SC New Democrats

In a new TV commercial, Mark Sanford says that jobs are the most important issue – and that he has a “better plan” to create jobs. Really? A new study by the SC New Democrats shows that every month that he was governor, SC had a higher unemployment rate than the national average. That’s right [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT Sometimes there is an issue that looks big and complex, with lots of different politicians talking on all sides of it – when in reality, it’s just basic common sense. That is the case with the issue of Medicaid expansion in South Carolina. Once you get past all the partisan [...]

NOTE: Randy Ra Shád is a candidate for City Council in Aiken, SC. This information is taken from his official website. THE CAMPAIGN PLATFORM 1. A Balanced Approach to Economic Development 2. Equal and Balanced Parks and Recreational Facilities 3. Foster a Culture of working with Public Safety ABOUT RANDY Randy Ra Shád Gaines was [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT On Monday, February 4, 2013, 28 year old Alice Boland stood at the main gate of the Ashley Hall School. She pointed her Taurus PT22, a semi-automatic .22 caliber pistol loaded with eight rounds, at a school administrator and a teacher – with 50 students milling around nearby – and [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT Terry Alexander is an old friend of mine. He’s both a gifted minister at Wayside Chapel Baptist Church in Florence and a State Representative for District 59. And while he has a touch of gray in his hair these days, he has not let the passage of years lessen his [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT Since the first of the year, we here at the SC New Democrats have begun to receive a small but growing volume of calls and emails asking whether I intend to run for Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party again this May. And the short answer to that question [...]

BY AGNES POMATA THE BOTTOM LINE: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, by Chrystia Freeland, can be a bit of a slog, but there are a few extremely important trends that she describes that are well worth the time and effort. Near the end of the 19th [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT I am sure that the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was not thinking about South Carolina when he quoted Gen. Kutuzov in his book War and Peace: “Patience and time. Time and patience.” But these words of wisdom seem to make a lot of sense for us as South Carolinians [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT New York real estate mogul Howard Rich is back in the news proclaiming his renewed crusade for private school vouchers in South Carolina. That’s good news for the money-hungry State House politicians who take his checks and bad news for the children of our state and politics in general. Rich [...]

BY PHIL NOBLE, SCND PRESIDENT Twenty school children and their six teachers lay dead in Newtown, Connecticut. The nation mourns. Most everywhere our leaders – in government, churches, schools and even sports – respond to the single burning question: What must we do to keep our children safe – and might that include some sort, [...]