. I don't see how they don't find him in contempt. Again, that has nothing to do with a pardon from the president because his own notes that he wrote showed that he was lying to Congress in real time. And I think things got worse for Anthony Fauci yesterday as the... The Department of Health and Human Services apparently had already obtained a copy of his iPhone. And they sent that to Ron Johnson yesterday. So Johnson is the, what is he, the chair of the Homeland Security, permanent subcommittee on investigation. So now he's got the iPhone. And apparently more information about Anthony Fauci prepared to be released, whether it's today or in the not too distant future. But I think just based off of what they've already got on Anthony Fauci, what was presented, was it last week now? It feels like a year ago. Yeah. But whenever that whole thing went down with the I'm pleading the fifth 111 times, I can't even confirm what color the carpet is. That guy, his own notes from that time, contrasted with his testimony at the time, I think is more than enough to get him a contempt of Congress charged today. What do you think? Well, Kelly, a lot of legal experts say just the fact that he gave an opening statement then pled the fifth. That was enough to open him up to anything else with regards to criminal charges. So at the very least contempt. Well, yeah. So then there's because according to Rand Paul, he says, I'm pretty confident we're going to get that contempt of Congress vote. And then I want to refer it to the Department of Justice. At that point, that's when it gets really kind of murky because. He does have a pardon for any, you know, I don't remember exactly how Biden worded it, but it was basically for any crime that you may have committed up until 2024. No problem. No problem. But his opening statement came in 2026. So again, that opens the door to, you know, anything he said in that opening statement opens the door up to charges against, you know, him, his past. i mean i understand what what the pardon says but these legal experts seem to think that because he spoke once before he started pleading the fifth

that opens the door to other charges. So, okay, so Anthony Fauci was given a full unconditional pardon for any and all actions taken between January 1st, 2014, and 2019th, 2025. I guess where I would disagree with these legal scholars that are saying he may be subject to, because he did give an opening statement in 2026, again, the thing that you're going to nail him on is the crime. that happened in 2022, 2021. And I've already, it's like, it's like if O.J. Simpson was still alive. And he came out and said, oh, I totally hacked her to death. Well, yeah, but you've already been found not guilty. So it doesn't matter. You get the pardon now. So I feel like, you know, Anthony Fauci could come out and go, I totally planted the COVID vaccine. Yes, I funded it. Yes, I spread it. Yes, it was also I could test my Myrna theories. I wanted to see if Murna would work. That was the whole point of this thing. And now, because Joe Biden gave me the full pardon for any crimes I committed between 2014 and 2025, I'm admitting to it in 2026, but there's nothing you can do to me. That's where I think. myself and the legal scholars would break. Although I don't expect him to say that. I think his own notes kind of show that he did do that. And he's such an egomaniac. It's hard to believe he's not going to fight tooth and nail once a contempt charge is leveled against him. I'm surprised he could sit on his hands and plead the fifth that long, as long as he did. Because, I mean, we've seen his notes. We've seen his personal journal. He loves to talk about himself. And if he's not talking about himself, he loves others to be talking about it. Do you think he's still keeping notes on himself right now? Not on a government computer. That was a very... ill-advised idea, Tony. You're supposed to be a smart man, Tony. That was not very smart. But we will be watching those proceedings this morning with great interest to see if they do, in fact, get a contempt charge on Anthony Fauci. All right. More to come. This is South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. And I want to say thanks to my friend John. He is a very smart man. John's a very smart man. And I think he's retired now, but an attorney for many, many years. And he... disagrees with this strategy of the Republicans. And is it a strategy? I don't even know. This idea of prosecuting or trying to get prosecution against Anthony Fauci. Today is the contempt vote in Congress. And then later on, if that does pass, then the referral to the Justice Department to decide whether to pursue a criminal prosecution, which again, I think that there's no chance that there's an actual...

conviction or anything because of the pardon it was given to him. But he writes that the Republicans have much larger issues to spend their energies on. This is not moving the needle for the upcoming election. In fact, it may move the needle in the wrong direction, making certain people look bad. So, Christopher, any thoughts on that? That perhaps we're not helping ourselves with the midterms by prosecuting Anthony Fauci. Well, who looks bad? I guess the point your friend John is making, Kelly, is that Anthony Fauci's already made himself look bad, so the Republicans just need to get out of the way and move on to other things. I understand that argument. I'm not sure a contempt of Congress charge is necessarily a bad thing. I couldn't see it blowing up in the Republicans' faces if they just simply level it and then leave it at that. Yeah, the idea of... You know, Anthony Fauci is not Biden in the sense that the prosecutor, what was his name? Who? Is that his name or her? Was that his name? He said that, you know, nobody would prosecute this guy because he's a sympathetic old man, has a bad memory. That's not Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci's not sympathetic. He's old. He's 85, but he doesn't seem like he's lost his memory at all. And he's a defiant 85-year-old man. But to the bigger picture, are we picking on somebody? I would argue that there's a lot of Americans, a lot, who were personally hurt by what happened in the COVID pandemic brought on by. Anthony Fauci's recommendations to shut down cities and towns. And then the fake mask mandate, the fake separation, this idea of distance, which in his own notes, he points out this total BS. There's no science that's ever been created that showed that you could stand six feet apart and it would do a damn thing. I mean, they tried it in 1918 with the flu. It didn't work. People died. People were going to die because of COVID. Then the bigger question is, did Anthony Fauci fund the COVID gain of function research? It seems like he did. And if he funded this through the Wuhan lab, whether it was intentional or an accident, then there... He has to pay a price. And I think just maybe the Republicans are going to botch this and not be able to paint the picture the right way. Anthony Fauci is an actual monster. He's a monster who helped in some part, I don't know what part, but helped in some part unleashing the worst virus of my lifetime. I wasn't here for polio. I didn't experience the polio stuff. And thank God somebody was able to fix that. We don't have a cure for COVID right now. There's still, there's going to be another 100,000 people drop dead this year because of the COVID, or not the vaccine, but the actual COVID. And they're vaccinated and they're still dying. Or they're not vaccinated and they're dying. We don't have a cure. We don't have a cure for a lot of things. But Anthony Fauci was a part of this and lied.

about his participation in it. And whether or not it helps in the midterms, hurts in the midterms, I don't want to say I don't care because I certainly do care. But I also think that at some points, you just have to do the right thing. I'll also point out that it was the Biden administration that got Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro into prison. based off of their contempt of Congress charges. Kelly, I agree with you. I don't want to see Congress get bogged down into a long investigation. I mean, we've certainly got bigger fish to fry, like the Save Act, for example, the Save America Act. That should be top of mind with Republicans right now. Yeah, he doesn't deserve to go unpunished. And Democrats are arguing right now, well, if Republicans stick with this plan, no scientist is ever going to want to take that job again. I don't ever want a scientist like Anthony Fauci in charge of our nation's health protocols. Yes. That's, again. You make a great point. Anthony Fauci was a dangerous man who was given too much power and got more dangerous once he got more power. And unfortunately, that's that age old saying about total power, totally corrupts or whatever. I mean, that's why we have all these checks and balances supposedly. But then when you get into emergency situations, and again, I'll point to, you know, some maybe abuses by Trump with the war. Was it an emergency? Did we need to go right now? Could he have gotten a vote of Congress? All those types of things. We are supposed to be slow and methodical for a reason. But then when you get in what's obviously the pandemic is an emergency. So we surrendered way too much power, I would suggest. And freedom. And freedom through Anthony Fauci and. if you remember the scarf lady and these uh you know people who literally at this point we can now look back if you'd like to a lot of people don't want to do it look back and show that it had very little effect because you can look at the countries that didn't close down and they had basically the same death rates as the people that were on complete shutdown And then you can't factor in what kind of mental health crisis started, how many suicides were, you know, came from this, alcoholism, drug abuse, all that sort of stuff that came out of the fact that they were in isolation. I don't know that we'll ever have a firm grasp on that. But to your point, Christopher, somebody should do something to that guy. Yeah, I don't want to be talking about this months from now, a la the Epstein files. But yes, the Epstein files. Something needs to be done. And then move on. The Democrats, I think, totally botched that, the Epstein files, although the Republicans had their fair share of that nightmare as well. All right, it's 819. We've got to take another break on South Carolina's morning news. Live from the state capital, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. For those of you listening and thinking, wow, Kelly got really good at running the board. I only did it for the 7 o'clock hour. Christopher's back at the helm, and it's much smoother.

All you have to do is follow Kelly on some kind of social media, and you'll realize one thing very quickly. Yeah. Kelly can do anything. Oh, stop. You literally can do anything. So. You're very nice. You know who else can do anything? It seems as our attorney general, Alan Wilson, tonight again, back to being a moderator in the low country. Charleston, you get eight candidates coming out to speak to you. You get this is the speaking order that it's going to go in tonight. Russell. Frye, Glenda Gail Parker, then Mark McBride, Duke Buckner, Mark Lynch, Ralph Norman, Sam Shepard, and it wraps up with the, I guess, hometown hero in some people's eyes, Mark Sanford. That was done by drawing. Yes, random drawing. Uh, doors will open tonight at 515. They go and give their stump speeches starting at 6.30 and this, and then the whole event will be over at 8. And then between 8 and 845, there's a candidate meet and grief. It all happens at the Charleston Rifle Club, uh, tonight with Alan Wilson as your moderator. I, Don't know if, because they say no candidates can have fill-ins, but you can send down a video of your stump speech. It doesn't say if Darwin Graham is going to send it. I don't know. Yeah, that's a good question. But, all right. You know, Christopher, you mentioned something to me in the break earlier, and we maybe should address that. Well, we'll talk about a brew. Is it a brewing controversy? I don't know. We'll tell you what happened. Christopher brought it to my attention, and we'll bring that up next on South Carolina's Morning News. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. So apparently you people love emailing me. I get lots of emails all of a sudden now. So here's one from Dan. I would say yes to pursue the contempt of Congress charges against Anthony Fauci. And if criminal events are found, refer to the DOJ. Otherwise, why bother? Like all the other windmills that the Republican Party has chased over the years, I'll remind you of lock her up. Anthony Fauci should be stripped of his wealth, fame, and freedom. He killed a lot of people. All right. Thank you, Dan. I also got an email here last night. promoting a new television spot that's going to go like the i i'm trying to imagine i'm assuming that the because they give you the actual script of the tv spot and uh i'm assuming that the man has a very low voice and he talks like this career politician Russell Fry Rejected by President Trump. Fry selfishly put himself before President Trump and the MAGA movement. His empty seat could hand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the woke liberals in D.C. power. And Fry hurt hardworking South Carolinians, voting for increasing the gas prices by 70% and nearly $1 billion taxpayer funded bailout. Putting himself first, empowering the woke DEI liberals hurting South Carolina taxpayers.

needs fried fulfilling President Trump. Ooh. Paid for it by Security of Strength. Security Strength also on social media this morning posting, where's the Security Strength tweet? Here we go. Nobody in South Carolina wants to say this out loud, so here it is. Russell Fry didn't earn that seat. Trump gave it to him in 2022. Just pulled him out of nowhere. Made him a congressman overnight. And then they go on and on and on and on. Look. First off, that's a complete lie. Russell Fry didn't just get pulled out of nowhere. He'd already been serving here in South Carolina for a while. I'll also point out that in 2022, there was a boatload of people running for that seat, including the former mayor of Myrtle Beach, Mark McBride. Yeah, he was in that primary. There was a guy named Spencer Morris, Garrett. Barton, Ken Richardson, Barbara Arthur, and of course, the incumbent Tom Rice, who was on the wrong side of Trump because he wanted him impeached. But yeah, he won that. He didn't even have to go to a runoff. Russell Fry won that seat, so he worked very hard to win that election. And then, of course, crushed the Democrat. But security is strength. To me, I know you can't coordinate with PACs legally. It's impossible. But if I'm Darlene Graham, I understand that this is my brother's pack. What's hers now? The biggest complaint by South Carolinian Republicans against Lindsey Graham, by far, the number one thing is he was too close to the military apparatus. Security of strength is that apparatus by which they would. So this is your biggest weakness. You should try to. Distance yourself from this pack. The fact that they're coming out and attacking Russell Fry makes me think that Russell Fry is in second place. Kelly, that was my question to you, is why are they going after Fry and not Ralph Norman? But obviously, they think Russell Fry is Darlene Graham's biggest competitor. And if I'm Darlene Graham, I don't want to be linked to that because, again, Lindsey Graham was a very popular senator, but he only typically got around 56 to 58% of the Republican primary vote. He was always... pretty heavily contested. And it didn't matter, by the way, if there was like that year that Jonathan Rush and I hosted the big thing where we had Nancy Mace and Lee Bright, there was like eight or nine people that came to primary him. He got like 56% of the vote. And then the next year, or, you know, six years later, it was one person primaried him. And he got like 56% of the vote. There's like 56% of South Carolinians like Lindsey Graham on the GOP side. And then, of course, because once you get into the general, you're going to win because about 60% of South Carolinians are Republicans.

But that was his biggest liability. It's not a weakness, but it's a liability. The idea that people don't like the fact that he was so, quote unquote, strong on the military, aka also known as a warmonger. And even Donald Trump joked about it at the man's funeral. He never met a war he didn't love. You don't want to be associated with that. You want to, this is, when they asked her the other night, like, where do you separate from Lindsay? And she said, on the filibuster, you should say I am not as pro-military. I am not as aggressive militarily as Lindsay was. Something to that extent would help you in this primary. In order to be the senator, you've got to win the primary. And if you know that the biggest liability that your brother had was that and now you're getting closer to it, that is going to turn voters off. And I'm just saying that as a political analyst. I'm not pulling for you, nor am I pulling against you. I'm just saying this seems crazy to me. I've seen some of her social media messaging since then. point out the fact that she feels she differs from her brother in that he was so focused on foreign policy and she's more focused on South Carolina pocketbooks. But I don't know how much that sticks when you've got security of strength. I mean, they texted or they tweeted out. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. At least 8 tweets about Russell Fry yesterday. Wow. Yesterday alone. Yeah, now they get the TV ads starting today, I think. So, I mean, they're all in for Darlene Graham. And, I mean, that's great. You've got a candidate that you want to support. That's fantastic. I also understand that negative ads work for whatever reason. I'm hoping that. We're starting to see a diminishing return on negative ads. I hate negative ads. I would much rather hear why your candidate is so great, especially someone like Darlene Graham. Why is she so great? Because as far as we all know, we don't even know her. She's a blank slate. Yes. And that was the thing about Obama years ago that, you know, I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about that ad nauseum. Who is this guy? What we could tell was he seemed like a Marxist, but he really didn't have a whole lot to base that on. So you could project onto him whoever you wanted him to be. Now, he did become more of the guy I really thought he was in his second term. The first term was bad enough. The second term is where he really escalated the Marxist rhetoric and all that sort of stuff. But either way, I'm not saying Darling Grims are anything. I'm just saying we don't know who she is. You should invest in... promoting her, I would think, telling us why she's qualified, talk more about her history here, talk about more about, you know, how she looks at policies, those types of things. But again, I'm not running anybody's campaign. I've already, I've criticized several of the candidates in their campaigning strategy so far. All right, I'm going to stop with that. We'll get to more local news. This is South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. It was 22 years ago.

Christopher, that pork and barrel, the two pigs were brought to the statehouse. I see Nick Reynolds has posted over at the posting courier that today at 10 a.m., we're just over an hour away. Mark Sanford will reappear with a pair of pigs today at the South Carolina State House, just as the legislature was then attempting to kick the can down the road on deficits and spending, so too is Washington today. Accordingly, we need folks in D.C. who will not only vote right, but dig in their heels by resisting Washington's unending appetite for more of what we earn and more of what our children might earn. It strikes me that my parents' generation left us a better America than the one they inherited. at least we can do is give our children more than a gift of indebtedness and a less affordable shot at the American dream. So he's bringing the pigs back today. Kelly, I've had a lot of praise for Mark Sanford's campaign. To this point, I think this, the original stunt had some shock value. I think doing it again is just, it's not the right move. Well. Well, you know, look, we were talking in the, was it the 6 o'clock hour, we were talking about how many kids, I say kids, gosh, some of these people are in their 30s that are pro-socialism now. And the reason, or we'll just say that one of the factors seems to be, if you were alive during the Cold War, you are far less likely to appreciate socialism. How many people, how many voters? have no idea about Mark Sanford bringing, because it's 22 years ago. True. So, I mean, you could be 30 years old and have no recollection of this. Okay. This might be an appeal to the younger voters. It should, I would assume, get some media attention today. Well, it'll get media attention, especially if the pigs do what they did last time, which was poop all over his jacket. I mean, that's, that was the, the image that everyone came away with. Okay, all right, I get the, I understand what he's doing and, you know, what he's holding. But every, every report you saw afterwards said, and the pigs were busy doing their business all over Sanford the entire time he was holding in front of all these cameras. Ah. Maybe we can make sure, maybe have diapers on it today. I don't know. I mean, you know, you learn from the past and you modify your plans. I'm just not sure he needs this stunt. I know he's going around in an old truck, you know, with the check engine light on. He's got symbolism for everything. I'm not sure he needs all this. His message is already resonating. I don't know that you need, you know, all this imaging on top of that. Well, it is tough to get traction. I mean, we're talking about, you know, these packs and what they're spending and so on and so forth. It's tough to get traction. So I, look, you got to do what you got to do. Yeah. He feels like this is going to help.

Like I said, it certainly should get some media attention. And if you want to be there, if you want to see, do the pigs repeat their performance? Again, it's supposed to start at 10 a.m. at the Statehouse thought you might be interested in that. It's South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.30.m. WVOC. and 94.3. W. W.S.C. Now. Kelly Nash. All right. It's getting started right now. I see the... Rand Paul making his opening statements and more than a million Americans died from COVID. Many of them died alone. Workers were forced to choose between a mandate and a job they needed. Businesses closed and never reopened. Children lost years of school. They will never get back. Americans lost the freedom to work, worship, and decide what went into their bodies. Nothing we can do today can undo those losses. But silence does not honor them either. That's part of the opening statement that Rand Paul's making as they decide whether or not to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. The Democrats are attempting to delay. One Democrat just asked that they delay their vote until they can talk to constitutional experts about the Fifth Amendment. Senator Richard Blumenthal just brought up a motion saying they shouldn't consider this until Anthony Fauci's lawyer has had a chance to speak since he was thrown out of the hearing last week. The theatrics continue. It's going to be a dog and pony show all day up there in D.C. And then tonight, don't forget, in the low country, you're going to have Alan Wilson hosting the U.S. Senate Stump Stop. And we mentioned Mark Sanford's going to be at the State House. in just over an hour, 10 o'clock with the pigs, but he'll be back down in Charleston tonight. He'll be going in the final slot. So it's Russell Fry. This is the speaking order. Russell Fry, Gail for Rails, Mark McBride, Duke. Buckner, Mark Lynch, Ralph Norman, Sam Shepard, and Mark Sanford. And again, those doors are going to open tonight for people in Charleston 515. It gets underway at 630. I think it's a first-come, first-served deal. They should be wrapping it up around 8, and then between 8 and 45, 8 and 8-45, if you want to meet some of the candidates and ask them questions yourself, that'd be great, and they have that meet and greet. By the way, record it, and then send it if you get some good stuff. Sure. Christopher Thompson and I would love to air it. Absolutely. Did you get a gotcha question in? And by the way, speaking of, we mentioned Darling Graham. We don't know. We have not heard if she's because according to the rules, you can't have somebody fill in for you. However, if you can't make it, they do invite you to send a five-minute stump speech, I guess. So perhaps. We'll see if she sends something in. Perhaps you will get that tonight. I don't know. And we don't know anything more about Danny Ford other than.

He's on ballots in some places. Most places. Most places. All right. So we'll keep an eye on that as well. Don't see him scheduled to talk to the folks in Charleston tonight. But whatever happens tonight and today and Congress, all that, we'll recap it all again tomorrow morning as we reconvene just after 6 a.m. on South Carolina's morning news.