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Posted on 06/04/2008 10:44:23 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
Katherine Jenerette says she has entered the Republican primary for the First District Congressional seat out of frustration with the GOP.
"The Democrats have a home team advantage now," Jenerette says, "and Republicans need a congressman who can go toe-to-toe with them. We've had a Republican Congress for six years, and we can have more of the same or we can have someone in there that will make a difference.
"I am not afraid to say what needs to be said and push legislation for family and values, fiscal responsibility, national security and subjects like immigration and border control. Republicans have let liberals run their agenda. Republican values and principals on issues of life, health care, Social Security and marriage issues have been put on the side burner. The Republican members of Congress need to do a better job of getting out our messages and sticking to them."
Jenerette joins four-time incumbent Henry Brown of Hanahan and Paul Norris of Johns Island in the Republican primary on June 10.
Jenerette worked for Rep. Brown as a U.S. Congressional field representative for the 1st District and says that job provided her with valuable experience.
"My time as a field representative for our district allowed me to understand the nuts and bolts of local, state and federal government at work with one another," she said. "I understand our business concerns, our tourism industry, our environmental concerns, our veterans' issues and needs, and our growing retiree population's concern for their future.
"But most of all, I understand that government and being a congressman is about people who get up in the morning, go to work, or send their kids to school, open the doors of their businesses and do the best they can in a bureaucratic framework."
A Georgetown office
Jenerette promises to re-open a congressional office in Georgetown and be more accountable to the voters.
"If I could, I'd set it up right in the Rice Museum Clock Tower if that would make it easier for people to find the office with blinking lights that say "I'm Katherine Jenerette, your very own congressman, come on in, coffee will be waiting for you."
Jenerette said that her legislative priorities are: the economy, national security, health care, education, roads and infrastructure, out-of control spending, Illegal Immigration and compulsory military service.
"The top three problems that I'm hearing about are the economy, the economy and the economy," she says. "Of course, the price of gas is part of the economic problem. And people have a hard time understanding how gas prices have essentially doubled in the past two years. That hits everyone's budget real hard, whether you are an individual going to work, or a business trying to operate in the green - that's a real big problem.
"The blame is not hard to pinpoint. It's the Congress. Whether we like it or not, 435 elected representatives set the budget and policy agenda for this entire country. The president can't do it by himself, the courts can't do it by themselves, and so if you have problems with what's going on in this nation today, you do not have to look any further than your own congressman and the other congressmen in Washington, D.C. I'm not saying that the problems are easy to fix, but at least we should be honest enough to put the blame where it belongs."
Gulf War veteran
Jenerette says she is not a typical politician. She is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, and a U.S. Army Reserve officer. The name Jenerette has been prominent in South Carolina's political circles for decades.
"I don't want to mention the Capital steps, but the name Jenerette is synonymous with politics in South Carolina. Put me on a stage with five men running for office and I will stand out because I'm more than just a pretty face in a skirt - I'm an Army Airborne Paratrooper and I drive a pick-up truck and I'm 39-years old. I think Jenerette name recognition will come under its own steam."
Jenerette received a direct commission last year, and Sen. John McCain presented her lieutenant's bars in a ceremony in North Myrtle Beach.
"As a U.S. Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War, I know how we were treated compared to the bad treatment our Korean War and Vietnam War veterans received," Jenerette said. " =As a commissioned officer still serving in the Army Reserves I see how things are today, but it still is a long way from where we should be. Our veterans should be treated like our rock stars because of what they have done for our country; no nation can last long if it asks its young men and women to put on the uniform and risk the ultimate sacrifice for their nation and then turn around and forget them. As a congressman, our veterans and their families will not be forgotten by me and I will aggressively carry their issues to Washington and fight tirelessly for their health care, their education benefits, and a New GI Bill that is more then overdue.
"As for our active duty, Reserve and National Guard personnel and their families, they have to have the best equipment, the best leadership, the best living conditions that we can provide and the best support system when they deployed overseas. I will not stand by and allow any politician to use our troops as a political football for their political agendas. For me it's personal, and they will have a fight on their hands.
"Withdrawal from Iraq will not remove security threats and reduce our vital interests from that area. Iraq and the Middle East do not stop being in our long term national interests just because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some naive congressmen and Sen. Barack Obama say so."
Jenerette has sought office before, running for the Horry County School Board in 1998 and a state Senate seat in 2004. She said she favors a federal hiring freeze and the Fair Tax, a plan to eliminate the income tax by significantly raising the sales tax.
After coming home from the Gulf War, Jenerette attended Coastal Carolina University on a cross country and track scholarship. While in the Army, she competed in the U.S. Army Europe Track and Field Championships, and as a walk-on at Coastal Carolina she was named to the NCAA Track and Field Big South Conference in 1994. She graduated from CCU with a degree in history in 1995 and received her masters degree from USC in Columbia in 1997.
Jenerette is married to Van Jenerette, and the mother of four children. Van Jenerette served as a policy adviser to Brown and was a candidate for the First District congressional seat in 2000.
"If elected," she said, "I will be a congressman that will be everywhere at all times for all the people of our district. I'm old enough to know what needs to be done as a congressman, and I'm young enough to 'hit the ground running' and make things happen. Nothing against being older, I would like to be there some day myself, but our times call for an aggressive, optimistic, realistic approach to the job of a U.S. Congressman in the 1st District South Carolina in the 21st century."
Go get ‘em, and take napalm with you!
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I just got a great mailing on Phyllis Schafly. Basically, she gave one sentence to Clinton, Obama, and McCain, and the rest of it is about the importance of electing real conservative senators and house members.
In the extremely unhappy situation in which we find ourelves, that’s about the best we can do: donate and work for good candidates in our states or other states; get out and vote for them in the fall, whatever we decide to do on the presidential line; and do our best to ensure that whichever of the Three Traitor Rats gets elected, they won’t have an easy time with their projects for wrecking our country.
INNOCENT!
I’d vote for her in a flash. I wish she was running for President! You go, girl!
Washington D.C. is a pretty rough town... we need to send a Congressman who knows when to talk and knows when to kick butt.
Lets face it, this primary is all about the November 2008 election and we need to pick a candidate that can go toe-to-toe with the Charleston Democrat Congressional Candidate Linda Ketner and beat her and go to Washington D.C. and square off with a Congress controlled by the Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
This is a real ‘cat-fight’ and just maybe our district needs a Republican ‘Warhorse’ instead of a Republican ‘Workhorse’ to represent our regional South Carolina interest in Washington D.C. Issues like I-73, Oil Prices and Domestic energy Policy, Social Security, Health Care, getting rid of ‘No Child Left behind’, Fair Taxes, Veterans, Family Values, etc.
katherine
Go get em, Soldier!
Wow, I donated, she’s the real deal.
My dear you are truly a hero.
Thank you for your service to America and for your stand for conservatism in this country!
come sit by me
Finally some positive news for conservatives!
One look and I am in love sigh.........
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The difference that we really need is less Washington, DC and a return of power to the state capitals.
Hang on. We’re talking about it with the Big Guy himself.
Katherine Jenerette on Income Tax
From its founding, our country operated without a personal income tax for 137 years.
My bottom line on income tax may sound simplistic, but I believe that a tax on a person’s income violates the basic principals of our original Constitution and the Declaration of Independence with regard to the equality of all men.
The basic principal of a free man is that he cannot be owned by another man or no man can own another man’s labor. To say that the government can violate this principal is a contradiction of our uniquely American beliefs of freedom.
Once the government can sweep aside the boundary between its hand and your wallet; which is your labor, they have violated the principal of a free man.
Secondly is the principal of a limited government is violated by creating institutions that both increase the size of the federal government; which in turn, allows those institutions to control and limit the opportunities of a free people.
While I support the concept of a fair tax, I believe it is an idea with its’ “heart in the right place; especially with the overriding objective of the repeal of the 16th Amendment but I believe it is a work in progress.
My legislative agenda is that there should be no income tax and the 16th Amendment should be repealed.
First, I would move to repeal the 16th Amendment. Concurrently; upon ratification of the appeal, institute a National Sales Tax of 23% which will be reduced each year by 3%. By law, this tax will be reduced 3% every two years, which will force the government to shrink 3% every two years. Within 18 years, there will be no national Sales Tax and the government will have to have shrunk by 23%.
I do not agree with the concepts of pre-bates. It is another federal government control mechanism that allows the federal government to maintain leverage over an individual which would be a close cousin to the system we have right now. This would build another level of dependency on the federal government, which would extend far beyond those persons dependent on the federal government right now. However, some legislative plan will have to be enacted for those persons below a certain income level that will be most impacted by the initial 23% tax and indexed until the moratorium is reached.
No matter how the legislation is worded or worked out the message to the Federal Government is this:
Get away from our income. The only exception that I can conceive of myself, would be during a war declared by Congress in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 8.
Katherine
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