Gloria Bromell Tinubu in 2020 SC Senate race
On Principles & Values:
Dropped Senate bid; endorses Jaime Harrison
Gloria Bromell Tinubu has ended her bid for the U.S. Senate. Bromell Tinubu, of Georgetown, on Wednesday dropped out of the race for
Senate, endorsing Jaime Harrison's campaign and giving him what appears to be a clear path to the Democratic Party's nomination.
Source: The State e-zine on 2020 South Carolina Senate race
Jan 15, 2020
On Budget & Economy:
Raise minimum wage to $15/hour if not higher
The Georgetown native is out campaigning on her "Reshaping America: Economic Justice Tour," discussing topics such as higher minimum wage and ways to improve the state's economy through agriculture. "So, first of all, we are,
we want to make sure that people are paid enough money so that they can take care of their basic kitchen table issues," she explained. "And so, we are in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15, an hour, if not higher."
Source: ABC News-4 on 2020 South Carolina Senate race
Aug 23, 2019
On Budget & Economy:
Economic justice is the number one issue
"For me, it's not about how the economy is doing, I will ask voters, 'How is Your Economy Doing?'" provocatively says the former chair of Spelman College's Economics department. Popular political influencer Stacey Abrams was one of her former
students. "For me, economic justice is the number one issue and economic freedom is the number one freedom," she said. "President Roosevelt said if don't have economic freedom, there's no real freedom. This is about freedom and justice for everyone."
Source: The Atlanta Voice on 2020 South Carolina Senate race
Aug 23, 2019
On Health Care:
Work toward making health care more affordable
She says she'd work toward making health care more affordable. "What's powering the economy is knowledge," she says. "South Carolina has always been at the bottom when it comes to education. We've been at the bottom when it comes to income.
We've been at the bottom when it comes to health care. We have to address the issue of affordable health care. At the end of the day, if we are in a knowledge economy, if you don't have your health, you don't get to play the game."
Source: Post and Courier on 2020 South Carolina Senate race
May 31, 2019
On Jobs:
Economic freedom includes federal minimum wage increase
In a phone chat with Free Times, she talked a bit about what led her to challenge for the seat held by [GOP Sen. Lindsey] Graham. "I really believe in democracy," Tinubu says. "I really believe in freedom for people, particularly economic freedom.
It's why I went into economics. If you don't have economic freedom, there really isn't freedom. There are so many people struggling, without the ability to even make basic ends meet, because they are being paid wages that just don't cut it.
We haven't been committed as a country to making sure everyone has a fair share of the wealth they helped to create."
Tinubu says she would work to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for a decade. She calls $7.25 an hour "absolutely unacceptable" and says she'd hike it to somewhere between $15 and $20 an hour.
Source: Post and Courier on 2020 South Carolina Senate race
May 31, 2019
On Principles & Values:
2018 Lt. Gov. candidate; 2012 & 2014 House candidate
Phil Noble, a Democratic candidate for South Carolina governor, named Gloria Bromell Tinubu as his running mate pick for lieutenant governor, touting the decision as an opportunity to take the Palmetto State in a radically different direction. The pick
allows Noble, a white businessman from Charleston, to diversify his ticket with an African-American woman."We're here to make history for a new South Carolina, a new way of dealing with things, a new sense of honesty and openness, a new sense of
caring for those who haven't been cared for," Noble said.
Tinubu, 65, is not new to electoral politics. Born in Plantersville, the Georgetown resident represented Atlanta in the Georgia General Assembly before moving back to her native South Carolina.
She ran for Congress twice [in 2012 and 2014] against U.S. Rep. Tom Rice, R-Myrtle Beach, winning the Democratic nomination both times but falling short in the general election.
Source: Post and Courier on 2020 South Carolina Senatorial race
Mar 20, 2017
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