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Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Earlier today, SC Rep. Ralph Norman, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, released a statement saying there was nobody to blame for the invasion than Putin himself.

Here, Arrington blaming not just Biden, but the people who certified his election.
Mace meanwhile critical of Biden foreign policy.
Here's that Norman statement for context. norman.house.gov/news/documents… Image
He has been much more critical of Biden in the past, to clarify. norman.house.gov/news/documents…

Just found it to be an interesting dichotomy today.

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Feb 24
I'm here from the Goose Creek VFW, waiting for a town hall with @RepNancyMace.

It's Mace's first full-scale, in-person town hall since Veterans Day 2021 in Beaufort, 17th overall. Image
Mace arrives at 6:05. Smaller turnout than I expected. Only a few dozen people here, not including the news cameras. (Just three).
Gregory Habib, the Mayor of Goose Creek, introduces the Goose Creek native (and Stratford High grad) with a speech about civility.

"I don't really care for what's happened in American politics lately," he says.
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Feb 22
At a press conference with @henrymcmaster this morning, where he is announcing the appointment of acting director of the Department of Juvenile Justice, Eden Hendrick, to the position full-time. Image
Hendrick has been in the post since September, and has a long public service career in the state. Image
"This is not an easy task, or a challenge that can be taken on overnight," Hendrick says.

Calls to reform the agency are long-standing. postandcourier.com/news/sc-begins…
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Feb 10
What's been happening in the House this morning is real interesting.

Today, lawmakers were considering a bill to allow Lancaster County to have partisan elections for school boards.

They would be just the third county in the state to do so. But Democrats are not happy.
Some argued it will close seats to those who will not be able to afford to campaign.

Others think it's the beginning of an effort to bring politics into otherwise bureaucratic roles during a time of extreme political tension in the state’s education system.
“It starts in Lancaster, and it is like a cancer,” said Rep. Cezar McKnight, D-Kingstree. “It will start to spread and from Lancaster, it moves down 77 to Richland."

Says that it will lead to fewer qualified candidates in school board elections, adding "There's a mob loose."
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Feb 9
Senate will now vote to table an amendment from Sen. Hembree to effectively gut the medical marijuana bill and turn it into a bill authorizing the state to conduct a clinical trial, significantly downsizing the program from thousands of eligible patients to a handful.
The amendment has been tabled, 26-18. This was the first key show of support for Davis' bill, and a significant moment indicating it is likely to pass.

Davis' purported whip count was right around this number.
No votes: Alexander, Bennet, Campsen, Corbin, Garrett, Hembree, Loftis, Massey, Peeler, Rice, Senn, Turner, Williams, Young.

K. Johnson, Scott, Setzler and Cash changed votes from aye to no.
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Feb 9
Good morning all!

The South Carolina Senate will return today to debate @SenTomDavisSC's medical marijuana after 8 hours of amendments yesterday.

Many were carried over. Only a handful passed outright. Here's some of the most significant/potential changes.

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ADOPTED: A dual Davis/Kimbrell amendment reducing the maximum size of grow operations from 15 to 2 acres. Would also eliminate dispensaries from the equation, creating something more akin to a pharmacy, with a program to track cannabis products like opioids or other meds.
ADOPTED: An opt-out provision for municipalities that don't want to participate in medical cannabis.

Since the bill only allows a limited number per county anyway, I assume there could be counties that could just go ahead and ban it outright, but I'd welcome a fact check.
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Feb 9
You're all watching USC potentially upend one of the nation's best basketball programs.

I'm on hour six of amendments to the state's pending medical marijuana legislation.

We are not the same. (But wish we were tbh.)
We are now up to amendment 40 after one Senator asked to carry over all 12 (!!!) of his amendments.

Sen. Senn had more than a half-dozen.
Update: debate is still going.

Most amendments have been carried over, but the aim of some have been curious.

The most recent sought to cap the number of marijuana cards a single doctor can issue per year, over fraud concerns.
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