FOR RELEASE: Saturday, June 16, 2012
CONTACT: Phil Noble
PHONE: (843)296-1490
EMAIL: phil@scnewdemocrats.org
Phil Noble: ‘The primary is over. We have a nominee. Let’s move forward.’
CHARLESTON – The leader of South Carolina’s reform-minded SC New Democrats today called on his party to unite behind the candidacy of Gloria Bromell Tinubu as their standard-bearer in the state’s new Seventh Congressional District, and end intra-party bickering over her primary victory last Tuesday.
“Gloria won the most votes, carried the most counties, and demonstrated that hers is a message that resonates throughout our party. Her opponents had their chance to make their case to the State Election Commission Friday, and lost. It’s time for Democrats to unite and move forward with our general election campaign,” said Phil Noble, President of the SC New Democrats.
Noble called on those in the party who refuse to concede defeat “to withhold any further personal or political attacks on Tinubu unless and until the courts decide to inject themselves into the race.” Noble said he was particularly dismayed at reports that Preston Brittain, Tinubu’s closest challenger, was continuing to run negative ads and phone campaigns against her.
“Obviously, Preston Brittain is very talented and has a future in South Carolina politics, but he is jeopardizing all of that by refusing to concede and get behind our nominee. My hope is that he will take the high road and embrace Gloria’s campaign.”
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Very well stated !!! I would hope all canidates,Pavalack, Diggs and Britain would back Gloria and stand behind her. She is a fine candidate….Democrats need to unite, not separate!.
Gloria Bromell Tinubu could go a long way toward unifying independent and some moderate Republican voters behind her candidacy by coming out in favor of HR-25, the “FairTax” Bill. That’s the bill that would completely untax the working poor and provide fairness across the board for all income levels as well as attracting jobs and capital back to our shores while taking the politics out of revenue collection.
No more crony capitalism, giving breaks to big corporations while “targeted” taxes are levied against small start-up companies and those out of political favor.
Everyone keeps all that they earn and only pays tax on what the CHOOSE to consume. You, Me, Oprah, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet would all pay the same tax on that Big Mac & fries… and the same tax on that Rolls Royce or LearJet… Point being, YOU the taxpayer are in control when you decide to make a purchase. You pay your tax when you choose to buy any new goods or services. Your purchases of used goods, investments, educational tuition and business-to-business transactions are all FairTax exempt. A young single working mother can choose to buy a used car with her untaxed earnings and have 100% of her labor applied to that purchase. Today, even low income bracket workers still pay 13.6% in combined FICA taxes between their side and the employer’s side. With the FairTax, it would give every working person an increase in take home pay as federal income and employment taxes are abolished along with the hated IRS!
The FairTax meets the entire Democratic tax agenda, starting with progressivity. The FairTax is far more progressive than the current income tax system. Under the FairTax, low-income households experience five times the benefit increase as compared to high-income households.
The FairTax eliminates the highly regressive tax on wages of the working poor and middle class. The FairTax removes the single most regressive element (the payroll tax) for wage earners.
The FairTax is the only plan that completely untaxes the poor. Even a person
with a zero percent income tax rate today must pay payroll taxes on the first dollar they earn and also pay hidden federal taxes in the prices of everything they buy.
The FairTax stops the export of jobs. Our income tax favors imports over U.S. production by exempting imports from U.S. tax, and we penalize U.S. exports by allowing foreign nations to impose taxes when our goods enter their shores.
The FairTax untaxes education. The FairTax rewards education and upward mobility in the simplest and most powerful way: It eliminates tuition from all federal taxation.
The FairTax is the only plan that targets and taxes existing wealth, not the fruits
of labor. The FairTax will tax every dollar of accumulated wealth in the most efficient way possible when it is spent.
The FairTax is revenue neutral. The FairTax, at a 23 percent tax rate, raises the
same amount of money for the federal government as today’s income tax system. This means that steep budget cuts are not required to pass meaningful tax reform.
The FairTax promotes the American Dream. The FairTax makes home ownership more affordable because used homes are totally untaxed, and three out of four homebuyers buy used homes.
The FairTax sales tax rate isn’t graduated; everyone’s resources get taxed at the same 23 percent effective rate. What makes the FairTax progressive is its rebate. The rebate is a trivial share of the resources of the rich, but 23 percent of the resources of the poor. Since our current tax system is regressive, adopting the FairTax would achieve progressivity..
The FairTax is not a political slogan. FairTax.org is nonpartisan. Our broken tax system hurts every American, and it will take leaders from all parts of the political spectrum to fix it.
http://my.democrats.org/page/group/FairTaxDemocrats
Dear Dems, If Gloria Tinubu needs my help in her quest towards Congress please feel free to give her my information. It is time for a big change and I believe none of the Republicans can make those changes. As a stauch independent voter, no other candidate comes close to what is needed in this State. Corruption and Conspiracies have been the norm for too long. I have chosen to back Gloria Tinubu and anything I can do to support her quest would be fine.
GLORIA is an excellent Candidate whom I will support fully when the counting is done..if you assume that I voted for VICK
as a protest vote of sorts, should my VOTE be counted and used to determine % req’d to win ??? DUH ??? IF NOT, there
is no reason to VOTE ! EVERY VOTE must count and EVERY Voter allowed to VOTE. Kinda BASIC in my world. DMY
In a recent election, WOODY, the DOG ran…Vinny’s dog…were his votes (obviously protest of whatever) counted?
My only concern is that if we do this and FORGET about all those voters who voted for VICK, we are NO BETTER than FLORIDA back in 2000!!
This is disenfranchising over 2300 Voters who, even if without hope of him winning, voted for Vick and their votes SHOULD COUNT!!
UNtil this is finally settled, I say the campaign is STILL ON and good luck to both candidates!!
IKE Welsh