Tim Scott in 2022 SC Senate race
On Education:
COVID: direct some relief funding to school choice programs
Senators Tim Scott and Lamar Alexander offered a bill during congressional negotiating over COVID-19 relief funding that would redirect some of that funding to school-choice programs. Tying it to the economic harms and school shutdowns was wise, because
it signaled to families who might not traditionally support conservative politicians that the GOP was taking seriously their concerns about being able to continue sending their children to the schools that are best for them.
Source: National Review on 2022 South Carolina Senate race
Sep 30, 2020
On Education:
In America a good education is the closest thing to magic
I think we need to have hard conversations with the American voters about not red or blue solution, but about American solutions. Let's have hard conversations about the fact that in America, a good education is the closest thing to magic. And that's
why 67 percent of Democrats, 68 percent of independents, 70 percent of Hispanics, 74 percent of African- Americans all agree that quality education is necessary for the furtherance of the American dream and the hardest hit communities.
Source: Fox News Sunday on 2022 South Carolina Senate race
Sep 11, 2022
On Government Reform:
Jim Crow 2.0 exaggerates compared to historical Jim Crow
The president talked about stopping something that he called "Jim Crow 2.0," [the term Biden used to describe suppression of minority voting rights]. I ask myself how many Americans understand what Jim Crow was: For a black person to vote, you had to
pass a literacy test, but not on reading, it was a test: "Do you know who your governor was 20 years before you were getting ready to vote?" It was would include the threat of being lynched, literally killed, because those in power wanted to stop
black folks from fully participating in the right to vote.And so when I hear the President talk about Jim Crow 2.0, I rushed to read the new Georgia law one more time. The controversy that the president spoke about: it is illegal to get water
while waiting to vote. Now, that claim has been proven false. The only time you can't get water while waiting in line to vote is someone campaigning, you can't bring them water, if you're an election worker, you can bring them water.
Source: C-Span transcript on 2022 South Carolina Senate race
Jan 19, 2022
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