• Bill & Jumelle recount the 2023 Carnell Drummond Mays Banquet. All videos and speeches are available on the GWCDP YouTube channel.

NC State Board Recognizes No Labels as a Political Party (20:08)

• Article from the North Carolina State Board of Elections
• Maine elections head says No Labels misleading voters (The Hill)
• No Labels Took More Than $100,000 From Clarence Thomas Buddy Harlan Crow (The Soapbox)

New study shows South Carolina's heavy dependence on federal government (25:53)

• Article from the News Talk 88.9 WORD
• Most & Least Federally Dependent States (WalletHub)

• Dr. Jumelle Brooks for SC State House District 12 (video) (29:35)
• Bill Kimler for SC State House District 13 (video) (29:35)

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• Jumelle's encounter with a Lauren Boebert telemarketer

Deon Tedder declared winner with 11-vote lead in Senate 42 Democratic primary runoff (05:47)

• Article from the Post & Courier
• Rep Gilliard's letter to the SCDP
• Sen Mia McLeod departs from the Democratic Party

SC’s ‘sister senators’ win Profile in Courage Award for abortion stand (11:26)

• Article from the Post & Courier
• Senator Richard Cash and his uterus props (TikTok)

Regarding the claims of nationwide presidential election fraud:

• SC Senator Marlon Kimpson speaks about the 2020 Election (Instagram)
• Multiple studies show that mail-in voting is safe and secure. (USA Today)
• What Absentee Voting Looked Like In All 50 States (FiveThirtyEight)
• Republicans set to push mail ballots, voting methods they previously blasted as recipes for fraud (AP)
• Fact check: States don't have more than 100% voter turnout in an election (USA Today)
• Fact check: Gwinnett County, GA did not have more ballots cast than registered voters in the general election (Reuters)
• Claims that dead people voted went viral. These are the facts (Reuters)
• Fact check: Vote spikes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania do not prove election fraud (Reuters)
• Surveillance tape breeds false fraud claims in Georgia (AP News)
• Here's how states have changed the rules around voting amid the coronavirus pandemic (AP)
• Exhaustive fact check finds little evidence of voter fraud, but 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ lives on (PBS News Hour)

Actual incidents of voter fraud:

• Rensselaer County's former GOP elections commissioner admits voter fraud (Times Union)
• Top GOP figures charged in ballot fraud case out of New York (RawStory)
• New Hampshire Republican resigns as investigators conclude he doesn't live in his district (RawStory)
• Republican candidate's wife arrested and charged with casting 23 fraudulent votes for her husband in the 2020 election (Business Insider)
• Trump-backed candidate for Michigan AG and ex-GOP lawmaker face state charges over alleged voting machine plot after 2020 election (CNN)
• 5 GOP candidates blocked from Michigan governor's primary over alleged false signatures (NBC News)
• Elderly Florida Democrats Say GOP Canvassers Duped Them Into Changing Party Affiliation (Rolling Stone)
• Four people plead guilty in North Carolina ballot probe of 2016 and 2018 elections (NBC News)
• A fraud of a Congressman, Jeff Duncan, makes claims of "massive Democratic fraud" (The State)

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• The Senate's dress code just got more relaxed. Some insist on staying buttoned-up
• Buy tickets to the GWCDP Carnell Drummond Mays Banquet

SC Rep. Jeff Duncan's wife files for divorce over 'extramarital affair' with lobbyist (05:47)

• Article from the Index Journal
• Wife of Upstate SC congressman Timmons files for divorce (Post & Courier)

Nikki Haley unveils economic proposal while slamming both parties over government spending (11:26)

• Article from CNN
• Column: Trump’s tax cut was a mammoth fraud (Chicago Tribune)
• The House Passes the $1.85 Trillion Build Back Better Act. Here’s What’s in It. (SmartAsset)

South Carolina Ranks 2nd For Medical Debt in Collections (16:34)

• Article from Holy City Sinner
• State lawmakers find America’s medical debt problem ‘can no longer be ignored’ (Politico)
• InDebted: South Carolina’s medical debt is 2nd-worst in the US (and hospitals don’t always make it better) (SC Public Radio)

• Opening music: MC Jin & Wyclef Jean - Stop The Hatred
• SC H.3014 Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act
• South Carolina Democrats frustrated over no hate crime law (AP)
• Video (and discussion of) Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing with testimony from Charleston Mother Emmanuel Massacre survivors (Mar 28, 2023) (GWCDP)

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• New video appears to show GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, who has accused the left of 'grooming' children, being fondled by her date during 'Beetlejuice' performance recommended for kids
• The Oconee County Democratic Party

Tim Scott never disclosed buying stocks he recently said he owned (08:30)

• Article from Roll Call
• Who is Tim Scott's girlfriend? Once a proud 'adult virgin' the Republican presidential candidate shares new details about his love life

GOP lawmakers take aim at LGBTQ+ ‘safe places’ program in small Florida town (12:31)

• Article from AP

• Cassie's FB post from Sept 2, 2023
• SC school chief Ellen Weaver ends ties with librarians’ group over ‘book ban’ stance
• Join SCASL at the "Associate Membership" level to support school librarians

• Emerge SC
• The NOLA Network
• Lakesha's viral FB post in the wake of George Floyd's murder
• Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities
• Bronny James’ sudden cardiac arrest illuminates dangers for Black basketball players - Recent article that references back to Vari Benson's tragedy in 2017.

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• Greenwood County Democratic Party Breakfast Meeting videos
• Freedom to Read SC Coalition
• Beaufort students fight book bans
• Oconee County Democratic Party

USC strips diversity language from office

• Article from The State
• Lexington Richland School District 5 School Board Meeting - Rep RJ May speaks.
• H.4290 DEI in higher education

Impeachments all over the country

• Trump Urges Georgia GOP To Impeach Fani Willis For Prosecuting Him—Here’s Why That’s Unlikely
• House Republicans launch investigation into Fulton County DA after Trump indictment
• Wisconsin Democrats launch $4M ad blitz targeting GOP lawmakers considering impeachment of new liberal justice
• North Carolina Democrat in House race not for impeachment
• Texas AG Ken Paxton’s orders to help donor rattled office, former aides say at impeachment trial

Key Senate Democrats say they will preserve funding for gun violence research

• Article from LA Times
• Firearm Mortality by State
• CDC fact page about South Carolina
• SC has fifth-most mass shootings in the nation this year, Gun Violence Archive data show

• The Racial and Economic Foundations of Municipal Redistricting
• Judges reject Alabama’s congressional lines, will draw new districts to increase Black voting power
• Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters
• South Carolina House of Representatives Redistricting 2021
• South Carolina Redistricting 2021 - Senate Judiciary Committee
• H.4222 The SC Anti-Gerrymandering Act
• The History Channel: How Gerrymandering Began in the US

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A special early release for Labor Day! Cook your burgers and get your special home projects done while listening to this important, super-sized episode!

Jumelle & Bill preview the upcoming Greenwood County Democratic Party Breakfast Meeting on Sat, Sept 9. You can read about it and RSVP here.

• After 50 years, South Carolina Department of Education will no longer partner with librarian association

They then reviewed three news items:

Rep John McCravy Announces Re-election Bid

• Facebook Announcement
• Nazi Propaganda
• Defining the Enemy

US Senate a "Privileged Nursing Home"?

• Nikki Haley Calls Senate A 'Privileged Nursing Home' After McConnell Freezes

More Salaried Workers to Qualify for Overtime Pay

• Millions of additional salaried workers could get overtime pay under Biden proposal

They then dive into the main topic of Critical Race Theory

• The actual definition of CRT from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• SC Critical race theory instruction prohibition - the proposed
• The first complaint filed under Tennessee's anti-critical race theory law was over a book teaching about Martin Luther King Jr.
• Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links
• Arkansas Education Department won’t allow credit for AP African American Studies course
• Ta-Nehisi Coates Crashes School Board Meeting Over Removing His Book From Class
• Clips of Lexington-Richland School District 5 school board meeting [TikTok]
• New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills
• The PragerU goal: "Indoctrinate kids at a young age into a far-right belief system"
• PragerU Kid's Cartoon about Christopher Columbus

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Jumelle & Bill touch briefly on the recent heat wave hitting South Carolina and climate change.

• Americans Are Moving to At-Risk Climate Areas for Cheaper Housing
• Scientists Report Mass Antarctic Penguin Die-Off

They then dive deep into four news items:

Infant and mother mortality rates

• US preterm birth and maternal mortality rates are alarmingly high, outpacing those in all other high-income countries
• Higher mortality numbers have many causes
• SOUTH CAROLINA DIGNITY IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH ACT

Panhandling

• Greenwood County Council discusses panhandling

The 1st Republican Presidential Debate

• Recorded broadcast

SC Lawmaker Legislative Scorecard

• State House scorecard: Which SC lawmakers got the most bills turned into law this year?

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Bill & Jumelle get laser focused on a state Supreme Court decision that puts South Carolina among the most extreme states in the country when it comes to restricting women's reproductive rights.

• S0474: Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion
• Read the SC Supreme Court decision
• AP News: South Carolina’s new all-male highest court reverses course on abortion, upholding strict 6-week ban
• The Hill: SC abortion providers appeal ruling that left fetal heartbeat definition ‘for another day’
• Watch: Rep John McCravy insults Jewish beliefs

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Bill & Jumelle discuss four news items of local and national interest and then imagine what superpowers a good politician ought to have.

Thanks to The All About Nothing Podcast for visiting Greenwood recently. You can watch the video recording on YouTube.

News items:

• The passing of SC Senator John Scott
• Senator Tim Scott presidential endorsements from South Carolina
• This is why it’s difficult to rein in the Supreme Court
• Democrats’ climate law set off a wave of energy projects in GOP districts

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Bill & Jumelle cover a couple of news items from the past week and then dive into their political origin stories. At what point were they first aware of US politics? What was the first presidential election they voted in? What motivated them to be as politically active as they are now?

Articles discussed:

• Rep Lieu reads President Trumps rape verdict into the Congressional Record
• As red states target Black history lessons, blue states embrace them

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