2022 SC Senate race: on Civil Rights


Krystle Matthews: Opposed transgender sports law, leave transgender kids alone

Democrats said Republicans should be ashamed for singling out people that much of society already treats badly. "Leave these transgender kids alone. There are less than 1% of them," said Rep. Krystle Matthews a Democrat from Ladson.
Source: CBS News on 2022 South Carolina Senate race Apr 5, 2022

Krystle Matthews: Criticized Tim Scott for claiming America isn't racist

CP: Was there anything in particular that you took issue with [in Senator Tim Scott's response to the 2021 State of the Union address on April 28, 2021]

KM: Saying America isn't racist. Do you know how many white people have inboxed me in the last 24 hours saying, "I'm white, and I know America is racist." And the god-awful pandering of the line, "cotton field to Congress," I mean ... Because Black people are not smart enough to know that he's pandering, right? We're smarter than that.

[Relevant excerpt from Tim Scott's speech that Matthews cites]: "Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present. We are not adversaries. We are family. We are all in this together, and we get to live in the greatest country on earth. The country where my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime."

Source: Charleston City Paper on 2022 South Carolina Senate race May 5, 2021

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Candidates and political leaders on Civil Rights:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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