Cason Gaither Candidate Not From Third District
Candidates Cason Gaither and Brian Doyle opposing candidates for the Democratic Congressional Nomination in the 3rd District appeared together for the first time at the Anderson County Democratic Party Meeting at the Golden Coral on Clemson Rd on Saturday, March 5, 2012.
Candidate Gaither, born in Columbia, S.C. and long time resident of Charleston, S.C. began by explaining that he had “moved to Greenwood” from Charleston last December, 2011 (four months ago) because Jerry Goldman from McCormick asked him to be “their” candidate for the Third Congressional District. And he said yes.
Mr. Gaither then gave a lukewarm recital of 1776 early American History of the British invasion of Charleston. He did not address any current issues and instructed the audience that as the Patriots defeated the British “we” could win this congressional seat.
Candidate Gaither, a bachelor, looks to be less than thirty years old and gives no evidence of having performed in any public service capacities. He appears to be a professional Charleston tour guide with a degree in international business and does not provide any specific information as to why he is suited to be a representative of the Third District other than his party affiliations and connections. Apparently he was chosen to run by Jerry Goldman and would otherwise not have any interest in the Third District.
Candidate Doyle spoke directly after Mr. Gaither. Mr. Doyle, a popular radio talk show personality and a native and life long resident of Aiken, S.C. reminded the assemblage that he had run for this nomination two years ago and that he was very familiar with the needs and hopes of the third district. Mr. Doyle stressed his opposition to the Republican incumbent and the Republican agenda to privatize the Postal Service and Social Security, the laying off of many schoolteachers, and also criticized Mr. Duncan’s eight year stint as a State Representative where he waged war on the public school system and early childhood education. Mr. Doyle reminded everyone that he was from the district, knew the district and saw, womens’ protection, job creation, education and provision of medical services as some of the most pressing issues facing this district.
It is known that Mr. Doyle has a history of public service as a volunteer firefighter, a paramedic and ambulance service owner for 15 years. In that capacity he has saved many lives and provided great aid and assistance to the people of this district. He has been actively involved as a broadcaster and political activist in many matters of importance to people of the third district..
We do not have a great deal of history on Mr. Gaither, partially because of his youth, he has no history, and partially because of him not being from here in the Third District.
In a follow-up interview with Mr. Doyle, Mr. Doyle said, “I must confess a certain skepticism towards candidates that move to a location for the sole purpose of running for office at the request of party bosses.”
This does raise concerns that Mr. Gaither who has no basic familiarity with the needs, issues, and problems that are unique to this District would appear to be an inexperienced political opportunist, cherry picked by others for reasons unknown to the people, and who, without a doubt, would be at a great disadvantage attempting to debate and defeat Jeff Duncan who is a Third District native and familiar with the people and issues affecting this District.
CANDIDATE CASON GAITHER NOT FROM 3RD DISTRICT
05/06/2012
R. Thomas, Reporter
Candidate not from the Third District but move in to run.
Candidates Cason Gaither and Brian Doyle opposing candidates for the Democratic Congressional Nomination in the 3rd District appeared together for the first time at the Anderson County Democratic Party Meeting at the Golden Coral on Clemson Rd on Saturday, March 5, 2012.
Candidate Gaither, born in Columbia, S.C. and long time resident of Charleston, S.C. began by explaining that he had “moved to Greenwood” from Charleston last December, 2011 (four months ago) because Jerry Goldman from McCormick asked him to be “their” candidate for the Third Congressional District. And he said yes.
Mr. Gaither then gave a lukewarm recital of 1776 early American History of the British invasion of Charleston. He did not address any current issues and instructed the audience that as the Patriots defeated the British “we” could win this congressional seat.
Candidate Gaither, a bachelor, looks to be less than thirty years old and gives no evidence of having performed in any public service capacities. He appears to be a professional Charleston tour guide with a degree in international business and does not provide any specific information as to why he is suited to be a representative of the Third District other than his party affiliations and connections. Apparently he was chosen to run by Jerry Goldman and would otherwise not have any interest in the Third District.
Candidate Doyle spoke directly after Mr. Gaither. Mr. Doyle, a popular radio talk show personality and a native and life long resident of Aiken, S.C. reminded the assemblage that he had run for this nomination two years ago and that he was very familiar with the needs and hopes of the third district. Mr. Doyle stressed his opposition to the Republican incumbent and the Republican agenda to privatize the Postal Service and Social Security, the laying off of many schoolteachers, and also criticized Mr. Duncan’s eight year stint as a State Representative where he waged war on the public school system and early childhood education. Mr. Doyle reminded everyone that he was from the district, knew the district and saw, womens’ protection, job creation, education and provision of medical services as some of the most pressing issues facing this district.
It is known that Mr. Doyle has a history of public service as a volunteer firefighter, a paramedic and ambulance service owner for 15 years. In that capacity he has saved many lives and provided great aid and assistance to the people of this district. He has been actively involved as a broadcaster and political activist in many matters of importance to people of the third district.
We do not have a great deal of history on Mr. Gaither, partially because of his youth, he has no history, and partially because of him not being from here in the Third District.
In a follow-up interview with Mr. Doyle, Mr. Doyle said, “I must confess a certain skepticism towards candidates that move to a location for the sole purpose of running for office at the request of party bosses.”
This does raise concerns that Mr. Gaither who has no basic familiarity with the needs, issues, and problems that are unique to this District would appear to be an inexperienced political opportunist, cherry picked by others for reasons unknown to the people, and who, without a doubt, would be at a great disadvantage attempting to debate and defeat Jeff Duncan who is a Third District native and familiar with the people and issues affecting this District.
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South Carolina Democratic Chairwoman must Resign Immediately
June 9, 2010 by comrex
Filed under Federal, News, South Carolina, World
Carol Fowler Must Resign
It is the duty of our State Chairwoman and the State Party to embrace candidates not to actively work against them. I condemn the behavior that Carol Fowler has demonstrated over the course of her tenure.
For Carol Fowler to appear on the “PA” radio program (WGCV 620 AM) today and to say “she believes Alvin Greene (D – U.S. Senate) should get out the race” is a disgrace to the Democratic Party. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty and let the voice of the people be heard.
The party leadership has failed the people of this state miserably and consistently for years by playing ball with the Republicans and the rich power structure that wants to continue to run things in this state.
The decent and honorable thing for the party leadership to do would be to fall on their swords, commit hari kiri and just get their corrupt sorry selves out of the peoples’ way.
It is time for TRANSPARTISENSHIP. Labels don’t matter any more, we all know that the so called ruling Democratic and Republican parties in this state are like different sides of the same coin. They are all owned and controlled by big business and big money. Let an honest person appear on the scene, especially a black one, and they line up together to drive him off by any means necessary.
I love the great saying of the Dr. Joseph E. Lowery “one party don’t want us (Republican) and the other party just puts’ up with us (Democratic)”.
This young man has made history, not in a hundred years has South Carolina ever had an African- American win a primary race for U.S. Senate.
I will make a formal request to the NAACP and National Action Network to take action against this blatant wrongful pattern of working against Black candidates attempting to seek statewide office or Federal office by our party. And I invite any affected parties to join us as we demand Fowler to step down.
I demand that Carol Fowler resign at once from her position as the head of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
I will convene a Press Conference on Friday at 3:00 P.M. at the State Democratic Party headquarters in Columbia calling for her resignation.
Brian Doyle,
Former Candidate
Member of the Democratic Party
Doyle can be reach at campaign headquarters phone line Extension 704. Doyle has a pending lawsuit against party in Federal Court. 3:10-cv0203 for same type activity by party officials.
Jane Dryer had no Excuse at Clemson Debate
I have been thinking about my honorable opponents comment at the one debate wherein she favored us all with her presence.
I can’t help but have a problem with her explanation that she couldn’t debate because “she had to work.”
Lets all remember that she received EIGHTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in PAC money. And she can’t afford to take time off from work or rearrange her busy schedule to show her face to the people of the third district!
I didn’t take any money from any special interest groups, I guess they knew better than to offer it to me. But I took off from work to campaign and debate. I came to the Tea Parties I came to the Farm Bureau and I came to the League of women voters and I am glad that I did because I got to talk to you all and learn what your concerns are.
Choose me to be your candidate and I will take the battle to them. Virtually everyone on the right and on the left is tired to death of the same old political BS, tell the people what they want to hear and then vote as your bosses tell you. That won’t be me. I live here, my family is here, and I want what is right for our families and our children.
I will debate in every county in this district and I will meet the people, find out what they want, need and think, and I will be the representative that FIGHTS for you in Washington not a lap dog for Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party machine. I am a people’s candidate, all the people, white, black, red and brown, men and women. We all need jobs to come back to the THIRD DISTRICT, we all need better funding for our children’s education, and we all need access to healthcare. WE ALL, YES A L L OF US NEED THESE THINGS REGARDLESS OF RACE COLOR OR RELIGION.
Lets bring the victory home to the THIRD DISTRICT. I believe I can deliver for you in Washington, and in my hear of hearts I do not believe that Jane can win and that if she could I do not believe she would deliver.
Isn’t it strange that all my signs disappear from the roads but that my opponent’s signs that are right beside them are not touched. The political machine does not want this seat they are content to leave it with the Republicans. Its time to take back our district, our congress and our contry. I WILL DO AS I SAY AND MY DOOR WILL ALWAYS BE OPEN!!
VOTE FOR BRIAN “RYAN B” DOYLE ON TUESDAY.
I am Brian “Ryan B” Doyle and I approved this message.
Candidate Gregory Brown response to Rep Jim Clyburn
Elected Office is a Privilege, not an Entitlement
May 31, 2010
On, Memorial Day, a day when Americans celebrate and honor the service and sacrifice of those who have given of their time, their person, their families, and their lives to serve, protect and defend this great country of ours. But sadly, on this Memorial day, I, a service disabled veteran and a candidate for the 6th Congressional, find it deeply reprehensible that an elected official believes that because of a position he holds in Congress he is untouchable or should go unchallenged for a political seat to which the PEOPLE have elected him.
In a story that appeared in the Aiken Standard on Sunday, May 30, 2010, the present Congressman of the 6th Congressional District was quoted as saying: “No real Democrat would ever challenge the speaker or the leader or the whip in a primary,” Clyburn said in a recent interview. “Democrats don’t do that.”
How arrogant and elitist of any politician to even think, suggest, or have the poor taste to even utter the thought that he is deserving to perpetually continue to hold the PEOPLE’s seat without ever being taken to task for his performance, or lack thereof, in public office. It is quite incredulous and offensive for someone in Mr. Clyburn position to have the unmitigated gall to believe that he is entitled to remain in office because of his position.
Last I heard, America is a nation founded and built upon democratic principles…. government of the people by the people and for the people; not an aristocracy. Apparently, Mr. Clyburn has forgotten this simple civics lesson. I, however, along with the legions of other veterans have not. That’s why we gave of ourselves to defend this country, so politicians like Mr. Clyburn could regularly stand for election by the people for the honor and privilege of being their representative in their government.
Mr. Clyburn’s comment that “No real Democrat would ever challenge the speaker or the leader or the whip in a primary…. Democrats don’t do that” is reminiscent of comments made by the old guard party bosses of the South who struggled to maintain the status quo of oppression and segregation. Change, for the better of the PEOPLE, has always come about in America by challenging those we elect to represent us to do better than they have done in looking after the needs of the PEOPLE. What Democrats don’t do… no excuse me…what Americans don’t do and should never do is to sit idly by as our elected officials seek to have their names immortalized on every public building or structure they can while those in their congressional districts are hurting economically and financially.
What Americans don’t do and should never do is to turn a deaf ear and blind eye to elected officials who vote to give themselves a raise or take more than one million dollars from the education funds to build a driving range with a life size bronzed statue of their self while teachers are being laid off. What Americans don’t do and should never do is to allow politicians to use defense fund to fund a driving in their name while our military family are fighting and dying at war. What Americans don’t do and should never do is to turn a deaf ear and blind eye to the horrendous conditions of the schools in their congressional districts while their elected officials use their position to get their children and cronies appointed to the best positions possible.
What Americans, and if I must say, Democrats don’t do and should never do is to allow career politicians to be re-elected because they believe they have reached some privileged status that make them untouchable and not subject to challenge. Furthermore, what Americans shouldn’t do is to allow career politicians to divert attention from the real issues by in sighting racial and now internal party division. We need the type of leadership that can unite and move us forward as one people and one America.
The Aiken Standard article also reports that Mr. Clyburn said “he doubts the motives of the businessman running against him.” I am not surprised that the 6th District’s present Congressional representative would question the “motive” of anyone exercising their right to run as a candidate for office in this State. That seems to be the order of the day for many career politicians.
So that Mr. Clyburn, and most importantly the citizens of the 6th Congressional District, will have no doubt as to what my “motives” are for running for the PEOPLE’s Congressional seat, not Mr. Clyburn’s, please consider the following; As a service disabled veteran I am running for Congress because I have seen the plight of the public schools and educational system in the 6th District and I know that I can help bring about the change the District has needed over the past 18 years. As a service disabled veteran, I am running for Congress because the last 18 years has not produced the kind, quality, and quantity of jobs that should have come pouring into this District under the “speaker or leader or the whip”. As a service disabled veteran, I am running for Congress to ensure that the least among us have access to healthcare options that are reliable, realistic, and fiscally responsible. As a service disabled veteran, I am running for Congress because I live and work in this District and I am painfully aware that under the present leadership the District has not even begun to realize its potential, instead we have a “corridor of shame.” As a service disabled veteran, I am running for Congress so that my son and his children and his children’s children can all enjoy a safer, more secure, and prosperous America that I and hundreds of thousands of other service men and women have defended.
Those are my “motives” for running. If this is a disappointment to those who question my “motives” for running for the honor and privilege of representing the PEOPLE of the 6th Congressional District, then to that I say a resounding AMEN!!!
And when Election Day rolls around on June 8, I hope Democrats in the Sixth District will not be silent. I hope they pour into the polls and express their opinions about their leaders. It is their right. May we never take it lightly. Moreover, may we never make entitlement our system of government.
Gregory Brown Campaign.
Real Leadership needed in Washington DC says Ryan B
UNEMPLOYMENT The government underestimates the unemployment rate.[1] A honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. With medical benefits (single payer like all over the industrialized world), a reasonable work week, some sort of retirement benefits and some sick time and paid vacation time. Is that too much to ask?
The people of South Carolina are not looking for a handout, but if anyone is entitled to a bail out, we are! We don’t need promise making, promise breaking politicians to lie to us about how good things are going while they sell us down the river and approve the trade agreements that have sent so many of our jobs overseas perhaps never to return.
BANKERS Well, simply put, it a graph. One line, say a blue line, charts the income of the wealthy against inflation over time it goes up, straight almost aimed for infinite, I mean that chart it climbin like a moon rocket. And there is a green line, the peoples line, yes the income does steadily rise, but the prices rise faster and we are not as well off as we were in years past. Our labor does not buy as much as it used to we are not really breaking even with our income increases but the corporate profits and salaries go straight up. WE have had 29% foreclosures in the past two years and more are coming. Our government gave enough money to the bankers to pay off every mortgage in this country. What for. FOR NOTHING!!!
When there is a class of people and corporations whose spending power is infinitely greater than that of the working people it becomes very difficult to keep things fair. Consider that the same corporations and people that are making profits by moving our jobs overseas are the ones that own the newspapers and the television stations, and the radio stations, so you aren’t going to hear much of what they don’t want you to hear.
And that is why it is so important that everyone pay close attention to details. Compare what you are told is happening by the media and the government and the corporations, yes, compare what they tell you to WHAT YOU ACTUALLY SEE HAPPENING!!!
I see at what look like 20% unemployment in many communities and I don’t see it getting better.
EDUCATION
I see teachers being fired and class sizes being raised and the education budget being slashed to the point where our educators are powerless to give our children the skills they will need to compete in a world job market. That should rank among our highest priorities.
HEALTH CARE
The Congress just took a vacation without fixing the Medicare problem, our veterans and our seniors are getting inferior service. The American Medical Association is very critical of the situation and I stand with them. The nation can afford giving everyone adequate healthcare and any one who says different is probably making way too much money for the benefit humanity gets out of it. We do not need a layer of insurance companies and bureaucrats like a nest of leeches sucking our life’s blood so we can’t afford proper health care. We can put these bureaucracies to work monitoring the oil companies and the financial industry and we will let them keep a % of the graft and corruption they discover but funnel most of it back into the economy where it will be more than enough to give our people health care, and probably educate and feed them if we really have to.
How is that for a solution, take the profit out of healthcare and use the insurance bureaucracy to monitor the oil companies, banking, and wall street.
And bring almost all of our troops home. Treat the ones for PTSD that need it and put our soldiers to work rebuilding this country’s infrastructure, implementing sustainable energy programs, lets stop farming out the work that our core of engineers should be doing four times better and ten times cheaper than our politician’s buddys’ companies are doing it for us now.
We are in trouble here at home. We need our young men here and our money here.
IF anyone has any ideas they want to suggest that aren’t too much wilder and don’t involve robbing and killing the people and might work I would definitely like to hear about it.
If elected I will try to listen to and understand the problems that are brought to me and to help with searching for solutions. I am always open to suggestions. If you have a good idea share it. If I am elected operators will always be standing by to take your calls. The good the bad and the ugly.
I am Brian “Ryan B. Doyle and I approved this message.
[1] Just like BP underestimates the oil spill rate. It turns out they may have to pay a penalty by the barrel so of course they would rather say seven thousand barrels a day than look at totals in excess of seven-hundred million barrels, no one has said for sure yet how many millions of gallons per day, but I have heard it suggested that it approaches huge numbers.
Rep. Joe Sestak & Candidate Doyle both Understand the Establishment
Doyle and Rep. Joe Sestak Understand the Establishment
We don’t want you in the race we want Jane Dryer. I remember those words as clear as if it was yesterday.
Today U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak (D) PA, said something that made my ears ring. He talked about the deal offered to him by the White House Chief of Staff.
What touches me the most is what our party is trying to do, to honest non-political machine candidates that are not puppets or mindless mouth pieces for the establishment.
Rep. Joe Sestak, said “I was confident that the Democratic Party establishment didn’t want me in the race.” Well, well I remember that all too well. When the party bosses falsely told me that I couldn’t run and that they considered me to be disqualified.
Rep. Joe Sestak, said “the call lasted 30 – 60 seconds” The email I received from Jay Parmley, Executive Director of the SC Democratic Party which is also a part of the court record. Could have lasted a life time…. That’s why I sued and then the Democratic Party said “we made a mistake.” It was no mistake they knew just what they were doing.
The Democratic party would rather have a old republican hack part of the inside the beltway political machine club in the Senate for their people than a bright new honest person who is actually concerned about the people. We can no longer have people serving us in Washington DC who are owned by the bosses and the corporation and the bank.
The South Carolina Democratic Party bosses and many of county parities have protected Jane Dryer from debate. Although she promised to debate after the filing Jane is still missing in action. The party bosses want a mouth piece and not a leader serving in Washington. “We must change our state leadership in Columbia starting with our President and Executive Director”. It’s not personal it’s just Democratic business. Lets get the our party back to what its supposed to be instead of it being just another controlled part of the corporate and banking controlled machine.
Our local media and civic groups have also allowed Jane Dryer to avoid showing her face to the people. I have been in 8 town hall meeting and three debates (2) tea party and Farm bureau debate with all the Republican candidates, but no Jane Dryer. If we want change. If we want concerned dedicated servants of the people in Washington and not party robots the people of South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District must allow their voices to be heard.
Do you want a candidate that will serve the party bosses and their corporate and banking financers or do you want a candidate that will serve you. The choice is clear. The old style and the old way has failed us to the point where we can no longer trust the old guard. Say no to business as usual. Its time for a change.
I am Brian “Ryan B” Doyle and I approved this message.
I’m Sick of the Excuses Stop the Damn Oil Now BP says Ryan B
I’m Sick of the Excuses Stop the Damn Oil Now BP
What would I do about the gulf oil spill.
Well the cat is sure out of the bag, but I wouldn’t have let it happen in the first place. I would not allow the drilling, we don’t need it, if I thought we had to have it I would regulate it and control it like I was skinning a flea for its hide and tallow, I would have those people under a microscope from one end of the job to the other.
But the political machine does not really care. They just see it as another opportunity to let the government and the big corporations and the banks steal some more of our money. And they won’t fix it until they figure out a way to make you and your children and your grandchildren’s children pay for it and they get to steal 90% of the money.
5000 barrels a day my foot, try 5000 barrels per hour, or per minute, I don’t know but somebody does, they have tapped a major high pressure artery and its spurting like a volcano a real gusher.
There are twenty mile plumes of oil, well I don’t know, but how about we send out ten thousand or fifty thousand boats with submersible pumps in series on long hoses and start pumping the stuff out of the ocean and into barrels or tanks on the boats. They, BP, is trying to disperse it with poisons that will probably give cancer to everyone within 500 miles that are made by a company they own. They won’t let their workers wear respirators, they don’t obey OSHA and the coast Guard is working for them and won’t let people take pictures of the beaches so you can see what is really happening.
Those dirty greedy corporate crooks and politicians don’t give a damn until they can make some money. The more people they have on welfare the more they think they can control the people with government handouts.
We are not asking for handouts we are asking for what is ours. We paid social security, we paid taxes, it isn’t a gift its our money.
I don’t expect any help from the political machine from the Democrat or Republican side, I don’t expect any help from the Congress or the Senate, as far as I am concerned Nancy Pelosi is little more than George Bush in drag and our president is looking more like Paul Wolfowitz than the man we all thought he was when he was elected.
Our solutions for unemployment, foreclosures, health care and education will not come will not come from the political machine and they won’t come from Jane Dryer, she is part of the machine.
We the people must come up with the solutions and we must make our so called representatives do what we tell them to do. This Country and this district must be done once and for all with them telling us one thing when they want to get elected and doing another thing after we elect them.
Give me your votes and I will listen to you and together we will put this district back to work, we will stop foreclosures, we will fix health care and advance education and clean up the oil.
I am not part of the machine I never have been and I never will be.
Two Democrats running for 3rd District seat say they can work with GOP
May 17, 2010 by comrex
Filed under Federal, South Carolina, US
Greenville News www.greenvillenews.com
By Anna Simon • Clemson bureau • May 17, 2010
Both Democratic candidates running for the 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary claim to be that person who can work across the aisle in Congress for the good of the district.
“The key is to be able to listen to what the people in your community want,” said Brian Ryan B. Doyle, of Aiken, who added that his radio show gives him experience in listening to many voices. “I have the experience to do that and go to Washington and make the change — real change and bring back what the 3rd Congressional District has been missing for the last 15 years,” he said.
Jane Ballard Dyer, of Easley points to her “wealth of experiences” as an Air Force captain, working mom and grandparent that help her understand of basic family needs the residents of this district face daily. “I’m the person who can go to Washington and sit down with people on both sides of the aisle and find solutions that will move our country forward,” Dyer said.
It was 15 years ago that Democrat Butler Derrick took his trademark suspenders and retired from the seat he held for 20 years, a seat the party, and especially the two June 8 Democratic primary contenders, desperately want back.
With U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett now in the governor’s race, the primary is being watched by party members who hope to regain the predominantly rural 10-county district that extends from Pickens and Oconee counties southward to Aiken County.
It’s a district rich in resources including water, timber and nuclear energy production but poor in jobs, a need both candidates stress in their campaigns.
Yet the bigger issue for many Democrats is which candidate has the best chance of winning back the district in November and defeating the eventual winner in a field of six Republicans vying for their party’s nomination in the June primary and a likely GOP runoff.
Neither Democratic contender has held prior political office; both can cite personal achievement and unconventional careers.
Dyer, 52, and a FedEx pilot, was the first female Clemson University graduate to become a U.S. Air Force pilot.
Doyle, 35, of Aiken, is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, dishing politics weekday mornings on the Urban Media Broadcasting Network’s “Water Cooler Moment” and counting down top tunes on weekends.
Dyer, who two years ago lost to Barrett, then the Republican incumbent, said she’s not discouraged. Her father ran for office as a Republican and lost in a race years ago, when she was a child and when predominantly Democrats were elected in South Carolina. She grew up chewing on dinner table conversation about politics and believes in a two-party system.
“Our state will be much better served if every time you go to the ballot you have a choice,” Dyer said. “It is tragic that so many people will vote based on just a party and not looking into individuals.”
South Carolina “has had its share of not very stunning leadership in the last few years,” said Dyer, who wants people to consider candidates in both parties “and see who wants to solve the problems and who just wants to talk the party line.”
Doyle describes himself as a “different kind of Democrat,” willing to buck the party line. To regain the formerly Democratic seat, “The party needs a candidate who’s willing to tell the party we’re wrong on some issues,” he said.
Doyle lobs criticism at Dyer as well, saying he’s challenged her to debates in all 10 counties in the district and she’s “avoided” his invitations. “If she is going to run from me, if she can’t debate me as a Democrat, there’s no way she can debate anyone on the other side of the aisle,” he said.
Dyer said she hasn’t avoided the invitations and hasn’t been able to schedule debates because of her work schedule.
Jobs and health care
Both candidates have proposed ways to create jobs in the district, and both are interested in capturing federal “green industry” dollars to do that.
Dyer would involve rural electric cooperatives in hiring local residents to help poorer families make their homes more energy efficient, wants to help small businesses get loans to keep them viable during the slow economic recovery, and capitalize on Clemson University and state technical colleges in the district to train a labor force for new jobs in energy and transportation.
As a congressional leader, Dyer said she would work with community, business and elected leaders to convince industry that this is a good place to bring their jobs.
Doyle attacks the North and Central American free trade agreements as a key reason for jobs leaving the district and moving overseas. He said he would call for limits and increased taxes on goods shipped into the U.S. in order to discourage large corporations from seeking cheap labor overseas and keeping manufacturing jobs here.
He also would like to suspend taxes on small businesses for six months to enable them to save money and hire more people.
On health care, Doyle, who worked as a paramedic for 12 years, said the new legislation needs to be fixed but not scrapped. People shouldn’t have to buy health insurance and small businesses making under $10 million a year should be exempt from providing employee health insurance because the cost could put them out of business, he said.
He also calls for a 30 percent cap on what insurers can charge people with pre-existing conditions.
Dyer said the new health care legislation, while not perfect, contains “lots of good things.” It will help those on Medicare, provide medications for seniors “in the gap,” allow young college graduates to stay on their parents’ plans, guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions and help bring down the national debt.
“This is a first step. We need people who will work to find solutions to make it better,” Dyer said.
As a congressional leader, Dyer said she would work with community, business and elected leaders to convince industry that this is a good place to bring their jobs.
Doyle attacks the North and Central American free trade agreements as a key reason for jobs leaving the district and moving overseas. He said he would call for limits and increased taxes on goods shipped into the U.S. in order to discourage large corporations from seeking cheap labor overseas and keeping manufacturing jobs here.
He also would like to suspend taxes on small businesses for six months to enable them to save money and hire more people.
On health care, Doyle, who worked as a paramedic for 12 years, said the new legislation needs to be fixed but not scrapped. People shouldn’t have to buy health insurance and small businesses making under $10 million a year should be exempt from providing employee health insurance because the cost could put them out of business, he said.
He also calls for a 30 percent cap on what insurers can charge people with pre-existing conditions.
Dyer said the new health care legislation, while not perfect, contains “lots of good things.” It will help those on Medicare, provide medications for seniors “in the gap,” allow young college graduates to stay on their parents’ plans, guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions and help bring down the national debt.
“This is a first step. We need people who will work to find solutions to make it better,” Dyer said.
