I think I would be remiss if I did not mention last night. I had the honor and privilege of being the MC at the Greenville County GOP convention. And, the turnout was astonishing. It was just looking at the event itself, I was just sitting back going, wow. How much how much who put this who put this thing together?
It was the Greenville County GOP that did it, but they put it all together. The speakers, just so and, you know, as the MC, I, technically was the speaker, but I'm not there. Nobody's there to hear me. I I'm not I'm not actually saying anything besides, you know, what I do here. I'm not the newsmaker.
I'm not, I'm just I'm just I'm just there as the warm up guy. So I warm up, and then we got to starting with our slate of speakers. Now there's been a lot of talk about representative Nancy Mace wanting to be governor and, or run for governor, and she did sort of, skate around that one. I'm not gonna say she flirted with it, but she did skate around it. And, she did talk about it.
She did bring it up. She she, you know, they had a lot of media there. Lot of media was there. We had dozens dozens of protesters, maybe almost three dozen. And, I mean, you guys have really got to come up with a different line.
I mean, I've watched some of the interviews. You don't like us. Okay. Fine. We understand that.
Message received. But that that was, that was representative Mace. I did not realize in her past that, apparently, she was she fell out of high school or dropped out of high school or something. I couldn't really tell because, see, I'm sitting behind them as they speak and the monitor speakers are pointing away. So I could sort of hear them, but I couldn't really hear.
But as a very young lady, she started out working at Waffle House. And then somewhere, some way between the Waffle House and where she is today, she attended the Citadel, which that's a big jump in your day to day. I found that quite interesting. I mentioned that to her as she was going out the door. Then state treasurer Curtis Loftus got it there.
Now this is this is my opinion of Curtis Loftus. I don't care if you agree with it or not. Curtis Loftus told me in 2010 that his job or or 2011, that's when he actually got sworn in. He told me in 2011 that his job was to simply be the caretaker of the state's money. The comptroller general was the bookkeeper and the spenders of the state's money was the general assembly.
And you've never heard a word out of him since he did it. He did do that, project where he was giving money back to South Carolinians that had forgotten about it or that couldn't get it. He did that, but, you know, other than that, he's been steadily doing the job. If if he's doing his job, you don't hear about it. And now this $1,800,000,000, phantom thing that Ekstrom put together, Richard Ekstrom when he was comptroller general.
Now you got a couple senators going after him. And, just out of I mean and I would be doing it too. They just want him to quit, and he's not gonna quit. He was gonna quit. He was gonna retire.
But Curtis is still relatively a a young man, and he's very capable at what he does. He he he he manages this job really well. And, so he decided to run again just to stick it in their eye. And then we had the keynote speaker, which there was people as far away as Texas came to see Steve Bannon talk. And Steve got out there and he talked about, well, he talked about a lot of things you and I talk about on a daily basis, except he's Steve Bannon and he was talking about it.
And, crowd loved it. The crowd loved everything that was going on there. It was a it was a really good crowd. Interestingly enough interestingly enough, now we find ourselves in a very unique position because now Spartanburg County and Greenville County, which is the district, is all MAGA, all America First now combined altogether. Few changes in Spartanburg, couple lateral changes in Greenville.
To give you the import of what that means, this ...