Tempel v. McCoy
James Island Town Hall
7 p.m. Thursday, October 25
If you're like me, you probably have lots of questions for Peter McCoy, incumbent, who is running against Carol Tempel for SC House Seat 115.
You might ask him why, under his watch, violent crime has gone up on James Island. He might say it's because we aren't tough enough on crime. But Carol Tempel believes that in order to lower crime rates you need to pay for police (not cut jobs), and improve the quality of life in the towns we live in.
Improving the quality of life on James Island and all of South Carolina starts with education. But on Peter McCoy's watch, scores have gone down and dropout rates have gone up. He seems to believe that the only way we can lure businesses to South Carolina has been to offer them tax cuts and giveaways that deny us good schools and decent pay for teachers, and so many other needed government services.
Yet it seems that McCoy is willing to continue to offer big businesses the run of the state in exchange for lower level jobs while the higher paying positions remain out of our reach. McCoy proudly calls himself a good friend of business.
But Carol Tempel would offer businesses coming to South Carolina a fair deal, as well as trained and educated graduates from which to select. She believes there are many businesses that would be happy to call South Carolina home and give our workers good jobs without our having to sell our own selves short.
One of the questions you might think to ask Peter McCoy is how he is planning on continuing to educate all the children of South Carolina by giving parents a tax deduction which gives them back a mere $280 to pick their own school, while depleting the public school budget. He complains that it costs us $12,000 to educate each student, but the quality private schools cost far more -- public schools are the best value by far.
If you attend the Forum on Thursday, you might want to hear what McCoy has to say about how he is ever going to improve roads, schools, and the crime rate while flatly refusing to raise taxes -- on anyone, including and especially the wealthy and the big corporations. He probably won't mention that when the prisons are privatized, we'll be paying more for prisoners than students.
It doesn't make sense. We've all seen the billboards for those candidates who promise "Fewer Taxes -- More Services." And as nice as it sounds, we all know it doesn't work. We need to invest in our children for them to grow, and we need to pay for quality education rather than more and bigger, costlier, prisons.
McCoy would also like to gut ObamaCare, and most certainly cut Medicaid and other social services spending. He spouts fake claims of Constitutional Amendments that give him the right to take away the safety nets that we have invested in.
If you believe we can do better, then show up on Thursday to ask those difficult questions. Support the candidate that is not afraid to offer positive change. Support the candidate that will listen to her constituents, and not just those groups with deep pockets.
Peter McCoy supports the 526 Extension, despite the very loud concerns of his constituents. Tempel knows that James Island and Johns Island are two very different communities that represent very different problems -- and potential solutions -- as an alternative to having that big superhighway tear up our neighborhoods.
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Carol Tempel
Petition Candidate
SC House 115
Carol Tempel has worked hard -- as an educator, an entrepreneur, and a fighter for her community. When the fine print in the new rules eliminated her and hundreds of potential candidates from this year's ballot, Carol kept on fighting, and got the signatures she needed to run in this election.
Fight for Carol by showing up at the James Island Town Hall on Thursday. Keep the momentum going, and let her know you are behind her and believe in what she has been fighting for -- a voice in Columbia, good schools, good jobs, good communities, not just on James Island, Folly Beach, Kiawah and Seabrook, but throughout South Carolina.
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