Clyburn never cared a dime for areas outside colleges and his small pockets. They called him “Welfare Express” for a reason.
It was so bad in 2019, I noted that his district sits in five media markets — Columbia, Charleston, Florence-Myrtle Beach (fringe areas in Sumter County), Savannah, and Augusta. You don’t see any other legislator have two markets. The only markets not represented are Charlotte and Greenville-Asheville (which is one media market).
I lived in his district ten years and noticed how different it was with Clyburn and with Spence and later Wilson. We lost everything once we were in Clyburn’s district, he never cared for industry. It was about getting on welfare and taxing us to death. They even shut down Nikki Haley’s school.
I used the regionalism call to get us freed from his tentacles and I’m glad to be back as of 2023 in Wilson’s district. Clyburn gave us Biden along with Peking’s tentacles.
Amen. The SCOTUS VRA ruling came down yesterday. Why isn’t McMaster redistricting today? We need put a fire under the old boy buttes in Columbia.